God damn spiders
 

I woke up today and when I got out of bed I felt something on me and in my hair. I kinda just brushed it off. I figured it was lint or something. So then I realize a part of my back itches and I stratch it and theres this lump on it about twice the size of a pimple, and it hurts. So I go take a leak and come back in the room and as the sun is coming through the window I notice a spider web hanging down from the wall. As I go over to get my clothes I see this huge ass spider on the wall.

God damn, this thing was crawling on me all night and sank it's fangs into me. Also te crazy part about it was I had a dream about a spider last night too. Maybe it was trying to tell me a spider was crawling on me.

I don't hate spiders as much as a lot of people, but I took a shower the second I killed that bitch.

Anyone else have a similiar experience with bugs?

Ugh, that sounds...ew. My vocabulary isn't sophisticated enough to find a word for it, so I'll just saw 'ew'.
My deepest condolences to you.

I hate bugs. Muchly. Even the harmless ones. I have this thing about moths - I'm not sure what it is about moths, but they really unnerve me. They just sort of fly around just waiting to bump into you.
I can't sleep with a moth in my room. I have to shoo it out of the widow or something.
I know bug-fear is sort of irrational, but I can't help it. I'm such a wuss xD

Perhaps the worst experience (it wasn't to me, but I was present) was at meal time. We were eating (as one does at meal time) and my sister uncovered some kind of worm in a sugar snap (Click if you don't know what I mean). It was cooked, and probably more or less harmless, but still - yuck!
It's a good thing she has a weird habit of dissecting her vegetables before eating them. Still, it put me off anything which could conceal a bug for a while...

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I don't really mind them all that much, and since I've heard they kill roaches, they're definitely one of my favorite kinds of insects. My sister's afraid of anything even remotely insect/spider-like to the point that she almost passed out when a massive spidercrab woke up at the aquarium.

Good times.

Well, I have gotten bitten by a spider once or twice while I have slept but I dont mind them. I let them live anywhere they wish in my home. The headaches they prevent makes the small nuisance of bites or webs worth it.

They kill the flies, roaches, and other bugs that like to infest your household, especially during the summer months. Which is alot better than me setting up traps or constantly spraying the house down to stop some annoying bugs. Spiders are my fucking savior.

Goddamnit spiders are not insects! They're arachnids!


Spiders are awesome. I love tarantulas and some of the other weird looking spiders out there.

Yeah, yeah.. I know the whole 6 legs/8 legs deal. Still more insect-like than not, however incorrect that may be.

I actually thought about getting one as a pet, but that kind of fizzled.

Eh, I just got rid of a spider infestation in my room, like, two weeks ago. So a single spider doesn't bother me. Who knows how many I swallowed in my sleep.

Ugh... I hate spiders.. I realize some of them can't hurt me, but I always have a really bad outlook on bugs and other things... Always thinking of the worst case scenario. I mainly fear any type of bug in worry that something tragic would happen to me and I would die.

And after watching Arachnophobia (?) and They Nest, that seriously messed me up.

Fucking HATE spiders! Seriously, they're my biggest phobia. The ones that scare me shitless are Daddy Long Legs. Didn't mind them until one launched itself at my face.

Don't think a Daddy longlegs is really considered a spider. They have less legs, but they do look like spiders. The other night I pulled back my covers to go to sleep and a freakin earwig was crawling around in my bed. Well that pissed me off somthin' nasty so i mashed the bitch. earwig no more.

When I lived in Florida, I had roaches drop from the ceiling onto my head multiple times. I hate those bastards. I make a point to kill them and put thier dead bodies on display in front of my door as a warning. I have had a spider drop in my face while I was driving which caused me instinctivly to slam on the brakes. That made me really mad. Otherwise I usually don't mind spiders that much.

I often have spiders in my room as well. Last night, some spider ran around the corner before I could catch it. But I don't mind anymore. I mean, I feared them when I was a kid because I thought they did awful things (like jumping in my mouth when I'm asleep); but now I just don't care anymore. Spiders can live in my room, I don't care. My cat does care, though, he likes to catch them =^.^=

Spiders scare me to death. I always have the constant fear of swallowing them / getting bitten while asleep.

