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(Message started by: Redd715 on Aug 1st, 2006, 6:53pm)
Title: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Redd715 on Aug 1st, 2006, 6:53pm
Just outside my front door is a large evergreen bush, and between it, and the the roof and the siding, is a web about the size of a large garbage can lid, and right in the middle is this big ugly spider.  I want it GONE, but afraid to do anything since I'm highly allergic to spider bites.  This thing is basically black, with some red stripes on the legs and belly, but almost neon yellow spots on the bulbus body part.

Any ideas?  I really really HATE spiders.
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by maffumatt on Aug 1st, 2006, 6:53pm
Raid
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by LadyElaine1 on Aug 1st, 2006, 6:55pm
I got just the thing, use wasp killer spray, it won't kill them but they will fall then you can step on him.  ::)
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by ClusterChuck on Aug 1st, 2006, 6:56pm
Awwwww ... He sounds CUTE!!!

Just leave him be.  He eats lots of pests.

If you HAVE to destroy him, try a wasp spray that works instantly, would be my guess.

Chuck
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Redd715 on Aug 1st, 2006, 7:01pm
This thing was NOT there when I left for work this morning.  Meg said she saw it when she got back from getting ehr stitches out at about 1 this afternoon.  Boy that creature worked fast.  I've taken a few pics with the zoom since I didn't want to try to get too close.  Once I'm done feeling sick to my stomach I'll see if any of them turned out.
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by vietvet2tours on Aug 1st, 2006, 7:02pm
Leave her be. It's a garden spider.http://www.bushveld.co.za/pictures-arachnids/garden-spider.jpg
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by pattik on Aug 1st, 2006, 7:04pm

on 08/01/06 at 19:02:26, vietvet2tours wrote:
Leave her be. It's a garden spider.http://www.bushveld.co.za/pictures-arachnids/garden-spider.jpg


I agree....SHE is a beneficial bug to have around. ;)
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Redd715 on Aug 1st, 2006, 7:18pm

on 08/01/06 at 19:02:26, vietvet2tours wrote:
Leave her be. It's a garden spider.http://www.bushveld.co.za/pictures-arachnids/garden-spider.jpg


That isn't the spider.....

I've NEVER seen one like this before.
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by vig on Aug 1st, 2006, 7:19pm
we wanna see pitchers!
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Redd715 on Aug 1st, 2006, 7:27pm
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b6d620b3127cce8b2e4825b21500000015108AauGjFu2ZNh

Ok...here's that ugly thing....
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by jimmers on Aug 1st, 2006, 7:29pm
Spray it with carburetor cleaner. DOA!

Jimmers
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Jonny on Aug 1st, 2006, 7:31pm

on 08/01/06 at 19:29:28, jimmers wrote:
Spray it with carburetor cleaner. DOA!

Jimmers


And then light it ;;D
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by vig on Aug 1st, 2006, 7:41pm
the white, vertical squiggle below the spider is a tell-tale sign of a garden spider.

harmless!!!!

http://www.kdlltd.com/vig/gardenSpiderBig.jpg

;;D
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Redd715 on Aug 1st, 2006, 7:47pm
not harmless if it finds it's way IN my apartment.

You wouldn't believe the size of the sores from the bite of a little jumpy house spider.  I'd hate to see the sore if this huge mother bit me.  Dylan will get broken out with rock hard puss filled welts all over if he gets bit by a spider.
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by vig on Aug 1st, 2006, 7:48pm
He likes the GARDEN!!!!

(that's why he's called a garden spider...
he won't go inside the house!)

[smiley=laugh.gif]
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by ShadowLord on Aug 1st, 2006, 7:52pm
Ya got a shotgun?

PFDAN...................................................................... ShadowLord
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by brewcrew on Aug 1st, 2006, 7:55pm

on 08/01/06 at 19:48:52, vig wrote:
He likes the GARDEN!!!!

(that's why he's called a garden spider...
he won't go inside the house!)

