They're here again! (That time of year)

I like spiders. They help reduce the number of problematic insects and are about the only thing that keeps silverfish down.
I am never quite sure where they come from as I am in a first floor flat and I don't have enough to think that they are nesting here, but I don't disturb them if I see them.
I don't like things like moths that fly into light fittings and make a noise or fly into your face.

Read somewhere (might even have been here) that the average life of a spider is four days. Somewhat comforting but the damage they can do in that time e.g. reproducing via eggs is considerable. I'm sure you disapprove but I kill 'em all whenever I can.

I have an agreement with the spiders here, in the garden I will ignore them but one leg inside my house and they will be squashed.... or eaten by the cat. The choice is theirs!

We're in the south-east and rural - had a huge one run across the carpet the other night. Me- 'OMG, OMG' (loud and with feeling), dog jumped up barking, spider took cover under a heavy item of furniture. Husband then said it was my fault for frightening the dog/spider! It's has to be somewhere.........

We have had them for a few weeks here in Sussex I have had heard tales of giant examples from several friends??

No they're alive and kicking here in North Yorkshire.

I have been told that peppermint oil wards them off (16 drops In a spray bottle with water and a little wash up liquid shaken and sprayed) doesn't harm them. Have tried to leave some in their fav place in our French house and will see if it worked soon! ?

Felt very guilty washing a large spider down the plughole in my bath, but I couldn't bathe with it in there, and couldn't bear to touch it to move it elsewhere.

Had couple of big uns hear by the sea but the plug in thing seems to be working a bit. My youngest cat started eating them when she caught them but now just leaves the bodies for me to find. Possibly caught one of the false widows that i have had a couple of very nasty long lasting bites from . They are the only ones i will kill as i dont like swollen lumps & antibiotics when they have bitten me.

Sorry that should be here not hear - oops!!

I am very spider-phobic, especially with the big, dark, scuttly house spiders. I don't mind the ones that make webs outside the kitchen widow, as long as I'm on the other side of the glass. I am OK with beetles, bees, moths, mice, worms, snakes, slow worms .... it's just spiders that scare me.

When my husband died last year, my daughter (who can pick spiders up with her bare hands!) knew I would have a problem if I encountered spiders on my own. She said, "There's a present in the post, and Amazon package." It was a spider-catcher, the kind with a sticky brush operated by a lever. It works very well - in fact last night I saw a big one in the middle of the bathroom floor, and managed to catch it and release it in the garden. I still felt jumpy afterwards, and took the gadget to the bedroom with me in case there were any more.

Now the swallows have left us for warmer countries 'lucky little b*****s' I reckon spiders are taking advantage of the fact there is more food for them
The webs show to be covered and it is fascinating to watch how they spin the threads around these hapless creatures.

These past couple of weeks, while out dog walking, I've been amazed by the numbers of wild geese in the skies. There is a wetlands reserve nearby, and just wondering whether they're 'stretching their wings', ready to fly south.

I don't think it was mentioned earlier in the thread but has anyone read of the beneficial effects of leaving cobwebs alone.
It is said that there are fewer upper respiratory tract infections in houses where they are not swept up. The web acts as a filter for viruses

Daughter has 2 Tarantula spiders and 4 cats - if the former escape it should be an interesting scenario. She use to suffer from arachnophobia. Huge spiders in the woodpile here in Portugal, hopefully no snakes this year.

They've been in Aberdeenshire for a couple of weeks. I have two regular visitors. Boris is under the 'fridge and Horace scuttles across the living room floor each evening. They are both huuuuuge, so are probably ladies, but they don't bother me as they hunt other nasties in the house.

Spiders 10: me 0!! Until last week when I sprayed the whole house. Job done. Cat is useless. So many here and they bite and I react badly. Can't stand them anyway. They breed in the stone walls of this old house. Not very brilliant at dealing with the fly population. Happy for them to inhabit some parts of the grounds.

I picked up a bra from the washing basket and a huge spider ran out, yuuuuuck. Sent DH for the vacuum spider catcher and after much furniture shifting he caught it. They seem to let themselves into the house via the bathroom windows.

We've had them since late August and I was hoping the mating season was coming to an end (I'm in East Yorkshire). Every year I buy No More Spiders from Amazon and spray
around daily and it seems to stop
them rushing across the floor.

Spiders reside in the fluorescent oval light outside my kitchen door, The hide under there and I see them peeping out. They come out at night and if I see them I brush them off with a broom! More always appear. And they used to come in at this time of year. I am getting clever now at spotting the eggs, and brush them off so that they cannot multiply. I tried the conker thing, but you need to make a hole in the conker for them to be effective. Recently I have purchased a an anti spider spray which is effectively chestnut oil and it seems to have done the trick. At the moment there are no spiders lurking atall.

Large spiders have arrived in Aberdeen I have already disposed of 3 this week.

My daughter heard a spider in her flat the other day! She'd already spotted it but it disappeared amongst her uni books and notes. She then heard a strange noise and looked up to see it waltzing over one of those polypockets for paper!

It escaped again and she hopes it's gone down the floorboards into the flat beneath her.

The mouse is still in our house. We've spotted it a couple of times but haven't managed to catch it.

I heard on a TV Wildlife programme that the males live outside all year & the females mostly indoors & usually upstairs. The males come into house at this time pf year to find the girls & then die.
Having has NLP phobia curing a few years back I don't mind them at all ( I used to be petrified of them) & am quite happy to help a male upstairs to find a mate.
We have had so many flies this year that they have been very welcome but I do get fed up clearing all the webs up.

I too am a firm believer in conkers as a spider repellant, to the vast amusement of the rest of the family.

Don't mind spiders at all, and like radicalnan I enjoy seeing their webs all sparkling with dew on a crisp autumn morning. DGD was enchanted yesterday because the spiders had 'left their diamonds on the bushes!'