Do spiders get anxiety

nails1

As per title. I have a few buggers in my house. I don’t have the balls to kill. But I want to get rid of. How do you scare them off. I’ve tried shining my iPhone X torch at them and lit a match close to them but they won’t move.

prinzeugen

Can of Lynx and a lighter. That will scare them!

Woodsie1

Leave them alone!!!
They kill all the flies.

No, spiders don't have the capacity to suffer from anxiety. You can move them. I am not a big fan but like yourself I hate to kill them. Unless they are false widows. Those f*ckers are dead f*ckers.

khalessi

Perhaps its paralysed with fear

tuxy

Grab a spider by the leg and it will move all over the place frantic to get away.
Snap it's leg off and it will calmly walk away. So it would seem they don't experience pain or anxiety like we do.
Also don't snap a spiders legs off, spiders are cool.
Is your house badly infested? What harm are they doing? In a few weeks they will start dying off as temperatures drop.

Woodsie1

khalessi wrote: »

Perhaps its paralysed with fear

Even venomous ones are fearful.
Leave them alone and they leave you alone.

Mean Laqueefa

nails1 wrote: »

As per title. I have a few buggers in my house. I don’t have the balls to kill. But I want to get rid of. How do you scare them off. I’ve tried shining my iPhone X torch at them and lit a match close to them but they won’t move.

Kill them if you are weirdly frightened of them, i know i am, or leave them be. Scaring them off seems so random a thought to me, ie a big fecker near my daughters cot, DEAD, chilling on the back wall in the garden eating flies while taking a corner im afraid to enter cause of the fear ok enough for now but id like my space back, it a compromise between us, me and them are ok, much like southsiders

Filmer Paradise

nails1 wrote: »

As per title. I have a few buggers in my house. I don’t have the balls to kill. But I want to get rid of. How do you scare them off. I’ve tried shining my iPhone X torch at them and lit a match close to them but they won’t move.

I'd leave them alone myself.

In the face of hysterical screaming girlies, I've removed a few over the years.

'tis quite simple. A glass & a piece of card.

Spider is on the wall. You put the glass over it. Then slide a thin piece of card under it creating a sort of 'mini-cage' for it.

Bring the assembley out to the garden & release.

You are now a certified Super-Hero & guarenteed to get the ride.;)

Woodsie1

Mean Laqueefa wrote: »

Kill them if you are weirdly frightened of them, i know i am, or leave them be. Scaring them off seems so random a thought to me, ie a big fecker near my daughters cot, DEAD, chilling on the back wall in the garden eating flies while taking a corner im afraid to enter cause of the fear ok enough for now but id like my space back, it a compromise between us, me and them are ok, much like southsiders

OI!!!!
Im from Tallaght:pac:

tuxy

Mean Laqueefa wrote: »

Kill them if you are weirdly frightened of them, i know i am, or leave them be.

It's not weird, probably some primal instinct from when we lived in trees. But we don't we live in dreary old Ireland.

I want a photo of the spiders or at least a description. My old gaff was overrun with false widows who are an invasive species. I grew up with giant house spiders so common and I was petrified of them, but we grew to live alongside each other.

I can give advice about how to move the feckers even if you're scared of then, if you want.

branie2

They're great for killing flies

bodhrandude

Only if they listen to Pink Floyd's The Wall.

gozunda

Always kept pet spiders on my bedroom when I was growing up. Kept my mother out ...

gozunda

gozunda wrote: »

Always kept pet spiders on my bedroom when I was growing up. Kept my mother out ...

Are you my brother?

My ma threw a salmon skin on the floor for the cats and this f*cking amazingly huge spider ran out to grab it. We were in awe. I said "Ma that's the biggest house spider I have ever seen!"She says "I know!" then whacked the poor thing with her shoe

I saw a bigger one though. My cat grabbed it and brought it to me, legs all hanging out of her mouth. I regret I went all phobic mental and killed it. It was huge. Body was the size of a 2 euro coin and legs maybe four inches each I freaked and hit it repeatedly with my book. My cat ate it, she's pretty good.

ardinn

now im itchy