[smiley=laugh.gif]

He'll stop at the threshhold, look around, then back away politely, saying, "No, thank you. I prefer it out here WHERE IT'S 108 IN THE SHADE!"  ;;D
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Redd715 on Aug 1st, 2006, 7:59pm

on 08/01/06 at 19:55:18, brewcrew wrote:
He'll stop at the threshhold, look around, then back away politely, saying, "No, thank you. I prefer it out here WHERE IT'S 108 IN THE SHADE!"  ;;D


Or with the storms rolling in like they are, it'll want to stay out there in the wind and the raind and drownd rather than want to come in where it's dry and it's meal won't be water logged.
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Paul98 on Aug 1st, 2006, 8:02pm
Just leave it alone or if you really can't stand it out side your appt. get a glass jar wwith lid and carefullycapture it and put it a block away.  Spiders are real good for gardens.

-P.
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Redd715 on Aug 1st, 2006, 8:09pm
I wish I had a garden.  It's just a freaking evergreen bush.  And I wish the landlord would trim it back some because it's getting in the way of getting to my door.  But I also want him to wait till fall, so that the Cardnal nest inside doesn't get disturbed.  Hey...wait till Mommy Cardnal gets a load of THIS meal .... [smiley=sgrin.gif]
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by sailpappy on Aug 1st, 2006, 8:18pm
;;D A vacuum cleaner with the extention wand will make a nice, neat job ot that pesty spider!  Heheheh! Pappy
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Redd715 on Aug 1st, 2006, 8:19pm
Ok now I'm a little freaked out...that huge ugly spider is now missing from it's web.  Ok...I'm not gonna get all fired up about this.


Did I mention I HATE spiders?
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by kevinpix on Aug 1st, 2006, 8:19pm
::)Pretend you're on FearFactor and eat it!!!  Yum, protein!!! :o
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Charlie on Aug 1st, 2006, 8:25pm
Matt has it right: Raid then step on it. http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/swat.gif

I'm not sentimental like my cousin Holly. She scoops up spiders in the house and carries them outdoors..... ::)

I agree with my old friend; if it worries you or makes you think twice about it: Squish. Big spiders: NFG here.

Charlie
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by eyes_afire on Aug 1st, 2006, 9:49pm
No worries, it's a harmless spider.

http://www.fcps.edu/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/black_and_yellow_argiope.htm

Relationship to Humans:

Black and Yellow Garden Spiders are harmless to humans. Because they are large, many people fear them; however, not only are they harmless, but they do a lot of good. These spiders eat large amounts of insect pests, such as flies, mosquitoes, and aphids.


--- Steve
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Sean_C on Aug 1st, 2006, 10:03pm
http://www.brownreclusespider.org/camel-spider/camel-spider-in-iraq.jpg
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Dissident on Aug 1st, 2006, 10:03pm
Consider yourself lucky. He's pretty much harmless.

I've already killed about 50 of these bastards in the past two months

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h163/repairpc/04-26-2006004.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h163/repairpc/04-26-2006008.jpg

...just found one inside my garage the other night in the corner next to the garage door.
I also have another "friendly" spider that I don't mess with. He comes out every night, makes this awsome intricate web...catches some food then packs up and is gone by daylight. When night returns, he's back to do it all over again. I like him...it's these damn Black Widows that bother me!
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Redd715 on Aug 1st, 2006, 10:04pm

on 08/01/06 at 21:49:35, eyes_afire wrote:
No worries, it's a harmless spider.

http://www.fcps.edu/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/black_and_yellow_argiope.htm

Relationship to Humans:

Black and Yellow Garden Spiders are harmless to humans. Because they are large, many people fear them; however, not only are they harmless, but they do a lot of good. These spiders eat large amounts of insect pests, such as flies, mosquitoes, and aphids.


--- Steve

Steve,

...did you happen to read?  


I HATE spiders!
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Redd715 on Aug 1st, 2006, 10:08pm
Sean,

Thanks for more icky  large spider pics to make my skin crawl.  I thought you were my friend.   [smiley=laugh.gif]
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by alienspacebabe on Aug 1st, 2006, 10:25pm
Spiders can:

cause a woman to drive up a curb when they drop down from the sunroof into her face

cause the neighbors (and those in surrounding states) to come running, thinking the screams mean help is needed

bite you eight times on the back, in an area the size of a dime



eek!!!!



(and someone just found out that not taking my spider phobia seriously causes him to not be around anymore)
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Sean_C on Aug 1st, 2006, 10:33pm

on 08/01/06 at 22:08:12, Redd715 wrote:
Sean,

Thanks for more icky  large spider pics to make my skin crawl.  I thought you were my friend.   [smiley=laugh.gif]


:-*
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Redd715 on Aug 1st, 2006, 10:33pm
Whew,

I knew  someone (Liz) would come to my rescue.

