Fuck spiders

[Ackybur]

I was laying in bed last night with my ipad light on. I was about to turn it off when I see a small round thing run past... at first I thought I saw something. The little bastard popped up on my pillow and almost bit my face. I moved in time and got a picture of the evil little bastard called a Hobo Spider. Fuck their bites!

[MournfulOdin]

Man, you're really lucky. Those thing's bites are really nasty, especially if it got you on your face. Just as bad as the brown recluses where I live.

[fingerman]

Go to a hardware store, or the home depot and get some glue traps, they are about 5"x8" and you peel back and place on the ground. Placement is key, put them against the wall under your bed and probably two other places in the room. Always put them against the wall because spiders and other insects use the corners of the wall to move around your room. They prefer tight places, having two surfaces, the wall and the floor. If you have a floor vent, put one near the vent because they will use the air ducts to travel. You do not have to fold them, just leave them open. You will be able to catch or monitor spider activity in your room.

[Ackybur]

I don't have a floor vent, but my bathroom is a Jack and Jill style. It leads into the storage room and there is a crawl space... I think they are coming in from there under the door.. Thoughts?

[Fence!]

I used to live in a basement, so I have shittons of spider relief ideas.

1) There's a powder/spray you can buy and spray around the perimeter of your rooms which will keep them out. Try Home Depot/Lowes to see if they have it in a pest control area.

2) If the carpets come up easily, take them up and see if there are cracks between the wall and floor. If so, get either some plumber's sealant or caulk and fill dem holes up!

3) At night stuff towels in any window sills you have, then either take them out in the morning (as most spiders which enter your home will do so in search of food, and the spiders which hunt for food mostly hunt at night), or leave them in w/e.

4) Shake out all clothes AND SHOES!!!!! (turn the shoes so the soles/bottom face upwards, grasp at the toe end of the shoe and clap them together so that any spiders inside will fall out away from you) before putting them on.

I wholeheartedly understand where you're at, since I just moved out of a basement apartment not too long ago. That shit is SO wack.


P.S. stuffing a towel under the crawlspace door and making sure that the doorframe is sealed can do wonders

[Ackybur]

Fence, I don't think I've professed my love for you enough. You've reached the peak level on the Ackybur Love Meter. I will do this for sure. I'm getting the poison today... I'm just DREADING going through my winter shoes...

[jawsh]

Smash it with your iPad, 2 birds 1 stone.


Also, you have to check for cobwebs to see if it was a BROSPIDER.
In the wild, the BROSPIDER builds webs and preys upon insects like the WHATHEFUCKISTHAT and the OHMYGODIT'SDISGUSTING, you will find such insects in their webs.
If this is the case, give him a ham sandwich and let him live, he's earned it.

[Ackybur]

Smash it with your iPad, 2 birds 1 stone.


Also, you have to check for cobwebs to see if it was a BROSPIDER.
In the wild, the BROSPIDER builds webs and preys upon insects like the WHATHEFUCKISTHAT and the OHMYGODIT'SDISGUSTING, you will find such insects in their webs.
If this is the case, give him a ham sandwich and let him live, he's earned it.

totally not a brospider. It's a hobo bobo spider! Their bites cause narcrosis and they bite a lot more during mating season....that's what this season is.

edit: I don't want this to happen

[fingerman]

You don't have brown recluse out there in Utah, we barely have them in Nebraska, Colorado does not have them, they have black widows, but that bite that you saw was a brown recluse, which are more eastern united states, unless they have been transported in furniture or something.

I used to work for orkin pest control, for like 4 months in the summer. I would suggest trying the glue traps. It is an easy way to monitor your room and it is also non-toxic.

[Failhorse]

I don't know what your freaking out about. Just looks like it wants to say hi.
When I was ripping walls out of my basement had 7-8 brownies in the insulation and shit.

This time of year not much you can do to keep spiders out. They'll still find a way. I generally hit openings with home defense maxx. But they always find a way in.

[mrpikmin2]

I'm gonna go with kill it with fire is your best option.

