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Im arachnophobic , i cannot stand the sight of them no matter what size.

Its something to do with how their legs look i think, they gross me out even more when they die.

Before i type anymore, i would like to ask that no one post any spider pics , not even as cruel jokes.

How do you guys get rid of them, or keep them away? In my house, we have skylight windows ,
and sometimes you see spiders up there, and for gods sake, i cant reach them, for all i know they might be
making an army of them.

The window in my room, i keep it close all the time ( ya bad for my health but i really really hate spiders)
but some how there are spider webs on my sky light window, i have NO IDEA how they are getting in.
They seem to be baby atm , but i have seen a HUGE one before and god for years it traumatized me .

Are there any product , none poisonous that can keep them away from me? I have been suspecting if the neighbor's tree
brach that has now grown to my roof / near my window plays a part in this too....

A rolled up newspaper or fire, defiantly lots of fire Luna that's the way to go, if you want non toxic anyway, but surely your local hardware store has bug spray or traps of some kind that are designed to kill bugs of all shapes and sizes?

I'm not an arachphobic but if i see a spider anywhere in my house it gets killed no matter what animals need to learn that the outside is for them and inside is for us.

That being said, spiders are actually beneficial to have in the house as they kill and eat an all manner of other nasty bugs that get in the house

-I rolled a car once due to a spider.

-For years couldn’t stand the mothers and they still creep me out a little bit on occasion. It’s the legs I think as well. It got better though over time, but still bugs me once a while, if I walk into a web or something.

-However, your fear of spiders will decline rapidly once you’re introduced to scorpions…

Frazzled wrote:-I rolled a car once due to a spider.

-For years couldn’t stand the mothers and they still creep me out a little bit on occasion. It’s the legs I think as well. It got better though over time, but still bugs me once a while, if I walk into a web or something.

-However, your fear of spiders will decline rapidly once you’re introduced to scorpions…

This is quite true, may i ask Frazzled whats it like living in Texas and having to put up with such wildlife as Scorpions and Rattlesnakes etc?

I had seen scorpions in my basement shelf before . But honestly other then it be fear of poison , im not scared of how they look. They dont have the legs like spdiers, and their claws looks like crabs ( which i like eating ).

My fear doesnt come from if spider had poison or not, its just how it looks . I know it doesnt make sense but... sigh lol.

My mom always say " you need to marry someone that isnt afraid of spiders " . our whole house is afraid of spiders -_- its a pain.

get yourself a flamer (Plasma guns works better, but it might blow up on you) and cover the whole squad with the temp. then charge whatever is left..... at last thats how i get rid of spiders.

No Luna i completely understand i have a completely irrational fear of Wasps and Bees, not how they look or anything they just scare the living $%^£ out of me, i don't know why but if one is in a room that i am in i freak out and run out the room and have to get someone to check the room completely over to make sure it is gone/dead. Your not the only one. My mother also has an irrantional fear of spiders, luckily this works out because she kills Wasps for me, i kill spiders for her.

I leave the spiders alone. They keep the roaches away. I'm fine with spiders. Roaches scare the hell out of me though.

This thread started from my cousin sneaked a dead spider by my room door which i totally freaked out . Asked if anyone knew about it, cousin admitted it was his prank, and i proceeded to punch and kick him for REAL.

Seriousely when i saw the thing, it felt like every cell in my body was been pricked by pins and ready to explode.

No one know any tips on dealing against them? i know baby powder works on driving ants away... but how do i attempt to try it on something
that crawls on WALLS




raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage!!!!!! *goes emo

Introduce predators. A scorpion's or wasp's nest would work for starters.

A friend of mine had a giant spider that used to live in his house. The spider's body (minus the legs) was about the diameter of an American nickle. We called him "Mister Deadly." Mister Deadly cohabited with my friend peacefully for a few months until another friend killed Mister Deadly. We had a running joke going for a while that my friend's rent doubled the day Mister Deadly died. Humans and arachnids can coexist. I'd suggest going on wikipedia and reading up on spiders, and yes looking at pictures of them. Overcome your fear of spiders and you won't have any problem with them.

My google-fu reveals this forum response.
http://www.stretcher.com/stories/02/02jul01a.cfm

Apparently strong odors, specifically chestnuts, crab apples, mint or lemon around the entrances to a room will drive spiders away. If you have a way of getting on top of your skylight, I'd apply whichever repellant you choose to the exterior.

Thats not a giant spider. A family friend trapped a tarantula under a bucket. We let it loose in the back yard. It must have been a Mexican spider (was grey). The thing was the size of a dinner plate. When it walked away the grass parted like King Kong through a forest. It was epic cool.

At the old house we had tarantulas, scorpions (they always come at you in contrast to most spiders who are less stupid), and wood spiders which were nearly the same size as tarantulas but not as hairy. Wood spiders freaked me out but I didn't have problems with tarantulas. Had rattlers too but they're nothing to water moccassins which will also attack you, including climbing into your boat with you. Thats just wrong...

bit of swearing, but good arachnophobic humour:

BloodofOrks wrote:A friend of mine had a giant spider that used to live in his house. The spider's body (minus the legs) was about the diameter of an American nickle. We called him "Mister Deadly." Mister Deadly cohabited with my friend peacefully for a few months until another friend killed Mister Deadly. We had a running joke going for a while that my friend's rent doubled the day Mister Deadly died. Humans and arachnids can coexist. I'd suggest going on wikipedia and reading up on spiders, and yes looking at pictures of them. Overcome your fear of spiders and you won't have any problem with them.

