Take that! spider zapping story

I had a fern in my TV room that slowly started to shrink in size so thinking it dead I put it in our backyard compost. Six days ago, lo and behold, the fern is thriving! So I put it in a little pot and give it water and set it in the kitchen sink. A little while later I notice four brown spiders crawling around the sink - ick, I forgot the number one rule of bringing plants in from the outside. Set them on the porch first and let everything crawl out before bringing them inside.

I set it on the porch for a few days, brought it inside yesterday and placed it in a new spot and was sitting next to it when yet another brown spider announces its presence. I shriek, grab some tissue but it's too quick for me. I run and get the first bottle of something I can find. Febreze. I sprayed the spider with Febreze. It wobbled off toward the windowsill and I flicked it outside with the edge of a magazine.

Now it's back with its minions smelling like a tart. It'll probably get evicted from the clan, if it's not dead already.

Shadow_Ferret said:

Why would everything crawl out just by setting it on the porch?

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It's an enclosed back porch - so in essence, the bugs are out of their outside environment. They crawl out, much like the spiders did in the sink.

It seems to have worked for me, that's all I can say.

Kitrianna said:

I like them. They're cute and so long as they don't crawl on me, we can be roommates

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Yes, but ... spiders bite. And who knows what they're doing as you sleep? Crawling around, staking out more territory. I say zap them when you can.

I've been bit too - and it took, like 8-9 months for it to clear up.

OMG: Were these bushy plants that camouflaged the frogs?
How did you ever get them out of the house? tell, tell!