Spiders

No. Thank goodness. I don't mind the weedy little ones but am terrified of the bigger ones, especially the big bodied long legged ones that move at the speed of light. I wouldn't have thought was the season for them, we generally get a lot in late summer/autumn.
Now will have to be on the look out for them.

No. We are doing ok so far.

We have new semi detached neighbours who are knocking their house inside out!! Wondering if that is the problem?

None here thsnkgoodness x

Oh heck. Just us then ? 🫤

None here, that I’ve seen. I’m hoping our recent series of sub-zero temperatures will have frozen all their legs off for this year. 👀

Be thankful, they'll eat other insects, fruit flies, midges, mites etc.

farview

Oh heck. Just us then ? 🫤

They must all have fled to your house 😩
On a similar topic but a different critter that terrifies me we had mice again over the past month, we have a very old Victorian semi with countless entry homes so this time of year they tend to come in where it’s warm.
Have called out the men with the traps and the poison so hoping is now under control.
Usually deal with it ourselves but DH has been out of sorts so brought in the heavy mob. Can’t stand mice.

Correction countless entry holes.

I expect the very wet weather means they have been seeking shelter under cover or indoors.

Our spider's have names they work hard

Heavenlyblue11

Our spider's have names they work hard

Oh no, you are not one of daughters by any chance?
The one who calls a big spider in her bathroom Oscar. My grandson thinks it is a pet and I use the bathroom downstairs so that I don’t scream and pass my phobia on to him.

We had a tiny one which lived under the cupboard in the downstairs loo. I used to talk to it but it disappeared because I don't think it found enough to eat in there.

He’s gone now, but we used to have a big spider in the bathroom he lived in the shower housing well the
switch for the shower housing, He was called Boris. We just left him alone but haven’t seen him for a long time.
I live downstairs in my house because my son and his girlfriend live upstairs. It’s only a three bedroom Terrace but my bedroom has French doors onto the garden and I have one of those plug-in deterrent and I also spray the window frame with peppermint oil now and then, and touch wood have not seen any For a long time (I hope that’s not tempting, Providence)
Before I had my cataract done when I took my glasses off, I was as blind as a bat and a spider would have to have been on my nose for me to see it but now my sight is good so I do scour the ceiling before I get into bed, also pull back the duvet and check the pillows Because in the past I have had some experience of A blinking great spider galloping up the bed and disappearing down the back of the headboard….🕷️🕷️🕷️
I would never intentionally kill a spider I would try to put it outside..

I also put them outside and tell them not to come back ! I have a very large jam jar and a thin metal sheet. Pop the jar over the spider and slide the sheet underneath the jar. Carry outside and release the spider . I would never never kill a spider , my Mum taught me that !

Spiders are lucky. Stamp! That one wasnt 😉

My neighbour has a phobia about spiders so goes mad with some sort of spray which is supposed to deter them.
I don't have a phobia but was once chased by a large one, so quite happy not to see them.

We have loads of spiders in our old house. We really don’t mind them, as long as they eat flies and clothes moths. A very large one lives under the skirting in the sitting room, but has only been seen late at night.
When we’ve been away there are cobwebs everywhere!

Our home is festooned with cobwebs and their occupants....and 'No. . my name is not Havisham'..... They keep the annual moth and fly invasions down and we love them. Heavy traffic and neighbours building additional houses and 2 storey garages in their gardens add to the overall atmosphere of dust and grit!! ...... We don't invite people round any more......

Spiders are lovely, I would never harm one.

Can’t understand folks go on about supporting wild life then turn round and kill spiders. Environmental fly catchers. Take your glasses off you won’t see them 😀

We had a huge spider called Sid in one of the bedrooms. When he jumped from a shelf to.the floor we could hear him land and then his running feet.
We were never able to catch Sid and sold our house complete with pet spider.

We usually get spiders (big, small and daddy-long-legs), along with woodlice (including some huge black monsters who seem to live & breed under the utility room floor), moths drawn towards the light through any window we're foolish enough to open), wasps (who build a new nest under our eaves every year), occasional small worms (presumably getting a ride in on garden boots), bumble bees whose GPS has gone up the shoot and lost dragonflies who come up from the brook in warm weather. Oh yes, and flies of all kinds. Currently, we have none of those, perhaps due to a small plague of mice driven up through the floorboards by last year's evil flooding (logic says that the mice had to eat something, so they ate any eggs or larvae they found before winter set in, so it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good).

Gwyllt

Can’t understand folks go on about supporting wild life then turn round and kill spiders. Environmental fly catchers. Take your glasses off you won’t see them 😀

How far would you and do you go with that though?

Cockroaches? Any creepy crawlies? At all?

What creepy crawlies do you allow in your house? Anything? Flies? Anything?