Yah, I've always liked spiders. However, I can understand the fear, for instance, I am disgusted by beetles, which most people seem to view as a "friendly" sort of arthropod. Certainly beetles aren't dangerous, but there is something about their carapace that bothers me.

Interestingly I went caving this weekend in a cave that has a spider species in it found no where else in the world.

Nuke it from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.

heh, got these critters out in iraq
managed to get close enough to hit one with a shovel, they just screech then run off

being sun spiders they prefer to stay in the dark, so they love human shadows, meaning they tend to follow you about XD

to add to it, they bite, and it hurts like a bitch, then needs alot of cleaning as its bite infects pretty quickly, but luckily no poison

JD21290 wrote:

heh, got these critters out in iraq
managed to get close enough to hit one with a shovel, they just screech then run off

being sun spiders they prefer to stay in the dark, so they love human shadows, meaning they tend to follow you about XD

to add to it, they bite, and it hurts like a bitch, then needs alot of cleaning as its bite infects pretty quickly, but luckily no poison

WHAT THE IS THAT!!!

Here we go, not the size of a lobster, but still icky. Yep I think expending a few rounds in this situation would be acceptable...
http://www.camel-spiders.net/

Frazzled wrote:

JD21290 wrote:

heh, got these critters out in iraq
managed to get close enough to hit one with a shovel, they just screech then run off

being sun spiders they prefer to stay in the dark, so they love human shadows, meaning they tend to follow you about XD

to add to it, they bite, and it hurts like a bitch, then needs alot of cleaning as its bite infects pretty quickly, but luckily no poison

WHAT THE IS THAT!!!

Yeh my mate in the army liked to catch these things by pouring cold water on them so they passed out and shoving them in a container. When they wake up they are for lack of a better word pissed, and i mean real pissed, he let one go and it chased him half a mile he finally turned round and introduced it to a rifle butt. I've seen videos of camel spiders them things is nasty.

The spiders in my house keep the rats downstairs. I generally don't have a problem with rats though, used to have a pet one.
My house backs onto a semi-rainforest remnant, so the upstairs windows on that side of the house are pretty much covered with webs. I see lizards chasing bugs round and getting caught in the webs. Awesome fun.

Also, there must be hundreds, if not at least a thousand daddy longlegs (cellar spiders) in this house. Haven't been here too long, but everything I leave downstairs has to have them shaken out of it.

Frazzled wrote:

JD21290 wrote:

heh, got these critters out in iraq
managed to get close enough to hit one with a shovel, they just screech then run off

being sun spiders they prefer to stay in the dark, so they love human shadows, meaning they tend to follow you about XD

to add to it, they bite, and it hurts like a bitch, then needs alot of cleaning as its bite infects pretty quickly, but luckily no poison

WHAT THE IS THAT!!!

Dude, I think you scared the OP away

There are a thousand reasons I'm glad I'm not in Iraq at the moment, but I'd actually like to see those camel spiders. They're just so cool.

Also, spiders aren't too scary.

yehhggghggghghg..... I'm afraid of spiders, but not too afraid... but what really get me scared are fricken... CENTIPEDES. OH MY GOD THEY ARE THE WORST. also: MILLIPEDES. it seems to run in the family... as far as I know, my only immediate family member who is not afraid of them is my dad.

Its interesting how there are different bug fears.

I find anything with an exoskeleton that is larger then my fist scares the #!&% out of me. Not that I run screaming like a girl.... believe me a six and half foot tall, three hundred pound man would never run screaming like a girl... unless sure he is alone. To share a few interesting facts.... I read once you are never more then three feet away from a spider at any given time, you just cant see them all the time. And dont you swallow like 5 pounds of insects during your life while sleeping or some such?

Yikes.

I read somewhere that for every acre of field, the number of spiders is in the millions.

CaptainCommunsism wrote:yehhggghggghghg..... I'm afraid of spiders, but not too afraid... but what really get me scared are fricken... CENTIPEDES. OH MY GOD THEY ARE THE WORST. also: MILLIPEDES. it seems to run in the family... as far as I know, my only immediate family member who is not afraid of them is my dad.

I heard that in South east Asia, a species of centipede was recently discovered which secretes cyanide.

lol, the pic i posted is 2 camel spiders fighting XD

when i was out in iraq a few people would stun them (usually hitting them with a heavy solid object)
then throw em in a tank, put 2 together and watch em fight.

thats pretty amusing, but once you then have a dead one, throw it at someone, and watch some of the "hardened" brit soldiers run

Anung Un Rama wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

JD21290 wrote:

heh, got these critters out in iraq
managed to get close enough to hit one with a shovel, they just screech then run off

being sun spiders they prefer to stay in the dark, so they love human shadows, meaning they tend to follow you about XD

to add to it, they bite, and it hurts like a bitch, then needs alot of cleaning as its bite infects pretty quickly, but luckily no poison

WHAT THE IS THAT!!!

Dude, I think you scared the OP away

Thats called skewed perspective. Look at the size of the guys thumb at the top of the photo. THATS ALSO TWO OF THE SPIDERS ATTACHED TO ONE ANOTHER. Camel spiders really only grow to have the body size of a silver dollar. They have a bizzare shape to them, and the foreword claws (fangs) are pretty frightening. But they aren't particularly dangerous or large.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae


I hate that picture, people are just all to ready to believe in giant monster spiders of the iraqi deserts. People need to be more aware of the world around them.