[Spyder]

I read the title of this thread and my initial reaction was:

[Ackybur]

I don't know what your freaking out about. Just looks like it wants to say hi.
When I was ripping walls out of my basement had 7-8 brownies in the insulation and shit.

This time of year not much you can do to keep spiders out. They'll still find a way. I generally hit openings with home defense maxx. But they always find a way in.

I don't know why I freak out either. I can't talk about spiders, look at pictures or even be near them with out having a hard time breathing and if they sneak up on me I cry. I have nooooo idea how to get over it, but I've tried. Nothing works.

[BrowleeCrack]

fine

[Spyder]

[Ackybur]

Oh god... I literally dry heaved and almost threw up from that gif Robfer... why would you post that? I cant stand the sight of a spider let a lone one MOVING,...

[LegendarySurgeon]

I got bit by a brown recluse that was probably in my pants this past February and lost a quarter-sized chunk of flesh from my thigh.

[LegendarySurgeon]

I had a banana spider make a web between my fingers when I lived on Guam. He was just chilling in the mail box and it freaked me out but when we found out he wasn't dangerous it was pretty cool.

[MournfulOdin]

I had a banana spider make a web between my fingers when I lived on Guam. He was just chilling in the mail box and it freaked me out but when we found out he wasn't dangerous it was pretty cool.

When I was about 15, I had just got off the bus and was walking home when I literally walked into a web one of these things had spun in a tree. The thing was in my fucking hair. Luckily, I didn't freak out enough to make him bite me and he just walked onto my backpack (which I hastily put on the ground)and over towards the tree. Needless to say, I didn't walk on that side of the street for a while.

[Prof_Schwartz]

I have arachnophobia....why the hell did i just read all this??

Also Acky you might have arachnophobia as well if you dry heaved from (just) seeing a picture of a spider... Just a thought

[Ackybur]

I have arachnophobia....why the hell did i just read all this??

Also Acky you might have arachnophobia as well if you dry heaved from (just) seeing a picture of a spider... Just a thought

Pretty sure I do. After the bed incident I refused to be in the room and left the house until about 2 am this morning

[Spyder]

[Ackybur]

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[Maringue]

Generally you are never more than 6 feet from a spider, so keeping them out is not easy.

I agree wholeheartedly with Fingerman, go with the sticky traps. They really really work. Poison has mixed results, but I generally don't like spraying poison where I sleep. If you're going to use it, I'd use it on the outside of your windows.

Also, as the wikipedia article states (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo_spider), most if not all of the hobo spider bites that become necrotic are actually brown recluse bites. Basically, if you felt the bite then you are in the clear, which is why brownie bites are bad since most people never knew they got bitten.

Although that little hobo is nothing. My friend moved to Venezuela for a year because of his dad's job. They land in the airport and my friends asks one of the multitude of heavily armed men where the bathroom is. My friend starts taking a piss as one of these spiders (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_wandering_spider) crawls out from the back side of the toilet onto the seat. My friend starts screaming because there is a GIGANTIC angry spider was close to his exposed junk. The funny part is, one of the said heavily armed guards, thinking my friend is being kidnapped or some shit (the reason the guard is there in the first place), kicks in the door brandishing an assault rifle only to find my buddy cowering at the other side of the bathroom pointing at the spider, which the dude promptly kills with the butt of his machine gun.

[Maringue]

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Yeah, camel spiders are real. Luckily for you, they live in the middle east. Just another reason not to go there.

[LegendarySurgeon]

Also, as the wikipedia article states (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo_spider), most if not all of the hobo spider bites that become necrotic are actually brown recluse bites. Basically, if you felt the bite then you are in the clear, which is why brownie bites are bad since most people never knew they got bitten.

I thought my bite was like, a zit or something until it turned black and hurt like hell.

[Ackybur]

I set up traps and I caught two on a trap by the crawl space. Pretty sure one when on there, got stuck and then the other one tried to eat it.

