I Hate Bugs.

[Neverthesame]

I just got finished waging war on a spider I found whilst putting my shopping away.

It was a big one too. With great big pointy teeth! Well no not really... but still Eeeeewwww! I hate those things! I hate them, I hate them, I hate them!

I went to turn the light off and there it was on the wall. I ran to find a pair of work gloves and some paper to squish it in.

You know what it did?

Ran away right? Nooooo.

It climbed up onto the bloody door jamb and dive bombed me when I went through the door!!

What it is with bugs here? First I get these enormous giant beetles (last year, I put up a picture). Those things knew small unit tactics. That was f*cking bullshit! Now this?? THIS SPIDER!! With it's special forces surprise crap!!

How did it know I was coming back?

It actually jumped at me from above!

f*ck you bug! Look what that got you yeah? Your now mashed into a paper towel. Should've tried that shit with someone that wasn't hypervigilant huh? Didn't think I'd see you flying at my face?

Bah, got the heevy jeevies now.

Damnit. Scared the crap out of me. Lmao.

Tell me I'm not the only one who has shit like this happen to them? Laugh-crying now.

Bloody hell.

 

[Riot]

@Neverthesame, I can totally relate. Your comment, "Should've tried that shit with someone that wasn't hypervigilant huh? Didn't think I'd see you flying at my face? Bah, got the heevy jeevies now," made me laugh so hard because it reminds me of something that happened to me last year, and my reaction was almost exactly the same. :P

 

[Ronin]

One of my dear friends (trauma histories, no PTSD) and her dog (trauma, whatever doggie-PTSD would be what looks like) are both terrified of bugs.

I looove bugs. Resulted in a lot of super funny situations of me trying to calm down dear friend & her doggie while the bugs just weren't impressed with anyone of our trio.

So yep, dangitty darned things.... they can be dealt with. Or gotten dooown.
Congratz on managing, @Neverthesame. :) :tup:

 

[Changing4Best]

When I was a kid we saw this huge spider in the living room. We were terrified of it, so stayed in our mother's bedroom with the door closed until she got home from work. This was something like for 2 hours. Well, the darned thing was still exactly where we had first seen it. What did our mother do? She came to the rescue and stepped on it and squished it. We were SOOOoooo....relieved! My mother was always so cool. She always knew what to do or say. I miss her so much. I'm in my mid sixties now and she has been gone for maybe 5 years now. Life is not the same blessed thing without her, that is all I have to say about that!

 

[Gadgie]

Funny you should mention spiders, last night I was sitting here, typing away, when out the corner of my eye, I saw movement on the floor?

Just as I looked, I caught sight of the biggest spider I've ever seen in my life, making it's way towards the door! I took off one of my slippers, and went looking for it, couldn't see it?

Then, just as I was about to give up, I saw it, right on the edge of the rug. It was so big, that the span of it's legs were wider than my slipper!

The reason I know that is, because once I had hit it, it's legs were sticking out both sides of my slipper?

The thought of one of them walking across my bed, while I was sleeping, scares the c**p out of me!

 

[Neverthesame]

@Riot Haha, yeah. I woke the upstairs people with a loud string of profanity, followed by that laughing fit that comes after something harmless scares the crap out of you.

@Cashew I do find them interesting... From a distance, or behind glass. Even this one, once I'd calmed down, has got my curiosity going.

The reason being. The species of spider that I encountered last night, is the common domestic spider. We have them back home.

Spoiler: Domestic house spider

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_house_spider

Other than being hideous, the things are quite harmless. This one's behaviour was quite strange though. I was fully expecting it to run and hide, not reposition and ambush me from an elevated position.

Even if the thing had managed to get on me and bit me, it would not have done me any harm other than grossing me out.

I'm surprised your friends dog is afraid of them, must be picking that up from the owner. Dogs usually like eating them, even the really dangerous ones. Well dangerous to us anyway, the anatomy of the dog is different enough from ours, that even the bites from spiders such as black widows, brown recluse, redback spiders. Are no worse for them as being stuck with a pin. The venom does not harm them at all.

@SheilaKathy Your mum's braver than mine. Ha, both of my parents actually.

When I was a kid, around 4 years old. My parents and I had gone a bit of a road trip. I can't remember where or why, but at some point along a what's known as a B-road (like a country lane).

All of a sudden they start freaking out, pull the car over, bail out and leave 4 year old me, tied to my booster seat in the back. Why? Spider.

