Silly but serious question lol

[Alan1]

Originally Posted by Zen

Weve got one of those spider catchers from lakeland, great things to use....except my hubby does it for me, still cant go near them!

I remember putting on my jeans one day, they had been hanging over the bath, anyway i put them on and felt this sharp prick opened the zip and i has been bitten by a HUGE harvest spider, i couldnt get the jeans off quick enough, i was screaming like a banchee, hyperventilating and trying not to vommit at the same time!!! mean while hubby is killing himself on the floor laughing!
Trouble is i cant bring myself or let any one else kill them....bad karma that, they will come back and get ya!

Good luck though! i'm afraid i wont be coming to help!

Some of that sounds as if it should be in the over 18's forum

[Zen]

Originally Posted by AdamSoS

Ok.. so jeans come off with spiders around...you SURE you dont want to help??? lol.. only kidding haha!

Sadly there still in there.. im debating my move.. im eyeing up putting a hose outside and playing god.. creating a huge tidal wave for the evil evil things!

Hose = long distance = even further distance from me = PERFECT!

I HATE SPIDERS!!!!!!!!!

[Zen]

Originally Posted by caledonia

Some of that sounds as if it should be in the over 18's forum

[a_fisher]

Originally Posted by kimmerz

Don't know if it's true but I heard daddy long legs were poisonous but there fags are too tiny to puncture anyone or anything.

Yep urban myth. You are mistaking crane flys for Pholcidae spiders:

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

There is an urban legend stating that daddy long-legs spiders have the most potent venom of any spider, but that their chelicerae (fangs) are either too small or too weak to puncture human skin; the same legend is also repeated of the harvestman and crane fly, also called "daddy long-legs" in some locales. Indeed, pholcid spiders do have a short fang structure (called uncate). However, brown recluse spiders also have uncate fang structure, but are able to deliver medically significant bites. Either pholcid venom is not toxic to humans or there is a musculature difference between the two arachnids, with recluses, being hunting spiders, possessing stronger muscles for fang penetration.

In 2004, the Discovery Channel show MythBusters set out to test the daddy long-legs myth (Season 1, Episode 13 "Buried in Concrete"). After measuring the spider's fangs at approximately 0.25 mm (average human skin thickness varies from about 0.5mm to 4mm), the show's host was apparently bitten, although the bite produced little more than a mild short-lived burning sensation. This appears to confirm the suspicion that pholcids can penetrate human skin, but that their venom is practically harmless to humans. Additionally, recent research by Alan Van Dyke has shown that pholcid venom is actually relatively weak in its effects on insects as well.

According to the University of California at Riverside, the daddy long-legs spider has never harmed a human and there is no evidence that they are venomous to humans.

[Sylvia1]

Just had to add to this thread again. Yesterday, I was vacuuming the cobwebs from the top of the open bathroom window when a huge spider fell into the room and ran under the bath - made me jump I can tell you This morning, I picked up the bath mat which had fallen into the bath and that damn spider was hiding in it - woke me up though I couldn't leave it there so I picked it up in a load of toilet paper and threw the whole lot out the window but as its really windy here, I think it probably blew straight into next door's garden

[Evie]

I dont like them Sylvia but I would do the same as you - I wouldn't kill one if I had the right equipment to throw it out the window without touching it !!!!

Faced with a greenhouse full would be a bit different though !!!!!!!!

[Vixen]

I hate spiders!!! and when i see a daddy long legs i'll just cry my eyes out!! i'm so scared of them,i wont stay in the same room as them and my palms sweat! when i was a kid,went on holiday in a static caravan and a load of them came flying in and there must of been 50 of them! i just remember crying and screaming my head off for them to go! lol

[Pussygalore]

you wouldn't want to meet my visitor then, it crawled out of the ground when I was gardening