How to scare DH

Glad you both survived the incident!!

Bit worrying that big black spiders are about indoors already, usually start looking out for them a bit later in the year.

Eugh!!! September is spider time isn't it. DH loves them gives them names and encourages them to live uder the furniture - the big ones always get called Cedric. When I alert! him to the presence of one in a room he says 'oh he's been there ages, not doing you any harm'.

So glad you are ok. I hate spiders, used to scream and leave the room waiting for DH to deal with them.
But as he is now not able to kill them, unless they are sitting quietly in the middle of the room where he can run over them in the wheelchair, I am promoted to chief spider officer.
I just dispose if the big ones with a slipper and put the small ones down the bottom of the garden !
But I do miss screaming . . .

Story in DM today of containers of tarantulas abandoned in a forest car park in Derbyshire. They think the cold - if and when it arrives - will do for them, but at the moment..............

Pest spray from a pet shop, best spider spray ever!

You need a 'spider picker upper' - long handle, soft brush on end so spider doesn't get hurt. A really good invention!

JujuD. How cruel, everything wants to live.

I have one of those spider catcher gadgets too. It’s brilliant and I can now finally deal with an intruder myself instead of pestering DH to catch it.

Oh dear.
One woman spider patrol here and have been for many years.
The upturned glass and postcard trick usually does it although for really big hairy ones I “squish” them into the bristles of a soft broom then bang it outside on the patio. A wheeze I learned over 50 years ago when au pairing in a house deep in the woods near Stuttgart. I used to have to deal with at least three or four every night before I went to bed. ???? are us!

I do hate spiders but they eat a lot of insects, so they are very useful and should not be squished.

I go with the glass and card technique and have demonstrated it to the GCs. Would hate them to think it's ok to kill spiders.

I have a spider catcher where you squeeze a handle and it opens up the bristles, you release the handle and it grabs them, you then can take it outside unharmed. It actually works for most small creatures, even flies and wasps. Worth a try. But on your leg, that's too much!

Aaaaggghhh .... not yet please ..September is the month of terror normally

If you have a phobia of spiders skip this post!
I remember when I was very pregnant with DD1 being aware of a spider running across my pillow in the night! I switched on the light and went to get the tooth mug and some paper to remove it. By the time I got back it had gone- I lifted the pillows and had a look round but couldn't see it so went back to bed.
Next morning when I woke up I discovered it squashed in the bed under my bump!

I give all my spiders names. I love them!

My mother was horribly afraid of spiders, but I inherited my father's not scared attitude to them, so I have been "spider-remover in chief" since I was about five.

Stick them out in the garden and Daddy-long-legs too.

No actual ???are harmed in the “squishing” * persistentdonor* if the broom is a soft one. When I bang the broom head on the patio it dislodges them and they run away!

I am utterly terrified of them. Totally phobic.

We live by a stream and when he finds them, my DH always takes them over the other side, to the far bank... assuming they can't find their way back.

Recently he was disposing of a large "Harry"... and bumped in to our neighbour... who was doing exactly the same - but with a mouse.

At least you can, with a swipe, eliminate spiders. My problem are the winged blighters that fly in my house at dusk, this time of year ,and are the ones you see cows flicking their tails at or settling on cow pats in the fields around where I live. Many that I don't suck up through the hose on my vacuum cleaner settle on the beams in my kitchen. Only in the the morning do you observe the ones you missed by their disgusting black marks on my work surfaces. I can expect this to continue to, and from previous experience,the end of September.

I’ve always gone by the mantra “if you want to live and thrive, let a spider run alive”. I tend to call them either Boris or Sammy but I am getting fed up with them monopolising the en-suite. There are rather too many now. I too use the card and receptacle for disposing of them.

Each September I collect ripe conkers and put one in each corner of every room (and bin last years). I have never been bothered with spiders but that may have nothing to do with the conkers and something to do with living in a first floor flat. Maybe the spiders cannot be bothered to climb up the spout.

I have arachnophobia. It is the most common phobia and affects up to 10% of the population. It is believed to be a once rational response to toxic spiders which now, no longer inhabit the UK.

It is no joke if you have it.

Not sure which is worse - the spider or choking on a grape (lucky it was only the juice)!! I've just read the story of the tarantulas in Derbyshire too - very scary. I have a pyramid shaped spider catcher with a trapdoor on it which is also good for little mice but it wouldn't fit a great big hairy tarantula in it!!

We bought a house that had been empty for some time.
There is fields directly to one side and the back and the road ends in agricultural land.

The bath was full of layers of big black, crispy, dead spiders.
All the same type. My husband shovelled them out with the coal shovel.

He finished doing the spider removal and I started cleaning the bath. There was a black mass of crispy spider bits blocking the plughole and more swirling in the water.