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this morning after fidgeting and thinking 'no I can't' I finally gave in and wakened my OH asking him to remove





















the large spider crawling up the chest of drawers - I spotted him as soon as I put light on to go to loo! ;-)

and what do you think this spider intended to do - drag you out of bed and savage you :-D :-D :-D :-D

Yes Ann - and even more so since I found out British Spiders BITE.

Anyway it was not really selfish - I could not sleep whilst that thing was watching me and knew OH when he got back into bed would be asleep as soon as his darling little head hit the pillow and would be happier for having rescued me. :-D

Ladybirds bite too - and the Harlequin ladybirds - imported as an 'eco-frienfly' solution to greenhouse aphids, that have now escaped and are killing our native species - bite even more :-S

I have bashed the Harlequin once I am sure that they are that specie - am trying to save ours.

I do the same :-D

I like spiders though - they eat flies and all sorts of other little besties that hang around the house.

I've felt the urge to move them twice.

The first time, I got into bed and there was a huge hairy one on the ceiling above my head. I caught it and put it outside.
The second time, there was a huge live wolf spider, next to a smaller dead one, on the window near where my grand daughter (aged 12) was going to sleep that night.
When she and her younger brothers (aged 6 and 4) arrived, I took the elder boy upstairs and helped him catch the live one in a 'viewer'. We studied it, then let it outside (I removed the dead one)

His sister was disgusted :-D :-D :-D :-D

We had a problem when we went on holiday in August when a spider set off the house alarm at ten to 5 in the morning. Our neighbour phoned my son as he has a key, but just as he was calling for a cab to bring him here, she phoned back and said the alarm had stopped and all looked secure so not to worry. He went up later that day and couldn't see anything wrong so reset the alarm. This time when we went away we left a key with neighbour, o.h. had been funny about doing this before, didn't like to think of her coming in and snooping! Anyway before we left we continously put outside those big house spiders that run across the carpet at night and sprayed spider repellant around every sensor. When we got back, the alarm hadn't gone off but it was all lit up and o.h. can't reset it, and can't find out what's happened.


My son has a clever device that sucks up spiders into a tube which you then set free outside. His fiancee's little lad hates spiders but will happily use this device to catch them now.

Lizx

Spiders are interesting and attractive creatures which have survived through aeons. Some make attractive webs, beautiful with a winter frost.

They are not aggressive towards people. Many eat all sorts of undesirable bugs including that nemesis of urban living the clothes moth larvae.

There is a long list of creatures which seem always to be on the death list. Sad.
Spiders snails wasps hornets sharks snakes jellyfish alligators crocodiles ants termites wolves fox ... by far the most dangerous wild creature on the planet is man who slaughters far more of his fellow men and women than all the wild creatures added up.

Let the spiders be.

Having watched people on tv being 'cured' of their phobias - I have always decided I am content to keep my phobia - started by brother dropping spiders on me.

There Was An Old Woman.

There was an old woman who swallowed a fly,
I don't know why she swallowed a fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a bird,
How absurd! to swallow a bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a cat,
Imagine that! to swallow a cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a dog,
What a hog! to swallow a dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a goat,
Just opened her throat! to swallow a goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a cow,
I don't know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a horse,
She's dead—of course!