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Last night I was on the phone and walked over to close the
blinds. Guess what I found on my curtains.
A fiddleback spider.
This one with a leg span of about 1 1/2". After much
dramatics from me and laughing and encouragement from the other
end of the phone, I managed to get him under a dixie cup on the
carpet where I sprayed bug spray and left him there overnight
to die.
This morning I get up and wander out of the bedroom wondering
why it was so cold in the house (well, duh, it was 65 degrees).
When I come out of the bedroom I face toward the front door.
On an almost bare wall was a blob that wasn't there the night
before. Had my glasses on, but first thing in the morning focusing
isn't my strong point. Walked closer, damn, spider I thought.
Walked back for a flashlight, yep, well shit and this one's
bigger than the other one.
It was too early for me to hyperventilate and shake which
is what I normally do when confronted with a spider. So in a
very matter of fact way, I got the spray, hit it with a few bursts,
got a dixie cup and tore a page out of the tv guide/coaster and
scraped it off the wall and into the cup. A few minutes later
I dumped it as well last night's spider into a ziplock baggie.
I was told there was a very low escape rate for dead spiders
out of ziplock baggies so it seemed an appropriate choice. I'll
put the rent check in the baggie with the spiders and drop it
off at the managers office Monday morning.
I found a smaller fiddleback either Monday or Tuesday on the
bathroom floor a few inches from my bare foot. I didn't save
that one, I was tired and wanted to take a shower so I squashed
him with the lid of my shaving cream as he was sitting on the
towel I put beside the tub. Examined the carcass to determine
species and shook it in the toilet. It took a fair bit of scrubbing
to get the heebee-jeebees off.
That brings the total to what, at least 8 in 5 months, with
people coming to spray 3 times. I've called some other apts since
my lease comes up in May. Don't want to move but if I stay here
any longer it is only a matter of time before I get bit.
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