A rather large and handsomely spotted Huntsman Spider. I may have let out a bit of a girlie squeak.
We don't kill spiders in the Brown-Mouse (well, there are exceptions, white tailed spiders don't last long and anything that looks like a red back gets crushed sharpish, oh and I strongly suspect I'd kill a funnel web if I found one anywhere near me) but they aren’t allowed to stay in the house either because, as everybody knows, spiders walk on the faces of sleeping humans. So after taking a few snaps (just look at how the flash reflects of his many spider eyes)
it was Mr Brown's job to escort Mr Spider out-of-doors (I'd have done it only I was recording the event for prosperity).
First he tried the glass and paper (well, large deli tub & cardboard, he was a large spider) but Mr Spider leapt to the floor and had to be wrangled out with a long stick and much verbal encouragement (do spiders speak English?).
Once outside he had to be shown where the garden was (so not to be tempted back under the door - cheeky bugger).I have been known, in the past, to catch largish spiders in paper bags and carry them to the end of the street before freeing them (theory is they won't find their way back to my place) and I was always the one who had to catch and release in house sharing days. But then, my sire is a man who once fished a spider's egg sack out of the bin and returned it to Ms Spider when he found her looking for it on his kitchen floor (long story, involving a cat, a spider and a bottle of red).
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Nar - spiders are ok, huntsmen eat cockroaches, moths and other things I don't particularly want in the house. I made Mr Brown sweep up all the leaves out the front though, I didn't want to be accidentally treading on Mr Spider. Nonononononononono.
Here's Chester's tried and proven spider capture technique.
You'll need a medium sized tupperware bowl (sans lid, of course) and a piece of card bigger than the lid.
Simply place the tupperware over the top of the spider. It's big enough to somehow be outside his danger zone, so he won't try to run away. Now slide the card slowly between the tupperware and the wall. You'll be amazed at how skillfully he gets his little spider legs out of the way.
Voila! Sipder ready for transport.
CTB - i tried something like this once, but i panicked and (being dead scared of spiders) i dropped the tupperware container and ran away at high speed - and the freakin spider ran after me. i think i ended up standing on top of the loungechair for about an hour and someone else came home and put the spider outside. i know. im such a chicken.
Spiders :((((((((((((((
I didn't know Huntsmen ate cockies though ... we have few spidies, but at one stage had a cockie infestation.
Still, you can't convince me to be INVITING huntsmen into the home :)
Mr Bear - we use that system too but sometime the spiders see you coming (they do have many eyes) and run away - or at you as Ms CAW experienced.
CAW Ha - I'm picturing you running away chased by a spider waving several tiny fists - teheheheehehe.
H&B - being spider friendly, we can't invite them inside - they would be hunted in their turn, by the furry spider killers known as Ping & Small.
I had a store room once, that was so full of 8 legged creatures that the only option was a bomb. Yes, spider genocide.
I'm now on the the list of most wanted at the World Spider Court, for "Crimes Against Spiderity". Since then, they spin their sneaky, sticky webs across just about every path before me.
Oh Chester I suspect I will finally tet to meet you in hell - I'll be there because we killed a swarm of bees that tried to set up house in our compost bin - gassed them & then composted them.
In our defence, I thought the bee guy was going to come & take them to live on a honey farm but they don't do that anymore, they just gas 'em.
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