You could get screens for your window

it's starting to get colder, pretty soon you wont need open windows

>>1644
>It's starting to get colder, pretty soon more spiders will come into your house for the warmth. They wont need open windows, either.
Fix'd


But in all seriousness.
I just moved, cleaning out my storage space from one apartment to move it to the next.

HUGE wolf spiders.

Now, I'm so fan of spiders, but I can tolerate them, either outside, where I can avoid touching them, or inside, where I put them in a cup and calmly walk them outside.
They used to freak me out as a kid, but slowly I've grown to get over my arachnophobia.

Except for wolf spiders.
For some reason seeing a wolf spider will still really freak me out, It's almost too hard to bear putting them back outside, and I procrastinated cleaning out my closet for almost a month because of them.

Even worse is the hours afterward of your skin crawling, every twitch of one of your leg hairs making you jump, just knowing you'll look down and see another one, only to find out your just a scared wimp.
Gingerly picking up everything, checking all of the sides of it before feeling secure to place an actual grip on it.


Why? Why is it that when I've gone and nearly outgrown my fear of spiders, that these things STILL scare the crap out of me?

also, I'm using wolf spider as an umbrella term for all spiders with that body shape.

TL;DR EAGH I HATE WOLF SPIDERS

at least u don't have centipedes in ur dishes every second day

>>1650

Don't centipedes have short legs? What the fuck is that thing?

>>1657
House Centipede.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata

>>1657

They eat spiders and roaches. You should be fucking grateful.

My last apartment had centipedes that averaged 2.5" to 3" long. They were so big you could see the tiger stripes on them. The Scary part of seeing so many big centipedes was knowing they eat other insects. for them to get so big... how many nasty little buggers was I not ever seeing!?

your photo looks like a ashidaka spider from Japan. Many Japanese let these live in their house because they don't bother people and the have a voracious appetite for cockroaches and other insects. Open your mind.

Whack them with cardboard, they hate cardboard they die if you hit them hard enough with it, it's true

>>1857

BS. I'm not the OP, and I'm a (Central-) Eurofag, and we get that sort of spiders here as well. They're harmless, and unless you're a kid and/or a pussy, you shouldn't be afraid of them.

>>1857
this.
there's about a 25% chance you live in queensland.

get bugbombs remove all food out of your house and sleep in your car for a day or two.
they are win

>>1640
Ok, the good thing is, there's good chance it is a huntsman. And yeah, most likely they come in pairs so you could have another one hiding behind your headboard or something. That's not what you have to worry about though.

Huntsmans are, as you may guess, hunting spiders. Which means they'll be chasing some insects around your room, more specifically, things like cockroaches. The problem with them being near your bed is that it means they've driven all the cockroaches in your room to that particular area.

Now, the cockroaches are terrified, and they'll run for high ground, which means your bed. The huntsmans of course will follow them up there. This is a slow game of cat and mouse, so you'll probably be asleep by the time this has happened.

The cockroach(s) at this time will be scared fucking shitless and run for cover. I hope to god you sleep with your mouth closed and on your back, or things could get nasty. A preferred whole is the ear though. Large enough for a cockroach to think it's good, but too small for a huntsman to rush in.

So the cockroach will crawl into your ear to escape those two spiders and wait. But the spiders haven't given up yet. Like zombies at a deserted house, they'll arrive, maybe with some other ones, all looking for the cockroach in your ear. Then, they'll rush in to grab it. The shit scared cockroach will burrow in to escape, breaking through your eardrum and possibly into the inner canal (depending on size). The spiders will follow in as far as they can.

You'll wake up screaming in pain as insects and arachnids tunnel into your head. All the screaming and sudden movements will cause the spider to panic, to bite, and to shove their way in further. The cockroach meanwhile, has reached your brain and medical attention is immediately required.

But don't worry. Huntsmans aren't poisonous.

>>1894
+1 internets to you sir

AAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhh fuc that hit it with a baseball bat.

>>1894
Excellent.

/r/ more pics of spiders ITT, time for some immersion therapy for OP.

I almost stepped on this the other night. I don't normally turn the lights on when I go down stairs since the ambient light is usually enough. --I normally don't look at the floor either when I walk through known territory.... this night, I just happened to do both.

Trying to catch it was tedious. I'd go near it with the jar, and it'd raise it's front legs up at me. about the size of the diameter of a coke can.

Does anyone know what it is? Wolf spider? Recluse? I'm in north Texas.

