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"Are Spiders "Water-Resistant"?"

You must have experienced this at some point...

You jump in the shower, switch it on and everything, only to find a "big, hairy spider" scaling the wall, or - like it was for me this morning - just sat there, all innocent and still, waiting to be stepped-on, or to take a chunk out of my left-foot.

Anyway...


Just like anyone else would've done, I tried to go and flush the thing straight back down the drain it probably crawled from.

...Only, no matter how many times it "disappeared", it soon came crawling back up again!


And it did it about 5 times! - Before I grabbed the shampoo bottle and dropped it right on his head after his final-lap around the base of the shower! :)

But no matter how much I drowned, and how lifeless it looked, it would soon start wriggling its legs again after a few seconds, like every new burst of water suddenly kick-started it's heart, or something - no matter how many of it's eight-legs it lost!



But I always thought spiders were like us, and couldn't survive in water without oxygen for some time?

Bloody spiders!
Hate the things! - especially the big-ones!

(And yes, I know the ones in this country can't actually 'hurt-you'!) :P

Put it inside a ball of toilet paper, by the time it uncurlsit'll be WAY down the sewer system.

Not really, that sentence made reasonable sense.

Sdrawkcab wrote:
> Shampoo tends to kill them, dunno why it didn't work for you.

Worst. sentense. evar. 3.

cookie monster wrote:
> Blank wrote:
> Everything's water resistant
>
> Not everything.

To a greater or lesser extent.

One time we had a spider on our living room ceiling, and it was just sitting there ALL day and none of us bothered to get rid of it. Next morning we came downstairs and it had moved over to the other side of the room and sat in the new spot all day. Next day it moved again and stayed there all day. Soon we started taking bets on where it would end up next.

One day we come downstairs and it's not there... and in going back upstairs I realise it's moved onto the landing ceiling.

Next day it was gone forever.

Last month, on one particularly hot night, I was watching Adam and Joe Go Tokyo when a moth lands on my arm, Usually whenever I see some insect I grab the fly swatter and whack it. But this time, I had to flick it off, cover my face as it fluttered its bloddy wings in front of it, and run out the room to get a swatter.

After getting back with swatter armed, the damn moth stays in the corner on the celing, just out of my reach.

Clever things insects are.

Oh, the next morning it moved a bit from its night position so I just whacked it, dead centre.

I always thought that if you tried to rinse a spider down the drain that it would curl up and trap air in its legs enabling it to keep breathing but I seriously have no idea where I got that from. I must have been told this at some time, be it true or not.

Unless, of course, it was a Water Spider. These spiders live under water anyway so are well versed in staying alive. Although they tend to live in ponds or streams (think about this next time you go for a paddle!) not the bathroom.

Oh right, because you didn't squeeze shampoo on it. I should learn to read.

But seriously try it.

Shampoo tends to kill them, dunno why it didn't work for you.

Blank wrote:
> Everything's water resistant

Not everything.