I hate spiders !!
 

As soon as i got to work this morning, trying to get all my testing done before it gets to hot outside, i was putting the water hose outside my window for my Scrap FE testing, and there was this HUGE wolf spider crawling up my arm, i freaked out, ran over to the other office and got my boss to step on it.. He was laughing, i wasn't!!! He said that i have to get over this phobia about spiders.. oh just to think of that thing crawling on me with all those eye balls creaps me out...

Hun, I would have been screaming right along with you. I HATE spiders. I can handle the little ones they are easy to squash! LOL Anything bigger than a small pea and I am freaking out! I opened up my back door one day and there was a MASSIVE wolf spider hanging off the ledge. I actually started to hyperventilate!!! When I got my breath back I actually started to cry! LOL I know exactly how you feel!

I'm sorry that you are so scared of spiders. I have a black widow in a jar on my kitchen window ledge that I named Jezebel. I've had her for several weeks and was throwing a bug or two in once in a while, but she put in an egg sack and the babies recently hatched out so I'm afraid to open it for fear of letting some loose in the house. I bet you really didn't want to hear this either, did you? I'm not kidding, I really do have a black widow. She's been really, really interesting to watch! My husband put her in the jar to show to his boys group at church and we've just never gotten rid of her.

I also found one outside yesterday with a bunch of just hatched out little ones, but they got sprayed with Raid. We've found several around here this summer.

I also have a large cocoon in another jar that I'm waiting to come out. I think that it's going to be a large green moth but I'm not sure. It's been there for several weeks too. You never know what you're going to find at my house!!!

Diana, aren't black widows poisenous? Do you have a lot of them around your home? What about the dogs?

I'm not really afraid of spiders, just don't care for them on me. I don't think I know what a wolf spider is. We mostly have these tiny little black things and granddaddy long legs.

I HATE spiders - I got bit by a brown recluse as a child and still have the scar on the back of my knee from the damage that it did.

I'm terrified of spiders! When we were kids my brother used to pick them up by a leg and throw them at me! ewwww just the thought of spiders makes me cringe!

Black widows are one of the most poisonous spiders there is. We try to be real careful when we pick up stuff because they like to be underneath where it's nice and dry. We've found several around by my basement door and so we know to keep an eye out there for them. They're not aggressive so I'm not worried about Reuger getting bit. He pretty much stays where the yard is clear.

A wolf spider is usually the big spider that you see in your yard. They usually have a hole in the ground and are rather large, but not much to be afraid of.

Diana, i have goose bumps on my arms you are freaking me out.. get rid of that spider,, YUk !!!!!

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Haley, you have another member of the scaredy cat, er spider group right here lol
You should have seen the death this poor black snake got. My mother was terrified of it, so what does she do? She chases it down, and tries chopping it in half with a shovel bashing its head in! I felt so bad for the poor thing :( when she told me and showed it to me, he looked like she had broken his vertebrete in a few spots.
Now I am not a huge fan of snakes either, but what a horrible frightening way to go... he was "walking" away, minding his own business.

Diana, giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrl...... :eek:

I hate anything that crawls,, yuk, i miss my Orkin guy.. but we had to cut back on bills due to the rising gas prices and my orkin guy had to go... now i have small spiders in my basement but not big ones yet, but here in pa, August is the time for the big wolf spiders to start coming out, there all around my lab trailer at work.. i freak out almost everyday.... i saw another in my lab this morning is was chasing it out with the broom... YUk,, what a head rush.. i get so upset when i see them, i get creaped out all day.. like there after me trying to crawl on me..
my boss laughs, he tells me i have steel toe boots on to just step on them, sometimes there bigger than my boot... Ekkkkk !!!!

Glad to know I'm not alone in the spider hating!

We have Black Widows ALL over the place. They really scare me. The anti-venom is actually worse than the bite. SOme people are allergic to it. I have a mild heart condition and they scare me to death. We spray around the house all the time. Diana You are one brave woman! LOL I couldn't keep one. LOL

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Sorry but i would have to move !!! Do you have people that come out and spray like Orkin around you area? I loved them but had to give them up...

My spider is in a jar with a tight fitting lid and no holes. Nothing can get in or out otherwise I wouldn't have her in my house! When it was just the one spider I could open and close the lid when she was in the bottom of the jar but with the babies in there I can't do that because they'll escape so right now they're not getting anything to eat. They have been really, really interesting to watch. I've learned so much about spiders.

