Close encounter of the arachnid kind-bug video added post 26

[ChrisH]

This morning, after getting dressed I was in the bathroom brushing my hair when in the corner of my eye I thought I caught a glimpse something on my shoulder reflected in the mirror. Looked again, nothing, but sort of half turned to check ...
.. there, on my shoulder was a huge ..

I sort of half screamed and half shouted and ran out onto the landing pulling off my top and throwing it as I did so.

On, very gingerly, picking the top back up I could see the spider was still on it, shook it but it wouldn't budge. Took it downstairs and outside (pulling on a t-shirt before I did so, didn't want to frighten the neighbours ) I sort of angled the top against a cupboard I have out there so the spider would walk off, and it did.

Guess I'm going to be checking my clothes before I dress in future. ;D

p.s. the best of it is I really like spiders and am not normally nervous around them.

[Pam]

Chris you are a nicer person than I am. I absolutely hate spiders. I probably would have held the shirt under water until the horrid thing drowned. I just don't like things that crawl on me. Your little spider thingie even gave me the creeps.

[Hellow]

Hey, i have an pet spider. an small, non-poisonous spider named blackie!

[RedHedd]

Spiders are good luck! Go buy a lottery ticket!

[CathyBogart]

Hehe, I'm not normally afraid of spiders either but I almost caused an accident one day when one swung down on a strand of silk in front of my face while I was driving!!

[ChrisH]

Chris you are a nicer person than I am. I absolutely hate spiders. I probably would have held the shirt under water until the horrid thing drowned. I just don't like things that crawl on me. Your little spider thingie even gave me the creeps.

Oh, I'm not a nice person, believe me. I just hate to kill any creatures. The majority just go about living their lives and doing no deliberate harm, which is more than you can say for the human race. Just my opinion.

[ChrisH]

A relative has made its way on to a wall in my living room. (It's the same size as the one that was on my shoulder.)
click if you dare!
creepy crawly warning

[lizbud]

Well, I dared and I looked & it's creepy looking alright.


If I found one on me, I'd be more upset that just seeing one in the doorway
or something. They serve their purpose in the world I suppose.

[Donnaj4962]

OMG!

If THAT thing was on my shoulder, I would have screamed and maybe even peed my pants!

Now I don't know my spiders, but that looks dangerous.... like a brown recluse or something. (Of course, I am also frightened of snakes and would think that a garder snake was a rattler! )

I would be looking for a nest soemwhere!

Can ya tell? I don't like spidies!

[Cinder & Smoke]

">>click<< if you dare!"





The Dogs are gonna have to dial 9-1-1

[Sevaede]

That DOES look like a brown recluse!

[crow_noir]

YEaaeeeeeeeeeee!!!! Egads!

Those things are creepy. I like to look at them outside, but i keep my distance.

p.s. for what it's worth... since everyone else is stating what they think it is... It looks like a type of Garden spider to me. ...maybe just because of how stretch looking the front legs are... other than that it looks like the unidentified window spiders that i call Guardian spiders. (long story... but as much as those creep me out... I like having them around. They've done me a few favors.) It actually looks like a mix between the two from around here.

A relative has made its way on to a wall in my living room. (It's the same size as the one that was on my shoulder.)
click if you dare!
creepy crawly warning

[ChrisH]

Seems as if my house and it's environs have become bug & creature city this year.
First the annual ant invasion with a difference, bigger and more numerous, and then the giant beetle type bug in my kitchen, creepy crawly bug in a jar and thirdly, the slugs, of which there have been an amazing amount.

Nicer ones were: seeing a real dragonfly for the first time and a second smaller one a few days later who obligingly stayed still and waited whilst I went and got my camera. (I'll put a link in case anyone feels they are also creepy crawlys). dragonfly Another nice one was being buzzed by a -rare as I found out later- butterfly as I was hanging out the washing. It flew by me a few times then landed on the window pane for me to have a good look, didn't stay long enough for me to grab my camera though.

The next nice one for me, but I suspect not for others, was seeing some bats flying around the front of my house. I stood for a while in my garden, just watching. Amazing acrobatics.

Finally, the nasties, wasps. Being stung whilst working in the garden one day was not pleasant and then there was the nest outside my bedroom window. I had to get someone out to get rid of it because it was dangerous being so close to where I sleep. Then yesterday there was a one (a wasp) in Ebby's 'apartment' and today one in the living room. Not one of my favourite creatures to be sure.

Where will it all end I ask myself.