I used about half a can of cockroach spray on it. Maybe I’ll get a salt gun for next time, supposedly they are good.
I was gonna hit it with a towel but i was worried it would take it off of me
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I go with a slipper, if I get it , its quick and if I miss it, it emerges a week later and I try again.
Although these days cats seem to get them before I notice them.
Naughty things must eat the body and the legs are always scattered.
It was on a curtain tho. Not sure if a slipper could’ve got it properly.
I was also too scared to go within slippering distance
cockroach spray will not work on them. They are somehow resistant to bug spray.
Salt guns won’t work, it’s too large. You need one of these:
If your pistol skill is poor then this
Accepts 30 freedoms capacity magazine…
Haha the cockroach spray did work eventually. Defo took longer than I’d like tho
I read online that using a compressed air can upside down will freeze pretty much any creepy crawly you shoot it at
Same thing happened to my dad when we lived in Adelaide. Woke up with one on his face.
In Thailand you can buy dead spiders in frames. A mate and I bought a tarantula one and put it on a buddy’s pillow…good times
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We have some eagles around here, I’ve been meaning to try and get a picture of what they are but they are massive. They do the rounds most days.
But one day I was looking after a family bird, very common here but mimics sound well, and is unappreciative of everything, biting your hand as you try to feed it and then doing a dance as you hold your hand in pain after being bitten.
So it was a nice day, I put the bird out on the balcony her cage was probably a meter high. I am working on something and the bird starts freaking out, I go to see and the eagle (I think) is on the balcony looking right in. At least 2/3 the height and maybe as wide.
Open the door and expected the thing to fly off and it just looks at me as if to say “who are you” very surprised, flapped my arms and it took off.
Read up about spiders, watch YouTube videos about them. Arming myself with knowledge about them has converted me from an automatic killer of spiders to just letting them be. You might be surprised, like I was, how much you can handle and maybe even find them interesting. Maybe.
So this huge 8-legged monstrosity just crawled into my apartment yesterday… Pretty sure it’s a Huntsman by it’s size and color. I’ve never seen one here in this apartment since I moved in 5 years ago… So what’s the best way to get rid of it? Raid?? Or should I just let it be and hope it leaves by itself? Lucky, it’s not in our bedroom, it currently resides in our computer room where my wife and kids use the comp. for a few hours a day.
The ecological bunch will say let it be. You could open a window or escort it out the door in a newspaper bundle.
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Maybe an unpopular opinion, but kill that monster any way possible as quickly at possible.
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Teach it to code…
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Clearly the lockdown has affected your sense!
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Damn reptilian brain done been fried.
Honestly I just leave them. But if they showed up in the bedroom at night I couldn’t sleep with it there looking at me.
Got an ice cream container? They make for hilaaaaaaarious practical jokes on other household members.
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They are disturbingly unusual, right? I remember when I first saw one…
It’s weird and it’s a big, but it will keep all kinds of little bugs away. I say let it live - outside - because it means all the other pests stay away.
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I rather have little bugs and roaches than this spider.
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The critter has now taken refuge behind some empty boxes or possibly behind my clothes closet and I’m too damn scared to go move those boxes in case it jumps on my face and turn me into Spiderman 
. I never kill any of the other smaller spiders lurking in their webs on my ceiling where they trap and kill all the bugs and mosquitoes but I may make an exception for this monster and just might spray it with RAID the next time it pops out. Heaven help me! 
Spray paint and lighter works…