"Judith Latham" wrote in message
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In article , Christina Websell
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Christina Websell wrote:

I have a spider that has set up home on my kitchen windowsill, she's
been there for a couple of weeks and has built a typical house
spider web between my spice jars. I know she's a girl by her
thingies that poke out in front of her, boys have lumps on them.
That does not help as she is a big girl, too big for me to deal with.

I would guess so!! Any spider that's big enough for you to determine
her gender is too big for me.

I am proud to announce that I decided to gird my loins and evict her
this morning. I'm a wuss about big hairy spiders, it makes no
difference at all that I know they cannot harm me, for some reason they
give me the horrors. I know it is not logical. I've been putting it
off, of course. It seemed easier to leave her there than challenge
myself to do it. Anyway, no spiders were harmed in the process and it's
done. She ran when I moved the spice jars and hid and I thought, no, I
have to find you and I did. She curled up in fright when she knew she
was discovered but I scooped her up carefully with a wooden spoon and
put her outside the window. She'll just have to find another house to
be a house spider in. If you all knew how difficult it was for me to do
that, you'd be proud of me too.

It's very easy to kill insects & spiders because you *can* and you don't
like the look of them, but it was not her fault that I have a problem
with her appearance, is it? She deserves to live. (I'm beginning to
think I'm turning into a Buddhist)

Tweed

Wow!!!! I'm really impressed.

No, I don't think you're turning into a buddhist, you dealt with it in a
brit. way. Terrified but still managed to sort it out with a wooden spoon.
you did the right thing.

Judith

Also impressed that you know how to tell the sex of a spider.

smile - part of my attempt to learn more about them in case it helped!
The boys have a lump on each of those two probe things that stick out the
front, called paps. It's their equivalent of testicles, apparently -)

Tweed