Call the cops.

Or just spray around the house with chemicals.

believe it or not those little things you plug into your outlet that tic every couple seconds work for spiders, but in my experience it'll just stop them from coming in, not staying if they're already there.

I love my wolf spiders. They are everywhere in my home and they seem kill everything. I used to have a roach problem and wasps outside until they showed up. Now I don't have wasps, roaches, other spiders or ants in my home because of my little arachnid army.

I blame this stupid movie for my arachnophobia. Whenever I see a spider, I expect it to stalk me and come leaping at my face.

>>1915
That's a wolf spider alright. You can recognize them from the big, forward-pointing eyes.

Man I love spiders. They're not really useful (or big) here in the north since we really don't have a roach problem or anything. I mean seriously, I've never seen a roach here, ever, nor anything bigger than a sugar centipede.

I find these on the inside of my window. Can't figure out WHY/HOW but they are.

yeah it took me 16 years of my life to get over arachnophobia... thats 16 years of life I could have used fearing Dire Leaf Weasels

I used to be semi-phobic against arachnids (not standing on chairs kinda phobic but I'd panic if one touched me) until I took up macro photography. Now I'm all like "cool, look at this fucker, it's huge".

I used to be scared of spiders.

Now I smash with my hand and scream WHY DO YOU MAKE ME DO SUCH HATEFUL THING?

They just lie there.

7chan Spider Experts

>>1980
I lol'd

diatomaceous earth!

its a white powder that kills bugs. it kills bugs by tearing up their exo-skeleton, and b/c it is just a mineral it is non-toxic. i used it when my house became infested with fleas a while back.

it works awesome and will kill all bugs.

>>2079
Please note: diatomaceous earth may technically be non-toxic, but for the same reason that it fucks up arthropod exoskeletons, it will also fuck up your lungs. Wear a respirator and vacuum thoroughly when you're done with the stuff.

I'm not so afraid of spiders -- those that are non-aggressive to humans unless provoked.

What I AM afraid of is squishing them by accident by moving large heavy objects, picking up large heavy objects, if one's on my back or in a chair and I sit down... I have nightmares of giant spiders the size of bowls of cereal stalking me until I pick up a speaker box and smash them on the ground, and the guts ooze out in a mixture of bright primary colors as if I were mixing paints.

TL;DR: . . .and that's when I learned for a fact that I actually DO dream in color.

>>1650
>>1663
I can take spiders, but if THATS what you get in the houses over in the Mediterranean, I'm not visiting.

Every one has a natural deep down fear of spiders it is part of evolution, if you dont your mom probably drank allot while she was pregnant and you end up one of those kids that smells like old sausage and collects spiders and rats.

>>1953
what the heck kind of spider is that...
>>1650
house centipedes are useful to have around the house don't kill em... the ripples look badass when they walk

I could be wrong, but that looks like a Mediterranean Recluse, which are venomous. They got into my area in banana shipments, got into steam tunnels under the town, and proliferated. The Penn State University entomology department has published articles about them. Nasty damn things.

>>2849
It isn't a spider.

>>1917

Rofl call the cops

>>1980
1000 fucking internets

get a screen

the end is near

why would you want to keep such cute animals your house? :3

This spider right here is my buddy. He brings me live entertainment. I stopped naming the bugs in my room because they keep dying.

Here's his dead buddy. It's been there for a couple of months now, I think. I can't be bothered to throw his corpse out. It's amazing how little they rot.

Quick question: Do spiders stop wrapping up bugs when they already got a crapload of 'em, or do they instinctively prepare any meal that flies into their web?

that spindly fuck of a spider is great, I have arachnophobia and after seeing them enough, and so on, the fact they hunt other spiders, the fact that they use up food other spiders would eat, nad the fact that they're like a timid nerd more than a predator, in my presence makes them fucking awesome

they're called daddy long legs, they're the real one, the one you MIGHT have heard of and thought are daddy long legs, have legs about as big but they're single body things, all spiders have 2 body parts, the ass and the head basically

anyways, they're web dwellers, if you blow on them they usually freeze up if it's light enough, if you blow hard they'll run away, so you can actually direct them like that unless they freeze up, which is cool, since I hate spiders and have 4-6 other varieties I've seen in/on my house, I've pulled my bed away from the wall and it's metal and above ground, any other spider would make me not able to sleep until it's dead if it's on the wall near the head of my bed, but these fuckers? no. I can sleep fine after seeing them there.