Well, not really because I'm not afraid of the damn things, but I am beggining to hate them. I have never lived in an area with so damn many spiders, they're spinning webs everywhere. It's mostly the Daddy Longlegs variety, they build webs fast, but they never seem to have anything caught in them. If they were catching flies and mosquitoes, that would be one thing, but they must just catch microscopic insects. Almost everytime I take a shower, I slide the door open and there's a big one in the tub staring up at me, there's webs in every corner of the house, I'll go thru and clean them out and 2 days later they're all back. And just try to crawl around under the house to work on plumbing or something! If I don't drive one of my cars for a couple days, I open the door and it's festooned with webs. And sometimes I get in the truck that I just drove the day before, and there's a web across the dash and steering wheel. I guess there's not anything I can do about it except keep clearing the webs out, they've got me outnumbered! I've lived all over this state, and this is the worst place I've ever seen for spiders. Does anyone else have spider problems like this? -TD

 

Hey tiger...if you're finding spiderwebs in your vehicles, try rolling up the windows. j/k

 

Windows up, windows down, it doesn't matter. The little buggers find their way in anywhere. At least the Black Widows aren't too much of a problem. Found one in the mailbox a couple months ago, got rid of it, haven't seen another. Bet it was a thrill for the mail lady, though! -TD

 

I don't know if you can find them in your area, but as I understand it, spiders don't like hedge apples, which are the "fruit" from an osage orange tree. The wood, when fresh is an extremely bright yellow and very, very hard. Hedge apples are about the size of a softball, kinda greenish-yellow in color and the surface is textured with lots of little "*****."

So if you can find some hedge apples, you can leave a few laying around the perimeter of your basement.

Jason

 

Never even heard of them, but I'll look into it. Thanks, Jason. -TD

 

I hate spiders too, i used to live in a 162 year old farm house. There where spiders all over, always one in the tub. Now i fixed that problem by living in a two year old house. Everyday i am taking off webs off the five trucks we have.

 

i hate em bad!! i am scared of them and i will not hesitate to run away screaming if one lunges at me....i had one of those huge a$$ wood spiders jump onto my arm from a rafter of a shed one time and if you ask my brother about it he will have you laughing for about an hour when he tells you the story....needless to say i jumped, knocked over the table saw ran into my dirtbike knocking it over onto the wall shelf that held up the weedeaters etc, turned around like i was doing the hokey pokey in fast forward grappling at things and stripping down to my boxers and then finally running through the yard yelling "is it still on me IS IT?? get it off me AHHHHHHHH!!" yea i hate spiders BAD!! ill pick up a snake like it aint no thing but a spider..yea i gotta go

 

I have the cure for spiders. Go to www.doyourownpestcontrol.com and get some cynoff. A couple of my project trucks tend to collect black widows. I spray on the under carraige and it works.

 

The only eight legged freaks I enjoy are of the seafood variety. There just ain't enough meat in them spider legs.

 

Im with james, give me a snake anyday but no spiders, the lil ones dont bother me but anything over 3/4 of an inch legs n all makes me a lil crazy . And do I hate it when they get in the bath tub, I have torn down many curtains getting out of the shower when I see one. Its like you dont ever see them til your in there As far as having them around working on my cars n trucks thats why i keep a can of brake cleaner for, teaches them a valuable lesson. Btw I didnt think Daddy Longleggs had the ability to produce silk for webs. Maybe a spider expert will join in on this.

 

daddy long legs can and do produce TONS of very fine silk....also unlike the rumor they do NOT have the most toxic venom in the spider world...they can bite humans it just will not kill you....i am with you Thunderguns when it comes to seeing them in the shower....i damn near killed myself one day in the shower...just got lathered up with shampoo and right as i was closing my eyes to rinse i see this HUGE brown spider about 4" in diameter looking at me out of one of the folds in the shower curtin....oh yea i slipped and fell in the tub which upset the spider who jumped in the drink i tore the curtin rod out of the wall and fell on the bathroom floor and damn near tore the door of the hinges because my wet soapy hands wouldnt turn the lock **** so i could get out.....just so happened that my neighbors wife was sitting in my living room as i streaked through the house nekked screaming about spiders....talk about embarassed....hell at least it was warm water and i wasnt turtled up

 

Dayum thas one funny story, proly only cuz the same thing happened to me when one of the wife's friends was over. Dang near broke my neck jumping out of the tub, when I felt the little bugger jump on my head.

God I hate spiders

 

I don't mind them too much, as long as we each respect one another's space. But once, while squirrel hunting, I was looking at something off to one side while walking through the woods, and when I turned my head forward, my face went right into one of those big, dangerous-looking webs with the zig-zag thing going on in the middle. The spider that makes those has long, black, shiny legs, average size body, and a big yellow abdomen (about the size of a large marble, if you're only looking at it).

Problem was, the spider happened to home at the time, and was busy checking his web when this large dweeb-looking thing smashed right into it. It was nose-to-nose contact, and that spider guy looked quite a bit larger with my eyes all crossed up. I grabbed him, my nose and upper lip, my favorite eyebrow, and about half an acre of web stuff, and flung it so hard my arm nearly went out of its socket. After running through half a dozen trees and tripping over a few boulders, I stopped to survey the damage. It looked as though I'd have been better off if I would have just stood there and let the dam thing bite me.

 

I can't believe that so many of you guys are afraid of spiders....I thought I was the only one!!! A daddy longlegs is ok, but anything bigger and faster than that, no way!!! And I have also had my share of them in the shower

I just realized I have 60 minutes to edit my posts

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Forgot to add, my grandma once has a big black one in her mailbox, and I found it. She had also seen it and got mixed up and sent my mom out there with a can of Lysol to spray it. she couldn't see anything, and it never came back!

 

lol. these are great. I HATE when spiders get on me and i hate the feelling of it, and I'm cautious about everythingi do outside or in the garage, and i hate getting into webs because you never know where the spider is. But other than that there pretty cool too look at. but now after all this talk I'll be freaked out to go in the bathroom or the garage. I heard one time that brown recluses like soft stuff so i always check my towels and everythin that hasnt been moved in a while. I ran across a scorpion in the house one time too and that freaked me out enough to check my shoes everyday now..