Thanks Sis...
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by alienspacebabe on Aug 1st, 2006, 10:39pm
oh, and hairspray works on the smaller ones - not on the big hairy ones though (been there, done that, didn't work, screamed until the neighbor arrived)
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by DonnaHar on Aug 1st, 2006, 10:48pm
Boy, I'm with you, Redd.  Spiders make me sick to my stomach.  I'd rather deal with snakes any day.

I won't even eat mushrooms because they remind me of spider bellies.  Yuk.
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by broomhilda on Aug 1st, 2006, 10:49pm
Ohhh spiders, the bigger the better ;;D

Grab the vacumm cleaner hose and give it one big suck...all gone :)

ps- Hi Steve, nice to see you!
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by georgej on Aug 1st, 2006, 11:18pm
Aw heck.  Now I've gotta tell my all-time favorite giant spider story.

Two years ago my daughter, El, went on a class trip to La Selva Biological Preserve in Costa Rica.  Great trip, but anyway....

She and her friend Sasha were rooming together in one of the dorm rooms.  When they pulled back the shower curtain one morning, there was a Bird-Eating Spider in residence.

Now this thing is actually a very large species of tarantula, approximately the size of a frisbee, mainly black, and very, very hairy.  El says it grew so large by eating the cockroaches.  What do two thirteen-year-old girls do?

Their solution was to get a glass bowl, place it over the spider, walk it up the lip of the shower, down the other side, across the floor, up the side of the toilet, and attempt to flush.  But it spread its legs out, and was too large to go down.

Finally, Sasha managed to drown it by piling toilet paper on top, and they finally managed to get it down.

Now--as she's telling me this, I'm thinking to myself:  (El REALLY hates spiders).

So--I asked her--were you guys okay with this?

"No," she replied, "We were screaming the whole time."

Best,

George
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Donna_D. on Aug 2nd, 2006, 12:50am
LARGE spider removal advice?


LARGE spider removal device!!

http://i1.tinypic.com/21o7od0.jpg

http://tinyurl.com/lxrhc
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by cootie on Aug 2nd, 2006, 12:57am
Spiders freak me out !!!! Yeah garden spiders are harmless until ya walk thru a big web and get one the size of a quarter on yer face.....eeeeeeeeeeeek !!!! I've actually 'batted' them with a big stick across the yard to get em away they were so BIG and I almost walked thru there web and they scared the shit outa me.....we get alot of the garden ones along pathways around the house and along the creek and inbetween flowers and stuff. I am always worried where they are so I don't walk thru there webs. Had some sort of little black jumpin spider livein in my car a while back and I'd be drivein down the road and it'd DROP from the visor onto the steerin wheel and turn around and look at me in a JUMPING formation ! Good grief I bout wreaked several times !!! When I have problems with spiders I use that jet spray wasp and hornet stuff.....see ya !! And they don't come back cuz it leaves a residue. We have wolf spiders now makein webs all over everything......in plants and along the walls. There's one kinda spider that is aggressive and will attack you that scares me I mite tangle with if weeding or diggin thru stuff called the recluse spider....they say they will attack if you get close and they will bite and the area rots where the wound is. Sumone on here posted pics of that last year I think which totally CREEPED ME OUT. Creepy crawler Pam

Ohhhhhhhh man I dunno what I'd do if I had black widows to worry about....do they ever bite pets ? Total terror when it comes to them things for me.....TOTAL !!!!!
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Redd715 on Aug 2nd, 2006, 7:53am
Appears this creature likes the rain, because as it continues to downpour here, she hasn't budged from the middle of her web.

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b6d623b3127cce8b2afd5adb7500000015108AauGjFu2ZNh
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Melissa on Aug 2nd, 2006, 8:06am

on 08/01/06 at 23:18:43, georgej wrote:
Aw heck.  Now I've gotta tell my all-time favorite giant spider story.

Two years ago my daughter, El, went on a class trip to La Selva Biological Preserve in Costa Rica.  Great trip, but anyway....

She and her friend Sasha were rooming together in one of the dorm rooms.  When they pulled back the shower curtain one morning, there was a Bird-Eating Spider in residence.

