Spider Catchin!
So, I'm in the bathroom, and suddenly this little spider comes down from the ceiling. Its really small, like its body couldn't have been bigger than....I don't know, one of these periods (if looking at it from 800x600). So, I take the little fella on the handel of my brush, and coax him out the window.
Now, as a kid, I was bitten pretty badly by a wolf spider. It swelled up my entire arm. I got so arachniphobic that I wouldn't share a tent with a spider. It was bad. But over the years, and with a few changes to self, I find they still kinda creep me out, but I do opt to take them out of the house rather than killing them. (A big step up from having other people kill them before I got in).
In any case, I go back into my room, and I'm typing. Another little one drops down from my ceiling. "Odd" I said to myself, so I caught that one, and did the same.
So I go to work and come back, and when I get into my room again, I notice a little spider hanging onto my monitor for dear life. I bring him to the outside too.
Now, at about this time its occuring to me. A spider laid its eggs somewhere, and they're hatching. I thought it might have been in my room for a minute, but it didn't explain the one in the bathroom. They were REALLY small.
So, I go into the bathroom again, and I see another one on the window. I look carefully up where I saw the orrigonal one, and what do I see? There is five of them hanging from the ceiling and seven of them crawling around. So, my giant liberal heart goes down and gets a tupperware container, and attempts to go spider catchin.
For those of you that don't know, Baby spiders are like kids. Smarter than you think they'd be, and doing everything you don't want them to.
I get one into the tupperware container, and then a second. I'm about to put on the lid and one of them is around the ring. after blowing on him, and then finally coaxing him along with a pencil, I get him into there, and the other one is on the lip on the other side. This process repeated several times before I got them both into there and closed the lid. I used a cup to collect the rest of the hangers, resulting in the same problem as the tupperware container. Whenever I wanted them to go down, they'd come up. Whenever I'd coax them with the pencil, they'd get on the pencil, and start to climb up. Put them on the lid, they'd go out of the cup.
I finally caught four in the cup, and released them all outside. The others stopped moving. From what I can tell, I think a spider laid its egg sac in our air ducts. Since we turned on the airconditioning, the spiders started flowing through the house. They collected near that one spot because there is only one airvent in the bathroom.
Fun huh?
Now, as a kid, I was bitten pretty badly by a wolf spider. It swelled up my entire arm. I got so arachniphobic that I wouldn't share a tent with a spider. It was bad. But over the years, and with a few changes to self, I find they still kinda creep me out, but I do opt to take them out of the house rather than killing them. (A big step up from having other people kill them before I got in).
In any case, I go back into my room, and I'm typing. Another little one drops down from my ceiling. "Odd" I said to myself, so I caught that one, and did the same.
So I go to work and come back, and when I get into my room again, I notice a little spider hanging onto my monitor for dear life. I bring him to the outside too.
Now, at about this time its occuring to me. A spider laid its eggs somewhere, and they're hatching. I thought it might have been in my room for a minute, but it didn't explain the one in the bathroom. They were REALLY small.
So, I go into the bathroom again, and I see another one on the window. I look carefully up where I saw the orrigonal one, and what do I see? There is five of them hanging from the ceiling and seven of them crawling around. So, my giant liberal heart goes down and gets a tupperware container, and attempts to go spider catchin.
For those of you that don't know, Baby spiders are like kids. Smarter than you think they'd be, and doing everything you don't want them to.
I get one into the tupperware container, and then a second. I'm about to put on the lid and one of them is around the ring. after blowing on him, and then finally coaxing him along with a pencil, I get him into there, and the other one is on the lip on the other side. This process repeated several times before I got them both into there and closed the lid. I used a cup to collect the rest of the hangers, resulting in the same problem as the tupperware container. Whenever I wanted them to go down, they'd come up. Whenever I'd coax them with the pencil, they'd get on the pencil, and start to climb up. Put them on the lid, they'd go out of the cup.
I finally caught four in the cup, and released them all outside. The others stopped moving. From what I can tell, I think a spider laid its egg sac in our air ducts. Since we turned on the airconditioning, the spiders started flowing through the house. They collected near that one spot because there is only one airvent in the bathroom.
Fun huh?