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[hathycol]

My house is currently experiencing Spider Crisis. We're not quite at Spider Apocalypse stage yet, which people may remember from when I lived in my parent's house. Spider Apocolypse happens in October and November, when all the massive garden spiders decide to come into the nice warm houses. My parent's house backs on to a field and it leads to HORROR AND FEAR. The last time I was there they had achieved the size of chihuahuas and scuttled across the living room at inopportune and involved me at one point actually just leaving the house whilst debating burning it down.

Then I started living in flats and Spider Apocolypse has yet to occur again. Thank goodness for that. It's still only August so there's every chance that come October I will be eyeing up the matches again, but let's cross that bridge when we come to it.

(Some notes here: spiders are a vital part of our ecology. I understand this. This is why I don't, say, move to Australia. They stay in their world, I stay in mine, and they should stop breaking this deal. I would genuinely rather they just weren't in my house. If anyone else is around I make them catch them and take them outside. If I'm by myself, though, nothing but the hoover will suffice and I can't physically cope with them, especially the big ones that make me scream and shake.)

The problem at the moment is with reasonably small garden ones, that are JUST small enough to make me flail but at the same time I would like to not interact with them. This is a problem, as the privet hedges of our front garden (officially not our problem) and the next door neighbour are wildly overgrown. First floor height overgrown. Spiders love to make their webs in them. This is a problem, as they has led to them making morning webs across the gate and the path. Getting from myfront door is a daily assault course. On one occasion I was going to hop the fence to the neighbour and then nearly put my hand on another bloody spider. Today there is one busily making a web across our living room window. We are on the TOP FLOOR, people.

I am beginning to think it's personal. I'm sure the neighbours are highly amused by my tenative assault course rolls over the path that generally end in my making a little shriek, breaking the web and running past but oh, I am sick of this already.

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[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain on this one.

I am moderately arachnophobic - small spiders (like money spiders) are fine, but larger than that and I get twitchy. House spiders (the long-leggedy beasties that run at me) in the living room have been known to induce the screaming ab-dabs. Thankfully, adelpha is not arachnophobic, and is quite handy with a large glass and piece of cardboard.