[HibiscusKazeneko]

Go to a hardware store, or the home depot and get some glue traps, they are about 5"x8" and you peel back and place on the ground. Placement is key, put them against the wall under your bed and probably two other places in the room. Always put them against the wall because spiders and other insects use the corners of the wall to move around your room. They prefer tight places, having two surfaces, the wall and the floor. If you have a floor vent, put one near the vent because they will use the air ducts to travel. You do not have to fold them, just leave them open. You will be able to catch or monitor spider activity in your room.

You can't buy glue traps at Home Depot anymore. PETA forced them to remove the traps from their shelves years ago.

Just use a flyswatter, a shoe or a heavy book and smash the thing; that's what I do (though we primarily have wolf spiders here).

[Ackybur]

Go to a hardware store, or the home depot and get some glue traps, they are about 5"x8" and you peel back and place on the ground. Placement is key, put them against the wall under your bed and probably two other places in the room. Always put them against the wall because spiders and other insects use the corners of the wall to move around your room. They prefer tight places, having two surfaces, the wall and the floor. If you have a floor vent, put one near the vent because they will use the air ducts to travel. You do not have to fold them, just leave them open. You will be able to catch or monitor spider activity in your room.

You can't buy glue traps at Home Depot anymore. PETA forced them to remove the traps from their shelves years ago.

Just use a flyswatter, a shoe or a heavy book and smash the thing; that's what I do (though we primarily have wolf spiders here).

I have no idea what you're talking about but i have some tomcat traps here.

[HibiscusKazeneko]

Go to a hardware store, or the home depot and get some glue traps, they are about 5"x8" and you peel back and place on the ground. Placement is key, put them against the wall under your bed and probably two other places in the room. Always put them against the wall because spiders and other insects use the corners of the wall to move around your room. They prefer tight places, having two surfaces, the wall and the floor. If you have a floor vent, put one near the vent because they will use the air ducts to travel. You do not have to fold them, just leave them open. You will be able to catch or monitor spider activity in your room.

You can't buy glue traps at Home Depot anymore. PETA forced them to remove the traps from their shelves years ago.

Just use a flyswatter, a shoe or a heavy book and smash the thing; that's what I do (though we primarily have wolf spiders here).

I have no idea what you're talking about but i have some tomcat traps here.

http://www.peta.org/features/join-the-c ... traps.aspx

They've been campaigning against the sale and use of glue traps for years.

[SovietPanda]

[Ackybur]

[quote="HibiscusKazeneko"
http://www.peta.org/features/join-the-c ... traps.aspx

They've been campaigning against the sale and use of glue traps for years.[/quote]

So doesn't mean they don't exist. In fact, I have three up right now.

[HibiscusKazeneko]

[quote="HibiscusKazeneko"
http://www.peta.org/features/join-the-c ... traps.aspx

They've been campaigning against the sale and use of glue traps for years.

So doesn't mean they don't exist. In fact, I have three up right now.[/quote]
Where'd you find them? That's what I'd like to know.

In case you're curious, I don't give a shit about PETA. Ingrid Newkirk can die in a fire for all I care. I have a sticky fly trap hanging from a vent in my kitchen as I type this.

[Spyder]

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[Spyder]

Or, even better, the good ol' Wolf Spider.

[HibiscusKazeneko]

Or, even better, the good ol' Wolf Spider.

I get those in my house.
They're no match for the good ol' size 13 shoe.

[Ackybur]

[quote="HibiscusKazeneko"
http://www.peta.org/features/join-the-c ... traps.aspx

They've been campaigning against the sale and use of glue traps for years.

So doesn't mean they don't exist. In fact, I have three up right now.

Where'd you find them? That's what I'd like to know.

In case you're curious, I don't give a shit about PETA. Ingrid Newkirk can die in a fire for all I care. I have a sticky fly trap hanging from a vent in my kitchen as I type this.[/quote]


Got them at Home Depot in the pest sections. I can take a picture of them if you'd like. I'm not sure what info you were fed, but it's inaccurate. Also, you're a terrible person for posting those! Ahhh the babies are grosssssss

[Saber]

WHY AM I CLICKING ON THIS THREAD IT IS QUITE LITERALLY MAKING ME SHIT MY PANTS IN FEAR
I FUCKING HATE SPIDERS