I can't stand spiders!

Awwww, I don't mind spiders, I am always telling hubby off for killing them - why not just let them outside?

I get faint and nauseaus just looking at a picture of a spider...I can feel my bloodpressure go up. I'll just take your word for it (about the picture) because I was going on what someone said about the huge one that I saw. I'm far too fearful to look through a book to try to identify the (now squashed) spider that had invaded my house.

Spiders are cool! I like them because they eat other bugs I hate like mosquitoes, flies, roaches, ...

i dont see what the big deal is,
they are tiny little things.

I used to be absolutely terrified of spiders. I was so scared that every time I saw one, I would freeze up and not be able to move. Then in grade 2 I decided to face my fears. My teachers son had a pet tarantula and he let it crawl on anyone who was willing to let it. It was just a Mexican Red Knee Tarantula but at the time it was still the biggest spider I had ever seen. It started crawling up my arm and after a while of that, I didn't want to let it go. It felt so weird with their suction-cup feet. After that, I started to learn more about spiders and eventually my arachnophobia was completely gone. I've actually held the biggest spider in the world (Goliath Bird-Eating Spider) and a few of the smallest ones in the world (and many in between). I can understand why people are so afraid of them but in reality, you only have to worry of about 5% of the total population of spiders. Most of them are harmless. A lot of the more common ones are too small to even penetrate your skin with their fangs.

Spider's are fine out doors..

My theory is I am more then willing to stay out of their houses, therefore I expect them to stay out of mine.

Then again I also have Linus the Great and Fearless Spider Killer, he see
them as appetizers.

I always relocate spiders I find in the house. They are beneficial in the summertime, cutting down on the pest bug populations.

I just relocated a mud dauber that somehow managed to get in the house. The cats were kind enough to point it out to me. I'm pretty sure these guys are in the wasp family and will sting in defense, so it had to go.

They were extremely peeved at me when their new toy suddenly disappeared.

Just 10 minutes ago I relocated a daddy long legs for a co-worker. She was screaming "Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie get it, get it, get it!!!!" I hope I didn't hurt it when I picked him up. I felt his small body hit my finger when I picked him up They are so delicate, its hard to tell if I am hurting or helping sometimes.

Spiders are beneficial and amazing creatures. If people can open thier hearts to cats, why not other creatures? All have unique abilities that contribute to our circle of life, so to speak. Imagine the surplus of misquitoes and flies we would have in our lives without spiders.

We have an adopted spider in my bedroom somewhere. She stays near the ceiling, crawling along the space where ceiling and wall meet. She is big and black. By big, I mean maybe an inch or less across. She is big enough for me to see with my glasses off Daphne just watches and watches her as she crawls along, then runs back and forth across the room trying to figure a way to get up there. Didn't see her last night - Daphne was looking for her. Kept looking at me, then the ceiling as though asking where Spider went

Two of my nieces started out with the fear of spiders thing when they were in grade school. They got it from their friends - something "girls" are supposed to be afraid of. We nipped that in the bud pretty quickly. Now, one of the girls acts that way around her friends, but she isn't really afraid. The other just relocates them.

Originally Posted by Bonnie1965

Just 10 minutes ago I relocated a daddy long legs for a co-worker. She was screaming "Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie get it, get it, get it!!!!" I hope I didn't hurt it when I picked him up. I felt his small body hit my finger when I picked him up

They are so delicate, its hard to tell if I am hurting or helping

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Depending on what the "daddy long legs" was it may not even have been a spider. The name usually refers to a type of harvestmen - not a spider at all and do not even have venom glands, or type of pholcidae - spider that hunts other spiders, but is harmless to humans.

It's quite funny when people are afraid of harvestmen.

You probably have a bold jumping spider since it hangs out on your ceiling like that.

Four summers ago, I was bitten on my hand by a brown recluse spider. I missed nearly two months of work because of the huge necrotic hole on my hand. Don't talk to me about relocating a spider. They have a whole big world outside. My house is off limits. If they're in my house, they die!

Originally Posted by Pookie-poo

Four summers ago, I was bitten on my hand by a brown recluse spider. I missed nearly two months of work because of the huge necrotic hole on my hand. Don't talk to me about relocating a spider. They have a whole big world outside. My house is off limits. If they're in my house, they die!

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Ugh, I had a brown recluse that got into my room several months back, and it was on the floor right inside my door and I was so scared to try and get past it and get something to kill it, so I called my mom through the house on my cell phone and asked her to get something to take care of it with.. I'm so scared of those things!

My biggest fear is the tiny ones that don't move, but scurry. And not just scurry, but scurry towards ME. They move too fast for me to keep up, so when I'm on my knees with a cup, and they're scurrying past the cup and towards my knees, I panic. I'll still catch it and take it outside, but the heart pounding can not be good. And since they scurry so fast, I fret about losing it in a crack in the floor or wall or under some furniture or something. Once there was a little black guy near the ceiling in one room, and Willow was perched on the bookshelf next to it (I think I put her there to combat the problem, as I couldn't reach the spider, and I freaked at the thought of it falling on my head). When it got close enough, she gave it a gentle touch with her paw...and it went saaaaiiillling away into a corner and disappeared. Until a week later. When I found it downstairs, underneath the aformentioned room. I captured it with a cup, though I accidently smooshed one of it's legs off, and threw it out the nearest window.

I always know I have 3 cats as backup, so that keeps me calmer, lol. They'll protect me, at least long enough for me to run away a safe distance and watch, make sure they don't lose it.

We had a Jewel Spider a few years ago, and while it scared the bejeezus out of me at first (it's HUGE, compared to the usual spiders we get), I quickly learned more about it and now I'm fascinated. The first spider eventually laid her egg sac and died, and every year around August, her descendents appear. Last year, two of them hung out in the garage, a male and female (I say that as one was much bigger than the other), and the year before there was one right next to the front door, in the perfect spot for me to crack the door open and take pictures. They're harmless and they prefer to hang out outside, near lights (which attract bugs), and they only come out at night. They also make some nice webs, which can get huge. The bigger one that was in the garage last year, she had a nice, big web spanning nearly half of a window (so that'd be, I think, a couple of feet?), but it made a HUGE mess of random web-strings that held it aloft. Strings stretching to the rafters, strings stretching to car tools, strings stretching to the window itself. It was funny, actually, since it was so messy looking. It was the web that looked tidy, lol

Ironically, the Jewel Spider is also called the Cat Face spider, thanks to the appearance of it's abdomen or torso or whatever you call it.

But spiders that scurry freak me out.

oh my gosh, if I even think about spiders I am paranoid for the whole day!