2 hours ago i tried to kill a spider

**Peasant Phill** · 07-09-2012, 19:35

You're welcome

**Zim** · 07-10-2012, 10:07

Wait, I live in the Northwest... I think I've even seen a couple without knowing what they were. Ignorance is bliss.

Good luck, Monk. I'm on the look out for some almost ant looking thing with what seem like fangs sticking out of it's rear end. Failed to kill it in my study the other day and I'm sure it's watching and waiting even as I sit at the computer.

Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

Up here in the Northwest, we've got these critters called 'Hobo' Spiders. They're like a cross between a brown recluse and a jumping spider, and they'll enter your home just to start a fight with you.

Multiple daily patrols are required.

**Monk** · 07-10-2012, 12:11

Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios

Get a cat ASAP. It'll probably enter into a staring deathmatch with the spider first thing. The cuter it can look whilst wrecking havoc, the better. Clearly you need an expert purveyor of death and terror at your side that can camouflage even the most heinous of acts with a purr and an innocent look, smothering your worries in cuteness, so you will never need to be upset with or even aware of his ruthless methods.

I've had a cat for two years. I woke up last night to discover him perched on my computer stand staring at something. Sure enough it was the offender who had stalked me the night before.

My cat is strange when it comes to insects. Flies he will bat out of the air (i've seen him pounce on them and catch them mid-flight!), ants and ladybugs and the like he'll kill and play with, but spiders? No. He wants NOTHING to do with those. However if there's a spider in the apartment he'll find a perch close to it and stare it down until I come and kill it.

I have to admit the arachnid was a crafty one but his luck finally ran out tonight. With my cat spotting him his patented escape method didn't work a second time. Maybe now I can get a bit more restful sleep.

Originally Posted by Zim

Wait, I live in the Northwest... I think I've even seen a couple without knowing what they were. Ignorance is bliss.

Good luck, Monk. I'm on the look out for some almost ant looking thing with what seem like fangs sticking out of it's rear end. Failed to kill it in my study the other day and I'm sure it's watching and waiting even as I sit at the computer.

Could it be this? If he's one of the smaller types he's pretty harmless. We have them all over the state I live in, you normally see them attempt to come in after a big rain storm and the humidity is up. A real annoyance (and creepy) but nothing to worry about.

**Zim** · 07-10-2012, 12:26

That might be it. The ones I've been seeing are about 2 inches long. It's been dry and hot lately but I think we'd had storms when I first started seeing them about.

Originally Posted by Monk

Could it be this? If he's one of the smaller types he's pretty harmless. We have them all over the state I live in, you normally see them attempt to come in after a big rain storm and the humidity is up. A real annoyance (and creepy) but nothing to worry about.

**Papewaio** · 07-11-2012, 05:19

So was the spider the size of a dinner plate?

**HopAlongBunny** · 07-11-2012, 06:00

Actually I think A Nerd has the best approach.

Most spiders (here at least) are harmless and they will search and destroy other insects. A net benefit I think.

**naut** · 07-11-2012, 06:42

Originally Posted by HopAlongBunny

Actually I think A Nerd has the best approach.

Most spiders (here at least) are harmless and they will search and destroy other insects. A net benefit I think.

I would do that, but, most of the spiders I find here are either White-tailed or Redback. And I'm not going near them without pesticide and a yellow pages to crush and destroy!