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bed bugs canada
May 2009 
Spiders, Bed Bugs, Bats, Racoons and Ticks
Posted on Nov 14th, 2008
by 
ruth
ruth
PLEASE send me your encounters with spiders.
Especially if you are Canadian or bitten by a house spider that is not usually agressive
I also want to hear about bed bugs and waking up with bats in your room and ticks and racoon rabies.
Especially if you are Canadian or bitten by a house spider that is not usually agressive
I also want to hear about bed bugs and waking up with bats in your room and ticks and racoon rabies.
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My wife is frightened by spiders and so I am called upon when one has made it's way through the bathroom window. While I used to destroy them, crush that exoskeleton, now I catch them and boot them (gently) out the back door.
I had a dream in 1984 that I was in a house on a floating island far above the earth and I peered down from the edge wondering how I would get back to earth again. So I tied bedsheets together and hung them over the side and it was ridiculously inadequate.
In the house embedded in the floor of the room a huge spider lived, with its mouth parts visible above the floor, swallowing everything that came near. Somehow I knew that the spider was the way down to earth again, but no way was I going to allow myself to be eaten!
Not then anyway.
Don't know if you are already aware of this, but in their lifetime, an average person will swallow 47 or 48 spiders whilst they are sleeping x
Wow Doug. As i was reading the story I thought it was going to end by the spider spinning a web ladde for you to climb down
Now Princess, that is exactly the sort of urban legend that delights me and, if you please, cite your reference :)
I hit the www.snopes.com button and supposedly that 'statistic was made up in 1993 when a journalist (Lisa Holst) wanted to prove that people will believe anything they read on the internet and that very quickly made up asurdities become accepted as 'facts' when presented as such on the web:
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.asp
The point for me is this: of the hundreds of people I have treated over the past 25 years for alleged spider bites, only one witnessed a spider actually biting them.
I want to separate fact from folklore on this for myself :)
I read it a few years ago in a magazine. It stuck in my head because a girl i worked with at the time was scared something terrible of spiders and she had been mean to me all day so I showed her the piece in the magazine.
On the net, some sites state4, some state 8 and some state 20. I think it would be possible to eat a large amount of them in a lifetime as most houses have a couple of spiders in and even though people claim to sleep with their mouths closed, they are probably open at some stage of their daily sleep.
A homeless person sleeping rough is bound to eat alot more (and probably without knowing even more nastier things) than spiders, especially if they are sleeping in woods etc x
lol
Ew! Gag me with earwigs and pillbugs!
Please Doug,
I would be interested in your earwig and pillbug stories as well