Spiders!!

I am very twitchy, I’m terrified of them, and we seem to have loads this year, last night we had one as big as a dinner plate, I’m still a nervous wreck!

It’s the way they gallop about ( the big house spiders) isn’t it?
Such confidence! They think they own the place.?
If we ever move from this house I would like a new build ( according to friends, they hardly ever see them.)

My neighbour and I were talking about this the other afternoon. She hates them and so does her DH, although he can cope with putting them outside. But he does freak out a bit, if she lets out a sudden shout.
She told me that the ones we see indoors, are males, looking for a mate. Don't know if I believe her!

I have a friend in America who has her house and exterior of the house fumigated specifically so she doesn’t encounter spiders. So OTT a step definitely too far.
I just the wouldn’t appear unexpectedly like on the footstool an inch from my barefoot ?

Wish they wouldn’t

Friend of mine is petrified
She has a 'wall' of conkers round her bed.
Not sure if it works!

We are inundated with spiders - their reproductive systems must be turbo-driven! ? I remove umpteen (often about 20 or more) spiders over the course of a week, but I swear they form an orderly queue and sneak back in!

I’m getting really fed up as their webs are everywhere, despite using my candy floss on a stick duster thing to remove them daily . I hate the idea of killing them, but I’m reaching breaking point.

Any deterrent ideas would be very gratefully received! I’ll try conkers once they’re available again.

I’ve got those electronic gadgets, and I actually thought they worked, but not this year, I can’t relax in the evenings or get to sleep at night, roll on November

I usually put confers down and they do seem to work in my house. I took a walk yesterday but there aren’t any on the ground yet.

??? predictive text. Conkers!

Sitting up in bed reading last night when suddenly a huge one appeared on the wall to the side of me. Terror! And the realisation that there is no-one to deal with it but me.
Luckily I managed to catch it in a plastic container and then
released it at the end of the driveway. Will it return tonight?!!

I don't have many spiders at all but if I see one I have my trusty spider-catcher, a triangular plastic container with a sliding bottom that you open up aim it over the spider and close across so you have him trapped inside ready to go outside. I think it was a fiver years ago from Kleen-ezee.

It's slugs outside the patio door at night that I can't stand. They gather together in a clump like Medusa and her hair, just makes me squirm.
It was the cockroaches in Oz that used to send me into a frenzy----appearing from nowhere. I did used to get paranoid then, looking over my shoulder all the time.

Give me a spider anytime.

Ugh. Slugs. I've trodden on them before now.

I don't mind spiders at all. It's blowflies that I hate. That malevolent buzzing. When I was a cleaner for elderly people in my youth a new job (husband, wife and adult son with Downs syndrome) had a houseful of blowflies and I couldn't work out why. Turned out there was a rotting chicken carcass in the oven. That oven still pops up occasionally in my nightmares.

I look inside my pillowcases before I get into bed.

I keep a glass jar and card marked "SPIDERS"on the principle if it can happen it will happen.

Just pulled a tissue out of the box - complete with teeny spider attached. As I said upthread, they’re everywhere in our house! ?

There’s definitely a higher number of spiders than other years. We had CCTV cameras fitted outside a few months ago and one of them is completely obliterated by a spiders web. It’s high up so difficult to reach so DH uses the hose to try and remove it but when he does the spiders just start a build another one. I could make a wildlife video watching it catch it’s prey.

We have an enormous house spider living under the sideboard in the sitting room. She trots across the floor in the evenings and I’ll swear I can hear her feet on the carpet. Since she’s been there for years so I suspect its not the same one, but the advantage is that she eats all the other spiders.

Watching TV the other night I heard rather than saw a huge spider. DH jumped up to get sucky-up thing, spider looked over it's shoulder and shot under the TV stand. When DH returned I pointed to where it had gone, took about 10 minutes to find the blessed thing as it was hiding on a black cable.
DH sat down and I screamed, a smaller spider was sitting on my cushion staring at me, I bet he was looking for his dad.

We seem to have had far more spiders and webs than ever this year!

I dont like spiders, and will let my hubby zap them with his spider bat!

They belong outside not in!

My daughter-in-law is terrified of spiders. If she sees one in the house she smashes it with anything to hand. She won’t go into the garden shed any more - if she wants anything from the shed, my son has to get it when he comes home.

My granddaughter is an anxious child and now freezes in fear when she sees a spider. This happened when she was with us in the garden recently. I held her hand and spoke calmly. I told her that it couldn't hurt her, how clever it was to weave a complicated web and pointed out the pretty patterns on its body. My granddaughter didn't say anything but stood looking for a moment at the spider before walking away.

I don't know if I did the right thing or not.

I keep a plastic cup and a card ready but I wouldn't hurt one. When I take it outside there is a race to see who gets back in first! I confess I was a bit worried when I recently had to sleep on a floor mattress!

NanaMacGeek

I’m ashamed to say I’ve put the terror of spiders into all my children and grandchildren, I’m not proud of it, but I’m like your daughter in law, I can’t behave rationally if I see one.

My mother would just scoop them up, so I don’t know where it comes from.

I doubt your little chat with your granddaughter did much harm or much good, sadly it’s not that simple, but at least she can see that not all grownups are terrified.