It's unfortunate that I had to burn my house down

Burn the ashes just to be sure.

Then burn the server this board is on. Again, just to be sure.

Ear plugs people.

FUUUUUUUUUUUCK!! I am NEVER going to Century Evanston again, to hell with the matinees. One of them might be under my seat!!

I was hoping you’d moved to South America.

Here I thought you were talking about centipedes. I’m way phobic of centipedes (and blame reading the wrong short story at the wrong time), but just a couple weeks ago out here in the western suburbs of Chicago, I turned on the water in my tub and saw a centipede that was about 4" long go skittering across the bottom of the tub after I turned the water on. I had the presence of mind to pull out the drain strainer, set the water to full hot, and turn the shower-head-on-a-hose to “concentrated stream”, then blast the unholy beast down the drain.

Really, it makes the fact that the landlords are trying to sell this property almost appealing, because this place is already destined to be a teardown and so hopefully any remaining multi-legged beasts from hell will perish in the destruction.

It could be worse. You could be living in the South Seas and have coconut crabs. :slight_smile:

We get these guys in the houses all the time. svensguide.com

Very common, good to clean up flies and mossies.

That looks tasty

We had a brown recluse infestation when we first moved into our rental home a year ago. The house had stood empty for so long the bastards moved in and were breeding in the attic. It took 6 treatments from the pest control guys, but we are finally down to only the occasional spider. It was about 3-4 sightings a day. I would stay up all night with a flash light spotting them on my bedroom ceiling. God was that awful. The first time they laid glue traps to monitor how bad the infestation was the tech counted 76 dead spiders after they had been set for a week. I wanted to die.

I was reminded of this thread today when [=112949421&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=0"]I almost ran into this](Photobucket | Make your memories fun![user) while trying to check the mail. It’s still out there and the sun is going down.

Mods!

I’m reporting this thread which contains a whole page of mean people! :mad: :mad: :mad:

Sincerely,

Spiderman

Well Spidey, if you weren’t so terrifying then we wouldn’t be so mean

For you guise, how many spiders do we swallow in our sleep?

I wouldn’t burn my house down if I found that in there.

I couldn’t go back inside. I’d have to pay someone to come in and burn it down for me.

I wanna know her secret for staying so slim.

Suddenly the muffled scream I let out when a spider smaller than my fingernail ran across the dashboard as I was driving to work seems like an overreaction.

The effort required to construct a new web daily with the tensile strength of carbon nanotubes and capable of entrapping the insect equivalent of a fully loaded Airbus probably burns a few calories.

Perspective is good. Spiders are bad. :slight_smile:

Not only is it a male spider, but male spiders are almost always much smaller than females of the same species. Think about that for a while.

I just evicted a ceiling spider from in front of the fridge. I don’t know what kind it was, but it wasn’t a GHS. It was tannish/goldish, and it would have been covered by a quarter in its legs-bent position.

Could that possibly be a Brown Recluse Spider.

If so, the arson was justified.

Doubtful. It looks too big, and it lacks the violin shape on its back.

I still say it’s a GHS.