| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 3:48:15 PM | there is nothing to fear except fear itself........and spiders !!
I would like to know if there are any other freaks of nature out there like myself, who panic at the mere sight of a spider..I felt terrible killing one the smorning, but i felt I had no choice..just like my ex..cant live with em and cant live with em.!!
what are your capture and release procedures.how do you do deal with them.
are there ways to deal with em that dont involve death.?
end of a broom stick
inverted lunch box
shiver in the corner and hope they go away
running around waving my hands in the air like a traffic cop screaming, doesn't seem to be working out for me.
open to sugesstions
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 4:15:41 PM | I've enlisted the help from Mr Mortein and sometimes I use Mr PeaBeu. I can recommend Mr Raid too.......yes I spray them all to death
The little buggers don't bother me...but if you could see the reaction of fear from my daughter, priceless!!! | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 4:17:24 PM | Yes, well when I saw this thread, I immediatly started to look around the room........... clear for now! I think that your strategy of 'shiver in the corner........' has problems, as they can sssseee youuuuuu and their lack of motion only means that they developing a strategy to trap you in the room - much better and conducive to survival, to bolt OUT OF THE ROOM. If they do move then I like to evacuate the house. Thankfully, I have a son who like his mother, fears nothing including these monsters. His technique is to trap them in a jar, put the lid on and take them outside. Your problem, like mine, is getting them into the jar when the hand is shaking and the monster decides that your arm is a better proposition - we'll leave the scenario at that point before my imagination takes over.........
One solution is have kids and get them to deal with the monsters - I had my son at it by the time he was four and he has become quite good at it! | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 4:32:41 PM | i like it netab, nice idea
a jar on the end of a broome stick..could take some engineering
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I am not into killing them with the chemical war fair ADreaming2,
i some how feel sorry for them at the same time as being afriad of them..but will be buying some spray for those special occasions when the above doesn't work out. | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 4:53:49 PM | Ok then I can recommend Mr Muscle (oven cleaner), well he had the same camouflaged appearance as Mr PeaBeau ...they both come in a green can.
Yes, it did work...spider drowned in the foam. | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 4:57:53 PM | | Just to be on the safeside, I'd soak the broome handle in glue before commencing operations and I still think that finding a partner with a 'trap spiders' gene is a better long term resolution to this horrifying problem! | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 5:02:52 PM | am going to ammend my profile,
must not be :
Afraid of Spiders
chicken of arachnids
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ADreaming2
yes , oven cleaner...keep him struggling in foam, the Art of War...diversion..
perhaps a fire-extingisher,but the foam type...
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 5:11:33 PM | caves what spider what it?
Me I do all the above.. I tend to hate sprays only because as much as I hate spiders I respect them as well and don't want to see them die a slow death. But if it had to come to it i would use the spray.
I scream and then go looking for my son who will capture it and then release it. Then we get into an argument as to what is the point of taking the spider from one area and release it another. If the spider is inside he will release it outside and again we get into an argument as the spider may come inside again.
Our arguments are really good , goes like this.. son says "now what has the spider ever done to you." My response is "just kill the dam thing." son says... "it's a beautiful spider, look it does this and does that." I say.. "do I care, just kill the dame thing."
If they are small spiders I have no problem putting them at rest.. I have gotten use to Redbacks now, they aren't a problem, Orb Spiders are okay too, depending on their size, in fact I like Orb Spiders they change colours to fit in with their enviroment.
Now if the are big ones, well that is when the panic sets in, or if they are big black spiders or large Orb Spiders.. help !!!!
I buy this huge can Mortien house spray and spray around the house once a year, it is good stuff about $8.00 a can. The best part about this spray is that all the spiders come out first so you see all these spiders and then they go to the spider heaven in the sky. | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 5:19:17 PM | it was a big one,size of my hand.well there is actually 2.it rained last night and they just started showing up.one is dead and the other is contained in a bedroom.
i dare not try and recall the memmory(think it was huntsman), i have big orbs all round the back yard.i would like to see the a$s end of them aswell.
i would like to maybe find a fluffy cute pet animal thing that eats spiders as its main food supply ...something like a
carnivorous spider eating rabbit that can hang upside down on ceilings.
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a perdy birdy that flys around my home searching for them. | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 5:23:29 PM | My orb spiders are so small I think its the lack of rain, they have gone elsewhere this year. Normally I have three or four large resident orb spiders in the garden eating the insects.
Two big hunstman, now that is something to worry about.. I dont think chemical warfare is going to do it, unless you spray a whole can on it and even I could not do it.
Caves... Net's idea about kids and spiders is really a good one. Do you have any neighbours with kids. They will love the adventure, they will come along with the Bug Catchers, every kid has one.
Or you can call animal rescue. lol.. just a broom stick and dispose of the thing before she lays her eggs and you have more little huntsmen running around..
You definitely need to go to the supermarket and get this spray especially when it rains.. send some of that rain down here will you..l
.. is that enough to frighten you into action. | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 5:31:29 PM | drop a takeway container on top of it, and slide a piece of paper underneath it. Its heaps easier than a jar.
PS: don't forget about karma
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 5:35:21 PM | That;s right, it's bad luck to kill a spider. I made my spider kill a big spider and believe me I paid for it, especially when he threw it in my face that it was bad luck. That was the biggest argument of all, 6 months later I went to thailand the same species of Orb Spider had me in hospital in Phukett. It was such a freak accident!