Now this thing is actually a very large species of tarantula, approximately the size of a frisbee, mainly black, and very, very hairy.  El says it grew so large by eating the cockroaches.  What do two thirteen-year-old girls do?

Their solution was to get a glass bowl, place it over the spider, walk it up the lip of the shower, down the other side, across the floor, up the side of the toilet, and attempt to flush.  But it spread its legs out, and was too large to go down.

Finally, Sasha managed to drown it by piling toilet paper on top, and they finally managed to get it down.

Now--as she's telling me this, I'm thinking to myself:  (El REALLY hates spiders).

So--I asked her--were you guys okay with this?

"No," she replied, "We were screaming the whole time."

Best,

George


Oh my GOODNESS was I laughing my butt off at this!!!! [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif]
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Karla on Aug 2nd, 2006, 8:15am
I HATE SPIDERS!!!!!  I am with Redd and Liz on this one.  I scream and go absolutly nuts when I see one.  Vacumming does no good they could crawl back out of the bag once it is shut off.  Or no thought is worse than the thought of flushing a spider down the toilet and having it crawl out while your sitting on the john. :-[
I make my husband or boys kill it for me and then take its "dead" body outside for disposal.  Did I say I fear and hate spiders?!!
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by LeLimey on Aug 2nd, 2006, 11:16am
You know what?

I read this and couldn't help thinking of the other Charlies post about the bees.. you know - the one where his friend was happy enough about killing off gazillions of bees but wanted to rescue the one on its own because it was an individual and she could relate to it?

Well..

I thought about this.

I thought about this in relation to the spider at Redds

I thought a bit more and then I decided.

Kill the little bleeder. Throw saucepans, milkbottles, shoes, books... actually no not the shoes  but throw everything else! Hire a flame thrower. Buy dynamite on the internet  - I don't care! Just get rid of the horrible thing!

I'm with you Redd. I'm a complete Spider NIMBY LOL
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by alchemy on Aug 2nd, 2006, 11:21am
personnaly I use a propane torch and just fry the little bastards. ;;D
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by LeLimey on Aug 2nd, 2006, 11:22am
Jim I knew I liked you!  :-*
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Charlie on Aug 2nd, 2006, 11:46am

Quote:
oh, and hairspray works on the smaller ones - not on the big hairy ones though (been there, done that, didn't work, screamed until the neighbor arrived)


Like my sweet old mom used to say: Anything with oil: spray it. It suffocates them.  

Aha...another use for that old reliable WD 40.  8)

Mean Old Charlie who hates big spiders.
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by kcopelin on Aug 2nd, 2006, 11:59am
Sean,
Were those "camel" spiders-the kind they have in IraQ?
My gosh-they're huge!!!! Even my son Mike freaked out when he saw that picture-okay-he says he didn't-but he really did-I definitely got the willies.
kathy
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by kcopelin on Aug 2nd, 2006, 12:09pm
So to allay his fear we looked up camel spiders: in particular, this picture.  This is what we found
"Although the creatures shown in the photograph above appear to be far too big for camel spiders, they look misleadingly large because of their closeness to the camera, which creates an illusion of exaggerated size. (Note their size in comparison to the uniform sleeve which appears in upper right-hand portion of the picture.) "
kathy-who's son is now sitting with his feet up on MY sofa because of stupid spiders.
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Karla on Aug 2nd, 2006, 12:27pm
Thanks for putting the camel spider picture into a different perspective.  However, they are still very large and spiders are horrible.  
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by eyes_afire on Aug 2nd, 2006, 7:57pm

on 08/01/06 at 22:04:17, Redd715 wrote:
Steve,

...did you happen to read?  


I HATE spiders!


