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Rainbow,
If your fear of Spiders is attached to a child-hood memory, it may be possible to placate the irrational fear you have – I suggest you buy Derren Brown’s book Trick of the Mind, this has a great way of changing the connection with fear that is locked in your head with a much different view of spiders or your fear.
Either way the book is must.
Thanks!!!! Will need to get it because the fear is just beyond a joke now! Don’t think it’s anything to do with childhood just the fact they are creepy with more legs than what’s natural and creep up on you when you least expect it
I know it’s gone too far because on my desk there is a folder, and in that folder is paper and i scribbled on the paper to make the pen work and it was sort of hanging out the folder, and there is a lamp on my desk and as i went to turn it off i screamed because i thought the scribbles on the paper was a spider
I need that book
Thanks again!If I remember rightly RP you are off to Australia at some stage – get that book as soon as you can
I absolutely adore spiders and was fascinated by them even when I was a toddler. I used to be a member of the British Arachnological Society too.
One thing you need to remember is that spiders are more scared of you than you are of them. This time of the year, male house spiders are often seen sprinting across floors and getting trapped in baths and sinks. They are responsible for arachnophobia more than any other spider. All british spiders are harmless but one or two are still agressive nonetheless such as the woodlouse spider which has a huge pair of fangs for it’s small size.
If you ever do pick up a large spider, then holding it between the 2nd and 3rd pair of legs (and as close to the carapace as possible without harming it) will cause it to freeze since it confuses the nervous system.
This may sound potty but actually picking up small soft twigs or tomato stalks and getting a feel of them (and getting used to it) will give you some idea of what a large house spider feels like to pick up. If you can combat this, then picking up spiders will be a piece of cake.
Don’t pick up a spider by its back legs otherwise it’ll turn around, cling onto your fingers for dear life and attempt to free itself by biting.Spiders are very fascinating creatures and don’t deserve the sinister reputation that is dumped on them. The more you observe spiders, the clearer you’ll understand how to deal with them and, who knows, you may grow to love them
One thing you need to remember is that spiders are more scared of you than you are of them.
Yes Rob of course they are…..
The more you observe spiders, the clearer you’ll
understand how to deal with them and, who knows, you may grow to love them One thing you need to remember is that spiders are more scared of you than you are of them.
Yes Rob of course they are…..
The more you observe spiders, the clearer you’ll
understand how to deal with them and, who knows, you may grow to love them It done Peter Parker the power of good
It done Peter Parker the power of good
Hey it did too!
Red’s just not my colour though
No need to worry GC the snakes are all non-poisonous and under lock and key Mrs Towers isn’t keen on them either so an escape would be more than my life’s worth! Snakes are more scared of you than you are of them generally speaking and only in very rare instances will they deliberately attack a human and this is only if they are hungry.
Most of the envenomations around the world occur when people step on them or near them and the snake bites out of fright. Some snakes are able to hiss and rattle their tails as a forewarning for a bite.
On the whole they are nervous and gentle creatures (unless you are a mouse,) so the old idea that you could buy a big boa or python and take it down the pub to scare your friends has mostly (thankfully,) gone away. In some countries snakes are welcomed around human habitations as they do a good job of keeping the rodent population down.
In China there has been a rodent population explosion this year partly due to the large scale consumption of snakes as food. Ever resourceful the Chinese have combatted this epidemic by eating the rats too!
I’ll google the evidence if anyone disbelieves me!Mrs Grass has a pathological fear of spiders, and refuses to be in the same room as one.
A few years back, we were staying at a hotel, and had retired for the evening somewhat the worse for wear after a couple of sweet sherries.
I was already in my scratcher, when the aforementioned nutter Mrs Grass, spotted a spider about the size of an atom, on the cieling cornice at the other side of the room.
She point blank refused to stay in the room, whilst the spider was there, and insisted I get out of my cot, go and see the manager, and demand another room (I kid you not).
Instead, I leaned over, grabbed a banana from the fruit-bowl, and with laser-like precision, launched it at said tiny arachnid, copping it square between all eight of his beady eyes. I then got on with the job of having a most satisfying and enormous snooze (after I’d had my ‘hairy-man’ reward, naturally
).True story.
ever since the rains stopped my village has been plagued with mosquitoes and I swear they’re getting bigger by the day. I had a holiday plug in thing in the kitchen which has run out so now go to bed covered in Jungle Formula. For a while people in my village were walking around covered in weeping sores, it was like the village of the damned…..I am quite concerned….my daughter has a fear of spiders and once tried to jump out of a moving car to get away from one.she puts it down to having one fall on her face when she was very young, and the fact that I read Charlottes Web to her when she was also very young so she can’t swat them because they have lots of babies and talk to pigs……
I need that book 
understand how to deal with them and, who knows, you may grow to love them 
Most of the envenomations around the world occur when people step on them or near them and the snake bites out of fright. Some snakes are able to hiss and rattle their tails as a forewarning for a bite.
I’ll google the evidence if anyone disbelieves me!
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