h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We get them here too. They can get almost frighteningly big over here!

Aw heck! I've lost again, I called heads

But truly I don't know where/when/how it came about ? But I'm one of the many that hates spiderssee one! Splat it (or get the vacuum cleaner)

Thanks both

I dread to think how big ‘almost frighteningly big’ is

I’m grateful for my vacuum cleaner, too, as I don’t like spiders either. Possibly I got the fear from my mum, but then she is afraid of moths as well and I don’t mind them. The way spiders move makes me nervous so I can’t relax when I see one with a bigger body than a daddy long legs spider. The daddy long legs fly makes me jump when one appears, but its movement is different so I’m not particularly scared of them.

When my son and daughter were "very" youngif they shouted that a spider was in their bedroom or bathroom etc my hands went straight for fly spray etc killer might have been out of reach of one of my slippers in hand

I actually had one in my front room last year (near winter time as they find shelter etc) my slipper bounced off the bloody thing it was that big
reminded me of a scene in a james bond film

Yes, last year was not a good year - I encountered four massive ones... My dad helped me with the first one, my neighbour grabbed the second, and then I hoovered the last two up and they were put outside the next day.

I've already had to hoover one up this year, not quite as big as last year's lot, but still too big for me to stay sitting at the computer while it crawled round the curtain next to me

Today's house bug is a gnat, I think - kind of like a crane fly, but smaller, so that doesn't bother me as it flies around. I tried to get a photo, but it hasn't stayed still for long enough yet

My mam! 94 yrs in a few days she puts a glass over any and then slips a sheet of paper etc underneaththen takes them outside.

BUT! I do love moths

so you didn't get the fear from your mam - I'm impressed by her technique

Yes, great that this issue of The Post is celebrating moths as well as flies! I was pleased to discover this one A87997504 which is a White Satin Moth, I think. The Hummingbird Hawk Moth is always good to see A87997478 and even the brown ones A87997450 are fascinating, how well they would be camouflaged against wood or bark