Well, I guess I was just hoping you two ladies could co-exist.     8)

There's always these (damn, this is corny... only a spider nerd finds these):

http://www.getodd.com/stuf/stupid/spider/spider.html

--- Steve (Hi Broomie  :))
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by kayarr on Aug 2nd, 2006, 9:37pm
I hate spiders  too...this is giving me the willies!!!!!  I say call a hunkie neighbor with a save the Princess fetish and ask for help.
(can you faint on demand?????)
It's ok to not be good at everything;)
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by nani on Aug 2nd, 2006, 9:40pm
OMG! All you haters!! I can't believe y'all harbor these violent thoughts about our friends, the spiders. Spiders are people, too...only better...cuz they eat bugs.
I love spiders. They're awesome...
and all you haters are really just a bunch of wusses.   ;;D   :P
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by kayarr on Aug 2nd, 2006, 9:44pm
and all you haters are really just a bunch of wusses
I've been called worse....lol.
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by alchemy on Aug 2nd, 2006, 9:46pm
I'm sorry nani, I never fried them out of hate. I just gave them my version of a viking funeral when they're work was done. ;;D
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Redd715 on Aug 2nd, 2006, 9:47pm
Since I have been been assured that this 8 legged thing is "harmless", the kids and I decided to just let it alone, and watch it.  No messing with the web or anything like that.

My skin crawls every time I have to walk past it, and my hope is that it will leave of it's own accord before I have to worry about something bothering it and it deciding to take refuge in my home as a means of escape.

It rained nearly all day here, which we deperately needed.  And just as I suspected, there she was in the middle with all the wetness clinging to her web.  No prey in site for her daily meal.  She's bound to be hankering for a good fat juicy fly (better not be my flesh) for her dinner.

It still gives me the creepy crawlys.
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by nani on Aug 3rd, 2006, 12:38am

on 08/02/06 at 21:46:48, alchemy wrote:
I'm sorry nani, I never fried them out of hate. I just gave them my version of a viking funeral when they're work was done. ;;D


LMAO, Jim... you're supposed to send them off in their little boats after they die a natural death.  :P
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by alchemy on Aug 3rd, 2006, 1:32am

on 08/03/06 at 00:38:42, nani wrote:
LMAO, Jim... you're supposed to send them off in their little boats after they die a natural death.  :P


oh thats right. I always get that part wrong. ::)
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Charlie on Aug 3rd, 2006, 2:48am
http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/swat.gif http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/cockroach.gif http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/fly zap.gif

I take no prisoners with big spiders. Like I said: If it bugs you...... sorry, splat.

Charlie
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Mrs Deej on Aug 3rd, 2006, 8:52am

on 08/02/06 at 21:40:47, nani wrote:
OMG! All you haters!! I can't believe y'all harbor these violent thoughts about our friends, the spiders. Spiders are people, too...only better...cuz they eat bugs.
I love spiders. They're awesome...
and all you haters are really just a bunch of wusses.   ;;D   :P

Mail it to Nani!!   ;;D

...HOLY SHIT!!!  That thing is huge...and while I'm sitting here typing I have put my feet in my lap...thanks alot Pegg!   ;)  I HATE SPIDERS (so does my husband, so we both scream when one is in the house. LMAO!)

My brother-in-law actually goes out and catches little bastards like these.  He is going to school at KU studying spider ....um.....um....stuff?  He goes to the quarry and actually digs these fu*ckers up!!  WHATEVER!!  He has tons of black widows he is father to, and proud of it. Freak! What have I married into?!?  :-/

[smiley=laugh.gif]
Steph
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by vig on Aug 3rd, 2006, 8:59am
give the spider a name...
;;D

Boris?
Henrietta?
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by brewcrew on Aug 3rd, 2006, 10:07am

on 08/03/06 at 08:52:36, Mrs Deej wrote:
Mail it to Nani!!   ;;D

...HOLY SHIT!!!  That thing is huge...and while I'm sitting here typing I have put my feet in my lap...thanks alot Pegg!   ;)  I HATE SPIDERS (so does my husband, so we both scream when one is in the house. LMAO!)

My brother-in-law actually goes out and catches little bastards like these.  He is going to school at KU studying spider ....um.....um....stuff?  He goes to the quarry and actually digs these fu*ckers up!!  WHATEVER!!  He has tons of black widows he is father to, and proud of it. Freak! What have I married into?!?  :-/

[smiley=laugh.gif]
Steph

Funny how you never find this shit out until AFTER the wedding!
Title: Re: LARGE spider removal advice?
Post by Ree on Aug 3rd, 2006, 12:58pm

on 08/01/06 at 19:29:28, jimmers wrote:
Spray it with carburetor cleaner. DOA!

Jimmers
you sound like Dave he uses that for everything....LOLOL  especially bee hives..... but heres a note.... carburetor cleaner leaves a stain on roofs....

that spider also looks like he bitessssssss....... ree


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