Spiders don't bother me unless they are crawling on me. That freaks me out!!! We have huge spiders here in the spring time that make large webs overnight. The spider itself is black and yellow and sits in the middle of the web waiting of a bug to light. We call them "writing spiders" because they make a heavy zigzag pattern in their web usually near the center, like it's their signature or something. They will stay for several days if their web is not disturbed, and they catch lots of bugs. We leave them alone unless they decide to make a web over the front door or something. I've gone to leave in the morning and there was a spider web across my path.

Melissa had one on the canopy of the RV she was living in and she enjoyed her pet until someone did her a favor and removed the web while she was in class one day. They, too, are interesting to watch.

May have to catch me a Black Widow, Diana, but hubby would probably have a fit!!;)

I use to till I found out that what they were spraying didn't leave any kind of a residue. So then we started to spray the house ourselves. So far so good!

As far as I am concerned the only kind of good spider is a DEAD spider! :D There isn't a thing that I want to learn from them! LOL:)

I have a friend who swears if you put a few, I think they are called hedge apples, in your basement your home will be spider free.

They are big green gnarly looking things.

Maryilyn, we have those spiders here in pa but we call them banana spiders, you find them in your garden they like to make there webs around the corn, i remember as a child running thru the garden and i ran right thru one of there webs and that spider was smack on my face... :eek: i flipped out....

O my, the same thing happened to me as a child. I don't know if it was in the corn field, but probably was. We had corn in front of our house most years, and yes, the spiders did make their webs in the corn.

Banana spiders may be their name. I'm not sure. Writing spiders is just what we called them because they write in their web. So cool that we share that experience.

EEKKK! We shared a scary experience, i'm not sure if that is there name, they have two yellow marks on both sides of there bodies, that look like banana's that's why we called them that, i still remember that day, my brother was tormenting me like he always did chasing me, and i ran right into it. and you are also right they sit right in the middle of there web, and he smacked right in the middle of my face.. YUk...... scared the crap out of me.. just to feel that web on my face and the spider on my nose.... YUK.....

They will get your attention. In my case, it wasn't exactly on my nose. I was freaking out trying to find it with their strong sticky web everywhere. Finally flung it on the ground. Maybe that is why I'm not scared of spiders, but do freak out when one gets on me. The thought of them crawling on me is just totally creeps me out!!!!:eek: I get the heeby jeebies just thinking about it.

We call them Garden spiders. Here's a picture of one with the zigzag pattern on it's web. They're pretty harmless and do a great job of eating bugs.

http://search.msn.com/images/results...den-spider.jpg

Shada, I've heard of putting hedge apples around to keep out spiders. We've got plenty of them around so I should put some in the basement. Thanks for the reminder!

We put up a few bat houses in our back yard, hoping that takes care of any spiders back there.

I don't know about spiders but bats will take care of mosquitos and flying insects.

Okay, I just have to add to this thread. I am in complete agreement with all of you other spider haters! I am a member of a photo forum and today I opened a thread and it was photos of a spider killing and eating a bee! It was hairy and gross and ALBINO! It was awful. I had to close the thread quickly...I might have nightmares now! YUCK!

Like Diana and marilyn, spiders don't bother me unless they're crawling ON me. Now bat... are a whole different matter. If see a bat swoop by I run and scream like a little kid.

My hubby is terrified of snakes. Doesn't matter if they're 4" long, he kills them on sight. I haven't told him yet that our nasty neighbors have a 12' boa in their house. He'd move!
This is the snake the neighbors have... photo taken a couple years ago so he's grown since.


Attachment 3853 If tht thing ever gets out my poor hubby will end up dead from a heart attack or in jail for having shot it.

My hubby would be the same way! He was in the Marines and had a really nsaty run in with Rattlesnakes while rock climbing. Now he hates them all! Can't really blame him tho.

I don't have an issue with bats or snakes, but I think chicken's are the scariest animal ever created! The look absolutely evil, like they are always plotting a way to peck your eyes out.

I won't go anywhere near one - as a kid I used to run out of petting zoos screaming if I saw one.

Dobie, that's a strange fear. I haven't heard of that one before. Nothing wrong with being afraid of chickens. Don't think you have to worry about running into one in your normal day to day life. Any story behind that fear??

we call them monkey balls in pa, they come out in the fall.

Dobie, I'm with you girl!! I am so afraid of all birds. I remember still being in a crib and dreaming there were chickens on my crib. Mom remembers it too. I've always been afraid of them, probably always will.

I don't like spiders or any other insects either..:eek:

oH gINA, I am the same way when those locus come out every so many years i freak out too...