Off to a bad start

[elissande]

Getting dressed for work this morning, took out t-shirt and put it on. Sae and felt something odd on my arm and did the instinctive shaking and brushing off. It was a rather large orb weaver spider. Not a good start for an arachnophobe. Fortunately, orb weavers though large and dark coloured are not of the aggressive nor scuttling variety. It took

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[little_foxy]

Obviously it hadn't gotten around to making a web when it had a nice comfy t shirt to rest on!

[elissande]

And stayed in it for the 2 or 3 days it was folded up in the wardrobe between washing and wearing. Must have been very comfy for it!

[little_foxy]

although hopefully it was happy to be outside again where it could catch some dinner!

[infoaddict]

We've been gently evicting about one hand-sized huntsman a night at the moment. Neither of us are arachnaphobic but these guys aren't anything you want visiting in the middle of the night; they're HUGE.

I guess we're just lucky that the wolf spiders aren't visiting as well!! (Like a huntsman but plumper rounder body and chunkier legs. And HUGE).

[elissande]

Lovely to hear from you. Wolf spiders are also slightly more aggressive than huntsman spiders and tend to get a bit irate when you try and get them to head towards the door. :)

We get the occasional huntsman, but not usually in my clothes. :) I shared a bedroom with one for almost a year. Every time I tried to evict it, it hid behind a wardrobe. I wasn't prepared to use insecticide on it, so I called it Henrietta and decided it was a pet. It responded to my magnanimity by never bing on my face when I woke up in the morning (or even in the ceiling just above me which would be almost as bad).

[infoaddict]

My sister and I had Henry who lived in the curtains of our shared bedroom when we were younger, in much the same way. They're generally pretty amenable about staying near the ceiling :)