Spider exodus

MissAdventure, I hope you don’t have any leaking gas in your house!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54051423

I was told to get rid of the spindly leggy spiders throughout the year so that the big hairy ones don't come looking for them! So I do a spider sweep every evening in the corners of my rooms and use my Lakeland spider catcher to trap them - then I'm afraid they go down the toilet!

This tactic does seem to work. the spindly ones don't move fast and tend to stay on the ceiling so are easy to catch and I haven't seen any fast moving hairy giants yet this year.

I also have a spray from Lakeland which is supposed to deter spiders, I spray it around windows, doors and air bricks - possibly a load of rubbish but I feel better!

lemongrove I think the spindly ones don't bother me because they are so ridiculous... What do they need that much leg for? They definitely don't have enough control over them for the length to be useful. They would be better off just rolling their weird little ball self around the place lol

I was once bitten by a brown recluse spider, it felt like a pin pushed into my hand.

Starblaze

People say (not people that I am particularly fond of for saying it so apologies in advance) that house spiders are always around. Just during mating season they move about a lot rather than keeping to their crevice.

I have a lot of old and loved floorboards. With many crevices.

When my husband suddenly declares "don't move" I know there is one near me or I'm moving towards it and I immediately lose all control of any dignity.

I hate them.

The spindly balls on legs don't bother me nearly as much.

I could have written your post???
Autumn is mating season which makes them bold! The larger ones are females.
They don’t make webs ( the large hairy house spider) as they are hunting spiders not web ones.

I actually can't bring myself to read all the comments. I'd never sleep ?

It's a strange thing, but I can often sense a spider in the room before I've seen it.
I was chatting to a friend at my back door once, and her eyes strayed to my chest area.
I knew by her face I had a spider on my t shirt and I tore it off, and we both jumped up and down on it.

My daughter came home the other night and shouted "Mum"! I was sitting on the light coloured sofa and out of the corner of my eye I saw something coming towards me - I thought she had shouted "Mouse". It was a huge spider. Even though I have arthritis in my hips I shot off the sofa and I would have beaten Usain Bolt through the door.

Oh, I love Scotland!
Wet and dreary, but breathtakingly beautiful.
Placid spiders is another plus.

Yes, the poor woman, she was only in her mid 30s.

Living in Scotland can be wet and dreary at times, but the local spiders aren't particularly vicious! That's a shame for that lady who was bitten MissAdventure

Bites from brown recluse spiders can turn v nasty! We have a Golden Orb Weaver spider that builds beautiful webs for us to admire each morning. (outdoors) I live in the Deep South, spiders are daily life for us, lol.

If there was a safe way of catching them then I would put them outside.

The paper and glass method doesn't work for me; too close, too close by far.

Please don't kill them! They have every right to live the same as us.

This is why I never knew the film Arachnophobia is meant to be a comedy until a few months ago

shiver

At a school open evening, the woman next to me was walking with 2 crutches, and had a blue cast from her knee down to her toes.

I could see she was in a lot of pain, and asked what she'd done.

It was a spider bite, and this was 4 years later, after a series of operations.

She had just had her heel removed, and her ankle fused, having had infection after infection after infection.

When we met outside, she was using a mobility scooter.

I'm terrified of the big ones. So far we've had two in the house this season. Luckily DH can pick them up with a tissue and put them outside but I walk around the house at this time of year with my eyes on stalks. When I see one I can't take my eyes off it until DH arrives in case it temporarily disappears and I don't know where it's gone. So ridiculous. I wish I didn't have this phobia as it makes me hate September and half of October. I'd really like to move to a new build house where I think there might be fewer of the wretched things.

We had an enormous one called Sid. He used to run along a low shelf then jump to the floor. He was so big you could hear him land on the carpet.

Goodness, lots of spiders bring called nice names! Oopsminty thank you for the update! What a kind sister - not. MissAdventure I like the sound of your spider catcher being an electric tennis racket.

Yep.
They work like a dream.

Oh, do those electric racquets work on spiders, MissA? We used to have them for mosquitos when we lived abroad. If you frizzled one that had just gorged on blood, it didn’t half stink.

6yo Dd2 was an ace at whacking them, we think because she was short and so looked up and could see them against the white ceiling.

They are called Harry The Spider in my house.

We get sweet little dark jumping spiders called Peter

They don’t bother me, will pick them up with my hand and put outside, my husband hates them, so I’m the spider catcher.

Moths, slugs and particularly things that begin with m that flies make are entirely another matter...particularly the m’s...??

Phoenix ?. If our spider heard us say Boris, he would just turn his back and toddle off.
His name is George, don't ya know?

I can`t stand them one fell on my chest years ago and that was that,fear ever since.
Tea tree oil/ peppermint oil sprayed by windows/doors/skirting boards and even key holes have helped this year.