omfg spider

[pennie_dreadful]

Fucking spiders I hate them. There was one on the ceiling of the stairwell. Raid + shoe. As it was dropping down from the ceiling in its death throws, I saw it was a black widow. ugh ugh ugh

Wonderful way to start the morning.

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[pastrywench.livejournal.com]

Spiders!! *Shudders* There was a monster of one crawling outside on the window ledge yesterday morning. I'm highly allergic to spiders (along with being highly afraid of them). I went and grabbed the can of bug killer , headed outside and saturated the windowsill. That fucker wasn't about to get the opportunity to come in and kill me.

[dgcatanisiri.livejournal.com]

...

And that's when the Raid + shoe combo would be replaced with a napalm and a flamethrower.

[pastrywench.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm talking about. I like how you think.

[kat-nic.livejournal.com]

Well, I did whack it repeatedly with my tennis shoe with slightly more force than necessary. God, if it had bitten one of my cats I would die.

I did take the Raid outside and sprayed all around the doors and window sills. The ''pest control company'' the property management company employs is a fucking joke; they only spray four times a year. Roaches and spiders and earwigs are all over the place, especially jumping spiders. *shudders* I never let myself run out of Raid.

[indongcho.livejournal.com]

I'm making huge D: faces in sympathy, and...wincing in horror at the mental images.

What Raid spray do you use outside? Is it the regular bug killer, or something like their 'bug barrier'? My father uses something outside which has been doing a very good job of keeping nasty invaders out- my bathroom used to be a nightmare, and now I barely ever see anything in it. I could ask the name tomorrow and pass it along?

[kat-nic.livejournal.com]

It's just the regular Raid, but I'll get some more stuff meant to be used outside when I get paid. My cats came down with fleas really bad and I used this stuff on all the carpets and furniture, called Adams flea control (I think, I know it was Adams brand). It comes in a powder and a spray can (I used both, yay overkill). It doesn't just kill adult fleas but prevents the larvae from turing into adults, and it lasts for 180 days. It's also effective against pretty much all other bugs, too, but I guess it's wearing off. I honestly haven't seen a roach in a while, and that's the first live spider I've seen. I find lots of dead ones when I vacuum. The earwigs are still a problem, though at least so far I've only found them downstairs.

[thene]

what I really hate are the big round ones that carry hundreds of fat spider children on their backs so it looks like a moving coat of hair

:(

[kat-nic.livejournal.com]

I have never actually seen those before but thanks for the mental image.

But the ones that jump are the worst. They're like flies; they can see you coming and they jump away before you can squish them, the fuckers, and you can never see where they land. D:

[evilnel.livejournal.com]

I think I have an unwanted spider visitor in my room too. I have a bite and it's too small to be a mosquito bite (I get a huge allergic reaction to mosquitoes). I must go hunting.

At least you killed it, right?

[kat-nic.livejournal.com]

It's definitely dead. Man, that thing was scary. When I saw the red mark on its abdomen I thought, of course this will be the perfect time for one of the cats to show up and get bitten. But they didn't. They were too busy stuffing their faces.

[evilnel.livejournal.com]

Yeah my dogs are useless for bugs. They'll torture them outside so I have to go step on a nasty cricket to put it out of its misery but if there's a spider in my room they totally ignore it. Instinct fail.