Also, we had a little nest of cross spiders above our door last summer. Easily 25-30 cross spiders hanging out, dropping down on anyone below. Fucking leechers.

You're rather lucky. A spider in the home is considered to be a good omen in some primitive cultures. An entire nest would be heralded as a blessing.
Dreaming of spiders is also considered to bring good fortune.

Cross spiders are pretty cool, as they belong to the argiope genus. You know the traditional "spiral" web designs you see in children's books? Only argiope spiders produce those.

I used to be terrified of spiders, mostly because the few hazardous ones give the entire family a bad name. I've seen some very small black widows and brown recluse spiders around here, so I'm always watchful.

But they don't bother me as they used to. A couple years ago, I noticed a small house spider crawling about my overhead lamp. As I grabbed a stool and slipper to smash the spider, I had an unexpected change of heart. It was just one spider, so tiny and so harmless to me. It wasn't attacking me. It was trying to find a home.

It's funny. When you personify small creatures it becomes extraordinarily more difficult to injure them. I thought about how the spider must instinctively fear something as huge as I, and just saw no reason to take its life. Man is the only animal that kills for no other reason than it can.

I let the spider build a small nest in a corner of my room. The summer passed, it died and I cleaned up the cobweb. Since then, I've found my peace with spiders. My refuse attracts the spider's prey; the spider keeps my room parasite-free.

Man and spiders have a symbiotic relationship, if you think about it.

Down south, where the sun don't shine, (j/k) we have mosqitoes ALL summer.
Course, I'm sure you all know that, but still thought I might make a point of it.
In addition to that, we also have there huge ass flies. Almost as big as your thumbnail. Sometimes bigger.

So I'm up reading this book for school (boring as hell, but I had to read it anyway) when this huge flies just flies right into the side of my head.

Yeah, it pissed me off. I spend about an hour trying to find the little fucker and kill it.

Few weeks later, same thing happens with a mosquito.

Fuck them!

I really pity my best mate, she was having sex with her boyfriend and a spider decided to leap onto her back... >.<

Luckily my only bad experience with spiders was waking up to find one staring me in the face on my pillow. Not nice, but not as bad as it could have been.

I don't mind spiders too much, however just last week I saw a red-back spider (only found in Australia; deadly) when I was out just walking to school. Scared me for a second but then I was fine. Maybe I'd be absolutely fine with spiders if it weren't for a family holiday that went array when I was younger. Spiders everywhere in the fucking house we stayed in; I couldn't sleep.

But the thing that really freaks me out? Cockroaches (roaches), but that's another story.

My uncle was bit by a brown recluse.

He lives in Maine and is a forest ranger. One day he went out to tap some trees for syrup. He was trying to cross a brook and he fainted face down. Luckily his girlfriend was with him so she got him to the hospital. The doctors found the bitemark and his g/f checks their bed. A whole nest of brown recluse were in it. They bought the bed down south somewhere so thats how we think they got here.

I fucking hate spiders, but I have a pathological hatred of mosquitos. I mean I like to torture, maim, burn, suffocate, drown and poison them frequently. I like to go out at night with a can of axe and a lighter to torch the little fuckers out of mid-air. Till this day I cannot think of a possible purpose they serve on this planet.

I looked it up in a 1964 Encyclopedia (it's the only honest one there is these days) and it said it was only on the food chain and otherwise worthless.

I hate them. Hate them.

Hardcore arachnophobe right here. A spider, no matter how small, is enough to turn me into an 8 year old girl. I wont go more than 8 feet into a pet store unless I know exactly where they keep the little fuckers. Even a picture of one is enough to freak me out.

And thanks to reading this thread, I won't sleep well for a week.

I'm used to killing daddy long legs all day where I live, but if I see something different, I start flipping out...only a little bit though ^^;

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Let's post some pictures of spiders because they're so awesome!

