spray bleach on it and don't let it drop on you.

Are you pulling our legs? Or has it really been chilling in open view for an hour?

Hang on a tick. I'll go check on it. The PC is in the lounge so I don't have to sit near it.

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$h1t It's moved. I can't find it now. Really scared. Considering walking up to the local hospital for some tranquilisers. 2 reasons. 1. It'll calm me down. 2. It'll keep me out the house for at least 3 hours.

You have a fire, light something on fire and hit the spider with it. :/

Spray it with some cleaner or bleach, that'll kill it quickly. And you don't have to get too near. I wouldn't sleep at all untill both of those were dead...

that's a great idea, probably the best yet

i think a shoe is still the best idea:D its not like their jumping spiders;)

While most spiders don't jump, many can run out of the path of the shoe (with their 8 legs) within the time it takes a human to move one arm towards it. Especially if it's in a hard to reach place such as the ceiling where it can then choose to drop (hopefully not on you).

I think the best bet would be a can of wd-40 and a lighter.

ZOMG! lol



~Curt

With the sizes you are speaking it sounds to me like what we call here in the states a normal wolf spider. They are generally more afraid of you then the opposite. They are not very aggressive normally, and will go on about their business without much ado. As you do not live in Australia, I don't think you've much to worry about, the typical US wolf spider get to be about that size and is attracted to human domociles because of the relative stable temperatures, and the cornucopia of insects that live with us, even in the cleanest of homes.

What I do with them is simply get a glass and cover them with the glass (if on the ceiling do the same and they will fall into the glass) then simply slide a piece of paper under (or over) the glass and then throw them outside the door and into the lawn or nearby tree. They are typically harmles to us, and provide us with a benefit in that they help keep our household insects in check.

neway, that's my two pence.

P.s. don't watch the discovery channels insect stories if yer that afraid of things in the home, they did a story on what comes in our beds with us at night while we sleep, and they said that the average human eats about 4 pounds of bugs a year in their sleep. I thought that was a pretty cool figure.

That's disgusting. I hope they aren't roaches that we eat.