Spiders

AGAA4

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.

The ones you see are generally female (who have eaten the males). We call all our big spiders Candice Marie.

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 😀

We tell them there's enough for them to eat outside. Since they take no notice (or possibly can't understand English), we encourage them (humanely) to leave. Even the wasps are left in peace if they'll just agree to go outside (great for eating greenflies & other pests). They wouldn't want us in their homes; why should we welcome them into ours?

Spiders will die if you put them outside. It is better to put them in a garage or outhouse if you can.

Are you sure?

I feel like we run a B&B for them!

Keep seeing the same returnees!

fancythat

Are you sure?

I feel like we run a B&B for them!

Keep seeing the same returnees!

You must have a 5* rating! Very satisfied with the accommodation.

fancythat

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?

Exactly. They are treated the same way any other home invader would be here.

Am afraid it isn’t that I don’t like spiders I literally am terrified of them, is not logical, or rational, but if I see a big one I will go ice cold, my heart will race, and I have to run.
Is fight or flight mode and with me
is usually flight.
My DH deals with them, catching them alive then putting them outside.
I have the same response to mice or daddy long legs. Saw a beautiful snake in the undergrowth in Croatia once and I didn’t even flinch. Strange really.

Spiders have such an irresponsible sense of direction. They’re bad enough scuttling across the floor, but dashing up the wall or sofa is unacceptable. Then there are the ones that have clung to a towel and appear in the shower. I hate them with a passion. My cats just watch them and do nothing to help,

I grew up in a Victorian terraced house with an outside loo and before I’d go, my mother had to check it for spiders while I whimpered outside.

Was in a swimming pool once and all the women ran out of the changing room screaming. Spider in the changing room. Girl on reception got a cup from the vending machine to catch it and said its too big to fit in the cup

We have a motion sensor light on the skirting board opposite the top of the stairs. I've noticed sometimes in the night it comes on as I can see it under the bedroom door. A few nights ago we found a huge spider at the top of the stairs so assume he's passing by at night and setting the light off.

My daughter says they’re just going about their spiderly business and don’t deserve a sudden death! That’s helped me conquer my fear anyway 😊

Babs03

Correction countless entry holes.

A bit of a Freudian slip there Babs03.
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Will never kill a spider if I can help it but have to evict them. As a child my brother ran to me in the garden shouting ‘Spider’! Didnt worry until he squashed the big fat thing on my bare leg. Lost my dinner & been scared silly of them ever since! It is the huge ones that run at you rather than away that I really do not like! Losts of spider catchers in every room so I can evict them! Except for the one that came in last week to escape the workmen outside! My lazy fat cat changed to a rocket in a second! Caught & ate it! Last sight was long black legs wriggling from between the gaps in his teeth as he has lost some teeth! Maybe why in the time he has lived with me I havent seen too many nasty 8 legged monsters 😂

I'm terrified of spiders.
Scared witless, and actually start retching if I find one.

Horrible, Horrible blighters- all hairy and just leggy.

I don’t like spiders. DH bought me a long tube that sucks them up so I can put them outside. It’s long enough not to worry me.

I like spiders. They keep the bugs down in my old cottage. Not seen too many recently with the much colder weathers, but in October a large one with a diameter across it's legs that is bigger than a 50p coin walks across the sitting room carpet and across the sofa while I'm sitting there, and down the other side at roughly 9.pm every night for a week or too. Then disappears.

Nope, not too bothered about spiders. Moths, however, a different thing. Absolutely terrified and phobic about moths. Making my flesh shiver just typing the word.

I have an electric bat thing.
It goes against my every feeling to have to do it, but spiders seem to be getting bigger and bigger, and I can't live with one galloping around the place.

We have a wooden shelter with sink shower spray etc in the garden where we wash the dogs. It always has spiders in it so I don't usually bother them. A few months ago I saw 2 that looked like false widows big shiny bobble back and thickish legs. These are poisonous. I Wasn't sure but bought Indorex and sprayed out the shelter. Haven't seen any since.

Well folks we all have our own phobias and worries. If you think of something that really gets to you and put that feeling into how someone feels about spiders then for them they cannot help that any more than you can help yours.

I have always liked spiders , who of course get most of the flies which I do not want . We had an old sailing yacht which had a very good quite big spider who lived on board. My son was about 3 and looked a bit worried when he saw in near a curtain, and looked a bit uncertain and about to say he didnt like it etc. I hastily said "Oh look, there's Aristotle , he is making sure there are no horrid flies in the boat. He does a good job doesnt he. Daniel looked a bit unsure but accepted it and so we had no problems with spiders, and in fact when we found a money spider he wanted it to run across his hands. So that was fine, and I have always been happy to rescue spiders from anyones house or whatever if they didnt like them.

My mother used to be more worried about moths and to a lesser extent butterflies, which she wouldnt harm but did not like them to be near her. I dont want mice in the house but not too bothered about them but RATS!! When I went to live in Damascus, we had been their a short time and they were doing some building work and got down to the sewer level I think. Well have coped with many things but when one got into the kitchen I decamped quite smartly to a local hotel and was not prepared to come back until it was quite clear that they had got rid of it and that they then cleaned all the kitchen thoroughly, before I would even consider going back to the flat!! My husband had never seen me so adamant about what I would and would not do, to the extent that when he said that he considered that I was being unreasonable etc, I told him flatly that unless I was satisfied it had all been sorted not only would I not go back there but I would return to Britian forthwith . The message got across and he realised that I meant it.!! So there you go, it is whatever gets to you. The best thing you can do is talk among your friends who live close to you and help each other out wich whatever is worrying you - and hope that you all have different things that worry you !!

Get a cat - or two! We acquired our two rescue cats one Autumn, just as house spider season was starting. For the first couple of weeks, when we got up in the morning, our stairs would be littered with large dead spiders. I hadn't realised we had been "home" to so many! However, in their "golden" years, the cats lost interest!

AGAA4 - it's not necessarily a death sentence: it depends on weather conditions. Dry, windless and a spring day should be ok for outside: a sudden drop in temperature can be fatal. Ours seem quite happy in the garage!

I am fortunately not at all afraid of spiders or daddy-long-legs, as I take after my father, which my mother who was afraid of spiders found very useful, as from an early age, I put spiders out in the garden when they were terrorising her.

Mice- well, as long as they are outside, they may live in peace for me - if they are stupid enough to come in, they don't last long as I have two highly efficient mousers. We have always kept cats and left them to deal with mice, and they do eat spiders, flies and daddy-long-legs as well. Of course, I am regularly presented with freshly killed field-mice, shrews and voles, and on one memorable occasion the queenie cat proudly showed me the rat she had killed. I have n o idea where she had found it - not in this garden, but I do know both she and her brother consider the neighbouring properties their hunting grounds as well as their own garden.

Late summer and early autumn are the times for spiders here, apart from the resident spider in the garage, He apparently has a signed and sealed agreement with the cats, as has one pair of blackbirds in the garden.

I have found over the years that it's helpful if you want to get rid of spiders to differentiate between male and female. The ones who live in a certain spot are female. They call males to them which means lots of spiders running to and fro. If the female lodging spider is carefully put outside (I use a spider catcher) and the lodging sprayed with spider deterrent so they don't come back - then the males won't come in at all.

Whingey

Spiders are lucky. Stamp! That one wasnt 😉

Was that supposed to be funny. If it was it was an epic fail 😡