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Spiders are the bane of my household existence. I wouldn't go so far as to say that I have arachnophobia, but a spider of moderate size will pretty much cause me to stop doing any activity when I notice it. Some people channel their disgust of spiders into an ability to actually smash the thing and get on with their life, but I can't bring myself to do that. For some reason I imagine the thing squishing or crunching noticeably and that kills any desire to do it. Bleck.

I'm just glad I live in an area where the spiders are relatively small. If I lived somewhere with large spiders (like that infamous clock spider) I think I would go out of my mind.

I think I have a some form of arachnophobia. I don't little spiders or daddy long legs. But I hate the really big fat hairy ones. They make my skin itch.
Yesterday I was laid on the sofa reading when I felt something crwling up my arm, I brushed it off, looked down and there was the biggest hairiest mean looking spider I've ever seen in my life. My cat just sat there and looked at it like a nonce and didn't chase it or anything ( he normally does but yesterday he was mean.) So i got it in a box after swearing alot took it outside holding it an arms length away and chucked it over to the nextdoor neighbours garden and prayed it wouldn't come back.

Spiders haven't been huge problem for me, but I've had situations with other bugs. When I was in third grade, my family came home from church one Sunday to find several rooms of our house were filled with bees. We had to move out for a week while an exterminator dealt with the problem.

In high school, I moved my bedroom down into the basement, which was partially unfinished. The walls and ceiling were complete, but the floor was just concrete. There was a huge window behind my bed, and I learned quickly to always pull back the covers and check before going to sleep. I found spiders, ants, centipedes, etc. hiding under there.

AHHHHH!!!!
What's with the pictures!!!

Mild case of Arachnaphobia here.
I don't kill them though. As much as I hate them, I hate mosquitoes more.

Uhh I wasn't talking about THAT kind of spiders, I mean, if you're talking about cars, you don't have to start with Ferraris or Lamborghinis either, right?

Spiders eat other bugs. I hate other bugs. Thus I like spiders*.



* - This is presuming a size one inch or smaller in diameter. At my grandfather's house in Tennessee I've picked up rocks in the back yard and discovered spiders no smaller than five inches in diameters. Scared the shit out of me (but I think I killed them when I threw the rock back down).

It really depends on what kind of spiders live in your house, if it's those funnel web spiders that randomly appear in Australian households, you probably wanna avoid it and get rid of it at all costs...

I don't see the fun of keeping tarantulas as people's pets, some of them are mild tempered, but still, if they bite you by accident, it'll REALLY HURT...

Spiders scare the shit out of me. At least the huge ones do. But I still won't touch a puny one, though...thus my best friend is my rolled-up newspaper.

I've had two large spiders in my bedroom just recently. I generally don't mind small spiders since they're common here, but the larger ones can be bothersome.

I generally don't mind spiders. But this summer I let one just hang out in my room. Cut to a few weeks later and there were baby spiders flying down all over the place, landing on my stuff. I was pinching baby spiders to death all damn day. So next time I see a spider in my room I'm going to kill it because it might be a female.

I can see people being afraid of poisonous spiders (well all are poisonous) which are dangerous to humans, but there is only a small number of them out there. Besides if you educate yourself on spiders rather than being a big crybaby about it, I'm sure you could learn all sorts of cool things about them.

http://www.tarantulas.ru/photo/Thera...ndi_4_foto.jpg

Have to agree with everything here. Especially the stinging insects part, because I'm allergic to several varieties of bees, wasps, and hornets. Those are the only insects/arachnids that truly terrify me.

i like spiders, they keep other pests that would bother me and infest my food etc... under control. once when i was going to the bathroom, a spider lowered itself from my hair with a web and landed on the floor. the only time i can remember being freaked out by a spider was when i was waken up by a brown recluse (i got a good look at it so i know it was a brown recluse-very dangerous) crawling over my arm into a fold in the sheet. i freaked out and shoved the sheet to the foot of my bead, got a new one, and went back to bed. that must have been the quickest time i ever woke up :biggrin:

I can't stand them. I almost NEVER remember my dreams but the last dream I remember having was one where there was this massive spider with an abdomen the size of my fist in the corner of my dining room.

I have this fascination/hate thing with spiders. I like to look at them and watch them, but I sure as hell don't want them on me, or coming towards me.

But anyway I got real close to that one in my dream then just got petrified and scared shitless, so that I was totally paralyzed. The fear of it jumping on my face made me not be able to move. I woke up with those same feelings, and can still remember them vividly, kind of weird. But oh well.

The ones that REALLY bother me are the ones with spherical abdomens, and I'm not sure why. they just gross me out. things like tarantulas/wolf spiders aren't as bad, although I still don't like them.

How big does a spider have to be to bite you??? You should be pretty concerned cause if you living in a hot reagion chances are big that you got a black widow in the house as well. One bite by one of them and you can say bye bye to motherearth...well I have bunch of spiders in my room (and my roommates always flipping out when they see them)...well I don't but I can get REALLY MEAN and use my small vacum and just suck it in :-) SUCK THE SUCKER IN!!!

A spider can be any size to bite. It's generally the smaller ones that are more venomous since they would be a nice treat for larger carnivores like birds or reptiles or whatever. Unless you're young, elderly or sick, you generally won't die for a poisonous spider, you'll just get real sick. It would also depend on how quick you seek medical attention. So learn up about them in case you cross one!

I have an intense fear of spiders, always have since I was a kid. I have such a deep fear of them, it borders on respect. Rather than kill a spider, I'll actually go out of my way to get them outside (with a few exceptions, i.e. Black Widows, etc...)The ones I fear the most are the Wolf spiders, despite the fact that they're not poisonous and don't bite. They just move too fast, and jump too.
Scratch that. Cat spiders.
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Nothing beats these as far as freaky things go.
Ironically enough, I don't mind Daddy Long Legs', even though (so I hear, at least) they're supposedly very poisonous, but their fangs are too small to pierce human skin, or something.. Maybe it's the fact that they don't really look like a spider all that much.

The daddy long-legs is an urban legend (snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.htm). And if they don't look much like spiders - well, they aren't. They aren't a member of the family Araneae. But they're still Arachnids.

As long as I know a given spider doesn't have a dangerous toxicity, I'm not bothered. I still treat them all with respect as spider bites in general aren't fun, regardless of toxicity.

Any type of spider, or even bug, just seems to give me the creeps. Why that happens, I don't know, but I'm guessing its because of their.... structure. I mean, the eight-legs, the hairs, the jumping on people and for someone of you, biting!

I am terrified of spiders. Even dead spiders scare me. I can handle small spiders if they are up in the corner of a room and aren't moving, but as soon as they start moving around I freak out.

I think spiders are alright... not nearly as bad as cockroaches. I attract this insane amount of silverfish in my bathroom, and I just let this one spider build a web in the bottom corner of my bathroom. It did catch one huge silverfish once, I remember seeing. It's only those poisonous ones that freak me out.

I don't like spiders, but I wouldn't say I'm afraid of them. More like they just freak me out a little. It's the same for silverfish and other medium sized multi-legged critters that sometimes cross my path. As long as they stay away from me, I'm cool, but if they get too close...well, then it depends on the size. If they're little, I usually try to shoo them away or carry them outside. If they're big, well, I either A) get the hell out of there or B) catch them and flush them down the toilet

I remember one time when I was still in high school, I was unfolding a T-shirt to wear to bed, and just before I started to put it on, out pops a spider. I promptly freaked out, but somehow had enough presence of mind to grab a jar and catch the damn thing. I had it identified later by an expert in the field, and low and behold, it was a brown recluse. Anyone from the midwest probably knows this already, but the brown recluse leaves a pretty nasty bite (and if you think that's bad check out the poor souls on this page, specifically the second case study from the top *shudders*). Thankfully, it's generally not fatal to humans, but it's still not something I ever want to go through. As you can imagine, I was counting my lucky stars that the spider decided to show itself before I put the shirt on.

