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Aug. 24th, 2009 01:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bardic_ladyHey, guess who has TWO, count 'em, TWO gigantic spiders trapped on her living room floor?
That's right, this guy. I'm calling my landlord in the morning. And if he needs me to go somewhere else for a few days while he fumigates... Better now than during classes.
That's right, this guy. I'm calling my landlord in the morning. And if he needs me to go somewhere else for a few days while he fumigates... Better now than during classes.
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Date: 8/24/09 04:10 pm (UTC)Good news: Their appearance is seasonal. They only really make themselves visible like this during mating season. They'll stop showing up over a month or two and won't reappear till, oh, late June next year.
If you want to get rid of the big hunting spiders (i.e. the the webless ones you see scurrying about the floor), the best way to do so are glue traps around your baseboards (they're just strips of paper coated with tacky glue). Hunting spiders physically assault their prey, rather than trap them in webs, and lack the requisite ability to walk freely on sticky surfaces. (In fact, as far as indoor hunting spiders go, their main predators are web-spinning indoor spiders, whose webs they will get stuck in.)
I lived in a big, 100+ year-old house for the last year, and had to deal with these same buggers myself.
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Date: 8/24/09 04:35 pm (UTC)