So many big spiders 🫣!!

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. 😁

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.
🤣

😂

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

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!

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!

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.

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.
🤣

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!

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!

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 🕷️

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 🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️

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.

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

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