Too many spiders

greenbee

Sadly I am badly phobic about spiders, so I have investigated LOTS of options over the years (I'm a very good shot with a telephone directory, and pretty good at sneaking up on them with the hoover too). Conkers do help, as does horse chestnut spray. The electromagnetic devices work, but I suggest you start them off when you're going to be away for a few days - as dandy-candy pointed out, you do see more for the first few days as they are driven out of the walls.

Other than that, keep the house clean and tidy. There will be nowhere for them to live, and nowhere for their food to live... When decorating fill in cracks and holes that they could live it. The tidiness and cleanliness are probably more important than anything else.

Trying2save

Thanks for all the helpful responses! Im trying to be a bit braver when it come to tackling spiders humanely....one day I'll be able to pick them up in my hand and chuck it out the window! Until then I think I'll just have to turn the flat into conker land!

Penelope_Penguin

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

Apparently conkers are meant to repel spiders.

I've tried that, but the little blighters run away when I try and throw the conkers at them :cool:

shandyclover

I read lemon oil repels them. My DD is severely allergic to spider bites, shes been bitten twice and now has scars on her leg from it. I burn lemon essential oil in her room and leave bits of cotton with lemon or peppermint oil in the cuboards. We did catch and identify one spider as being a false widow spider. Related to the black widow. This seems to be the one that bit DD. A friend said they've come in through tropical fruit imports ext. I used to have a live and let live philosophy - now to be honest I kill them all.

sewprettymoo

hiya

i've just moved into a new flat a couple of weeks back and seem to have quite a few little friends living with me.... spiders and woodlice.. i cant find where they are coming from! I need some help getting rid of them until i can go round and block up any holes n things...

Does anyone know of anything that will deter them? I've got insect killer but i dont really want to spray tons of that around and i think its more meant for ants and flies anyway.

thanks!

moo x

Hellyboo

Blasted spiders are the bane of my life at the moment - and some of them are HUGE. I just hoover them up if I'm quick enough

pollyskettle

I've got one of those electric high pitched mouse deterrent things which is *supposed* to work with spiders too. It's doesn't work with mice (but the peppermint tea bags have done a cracking job) but I haven't had any spiders yet either and we're really pretty rural (think mobile butcher/mobile library/fish and chip van/mobile greengrocer/vast expanses of farmland etc) so we normally have hundreds.

Can't help with woodlice though, haven't seen one of those since our last house (we've been here nearly four years now!).

I could have done with some spiders this year to catch the flies!

EDIT TO ADD:

I bought this one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rentokil-Beacon-FM86-Mouse-Repeller/dp/B001GUAA12/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=garden&qid=1285256132&sr=8-11

Pink.

Hi sewprettymoo,

These earlier threads may help:

Too many spiders

get rid of woodlice ...

I'll add your thread to one of those later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

pjblink

My GF has a genuine phobia of spiders, so we went and ordered this:

http://www.primrose-london.co.uk/advanced-spider-repeller-whole-house-p-1277.html?cPath=301&RSPHPSESSID=vv11b9rvh9sbgdg1dnseq0m973

It claims to do the whole house, but we have it in our bedroom as it's most effective in the room it's in. Over the last few months of it being plugged in, we've had just one in the bedroom. Still occasionally get a few round the house, but nothing like we used to.

It's also got a 60 day guarantee on it, so if it's not working for you...return it!

We'll see what autumn brings though...

Fruball

:eek::eek: eughhhhhhhhh this thread has me all of a shiver

Poor woman who had a huge one on her shoulder - I would have promptly had a heart attack.

My mother got bitten here in the UK when she was doing the gardening. A professor of tropical diseases (or something like that) confirmed it as a spider bite :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Spider bits are always 2 small holes close together on the skin.

DON'T BELIEVE ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU THEY CAN'T HURT YOU.

My Mum's whole leg swelled up and it looked disgusting. It was weeks before it went away.

To get rid of most spiders requires an odd solution... You actually need to get some (what I call) rice crispie spiders. They are the ones with the segmented body which looks a little like a rice crispie and really long legs, like a daddy long legs. These spiders are highly agressive and poisonous to other spiders only. I met a spider expert once who explained all this to me.

You usually find them in dark corners, they rarely move about and if they do its high up (never seen one on the floor), spin webs but never absail :eek: so are reasonably safe for arachnophobics!

So, if you find one, let it stay and deal with the nasty scary ones.

A friend of mine had the police at the door once when their house alarm (connected by phone line) was activated by a monster spider walking right in front of the sensor :eek: