How can you get rid of spiders?
30 July 2002, 11:18 AM
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Following on from the post about lack of wasps, I've remembered that I was going to ask about this - how do you get rid of spiders?
Other than chasing after them all with a slipper or trapping them under a glass, is there some sort of spray or power that'll do the job? I've searched in B&Q etc, but couldn't see any spider specific stuff
I don't mind them, but it'll save me from having to drop everything whenever the wife screams from somewhere about the house. Plus those feckin webs keep attacking my head when I get out of the car
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Other than chasing after them all with a slipper or trapping them under a glass, is there some sort of spray or power that'll do the job? I've searched in B&Q etc, but couldn't see any spider specific stuff
I don't mind them, but it'll save me from having to drop everything whenever the wife screams from somewhere about the house. Plus those feckin webs keep attacking my head when I get out of the car
Ta
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30 July 2002, 11:22 AM
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Stamp on 'em? 
Our cats do a good job, actually. Although it's quite off-putting when you're eating your dinner and your cat looks up at you, chewing away, and the legs are still wriggling in its mouth.
Our cats do a good job, actually. Although it's quite off-putting when you're eating your dinner and your cat looks up at you, chewing away, and the legs are still wriggling in its mouth.
30 July 2002, 11:29 AM
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I'd end up looking like the Karate Kid if I had to stamp on them all
I've already got footprints on the back door where one made a break for the inside when my hands were full of shopping
I've already got footprints on the back door where one made a break for the inside when my hands were full of shopping
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30 July 2002, 12:21 PM
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Three ways of getting rid of spiders from your house m8.
1 Borrow my big red Psycho dog - he eats them.
2. Get a flamethrower - if you miss the spider you prob burn the house down anyway.
3. Hire a horse - they seem to be well fit when it comes to hunting. Make sure they don't fob you off with a weasel hunter or a cod catcher. No use for insects.
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1 Borrow my big red Psycho dog - he eats them.
2. Get a flamethrower - if you miss the spider you prob burn the house down anyway.
3. Hire a horse - they seem to be well fit when it comes to hunting. Make sure they don't fob you off with a weasel hunter or a cod catcher. No use for insects.
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30 July 2002, 01:24 PM
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Ian YUCK 
My old Cocker Spaniel (RIP) used to be great at getting spiders until she went blind
I would love to get a spray that will kill them, I havde tried to cure my fear of them by introducing myself to them.
When I was a kid I used to buy plastic spiders and put them in my room to try to help me, but I used to wake up in the middle of the night screaming from nightmares THEN I would see the plastic things and scream some more.
All of my attempts have failed, I think hypnosis is the next step.
I hate the fear, it is so irrational, I hate the fear more than I hate the spiders!!!
Can anyone recommend a good place to get the fear sorted? Ths introduction method doesn't work so don't suggest it
My old Cocker Spaniel (RIP) used to be great at getting spiders until she went blind
I would love to get a spray that will kill them, I havde tried to cure my fear of them by introducing myself to them.
When I was a kid I used to buy plastic spiders and put them in my room to try to help me, but I used to wake up in the middle of the night screaming from nightmares THEN I would see the plastic things and scream some more.
All of my attempts have failed, I think hypnosis is the next step.
I hate the fear, it is so irrational, I hate the fear more than I hate the spiders!!!
Can anyone recommend a good place to get the fear sorted? Ths introduction method doesn't work so don't suggest it
30 July 2002, 06:05 PM
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My beasties (the big ones I put up a pic of in another thread) ARENT like house spiders. Tarantulas hardly move at all, and when they do its slowly. Thats why they "introduce" arachnophobes to tarantulas. They might be 20 times the size of spiders that you see in the house, but they are still. They dont run about like mad things, and people dont get as scared of them because they dont move. Anyone remember that program about stuff like that where they used hypno and other stuff to cure people? I think it ended with the guy in the plane who was trained to think of it as "a roller coaster".
Be honest, who only jumps when the spider RUNS at you? Most people I reckon. So there we have it Little Miss - buy yourself a tarantula
I also dont recall ever seeing a "normal" spider when I had mine at home. Maybe they can smell each other??? So there's the same answer to TWO problems. And if it fails....well....youve got a good supply of "drumsticks" for tea
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Be honest, who only jumps when the spider RUNS at you? Most people I reckon. So there we have it Little Miss - buy yourself a tarantula
I also dont recall ever seeing a "normal" spider when I had mine at home. Maybe they can smell each other???
So there's the same answer to TWO problems. And if it fails....well....youve got a good supply of "drumsticks" for tea Buzz
30 July 2002, 06:10 PM
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Sounds like a good idea, but I actually freeze in fear when I see one still, running or dead, I don't discriminate
I could try, but I would have to get someone else to feed it else it would starve with me looking after it!
I could try, but I would have to get someone else to feed it else it would starve with me looking after it!
30 July 2002, 06:58 PM
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I never used to kill spiders but where i live its like the amazon, there're are all kinds of spiders most mornings i can get out of my front door without getting covered in cobwebs [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
So now i just suck em up the hoover
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most mornings i can get out of my front door without getting covered in cobwebs [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img] So now i just suck em up the hoover
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30 July 2002, 07:05 PM
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Anyone going to post a serious response???!
I get dozens of big house spiders each Autumn, as the outside temp gets colder, and I put the heating on. Each evening, another brave soul tries to make its way from the fireplace to the boiler cupboard, and I dance all over the room trying to squash it. Noen have made it so far... I caught one for close inspection, and legspan was about 7cm diameter if you could flatten it out completely. Yeuch!!
But if you don't fancy squashing them, try crawling insect powder, which might work. I know they're not insects, but they probably breathe the same and will therefore choke on the stuff. Sprinkle it where they normally appear from...
I get dozens of big house spiders each Autumn, as the outside temp gets colder, and I put the heating on. Each evening, another brave soul tries to make its way from the fireplace to the boiler cupboard, and I dance all over the room trying to squash it. Noen have made it so far... I caught one for close inspection, and legspan was about 7cm diameter if you could flatten it out completely. Yeuch!!
But if you don't fancy squashing them, try crawling insect powder, which might work. I know they're not insects, but they probably breathe the same and will therefore choke on the stuff. Sprinkle it where they normally appear from...
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You do realise Katana you have caused me a substantial ressurection of arachnaphobia after a nasty shower in oz with a redback colony a few years ago. Damn the camel spider.....
30 July 2002, 11:44 PM
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Ah, please no. I flew into Fairford IAT airshow back in 91 in the cockpit of a tristar refueller, just back from Storm - still painted in a horrid pink colour actually. The chaps had a lot of stories at the bar. I know about these damn spiders, trust me. Don't share this horror Katana, it equals that dumb smallpox antidote that didn't work there....
31 July 2002, 12:47 AM
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31 July 2002, 12:52 AM
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Those guys are insane!!!! They bet on fights??? Twenty on a mosquito net out running a man
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Those guys are insane!!!! They bet on fights???
Twenty on a mosquito net out running a man <faints>
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Why oh why, did I have to click
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Terrible, terrible site Katana.... the interactive music simply spoilt Blue in Green dammit! And disturbed me somewhat more too! With that I am off to bed!!
Terrible, terrible site Katana.... the interactive music simply spoilt Blue in Green dammit! And disturbed me somewhat more too! With that I am off to bed!!
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