There was a spider in my bath towel this morning.

[Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...]

It dropped on the floor and scurried off.

Where did it go?

[Lochlann]

Origineel geplaatst door tiny E:

I totally empathize!
When I woke up this morning there was a spider in my bathroom![i.ytimg.com]

what is spiderman doing in your bathroom

[HALO_run]

Origineel geplaatst door 💕 𝓑𝓾𝓷 💕:

Origineel geplaatst door HALO_run:

really ? i've picked up black houses and White-tailed spider and red back, and
White-tailed spider are nasty buggers normally you should kill em i rarely do, same with huntsman spider lovely spider :D and that's just to name a few

:rabiShock:

nah i was raised in the bush, we had radbacks and White-tailed spiders day'y, used to keep huntsman's as pets, my mother always had to rule don't kill something unless you needed to,

well unless it was a tiger snake.

fear is something me and my bothers didn't have back then i even got blood poisoning at one point form a ,red back bite, was told i should've died, years ago, ah good times :D

[Grynn]

Origineel geplaatst door tiny E:

I totally empathize!
When I woke up this morning there was a spider in my bathroom![i.ytimg.com]

Same:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjBCmltbJ8U

[Skinamev]

Spiders are friends, not foes.

[76561198356019466]

Origineel geplaatst door vemaniks:

Spiders are friends, not foes.

100%
We'd be in a world of ♥♥♥♥ without them.

[Devsman]

It lived to a very old age for a spider, then it was caught and experimented on. They did unthinkable things to that spider, and by the time they were done, it didn't look like a spider at all. It managed to escape, using it's new abilities and size, but without knowing where it was going, it stumbled into the experimental time travel chamber just as it was being activated. The time travel was successful, but there was an unforseen side effect: its memory was wiped. It no longer knew it was a spider at all. It lived life normally, and nobody suspected a thing--least of all the spider--until one day when it discovered an ordinary spider on its bath towel, which dropped on the floor and scurried off.

[Q-T_3.14.exe]

Origineel geplaatst door tiny E:

Origineel geplaatst door vemaniks:

Spiders are friends, not foes.

100%
We'd be in a world of ♥♥♥♥ without them.

They eat mosquitoes, that means they are on our side.

[agu]

Just don't sleep with your mouth open

[76561198356019466]

Origineel geplaatst door Aguker:

Just don't sleep with your mouth open

spiders crawling into your mouth while you sleep is a myth.

[Adversary]

Origineel geplaatst door Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...:

It dropped on the floor and scurried off.

Where did it go?

Apply one of the following to the affected area.

• Peppermint
  
• Cinnamon
  
• Lavender
  
• Eucalyptus
  
• Citronella
  
• Tea Tree
  
• Citrus
  
• Cedar

As to how, mix 5-10 drops of any of the above in oil form with 1/4 tsp dish soap and 12oz water in a spray bottle. Spray the affected area weekly until the spiders shove off. In regards to your towel, use detergent that has one of the aforementioned scents - lavender-scented detergent is pretty common, but YMMV.

[Morkonan]

Origineel geplaatst door Serene:

The black widows usually live in climates with dense tropical vegetation where high humidity is frequent, they usually live in jungles, therefore black widows are quite rare to find in urban environments, they are not their preferred habitat and it would be rare for them to survive.

....

Jungles?


They can live anywhere, just so long as the temperature doesn't stay below freezing for too long. (Canada has plenty, for instance - Northern Black Widow) I used to see them quite frequently when I was a kid in the Southern US and I didn't live in a "jungle." They wouldn't typically be in someone's living spaces, though, but could easily find a home in an attic, basement, etc. Anyplace where there's other insects is good, so water connections, in cabinets where faucet connections are and the like. Though, I haven't seen one inside in a very long time and not in the climate I live, now. (Mountains) They're more likely to be outside under a rock. (They build crappy webs, kind of like a house spider.)

They're not necessarily deadly, but their bite is supposed to be extremely painful. (Life changing pain, so i've heard.) As with any insect bite/other, anaphylactic shock is a potential risk.


The Brown Recluse is a bit more worrisome, IMO. It's not necessarily deadly, either, but could be if a serious bite was left untreated or the person went into anaphylactic shock. Its venom is necrotic, traveling up the bloodstream and destroying tissue as it goes. A bite with wounds that don't heal and the tissue damage spreads, typically a series of opening wounds following veins, is a predictable sign... Nasty stuff. Fun fact - They basically "chew" their venom into their prey instead of the deeper, faster delivery, of a stabby-stabby injection like some other spiders. (It's not a very good web builder, either.)

Origineel geplaatst door Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...:

It dropped on the floor and scurried off.

Where did it go?

Probably beneath the toilet seat. You're welcome.


I try not to kill spiders. But, if I can't evict it from my home, it dies. If I recognize it as a known venomous spider, it dies. Them's the breaks.

Fun Fact - Spiders need water. They'll hunt for it at night and web-builders will even come down from their webs to hunt for water, dew, etc. Their need for water is why they're often found in bathrooms and why web builders will sometimes be found scurrying along baseboards next to walls. They can also get trapped in tubs and sinks due to not being able to crawl back out because of the slick ceramic surface. The dryer it is inside, the more likely they'll move to the bathroom once they sense the moisture.

The "myth" that we can unconsciously eat spiders at night might come from this and some rare occasion where a spider sensed the moisture coming from a human drooling on their pillow and got thirsty... Many different insects will gather moister from the eyes and mouths of larger animals. (Mostly flying ones, though.) Spiders are probably not specifically evolved for that, though. Specifically. Probably.

Fun Fact - Basement spiders (Cellar Spiders), the ones with somewhat pale narrow bodies and long spindly legs, hunt other spiders. (I generally let those live. :))

Fun Fact - Recent research suggests that some web builders, like orb spiders, may actually use their webs as a part of their intellectual, reasoning, process. "Storing" information in it and altering it as their experiences expand seems to be what some actually do. So, their web could also serve much like a human making notes or saving instructions. (Spider brains are usually very tiny relative to body size, depending on the species. Hence, the desire for the research.)

Fun Fact - I don't live in Australia! YAY! (Or Texas, et al, where big huntsman spiders roam.)

[Ailes]

It will crawl into your mouth at night when you're asleep, or into your ears where it will eventually lay countless eggs which will eventually crawl deeper into your body and nest in all your intestines.

[Morkonan]

Origineel geplaatst door Ailes:

It will crawl into your mouth at night when you're asleep, or into your ears where it will eventually lay countless eggs which will eventually crawl deeper into your body and nest in all your intestines.

As the legend foretold.

[earlysunsets2]

As much i absolutely hate spiders, i usually capture them with a glass and a card underneath and then walk all the way down the end of my garden to release them.

If i lived in Australia i'd probably nuke them though.

[Devsman]

Origineel geplaatst door earlysunsets2:

As much i absolutely hate spiders, i usually capture them with a glass and a card underneath and then walk all the way down the end of my garden to release them.

If i lived in Australia i'd probably nuke them though.

Nukes just make them more powerful