LOL. Jerks. They did go back for me eventually.

Mother nature got even for me later, I'll make that story a separate post, as this is getting a tad lengthy as is.

@Gadgie. Good lord man! I don't remember seeing anything that big when I was living in the UK. Did it maybe come in hidden in your shopping? It's rare, but it does happen, that some of the big tropical bugs can sneak in with produce items.

Good work killing it. I would be tempted to say sod it, throw it the house keys and tell it to lock up the door whenever it decided to move out.

 

[Neverthesame]

@SheilaKathy The following year, we (mum, dad and myself) had gone to a camping ground for a summer weekend.

First thing we notice, one of the trees in the corner of the little camping space was white, like it was covered in snow. Except this was northern England. Don't get alot of snow there, certainly not in July.

Turned out to be an old dead tree absolutely covered in webs and literally crawling with spiders. :wtf:

Oddly they were never a problem for the whole trip.

Evening came, we're all sitting round the fire enjoying the evening. All of a sudden, mum screams jumps up and in doing so, dumps her wine cocktail all over dad. :laugh:

Apparently a rather large beetle had landed on her leg. Ha, ha.

Dad and I had a good laugh at this... After he had changed anyways.

Few hours later after I'd gone to bed in the little camper trailer.

Mum and Dad come in, start getting ready for bed. Then another round of shrieking ensued (from Dad this time). One of these beetles had found it's way up his shirt onto his back, without his noticing. :arghh;

He swats the thing off him, it lands on the cushion of the little bench for the table in the camper. Still screaming, he picks up the big hardback novel he'd been reading, then starts trying to smash this bug with it.

All he was doing was pushing the thing into the cushion, where it would pop back up and keep walking. So he tries hitting it harder. Nope, no good. So he starts screaming at it while whacking it with the book. "WHY WON'T IT DIE?!! WHY WON'T IT DIE!!!??!"

Mum and I are killing ourselves laughing now :roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::hilarious:

He eventually got it off the cushion, then onto the floor where he was able to squish the thing.

That was how mother nature got even for me, for being abandoned in a car with a spider. :D:tup:

 

[Changing4Best]

LOL.....

 

[Changing4Best]

After telling my story yesterday here about my mom and the spider, I see one by my bed last night. I tried to stomp it with my foot twice, but it jumped away, the third time I used my other foot and got it. It was a BIG spider too! I was puzzled by the fact that it got away twice and then I got it the third time. I think it was the use of my other leg. It was watching the leg that attacked it, so the one that was not attacking it went unnoticed until it was too late for it to escape. That is the only thing I can think of. These little buggers are smart, but we are smarter!

 

[Gadgie]

Quote....."@Gadgie. Good lord man! I don't remember seeing anything that big when I was living in the UK."

It wasn't a foreign one, I've seen other big ones in here before? But that one was the biggest I've seen!

I thought after I lined that wee cupboard, off the living room, where the boiler is, with that insulation stuff, that they couldn't get out from there again, it seems they can?

 

[Neverthesame]

@SheilaKathy That's exactly what I am on about. Something with a brain the size of the head of a pin, shouldn't be able to think faster than the human foot about to squash it.

Good thing it didn't expect you to have two legs. ;)

@Gadgie it was a local? :nailbiting:

One thing I do know, it's really bloody impossible to keep them all out. To do so would require sealing every crack crevice and hole in your home airtight, then installing a compressor to create a positive pressure environment inside the house.

This would mean you would have to forfeit modern conveniences, such as central heating and plumbing. In order to maintain the positive pressure, you wouldn't be able to vent the furnace exaust. Filling the house with carbon monoxide.

The pressure would also likely push the water in the drain gas traps out entirely, allowing sewer gas to backup into the home. (Yup, I hate the things that much I have actually researched this. Ha.)

A few years ago the city I currently live in, flooded from a unusual spring rainfall. Fortunately I am living at a high enough elevation that the flooding was not a problem for me. However, all that rain drove every creepy crawley for miles indoors. :grumpy:

By about 2 weeks into the deluge, I was finding about 5 spiders a day. That was not fun. :yuck:

 

[Deleted member 28403]

The biologist in me is going crazy here :p
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Spiders aren't bugs! They are arachnids. :) If you only hate members of the order Hemiptera then do say you hate bugs :p otherwise insects :)
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Oh, yea, I saw this sorta rod thing for picking up spiders and taking them out that doesn't harm them, might be useful to get it?