Also, if you don't like spiders or other creepy-crallies, stay the hell away from Japan. To be fair, you don't see too many house pests (at least not where I stayed in Kyoto and Okayama), but the ones you do see tend to be fucking huge.

One day I made my self a tea and as always wanted to use some sugar but there was something odd about it... it was walking and it want white anymore... it was full of ants crawling everywhere.

It was horrible cause if it's spider there is only one and you know where he is but in case of ants there are hundreds of them and they are running everywhere... I had to wash everything up and kill those bastards!

http://video.clipstream.com/content/...twospiders.jpg

O.o

Thank god I don't live anywhere those things do. I saw a video once where they stuck a branch down a hole and they started to pull the spider out, except it was almost as big as the branch, once it was outside the hole, it jumped back inside the hole, pulled the branch out of the person's hand and then dragged it back down with it.

If I could slay one type of creature on the face of the earth, it would either by mosquitos or spiders. I saw one lurking around my room and failed to catch it. There's no feeling worse than having one on the loose in your room and knowing that statistically, in an average person's lifetime, he or she will consume 57 spiders during their lifetime.















It's a myth, right?

I get a lot of spiders in my bedroom during the winter. The ceiling of my basement is coated with spiderwebs, so I reckon there's a pretty respectable arachnid community going on down there. When the heating ducts are active in the winter, I believe they get blown up into my bedroom.

Usually in the winter I'll actually check my walls and ceiling for spiders before I go to sleep. I'm not especially frightened of them, but I'd prefer that they didn't, you know, crawl on me when I'm sleeping and all.

Spiders? Please. You want to know what's really nasty. I mean really, really nasty? Millipedes. The little brown ones that come out of nowhere whenever it rains. They breed like bacteria, crawl all over everything, and if you disturb them in any way they will defend themselves by releasing the most utterly foul and noxious stench you will ever smell. My room is in the basement, and I have to deal with these monstrosities every summer.

I only kill the dangerous spiders, or the ones I don't recognize... because spiders eat others bugs, and I live in a hot humid area... so...

Was going to say daddy-long-legs weren't spiders, glad I checked wiki first. We have some sort of bug here thats quite similiar to a Daddy Long-legs, but its body is much smaller, doesnt even appear to have a segmented body, and only has 6 legs. Everyone calls them Daddy long-legs...

The ones on wiki look sort of similiar, but their bodies are different... and they have 8 legs... >.>

I dont have a "problem" with spiders, but I consider it my prerogative to deal with them as I wish when I discover them in my living area.

People like my fiancee say "you dont have to kill it, its just a living thing.". To them I say, "Yes, but it has encroached on my living space. Do you think for one second that if I stuck my hand into that bastard's nest he wouldnt at least consider me a danger and therefore a candidate for defensive response?"

Whats good for the spider is good for the human. Not my fault that he doesnt comprehend that he's trespassing. The minute the spiders make the distinction between actual threats and, say, a two-year old child reaching under the porch for a toy, and stop giving children toxic shock and necrosis, I'll make the distinction to stop spreading their asses across the wall with a shoe.

I used to have a terrible centipede problem in my old house. I had so many damn centipedes it was crazy. They are harmless, but ugly and freaky looking. Especially when they get huge.


As far as spiders go, I'm lucky that Black Widows and poisonous spiders don't reside in Philly.

When I was little, we lived in a region where black widows were very common. During a few weeks in spring each year, tons of young black widows would hatch, and we would play squash the black widows... probably wasn't the safest of games... eh?

Living further inland than most people would probably like to, there are alot of spiders here all-year-round.

I just find them randomly climbing up a wall or hanging from the ceiling. They're everywhere, expecially in Autumn.

Mostly they're those fly-eating spiders, whatever you call 'em, them big brown hairy motherfuckers. And those daddy-long-legs. And redbacks... Ocassionally the white-tail or the plain old black hairy spider.

As you probably figured, yeah, I know nothing at all about spiders... All I know is they love my house.