Hide in another room because I live alone. If someone else lived with me I would enlist them to do something about it (sorry Mirage in advance!)
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Hide in another room because I live alone. If someone else lived with me I would enlist them to do something about it (sorry Mirage in advance!)
Anything that eats flies are good in my books.
KILL IT WITH FIRE!
If it's a daddy long legs, it gets left alone to go about its business. If it's another species, and it's big enough to potentially be harmful, then it gets the 'catch and release' treatment and starts a new life in the great outdoors.
Spiders aren't bugs, Formy :p
I'm not bothered by them and I'm happy that they get rid of all the real nasty buggers that infest out planets otherwise, but my wife has severe arachnophobia, so I throw them out. Sometimes, however, they run into a corner in such a way that I just can't grab them by the leg and am forced to kill them :G
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If it's small/ small ish grab a cup and send the little fella outside. If the bloody thing is a massive spider from the depths of hell- no mercy. Kill it.
KILL IT WITH FIRE!
Anyways more sanely I don't usually bother with catch/release of anything. My experience with mice is that you just get re-infested two seconds after dropping the critter off. Unless you want to spend the gas to drive it several miles away(ok that might be overkill). At which point you are literally just making it another person's problem. Point being having to deal with the invasion of the field mice every fall-winter has definitely colored my way of thinking on dealing with pests in general. Don't go where you should be and I will likely never know you exist. I don't go out of my way to bother even the mice. But if you are getting into crap, or otherwise making a nuisance of yourself you gotta go. I will not tolerate impolite house guests regardless of species(see unlike some others I am not prejudiced upon what they look like, I treat them based on how they act!), apparently though calling the cops to 'remove an unwanted house guest' from the premises is only acceptable when we are talking people. Or potentially rabid raccoons.
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Originally Posted by Fynn
I have severe arachnophobia, I live in Australia and you find those demon spawn everywhere...and we have so many venomous ones...so if I see one that's bigger than my pinky nail, it dies. The only one that gets a free pass are daddy long legs but if it goes within the vicinity of my bed, I'm gonna kill it.
Although because I'm so terrified of spiders I try to kill them by throwing shoes at them from a distance and my aim is terrible so they usually flee the scene unharmed anyway -___-
When I was young, my Dad told me that spiders had come in the night and taken my favourite teddy. My brother says my Dad lost it whilst we were on a day out but I don't believe him.
Whenever I come across a spider in my house now I usually end up torturing it for information.
A small spider bit my foot and I had a severe allergic reaction so I'm just going to kill them first now and ask questions later.
Depends on how big it is.
If it's a small spider, I just use a shotgun.
If it's a big one, I burn the house down.
If it's a really big one, or a nest or some equally horrific trout, I take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Florida is the land of 8 million bugs the size of your dog, so I tend to leave most spiders alone, so they eat the bugs I hate more. Unless they touch me. Then they die.
We have had a black widow show up on the porch once. That one died immediately.
Our spiders to get pretty massive down here too. Years ago, we had a massive banana spider build a nest between our shed and a tree. Including legs, the spider was bigger than my head. My younger son was about 3 at the time, and completely fascinated by it. He never tried to touch it, just liked to sit in the yard and watch it.
Yeah, I think the size of the spiders may be a factor in my relative pacifism :D That and we really don't have venomous ones here.
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Originally Posted by FormalhautSame diff. :shrug:Quote:
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