re: Fear of spiders

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Two years ago I left my pajama bottoms on the floor. When I put them on in the morning I saw one drop to the floor. A few minutes later I felt something crawling along my leg inside the PJs. Yes, you guessed it, BRs. I think I got tagged twice. My house is relatively new custom home on a lake in East Texas. It is worth a bunch. No way I'd leave. What I did was put out sticky traps and deluge the attic with Fastcap Onslaught. I then brought in a pest control company. Some sticky traps had twenty spiders. One day I went into the walk in attic and I saw a couple scurrying about. After all the spraying and cleanup in the attic, there is little evidence they are up there. Interestingly, the sticky traps with the most spiders were the ones I put underneath the bed against the wall. I've now lived in houses in Edmond Ok and Youngsville LA where I occasionally saw BRs. They move about in the dark. I rarely see them in the day. I do not leave clothing like jeans or PJs that I intend to put on later on the floor anymore.

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Until you inevitably wake up and see a BR under your covers.

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Until you inevitably wake up and see a BR under your covers.

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They tend to stay down at floor level. As I said, I think I've been tagged twice. But I will not move from my house due to spiders. I'd have to disclose anyway.

Yes, Ive been bitten by a brown reclouse.

When I was rennovating a house, Every single Foundation Pier that we had to re do had nests upon nests of them.

Even the insectside spider spray didnt work on them.
Bengal did.
After I got bit which I didnt even notice until weeks later. It felt like a mass of dead cells below live skin, I dont know how to describe it, but it was on my leg between by ankle and knee about the size of a dime. It was like that for years. If you ran your finger over it it felt mushy where firm flesh once was.

I have never seen one in my house, but they have a tiny violin looking symbol right behind the head.

Never kill the Rusty Spider Wasp. It is your friend and is so hardwired to hunt spiders, especially wolf and other larger bodies spiders, that it doesn't even register you.

I have a deal with spiders. The ones that want to build a little web and trap any bugs that get into the house are cool as long as they don’t get crazy with the web or get on the floor. If they’re on the floor its squash city.

Those hairy wolf spiders? Auto kill.

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I honestly don’t know that I would recognize a brown recluse if I saw one.

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They are pretty nondescript. But once you've seen them and know what they are, you can ID them every time. Many years ago we built a small house in Youngsville, La. It was also out in the country and near some weedy lots. The construction people did a shitty job of cleaning up. Man I had black widows everywhere outside. They were in every weep hole in the bricks and around every hose reel. I tend to see BWs in most places I've been. And I've seen one tarantula crossing the road here this year.

As an aside…Ever notice how creatures with eight legs are all intelligent as shite? Octopi and spiders have some moxie for sure.

Put 1000 spiders in my underwear. Dry!

Put 1snake in my underwear drawer. Wet!

Fear…

Good luck with STEM degrees.

Psychology > !

I can't believe no one has mentioned the invasive Joro Spider that's spreading across the U.S.
Native to southeast asia it likely arrived here in food containers from Vietnam or Thailand.
If you're a hiker or mountain biker in Louisiana you're familiar with the Golden Orb Spider aka Banana Spider that creates those huge webs that spread across forest trails. Well, the Joro is a Golden Orb on steroids.

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Spiders don’t bother me in the least but I’m not gonna knock anyone for being scared of them when birds freak me the hell out.

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