Re: Advice for arachnophobes...

[Guest guest]

I take care of tyem too, Detlef. I usually just shove them behind the

cupboard before my girlfriend sees them.

Kv

>

> If, like me, you've grown up with a morbid fear of our eight-legged

> fellow creatures, here's a bit of advice.

>

> My usual response to the sight of a spider was to reach for the

> insecticide, or, if it was a small enough spider, to use a tissue

paper

> to extinguish its life.

>

> In the past decades of being on this planet, I've learned a little

about

> these fascinating creatures. For instance, Huntsman spiders are common

> around where I live in Australia. You could say I grew up with them,

> because there's nary a year in which I haven't seen some of the

species,

> either indoors or outdoors.

>

> Turns out these wonderful creatures are a natural 'insecticide', for

> they will kill and eat other 'creepy crawlies' in and around the

house.

>

> Which is all by way of saying, I've learned a little about the

> relatedness of all living things, and the canvas on which we play out

> our existence.

>

> These days, when encountering a spider in the house, I use a feather

> duster to scoop it up and take it outside, where vigorous shaking of

the

> duster will generally dislodge the spider and it will trundle off to

> carry on its affairs in the great outdoors.

>

> I've found that this procedure takes little more time than any

> alternative we've ever come up with, and there's a feeling of

> satisfaction in seeing the befuddled arachnid scamper off, wondering

> what just happened.

>

> From time to time, when we're aware of a Huntsman in the house, we let

> it stay there. It doesn't trouble us, and keeps the insect population

in

> check. We even called one " Harry the Huntsman " . He was with us for a

few

> weeks and then disappeared. We figured that, since he was generally

near

> our back door, which we kept open during hot summer nights, he

probably

> found better pickings outside than inside.

>

>

> Regards,

>

> Detlef

>

[Guest guest]

Mind you, mine are just common house spiders, buy maybe they would find more to

eat outside rather than in? No, probably not, they're house spiders.

Kv

> >

> > If, like me, you've grown up with a morbid fear of our eight-legged

> > fellow creatures, here's a bit of advice.

> >

> > My usual response to the sight of a spider was to reach for the

> > insecticide, or, if it was a small enough spider, to use a tissue

> paper

> > to extinguish its life.

> >

> > In the past decades of being on this planet, I've learned a little

> about

> > these fascinating creatures. For instance, Huntsman spiders are common

> > around where I live in Australia. You could say I grew up with them,

> > because there's nary a year in which I haven't seen some of the

> species,

> > either indoors or outdoors.

> >

> > Turns out these wonderful creatures are a natural 'insecticide', for

> > they will kill and eat other 'creepy crawlies' in and around the

> house.

> >

> > Which is all by way of saying, I've learned a little about the

> > relatedness of all living things, and the canvas on which we play out

> > our existence.

> >

> > These days, when encountering a spider in the house, I use a feather

> > duster to scoop it up and take it outside, where vigorous shaking of

> the

> > duster will generally dislodge the spider and it will trundle off to

> > carry on its affairs in the great outdoors.

> >

> > I've found that this procedure takes little more time than any

> > alternative we've ever come up with, and there's a feeling of

> > satisfaction in seeing the befuddled arachnid scamper off, wondering

> > what just happened.

> >

> > From time to time, when we're aware of a Huntsman in the house, we let

> > it stay there. It doesn't trouble us, and keeps the insect population

> in

> > check. We even called one " Harry the Huntsman " . He was with us for a

> few

> > weeks and then disappeared. We figured that, since he was generally

> near

> > our back door, which we kept open during hot summer nights, he

> probably

> > found better pickings outside than inside.

> >

> >

> > Regards,

> >

> > Detlef

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Wow, this post is an illustration of 6 degrees of separation for me. Detlef we

must have somehow been in the same space yesterday as I had exactly the same

conversation with someone I work with who also has an intense fear of spiders. I

told her the story of the Huntsman because it was the size of the spider that

increased her anxiety. I too have different spiders living in my house and last

week a baby huntsman ate a black spider that had made its home there for some 6

months (it had been a great mossie catcher), that was what prompted my story to

the lady.

Just like Bill with his " I don't know " ...its that 6 degrees of separation. My

mind questions how they could possibly know what I'm doing? Coincidence?

Sometimes I feel like I'm on " The Truman Show " , remember that movie where the

guys life was a movie. I find it all so mysterious. Is it perhaps a universal

connection that we all share?

Anyhoo...good advice Detlef :-)

Lou

>

> If, like me, you've grown up with a morbid fear of our eight-legged

> fellow creatures, here's a bit of advice.

>

> My usual response to the sight of a spider was to reach for the

> insecticide, or, if it was a small enough spider, to use a tissue paper

> to extinguish its life.

>

> In the past decades of being on this planet, I've learned a little about

> these fascinating creatures. For instance, Huntsman spiders are common

> around where I live in Australia. You could say I grew up with them,

> because there's nary a year in which I haven't seen some of the species,

> either indoors or outdoors.

>

> Turns out these wonderful creatures are a natural 'insecticide', for

> they will kill and eat other 'creepy crawlies' in and around the house.

>

> Which is all by way of saying, I've learned a little about the

> relatedness of all living things, and the canvas on which we play out

> our existence.

>

> These days, when encountering a spider in the house, I use a feather

> duster to scoop it up and take it outside, where vigorous shaking of the

> duster will generally dislodge the spider and it will trundle off to

> carry on its affairs in the great outdoors.

>

> I've found that this procedure takes little more time than any

> alternative we've ever come up with, and there's a feeling of

> satisfaction in seeing the befuddled arachnid scamper off, wondering

> what just happened.

>

> From time to time, when we're aware of a Huntsman in the house, we let

> it stay there. It doesn't trouble us, and keeps the insect population in

> check. We even called one " Harry the Huntsman " . He was with us for a few

> weeks and then disappeared. We figured that, since he was generally near

> our back door, which we kept open during hot summer nights, he probably

> found better pickings outside than inside.

>

>

> Regards,

>

> Detlef

>