So many big spiders 🫣!!

If you really want to see big, massive spiders come to Australia! They look like little birds, some of them. Huntsmen.

No nanna8 that would be a nightmare.
And I doubt the hoover could cope with it 🫤

Spider season is here. I put conkers in corners and I must say we have very few spiders. Whether conkers are the deterrent or we just don't get too many, who knows but it's worth a try.
The Australians who have some of the biggest and most poisonous spiders in the world don't' seem too bothered with them. In the UK where we don't have this problem we seem terrified of them.
I think being scared of them is a learnt behaviour. In our childhood someone we trusted has screamed like a banshee when confronted with one and that's in our subconscious.

Sorry to worry you, but the lady house spiders have been hiding in your homes all year.

The ones that are noticeable at the moment are the males, coming inside and looking for love 🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️

nanna8

If you really want to see big, massive spiders come to Australia! They look like little birds, some of them. Huntsmen.

Yep, my first trip to Australia I was petrified of spiders, after three months of huntsman, dodging red-backs and funnel
webs, spiders over here are a doddle 🕷️

My brother at about 4-5 years old squashed a spider on my leg one afternoon in the garden! Dinner all over the garden & left feeling sick every time I see one. Was 2 years older than my brother then & nearly 80 years later still feel sick at some of the big ones that run after you! Found I like Cellar spiders as they deal with the much bigger ones very easily. Sadly found my biggest & favourite Cellar spider dead a few days ago. Nothing & no one lives forever!

It's the same problem every year at this time. You get the feeling you're being watched and when you look round.......there's a whopper up on the ceiling in the corner. I don't know if it's climate change but I swear they get bigger year after year.

Fortunately,I've grown out of being scared of them but they're impossible to outrun!

GrannyGravy13

Sorry to worry you, but the lady house spiders have been hiding in your homes all year.

The ones that are noticeable at the moment are the males, coming inside and looking for love 🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️

That is a horrible thought GG, although I am all for a love story this really isn’t my idea of Romeo and Juliet.
🤣

I don’t remember how my phobia began, luckily I managed to not pass it on to my ACs who can happily pick a big spider up with a tissue and remove it. Though my 3 year old GS whose mummy and daddy have taught him all about friendly bugs/spiders, stood in the middle of my garden the other week and refused to move until Spider-Man came to kill all the other spiders. He was obviously scared.

I suck them up the hoover nozzle because I cannot go near them, it might be cruel

Sorry but yes, it is.
How would you like it if a huge alien came and sucked you up a nozzle to land in dust and dirt? Poor little things 😥

Can you catch them in a spider catcher and put them right outside?

I've tried conkers to deter them but they don't work
I wouldn't care if they didn't leave their spots of poo all around the conservatory.

Yes, nanna8, I encountered a Huntsman, can verify that the bite is extremely painful but they're not poisonous!

Babs03

I don’t remember how my phobia began, luckily I managed to not pass it on to my ACs who can happily pick a big spider up with a tissue and remove it. Though my 3 year old GS whose mummy and daddy have taught him all about friendly bugs/spiders, stood in the middle of my garden the other week and refused to move until Spider-Man came to kill all the other spiders. He was obviously scared.

You can have desensitisation treatment.
It shoul work.

DGD1 is terrified of spiders, DGD2 held a tarantula in the palm of her hand!

nanna8

If you really want to see big, massive spiders come to Australia! They look like little birds, some of them. Huntsmen.

Are they the deadly poisonous variety?

Babs03

GrannyGravy13

Sorry to worry you, but the lady house spiders have been hiding in your homes all year.

The ones that are noticeable at the moment are the males, coming inside and looking for love 🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️

That is a horrible thought GG, although I am all for a love story this really isn’t my idea of Romeo and Juliet.
🤣

😂

If I catch them and put them in the garden, they often overtake me on the path back upto the house! I think they are house spiders, and don’t want to holiday in my garden. 😁

Lemonred

If I catch them and put them in the garden, they often overtake me on the path back upto the house! I think they are house spiders, and don’t want to holiday in my garden. 😁

Naturally 😂they’re not called house spiders for nothing.

My son spent 5 days in hospital earlier this year, an emergency admission, following a false widow spider bite.

His hand doubled in size and went black, excruciating pain, dizziness, fever, vomiting. Felt as though his arm was on fire and his hand was going to explode.
On oxygen, 2 lots of IV antibiotics, fluids, antiemetics, IV painkillers for the entire time.

I have a vegetarian gardener friend who later told me it is the only creature he ever kills.

NotAGran55

My son spent 5 days in hospital earlier this year, an emergency admission, following a false widow spider bite.

His hand doubled in size and went black, excruciating pain, dizziness, fever, vomiting. Felt as though his arm was on fire and his hand was going to explode.
On oxygen, 2 lots of IV antibiotics, fluids, antiemetics, IV painkillers for the entire time.

I have a vegetarian gardener friend who later told me it is the only creature he ever kills.

Oh my!
So sorry for your son, what a horrid experience. Now I feel almost justified in having a phobia of spiders.
What do these spiders look like??

I hardly ever get big spiders in my old house. We once had a flea infestation and I used the big spray called Indorex. Afterwards I found a few dead insects and spiders and have never seen any since.

It was awful Babs03
None of us had heard of the spider, let alone how dangerous it could be. The speed of the spread of the infection was very frightening.
I have now met a lady whose daughter almost lost her lower leg as the result of a spider bite whilst dog walking locally.

It’s a little black thing with a reddish mark on its back. My son didn’t see it, but the first doctor he saw recognised it’s 2 little bite marks, and knew straight away what had caused it.
They are apparently shy, non aggressive, lurk in dark corners and bite when disturbed. He was sitting at a park bench having lunch.
They are on increase in numbers and locations in the country, with hospitalisations on the increase.

Beware! 🕷️

GrannyGravy13

Sorry to worry you, but the lady house spiders have been hiding in your homes all year.

The ones that are noticeable at the moment are the males, coming inside and looking for love 🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️

🙂 I still cant find it in my heart to be sympathetic. It's a matter of hunting them with a glass and postcard, but they are very quick off the mark.

I'm afraid if they were in my bedroom my instant unthought out reaction is to squash.

Lemonred

If I catch them and put them in the garden, they often overtake me on the path back upto the house! I think they are house spiders, and don’t want to holiday in my garden. 😁

House spiders don't like the cold. This warm summer has increased the number of spiders in general.

When we first moved to Scotland we were surprised at how few spiders there were but that has changed lately 😖

I catch them and put them in the garage, or the shed at the end of the garden.

I cannot kill them.

They eat all the nasty things, little flys, mosquitoes etc., part of the cycle of life

When in my actual bedding and I can't catch them I can't cope, sorry - as I agree in principle deeply GG13. They usually go in a cosy place a little way down the garden.

Wyllow3

When in my actual bedding and I can't catch them I can't cope, sorry - as I agree in principle deeply GG13. They usually go in a cosy place a little way down the garden.

Our DD and GS were distraught the other night, as a rather large one was found under his duvet, she had no choice but to euthanise the intruder.

She still feels guilty 4 days on…