This poor family underwent something that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.
http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/spiders-force-family-upscale-missouri-home-26106285
Um, nah, fuck that.
6000 of the critters in the house? Screw the fumigators, get a can of petrol and a match.
I can only assume that the reason agorarachnophobia is not a recognized term is because it is perfectly rational to be afraid of being outnumbered by spiders.
How could you ever re-sell it? Better to just burn it and re-build, isn’t it?
She should have called some horror film writers in Hollywood and made horror movie with no special effects needed.
And home owner could get cut in sales of movie even 4% cut would be lot for home owner.
No special effects needed so the movie would be very cheap to make.
Spiders don’t eat wood.If it was red ants than yes it would destroy the home.
That problem living in the country.
My house is by the park and on any given day I can easily see 10 spiders in the house.When I use to see people who live in the country I would see close to 20 spiders.
And yes some times spiders lay eggs close by.
Hey, small numbers like that, no problem. I’m used to sharing the house with spiders. Couple of Hunstmen hanging round, few black spiders around the back deck and door jams and daddy longlegs in the robe, all good.
But not thousands of the MOFO’s.
I realize spiders don’t eat wood and was not asking if the house would be structurally sound.
I mean, who would buy a house for $450,000 (or more) that had been infested with Brown Recluse Spiders (their bite is not usually fatal, but they can cause extensive pain and possible disfigurement)? I would imagine your heart would race anytime you saw a spider.
Well perhaps living in the city down town area in a apartment will be more his thing.Yes less spiders but you get your rats ,rodents and cockroaches.
I used to live in another similar suburb a few miles from there. Brown recluses were/are as common as house flies in that part of the country. You either have professional exterminators come in every 3 months or you have an infestation; simple as that.
When we first moved into the area we didn’t know that. Fast forward about a year and we’re seeing a few spiders here and there in most rooms. We thought “Good, they’ll keep the mosquitos under control”. Until a neighbor mentioned that they’re probably brown recluse.
The exterminators set traps and got hundreds in our partly finished basement. Plus dozens in the main floors of the house.
Just the price one pays for living in mostly-forested Missouri.
So now I live in Miami; bug & spider capital of the USA. I guess I’m a slow learner. Or not too bent out of shape about creepy-crawlies. Though the spiders rampant in the parks around here are much MUCH scarier than anything I ever saw in MO.
they aren’t a poor family. maybe unfortunate but not poor.
At least you don’t have big spiders like these 10 of the World’s Largest Spiders
Yes big like dinner plate.
At least I find the hairy big spiders and colorful once like these 10 of the World’s Largest Spiders more attractive looking than say brown recluse like these probably brown recluse - Google Search
Yep. Here’s a quote from a web page written by an arachnologist and brown recluse expert from the University of California, Riverside.
Sometimes there just ain’t enough fire.
Sometimes it only takes one spider to give you nightmares.
Linked article has pictures.
I’m in California and live on ranch property. For some reason this summer, the Black Widow population here was out of control! The creepy things were building their webs everywhere. Back in July I didn’t drive my truck for a few days and the Black Widows built webs from under all four bumpers to the garage floor. These things were big, too. I sprayed them and then smushed them with an old rake handle when they fell on the floor. You know, just to be sure… :eek:
After that, I went around one evening with a flash light to see how many I’d find. They were EVERYWHERE! I hate spiders and I was shocked to find so many. I’ve lived here a long time and I’ve never seen so many of these things in the barns before. I wanted to kill ALL of them but I didn’t. Just the ones that were in my work areas or in the garage. I HATE spiders!
We have a lot of animals and have to go out at night to check on them. One night, a black widow had started building its web right across the barn door. If I’d not had a flashlight, I would have walked right into the thing face first! Did I say I HATE spiders??
Yeah, I’ll stay up north thank you very much. Snow six months of the year doesn’t seem so bad now.
The spider was apparently there for three days.
How did it breathe? :dubious:
That’s cute, Johnny. It’s fairly well-established only mortal creatures need to breathe. Spiders, not being of this world, need neither sleep nor sustenance to continue living. Their principle nourishment is the soul, preferably human, ideally helpless and readily terrified such as a small child.
Sure, spiders have been observed to eat. But they do so only because they enjoy killing, and eating brings back fine memories of invenomating helpless prey. I do hope you wake up one day, friend, and recognize the evil you so nobly tolerate.
One should be more concerned with what the spider was doing inside him, and when the eggs will hatch.