# I just washed a spider. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-washed-a-spider/323781 "2005-09-28T01:53:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-washed-a-spider/323781/21 "2005-09-28T15:36:03Z")
If I could just get the spiders to eat junk mail. My mailbox is starting to look like a prop from a haunted house with all of the webs on it. As long as the spiders don’t get in the mailbox, I’ll leave 'em. The next time you want to fire up the grill, check the venturi tubes underneath for spider webs. There’s something about those tubes that spiders just adore. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-washed-a-spider/323781/22 "2005-09-28T15:58:49Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > If I could just get the spiders to eat junk mail. My mailbox is starting to look like a prop from a haunted house with all of the webs on it. As long as the spiders don’t get in the mailbox, I’ll leave 'em. > > The next time you want to fire up the grill, check the venturi tubes underneath for spider webs. There’s something about those tubes that spiders just adore. MMMM… spider smoked ribs! ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-washed-a-spider/323781/23 "2005-09-28T16:09:06Z")
Wow. Should I click on the “Brown Recluse Spiders” link or the “Washer & Dryer Repair” link? ---
**Author:** ![magpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@magpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magpye)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-washed-a-spider/323781/24 "2005-09-28T16:20:50Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > Wow. Should I click on the “Brown Recluse Spiders” link or the “Washer & Dryer Repair” link? Ewwwwww, the last thing I want to see is photos of brown recluse spiders!!! I detest spiders - they are truly one of the ugliest things on the planet (except to another spider, of course). If they stay out of my way, I will do my best not to kill them. The last two spiders that crossed my path - big fat ugly brown ones - were sprayed with adhesive spray (spider #1) and red spray paint (spider #2) - the closest thing at hand at the time. Spiders seem to like to spin webs on my pickup truck - usually from the side mirror to anything near it - such as a tree branch. Another favorite place of theirs is to spin a web from the truck’s radio antenna to the windshield wipers - kind of like a flag in the wind! Spiders - go away!!! I think I read somewhere that there are an average 50,000 spiders per acre of land… and then there’s another piece of trivia that states how many spiders you end up “eating” during your sleep over a period of time (forget how many)… ::shudder:: I was bitten by a wolf spider when I was a young child. I have not forgotten it to this day. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-washed-a-spider/323781/25 "2005-09-28T17:18:53Z")
aww, calm down, spiders our our freinds, they eat the more undesirable bugs but if it will calm you down, [here’s a movie of a cute, fuzzy puppy (actually a tarantula)](http://homepage.mac.com/mactechg4/.Movies/Elvirasnack.MOV), yeah, a cute lil’…puppy, yeah, that’s the ticket aww, isn’t she cute:) ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-washed-a-spider/323781/26 "2005-09-28T17:38:32Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > The next time you want to fire up the grill, check the venturi tubes underneath for spider webs. There’s something about those tubes that spiders just adore. What happens isn’t that they get fried - what happens is that the gas and the flame never get past the blockage and you have flams coming out from under your grill instead of inside of it. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-washed-a-spider/323781/27 "2005-09-29T01:31:24Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > Wow. Should I click on the “Brown Recluse Spiders” link or the “Washer & Dryer Repair” link? Jeez. I got: “Fishy Vaginal Odor? It’s Not Your Fault Learn “Secret” 68,000 Successful Users…” ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-washed-a-spider/323781/28 "2005-09-29T01:34:32Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > Chestnuts? Are they like bug dope for spiders? Well… > [@](#): > > I, too, live in a wooded area with what I call “man-eating” spiders. Some of those wolf spiders get pretty big! I put chestnuts around the exterior walls of every room in the house as well as on all the windowsills. Friends, who live in the city and share a balcony with a neighboring apartment, put chestnuts under the sliding door to their balcony. They have had no spiders while their neighbors continued to be infested. I’ve read a couple of newspaper articles about the use of chestnuts to repel spiders, too. But > [@](#): > > In the Pacific Northwest, where Osage oranges are seldom seen, the legend has been transferred to horse chestnuts. I like horse chestnuts and usually have some around, but still have plenty of spiders, so I know of my own experience that this doesn’t work. > > A correspondent in British Columbia has heard a version of the myth in which the spiders are repelled by copper pennies! I’m gettin’ the pennies out. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-washed-a-spider/323781/29 "2005-09-29T03:08:46Z")
> [@PapSett](#): > > Am I the only one that , upon seeing the thread title, visualized Savannah with a teeny little wash tub , a teeny little wash cloth , and a teeny little bar of SpiderSoap, lifting each teeny little spider leg upto scrub the teeny little armpits? > 😃😃😃😃 And wash behind their wittle ears…they **love** that! Or, you could introduce them to my friend here: [http://www.millertwinracing.com/mantis/](http://www.millertwinracing.com/mantis/) ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-washed-a-spider/323781/30 "2005-09-29T05:12:02Z")
Google Ad in this thread: > [@](#): > > **Brown Recluse Spiders** > If bugs aren’t in your new home they’re waiting to come inside. Real comforting, huh? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-washed-a-spider/323781.md?page=1)