So many big spiders 🫣!!

We have had a bad blue bottle problem this year, but cleaning around the windows, I have found spider webs with trapped dead ones, so I am more sympathetic to spiders and put them out rather than the hoover now, but I do use Spider Stop in my kitchen. I have, though decluttered a lot, so there are fewer places for them to nest.
Yes, my garden is full of them this year, but as long as they stay out there, I am OK.
Phobia cured by having my DS who showed me all the creatures he found.

I have no worries for spiders and moths and butterflies etc., and was definitely chief sorter out of such things for my mother, who didnt care for any of them, but would not kill them. However slugs give me the creeps, and for some reason those sort of orangy brown ones are the worst. I can deal with them though if I need to. My phobia is of needles and as I had a needle break in my leg as a child and was very ill, and had to have a chunk taken out of my thigh , which I can see everyday not liable to forget it. I have tried hypnosis and all sorts of things to improve matters. It wouldnt happen today as they dont sterilse and reuse needles so worry not folks . So no doubt we all have things that bother us more than others, and so it is a matter of give and take, where we help others out in their situation and hopefully someone will be around to help when we need them.

eazybee

Books, always, and fine black pens and sharp pencils.

To draw spiders?

Books, always, and fine black pens and sharp pencils.

Pick them up and put them in the garden.

It is spider season . I use a large glass jar and card them release them in the garden. They may come back - who knows . I would rather not see them in my house but am not afraid of them . I know I could' nt kill them or suck them up with the hoover !

I actually find British House Spiders to be fairly amusing and l am not frightened of them.

Of course l would be if they were massive and poisonous.

Anyway, my mother always reckoned to Spiders kept our house clean because the eat floor dust and flies.

Maybe an old wife's tale?

I’m sure the one in my bathroom is trying to communicate with me ( I call him Graham) He’s never around until I use the facilities 😂 Then he comes out and I talk to him.

Daughter saw 2 in her outside wall's tiny holes. She sprayed the wall with Indorex and next day hosed the wall down. 8 dead Funnel Web spiders came out.
OH was bitten twice on his leg by a false widow. Huge red patches with black/ green bite marks. GP gave antibiotics, antihistamines and ointment. 2 months later now and it's just about better although the skin is still not a completely normal colour.
I don't pick them up anymore after a large house spider bit my finger 3 times. Just went red, hurt for an hour and all normal in a week. Felt like a wasp sting.

I was brought up on, ‘If you wish to live and thrive, let a spider run alive’. They had to be humanely removed with a mug and a card.
My Mother was terrified of spiders but hid her fear. Despite that I’m terrified too and so is one daughter. I think mice are cute and snakes are beautiful, but spiders are repulsive.

I had not one but 3 in corner of bathroom the other evening and one of them looked as though it was on steroids!!!!
Its body was the size of my thumbnail with mechanical looking bent legs...my heart nearly stopped..i moved my bath step towards me and there were another 2 not as big but was shocked..i'm afraid i got the liquid bleach and squirted it into the crack between bath corner and skirting board...sorry but i can't deal with them upstairs and not mobile enough to scoop up and put out of window...

I don’t mind spiders at all and can pick them up and throw them in the garden and none of my a/c are scared but all of my 8 GC are terrified 🫣

Now seeing a mouse is a different matter 🐭 😬.

Do you live in Australia?

Well, I'm sorry, but if they decide to come into my house uninvited, then they'll be treated the same way as any other unwanted intruder!

What about the flies and bugs, don’t they deserve a mention, I hardly think spiders are killing them painlessly? I believe they suck out all their bodily fluids leaving them desiccated.
If is wrong to kill a spider is it not wrong to kill any living thing, and I wonder how many buy fly spray or use fly paper.
I don’t mind killing flies or bugs but then I don’t mind sucking spiders up the hoover either. I don’t discriminate. 😉

Maremia

Your pet spiders are a natural pest control, because they eat flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, moths, ants and fleas. They reduce the need for chemical pesticides.

and after they have eaten all the creepy crawlies,, I;ll suck them up in the hoover..job done

I've found fewer spiders since I started using plug-in electric deterrents. They send out ultrasonic waves which encourage spiders to move house.

Some are audible to humans, others not and they might be difficult to use in a house with pets, so it's not a complete answer.

I don’t agree with family scaring us about spiders as children . My mum was scared of spiders BUT much more scared of mice . She would stand on a chair if she set eyes on a mouse and scream her head off😂. I on the other hand am not in the slightest bit scared of mice and could hold one if I needed to . The spider thing has skipped a generation and now my adult daughter screams for me to get spiders , wasps or any other creepy creatures. She also has a small hoover for catching them .

Said further up that I like Cellar spiders as they will take a much bigger one easily! Before my fav Cellar spider died I watched her dispose of a big spider I couldnt get to with a catcher! Thats why I dont mind Cellar spiders so much as others.

Don’t believe living in a flat will be the end of spiders, I can speak, unfortunately, from experience but then I am only on the third floor.
I won’t leave the windows open, I have to spider watch when airing a room. They come through from behind the plugs and light fittings. Conkers don’t deter them either.

Your pet spiders are a natural pest control, because they eat flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, moths, ants and fleas. They reduce the need for chemical pesticides.

My friend puts horsechestnuts(conkers) in the corner of each room in her home, swears it keeps spiders at bay

"Will you walk into my parlour?" said a spider to a fly

Flies, I presume

I wonder what they eat.