Lord I hate spiders

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Wife's doll club had their yearly sale today. As always I played pack mule. Instructed to sit and wait for further instructions I saw this large spider crawling on one of her boxes.Being 63 and not use to hurrying for anything, I was amazed how quickly the spider turned into a grease spot under my size 12 sneaker. Lord I hate spiders.
 
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I don't actually hate spiders.
But I understand they have a pretty low opinion of me.
Retribution ? Did I spell that right?
 
Time to spray the eaves

I hate spiders too and this is the season when they start coming inside! Yikes! Last week I was visiting my aunt and woke up in the middle of the night to see several large glowing eyes. I turned on the lights and saw these giant fangs dripping with anticipation of biting me. I ran to the kitchen and grabbed a Ball jar. Then he was gone! I moved the plants and chair and flushed it out. My heart was pounding and the adrenaline surging. It was so big the jar barely fit over it! :eek::eek::eek: Trapped and a big sigh a relief. I got in bed and went back to sleep.

The next morning I slid some mail under it and turned it upside down. The spider kept crawling up the glass and I kept shaking it and knocking it down. Ewwww! It was so ugly I could barely look! My heart was pounding again but I quickly got to my destination. The open space right next to the obnoxious neighbors. No, I'm not that mean. I put him in the middle of the pathway and left him to choose whatever way he wanted to go. :D

We have a lot of black widows were we live. John went to go outside tonight and walked straight into a black widow web outside the patio door. :eek::eek::eek: Luckily, he did not see a spider and I looked him over well. The web wasn't there this morning thank goodness, otherwise, I might have walked into it!
 
My daughter was bitten by a brown spider that got into her bed. I took her to the doctor, who treated her as best he could. She'd smashed the spider and we couldn't tell if it was a recluse. But she healed after a few days. Just had a nasty red welt for awhile and some drainage.

I used to protect an estate that had had some death threats. I roamed the grounds and found a number of webs every night in summer. I was very concerned about walking into one where the spider was home. The pavilion/annex behind the main house where there was a swimming pool had spiders that were very fast on the floor. I think they were wolf spiders.

I think Australia has the worst ones. The Funnel Web spider and another one that I can't recall are VERY venomous.
 
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Found this one a while back on our back porch area. It's a Huntsman. Harmless, but I still hate 'em.
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After I took the pic, I zoomed in and you can see his eyes reflecting the flash of the camera. I "dispose" of one of these every month or so.
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I'm okay with them. I was bitten once by a brown recluse. I don't recommend it for anyone. It happened over 40 years ago and I still have the scar tissue from where my skin "melted" away.

As long as they stay in the basement we have an understanding.
 
Found this one a while back on our back porch area. It's a Huntsman. Harmless, but I still hate 'em.
After I took the pic, I zoomed in and you can see his eyes reflecting the flash of the camera. I "dispose" of one of these every month or so.
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I believe we have those here too, at least the county vector control called the spiders I had Huntsmen. I lived in a condo at the time. The property owner redid the plumbing under the building and all of a sudden I had about 30 of those big spiders in my living quarters! There were palm sized and yes, their eyes were big and they followed you around the room. If you moved, they moved. That was the freakiest part, like it was out of the "Arachnaphobia" movie.

I discovered the first one in the shower. I asked one of the workmen to "dispose" of it for me. He laughed and thought it was funny that I was afraid of a little spider. Then he saw it and it scared him too! I heard it crunch from a different room.

I had to move out for about a week until they were dealt with. I had never seen that type of spider before and I have never seen them since, thank goodness!
 
I got bitten by a Brown Recluse while moving my Dad and his wife out of their place in San Jose...didn't really notice it until I was driving a group of Navy Representatives to a meeting, and felt pain in my elbow region....and my passenger noted I had red streaks down the arm, and an ulcerated hole in my skin. Doctor shot me with a pain killer (which hurt more than the initial bite) and dug out a bunch of dead, rotting flesh, then shoved drainage material into the wound....more than ouch! Needless to say, I don't have much appreciation for the eight legged freaks....but Daddy Long legs get a pass from me.
 
I never kill a spider unless it is poisonous or living in a part of my home that is mine only. Otherwise, they can stay and prosper. I even feed & water them. I've named those that I can see every day.

The only time I would kill anything is when I need their flesh for food, they are destroying my garden, or they are trying to destroy me and/or my family.
 
spiders are beneficial in eliminating insects from the garden and home and are less troublesome than some two legged creatures.....

This^^^

I like to see spiders as long as they are several feet away and stationary or moving away from me. Since that's what lives in my neck of the woods (civilization actually) I understand how they react and that they'd rather avoid human contact than prove aggressive.

Several times while mowing my yard I would walk into a large web that had been built between two large trees. With all the waving and untangling myself from their webs, I've become a pretty good Judo and Karate Kid without taking a formal lesson.

My previous IT job in the midwest also had a satellite office in Mesa, AZ and we would exchange boxes of back up discs regularly. One week I was shuffling some papers around on my desk and thought there was a rubber band wedged in the fold of several papers stapled together.

I went to pull it out and realized it was the tail of scorpion that had gotten in the box and made the trek from AZ to Iowa.

Yep, my girlish scream could be heard throughout the 4 floors of the business.
 
I'm okay with them. I was bitten once by a brown recluse. I don't recommend it for anyone. It happened over 40 years ago and I still have the scar tissue from where my skin "melted" away.

As long as they stay in the basement we have an understanding.

Thirty years ago a friend of mine pulled on a boot without shaking it out. There was a brown recluse in it. For some days the doctors said it was touch and go whether he would lose his foot.

I love seeing early morning dew drops on the web of an orb weaver spider. Walking into a web can still make me move in ways I thought I was way too old to achieve.
 
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