Just keep saying to yourself for the good of all... ahh better still release it outside again. I have this thing about spiders and respecting them now especially after my accident. | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 5:36:28 PM | I have a 14 yr old son but only on weekends..why couldn't this happen on the weekend.
it will take too much time to have more offspring...i need i quick fix..
maybe shaving cream !! NO, shaving cream on a stick..or
suction cup guns..can you buy high powered suction-cup guns??
or a cat on a stick.
help me out here people | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 5:41:50 PM | metalchic had the right idea..
okay now you will have to resort to chemical warfare..
Go to the supermarket and get some spray..
I gather you dont want to see the spider out of your sight. Get the biggest shoe you have and you know what.. yukkkkkkkk... feel the crunch of the spider being squashed.. ooh yukkk
Get a brick and drop it on top of the spider..
get a bucket and put it upside down, once it's in drown it..
i can't think anymore, i'm cringing too much.. oohh yukkkkkkkkkkkkk | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 5:51:08 PM | Well mate, considering it has bn reported that we eat up to 4 of them a year in our sleep, i think we are still above them on the food chain.Nice thought hey!
What worked for me was a spray bottle of water with a little bit of tea tree oil mixed in. Case in point was when i was living in this old stlye queenslander. It was open to most of the elements as they all are. Late one night i heard what seemed to be running across the ceiling in my bedroom it stop so i started to drift back off to sleep again, just thought it was old house noises. Then it came again, cautiously i got up and turn on the light,well i just about put another door way in that old place, it was the biggest huntsman spider i have ever seen. He was as big as a dinner plate i shit you not. He just sat there looking at me doing what looked like spider push ups with his arnold like eight arms. I couldn't move, my flight and fight response was hitting way up the flight scale but i had no where to go he was between me and the door. i looked around and seen a spray bottle i was using earlier that day and just went to town on him with it.After a little while i realised that he has just curled up in ball, gave him a poke with the broom and he didnt move. Feeling very manly at that moment i scooped him up with a long handle shovel i retrieved from the shed and tossed him out the window.
He did not return, not that i new anyway.
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 5:54:51 PM | Yes, I see your problem. In your position, I would immediately lock the bedroom and if the door swings out, put a chair under the door handle. Remember, this is a HUNTSMAN and that is what she is good at - hunting. Given that her mate has been killed in action, she is probably not in the mood to negotiate. Immediately ring your son and negotiate a reasonable renumeration for his services on the forthcoming weekend and retire to the couch for the week.
PS Don't be fooled by the fact that on inspection of the bedroom, she appears to be gone - just means that she has found a shirt or pillow case to spring her trap from. | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 5:55:52 PM | | Put on your spiderman costume...arm yourself with the vacuum cleaner and suck it upoh the costume is to scare the teenie little bitty spider into believing giant spiders exist | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 6:04:18 PM | rusty mcky - i would have boarded up the house.even if it ment i would have to put the local plywood dealers children thru uni , small price to pay
when i lived in airlie beach I found a bird-eating/barking spider in the babys room.
i ran out quickly doing the traffic cop thing...then realised i left the baby in there....
decisions ....decisions ....what to do ????
later that same day I returned for my 1yr old daughter..the workman digging up the garden out the front heard me screaming like a girl and came and removed it..for me , have a pic of it aswell.
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 6:09:41 PM | Well caves... we are all waiting with bated breath... so what is it.. chemical warfare, the jar, the brick, the broom, the shoe..
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 6:19:13 PM | Plan A: Open the outside, grunt like Rocky Balboa and watch the hairy legged suckers run.
Plan B: Failing that make a giant Tarantula [paper mache] on a stick and chase them out whilst playing the MGM lion loudly on your stereo. Watch the suckers scarper. Oh, be prepared to clean up a trail of tiny spidy poops.
Plan C: Take away container and paper, as previous post.
Plan D: Hair spray. | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 9:12:54 PM | Well mate, considering it has bn reported that we eat up to 4 of them a year in our sleep, i think we are still above them on the food chain.Nice thought hey!
What worked for me was a spray bottle of water with a little bit of tea tree oil mixed in. Case in point was when i was living in this old stlye queenslander. It was open to most of the elements as they all are. Late one night i heard what seemed to be running across the ceiling in my bedroom it stop so i started to drift back off to sleep again, just thought it was old house noises. Then it came again, cautiously i got up and turn on the light,well i just about put another door way in that old place, it was the biggest huntsman spider i have ever seen. He was as big as a dinner plate i shit you not. He just sat there looking at me doing what looked like spider push ups with his arnold like eight arms. I couldn't move, my flight and fight response was hitting way up the flight scale but i had no where to go he was between me and the door. i looked around and seen a spray bottle i was using earlier that day and just went to town on him with it.After a little while i realised that he has just curled up in ball, gave him a poke with the broom and he didnt move. Feeling very manly at that moment i scooped him up with a long handle shovel i retrieved from the shed and tossed him out the window.
He did not return, not that i new anyway.
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 9:19:08 PM | The new place i am in has spider security screens. Been here for 3 years and have not spoted one. OH i do think i have jinxed myself. Have little black ones but no big ones. Still have a full bottle of tea tree oil mix handy,just in case.
Therapy does help!!!! LOL | |
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| Aussie Spiders and your home 101
Posted: 2/11/2007 9:23:51 PM | Rusty you have posted the same message twice..
I think you do need therapy.. LOL.. We are still all waiting for the outcome, could it be that Caves has been so consumed with spider fear that he had to abandon his home and seek residence in the trees. ....
Spider security screens.. from which spiders? could it be bird eating spiders or the infamous funnel web.. now there's a spider to reckon with.. they are huge on fraser island.. absolutely huge. I hear they have adapted especially for the island habitant and are different from the mainland funnel web, more potent too in their bite. | |
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