Baby SpidersAt about 8:20pm, my wife calls me on my cell to tell me we have tons of spiders in our bedroom. So, I leave what I am doing and drive right home. I find dozens and dozens of baby spiders crawling on the north-west corner of our bedroom ceiling. We start killing them one by one with a swiffer and tissues. But it is taking too long.

I then break out my bug spray and start spraying them. They seem to be dying on contact. So I continue my defense by spraying every small spider I see. To make sure, I spray one and then watch it die slowly. The spray is working, so I continue my onslaught. Spider down, spider down, spider down. I then get defensive and start spraying the area the spiders may have come from and where they may be going. I spray around the AC vents, the light fixtures, the air filter and motion detector. I spray the windows, frames, floors, under the bed, on the walls, every corner and so on.

I then decide to see if I can find a source of the issue. I decide to venture up into the main attic. I climb up with a flash light and bug killer spray. Half of the attic is well lit up from the single bulb. The area I need to go into and investigate is very dark. I manage to climb and balance my way into the area and I look around. Keep in mind, it is about 100 degrees up there. I can't find anything. In fact, it looks spotless up there. Everything seems incredibly clean and tidy. So I decide to spray where I would imagine the source came from, but I cannot verify if that was the source.

I come down from the attic 15 minutes later, dripping with sweat. I give my wife the report and then look around more. We kill a few more spiders, change our sheets (to be safe) and I then spray a bit more, as a pre-caution.

This is all after a really long day. It was kind fun to explore the attic at that level of detail. But next time, I hope to go into the attic during the cold winter months. :)

On a related note, see the 80 or so comments at my Scoleciphobia : Fear Of Worms blog post - some of them are hysterical!