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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsVery large spider cruising around the office. Leave him/her in, or is s/he better off outside?
Body is maybe an inch or so long, and with legs, the diameter of spidey is significantly larger than a silver dollar.
I have no problem allowing spidey to hang out inside. Not sure if there's much to eat, though.
What to do? Temps outside at night are in the 50s, but will be down in the 40s the next week, if that makes any difference. This is not a web-building spider, I don't think...
Aristus
(66,478 posts)Insects that are no longer around to irritate you.
Spiders are our friends!...
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)but yes(just dont let one lay eggs in your cheek)
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)Kaleva
(36,360 posts)Suich
(10,642 posts)For years,, whenever I found a big spider, I very carefully moved it outside. I found out recently that the change in temperature killed them. Now I just put my feet up and let them be!
Flaxbee
(13,661 posts)I don't disturb any of the spiders and there seem to be a lot of the little, teeny-tiny baseboard-spiders around.
I'm just concerned there isn't enough to eat here. But then again, spider has obviously been thriving somewhere. We're on a ground floor, but the conference room is far away from any doors to the outside so I assume s/he's been living here successfully for a while.
Hmm.
I think I worry about these things too much. I wouldn't want to be any other way - indifferent to life in all its forms -- but jesus it makes my life difficult sometimes.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Flaxbee
(13,661 posts)Cobwebs are happy in my house. Lol.
Sentath
(2,243 posts)Spiders are cannibals, the lot of them.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,026 posts)outside sounds good!
Flaxbee
(13,661 posts)rear up at me when I put them down outside.
This looks just like a 'house' spider who has grown bigger than normal.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,026 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,839 posts)for the same reason. Natures bug zappers.
Flaxbee
(13,661 posts)Love the little fellas.
Teamster Jeff
(1,598 posts)Flaxbee
(13,661 posts)I'd forgotten that scene
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)It will not live long outside at this point in the season. I do the live and let live as long as they are out of my way, and if not, I try moving them to a more remote spot in the house. And I don't know what they are eating, but I have a ton of spiders living in this house.....I must have a lot more creepy crawlies than I know.
GoCubsGo
(32,097 posts)I always leave them alone when they're in my house. Except for the black widow I found behind my plant stand. She got let outside.
Flaxbee
(13,661 posts)hurricane coming our way I assume there will be a bunch of tasty bugs in the aftermath of all that water ... but ... you're right, s/he's probably where s/he wants to be.
However, about a week ago TWO large spiders slid out from behind the shower curtain into the tub just as I stepped into the shower.
They were both removed to the front porch. Where I've seen them before, interlopers that they were.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)they can stay. I don't particular like spiders, they really creep me out. I know, I know, irrational. But still.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Spiders can inflict painful bites, even non-poisonous ones. And the way they catch and devour their prey is also creepy-- usually getting it entangled in a sticky net, injecting it with a drug that keeps it alive but in a semi-comatose state, and then slowly sucking the life out of it.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)OK, reminding me of all those interesting facts about spiders reaffirmed my opinion of their creepiness!
And yes, I have been bitten a number of times by spiders that are "harmless". They are still painful.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Spiders that I find in my house usually meet the same fate as ol' Boris
LP2K12
(885 posts)to a large spider that I had rolled over onto under my shoulder the other night. Grabbed it and threw it across the room half asleep. When I turned on the light it was reared up on its legs. Ugh. I hate spiders.
Flaxbee
(13,661 posts)I do not like them on my person, though.
I didn't kill it. Took it outside and then made sure to patch any holes in the screens around the house and seal any cracks. No spiders since.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Some fish, bats, birds, other insects and reptiles/amphibians are better mosquito catchers.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/lph1/index_files/Page322.html
It's actually pretty hard for a tiny mosquito to get caught in a spider's web, which is much more effective in catching larger bugs such as moths and flies.
applegrove
(118,843 posts)of them so I bought a bug vacuume and caught and released them in the wild. I had an ecosystem going on in my apartment there for a while. Be warned. If they have an adequate source of food (I left my kitchen windows open in the summer) they will multiply. Bugvac I got was at hedonics.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)flamingdem
(39,332 posts)coochy coo!
Flaxbee
(13,661 posts)But there were two crickets I fed some rice cakes to.
One of the crickers (a niece called them 'crickers' when she was young and it's stuck) had only one back leg, so I felt s/he might want some food. I put very small bits down, as well as a wet paper towel (for water) and the one-back-legged cricker took some of the rice cake and scurried off.
I think I've lost my mind.
kurtzapril4
(1,353 posts)I got into a canoe once and a wolf spider came galloping towards me, and I bailed...into water moccasin infested water. Then, after I thrashed and screamed about in the water and muck, I went inside my friend's house to shower and there was another damn wolf spider on the inside of the shower curtain. I will never go back to that house, ever again. I get those big garden spiders in my yard all the time. I don't kill them, I just mark them off with landscaping flags so I don't ever have to look at them again. Small spiders that are in the house, I pick up and put outside.
I'd put your spider outside...circle of life and all that.
Flaxbee
(13,661 posts)I left her alone. Didn't see her the next day... so she's doing her thing somewhere and hopefully found some dinner.
zabet
(6,793 posts)If it is one of these....kill it. Almost as poisonous as a brown recluse but highly aggresive......can jump over a foot and will literally run at you if they feel you are invading 'their' territory.