becks_r

Is it just me? I was sitting in my office at home (the spare room, nothing fancy), watching a spider crawl across the ceiling. Look away to answer an email and now it has disappeared!!! No idea where it has gone, but I keep feeling like it is crawling over my feet

WEBlue

Yep, I bet it dropped...suspended on its web, of course. Some are fast-moving!

becks_r

I looked all over the floor, no sign! I'm not scared of them. I just don't want them landing on me. At least these are small things and not man-eating, like the ones in Australia!

Pulaski

I wish we had "disappearing spiders". We only have their mirror-image counterpart, appearing spiders.

chawkins99

Teleportation?

Nutek

Spiders.

Not even once.

becks_r

so they are back!!! Caught one and put it outside - another one is staring at me from the ceiling. But you are right Pulaski - I think they will continue to appear and then hide occasionally. It still makes my skin crawl when I notice they have disappeared, but the chances of them dropping on me is fairly remote.

I once had a friend's pet tarantula crawl onto me when I was sitting on his sofa. With no warning! I didn't even know he had a pet tarantula, let alone that it was roaming round the place. I know the wild ones her in NYS are nothing like that, but they still make me shudder.

Steerpike

We have LOTS of spiders in our home. They are quite fascinating, and we have given up trying to control them - their webs catch mosquitoes and other undesirables.

If you watch carefully, you'll see them descending from the ceiling - they lower themselves on their 'thread' (that they are producing as they drop), then crawl along the floor and back up the wall to anchor the thread wherever they want to build a web (rinse and repeat ...). They are amazingly industrious and build amazing webs with great patience.

I do find them 'on' me once in a while ... part of life ...

Nutek

Yeah... No.



They would find that to be a very brief life.

Steerpike

I give them a well-aimed 'flick' to transport them well away. Killing them would typically involve making a mess, on me ... so not that desirable!

Nutek

I'm pretty sure all of that would get lost in the general FLAILING that went on as I ran in tiny circles.

becks_r

The funniest thing that I saw with spiders was 3 burly removal men refusing to go into our garage because of the spiders. Now I know the spiders that mainly lived in the Sussex fields round me were huge, but they were harmless. I had to drag everything out the garage and bang it on the ground to get the spiders to run away....

becks_r

Yes I agree they are amazing creatures. I once saw a BBC program called spider house, where they let loose loads of different spiders into an abandoned house and filmed them. It was great!!

Used to be petrified of them as a kid, got better as I got older, got scared again after the tarantula incident and then got a bit better when I lived in Sussex - they were everywhere there. I just don't like it when they are there and then not, like a wasp in a room - want to know where it is...

Don't get me on earwigs - they are the spawn of the devil!!!

lizzyq

I don't do spiders. Intellectually I know they must be in the house because I find cobwebby stuff. When I clean the stairs, the cobwebby stuff reappears within 24 hours. But so long as I don't see the spiders themselves I can pretend they aren't really here. The few I have seen are really spindly, not at all like UK house spiders, and they are silent too, the ones in our UK house sort of rustled as they ran across the floor. This was a bad thing for the spiders because the cats would then hear them....

becks_r

ahh yes - I had cats as a kid and they seem to love catching spiders. But they would spit them out still alive and then watch for them to start running away, and so it would go on until either the cat got bored or the spider died!!