its massive

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i am being attacked from all sides just sat hear all on my lonsome and throught the corner of my eye i see some thing run across the room on to the fire place ...after i jumped out of my skin thinking it was a mouse ..i found to my horror of horror's it was a giant spider .well i am equaly scared of them both i let out such a yell shouting for my big strapping son to come and get it ..no flipping chance he says get my dad ..my hero lol had to wait for him in doors to get out the shower and as i am watching were the budder ran to ..another one shot out of no wear .. i am really scared of them i know they wont do me any harm but it is a real fear .any way i think i was rather brave i put a waste bin over one of them to stop it. and the other budder i am still watching out for dont no what they are feeding on but they are realy big ..

"its massive"

That's what they all say!

Rbilly, there was one upstairs in my bedroom the other day..

I watched it run along the side of the wall and it stopped next to the towel cupboard, so I got the hoover out and suctioned it..

I told a friend what I had done and she said, you need to empty your hoover because it might have babies and there will be thousands of them!

Freaked me out, and it was also massive..

You should never injure or kill spiders they are a species apart. Either put them outside or in the airing cupboard for winter.

i think they are pregnant at this time of year and that is why they come indoors, to give birth. as custards friend said, in the hoover

Bennie, I didn't injure or kill the "intruder"

I just didn't want it running around in my house so I helped it out..

It is now probably running around with its thousands of offspring in my bin..

Bella, it has probably give birth to half of Wigan it was that big!

I'll let you off then custard.

we have 1 of those plug in things for mice, but this is for spiders too. i can honestly say we have never seen mice and hardly get any spiders. it generates something through all the wires in the house, that spiders etc don't like

bella i have 3 of them in my house .and it as neither kept mice out or spiders ...

♫ I know an old lady who swallowed a fly,♪
♪I don't know why she swallowed a fly ♫ ♪
perhaps she'll die, ♫♪♫

♪♫♪ I know an old lady who swallowed a spider ♪♫

and it wriggled and diggled and wiggled insider

The hair at the back of my neck is standing on end as I read this. I have a terible phobia of spiders and I know they would'nt harm you ,well not all opf them anyway.

magnificent creatures

yikes !!! there are some big ones about at the mo.... I have a little spider living in the wing mirror of my car... I stopped the other day when I saw him struggling to get back in because of the wind.... he managed it... so I set off again when he was safe

I'm not sure why, but my Mum always calls spiders living at home -Horace. I like spiders.

It's not big and it's not clever!

Surely spiders are clever, Hieronymous - they created their own web.

And think of all those *intelligence creatures they feed on ... *those flies on the walls.

Have there been any more sightings of your spiders, Rbilly?

not at the moment joanne but i am like hawk eye looking out for them ..i really dont like them they freak me out it is awfull when you have a fear of any thing people who dont ..dont understand what it feals like not nice

The night before last we had the biggest one I've ever seen..legs everywhere it had,so off to Asda and got some conkers..put them at back of T.V.in the corner and behind suite,another big one came strolling across the room again last night went behind T.V. but soon came out so the conkers must definitely work..we never kill them..just put a glass over them,card underneath and out they go.

you wud of been ok in the jungle get a grip its only a spider

Sorry, Rbilly - I do understand. I have phobias of my own.

The situation reminds me of the story by Anthony Browne - Willy and Hugh.

Hugh the Ape saves Willy the Chimp from a bully, Buster Nose:



And Willy is able to help his friend, Hugh, by taking a spider away:



I'm petrified of driving, while my sister-in-law is one of the best drivers I know.

She's terrified of moths and I was once able to help her by catching one in her house and setting it free outside.

super pics

Mani..bog off.

(Anthony Browne is renowned for his illustrations, Mache. )

But the illustrations are not illuminated

(I turned the flash off on my camera, Mache.)

Manni..there was supposed to be a smiley with my comment..only jokin`.

Boris

bennie
quite right never harm spiders.put a tall glass over em and gently slide em into the bottom of the glass ,release gently outside,they probably come in to hibernate or just where its warm.got the message custard and rbilly

no problem momac keep smiling

dare I

wildlife

We have had mice in our walls. I remember one time my dad was almost attacked by a bat. We can see deer from where we live and we are in town

aww poor spider rose .

I know how rbilly feels spiders freak me out. How do the conkers work then. Do you have to throw them at the spider

You have to creep downstairs in the middle of the night and catapult the conkers at them.

thing gets every where

.

dont look

Naughty boy manni

now thats a spider

This is a "proper" spider...Luvvly..

by bennielearachnoid...
You should never injure or kill spiders they are a species apart. Either put them outside or in the airing cupboard for winter.

We don't keep anything in our airing cupboard, so spiders have always been welcome to set up home in there... it is their space. They can set up their own economy, passport controls... it is an area that they have total control over.

However, if they even TRY to set up another colony in the bathroom they are gonna DIE!!!

DIE!!! Cadfael?! Can't you just direct them safely back to their airing cupboard?

©art©:

That looks like a crab with a coat on....

Spent a night in a Venezuelan rain-forest jungle camp a few years ago. Some of the Tarantulas kept moving the beds
Joking apart it was not suitable for Arachnophobics

rbilly...I bought a spider spray £9.99...spray near skirting boards,in garage,brickwork etc...never seen one since..

you horroble lot posting pictures ..arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Serves you right for putting such a title on the thread in the first place, Rbilly.

Mac was well disappointed when he found out that it was only a spider you'd seen.

rbilly next time you see one say this to yourself
spiders are our friends i will catch you and put you safely outside.the fear of fear is all thats stopping you.

ha ha well dostaf IT WAS lol... baker boy i would rather be with out freinds than say that to that bugger that was in my house

DIE!!!!??

The abbott's going to hear about this!!

mannie you would not get me with in hundred yards of a jungle not for all the tea in china

What about canopies in the rain forest, Rbilly?

I posted a thread about spiders about 6 weeks ago, and they are still finding their way in, when someone opens a door or coming through the vents.

Urrrrgh.

We had spiders on the bedroom wall, so we pulled the bed away but the buggers pulled it back.

Gerroff.

It's reet i tells thi dostaf,

Spin us another.

Is it a wind up?!

The QI Elves:

Spiders outnumber humans by more than 500,000 to 1 in the UK (RSPB)

Spiders are keenly carnivorous. Seal 10,000 spiders in a room and you will eventually end up with one enormously fat spider