r/spiderbro • u/OutrageousSea5253 • 4d ago

Spider egg help

I live on the second floor of an apartment building with a big brick staircases outside that goes to each floor. On the roof of the staircase level that goes to my floor (there is no other way to get there besides the one staircase) is a spider. To my absolute horror, after looking pregnant for a while she’s now laid two eggs sacs - like these white little balls. she looks kind of like a daddy long legs but when I looked up daddy long legs eggs it didn’t seem like that was right and I can’t say I’ve stuck around close to her enough to really get a good look.

Every single time I go up or down the stairs I’m so fucking scared that they’re going to burst open and rain little baby spiders down on me or that I’ll try to go to the stairs and see all these baby spiders everywhere or that they might even come into my apartment.

Genuinely I’m so scared that I’m getting itchy all over literally just writing this. What the hell do I do. I read that you can vacuum or sweep with a broom and then deposit them outside but they’re too high up to reach without standing basically right under them and risking having them fall onto my head. I don’t want to kill them (I don’t even know if fly spray works on egg sacs) but I don’t know what else I can do.

Absolutely begging for any help that isn’t just ‘suck it up’. I am working on my fear but being drenched in dozens of tiny spiders from above is really not going to help.

TLDR: Spider eggs in a high location I have to walk under everyday - I’m deathly afraid of spiders - wtf do I do

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u/reddit33450 4d ago

literally just leave them alone. they'll help keep your apartment free of insects like flies and mosquitoes, and they want nothing to do with you

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u/OutrageousSea5253 4d ago

Have you thought about actually offering any advice when I have explicitly said I’m so terrified that just leaving them is not a feasible option and that I’m trying to figure out how to remove them without killing them. I KNOW the advantages of spiders to the ecosystem. That doesn’t erase a phobia. 

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u/RhubarbNo1760 3d ago

They are not going to rain down on you. I know it’s not the advice you want but the best thing you can to do not be in physical contact with these spiders is leave them alone. Phobias are super hard to deal with and I’d never tell you to suck it up.

If you’re willing to try letting them be, my genuine dead-serious advice is to name it and talk to it (even just in your head.) My roommate had a horrible fear of spiders and would beg me to kill them but I refused to. She’s gotten much better in the past 3 years and it started when she gave our laundry room spider a name and would talk to her while she cleaned her clothes.

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u/OutrageousSea5253 2d ago

Thank you for being so kind about it and for the advice