Too many spiders

uolypool

I get my dog to deal with them, except she does play with the curled up mess a little too long.

My dog does this too to all creepy crawlies it gets hold of:rotfl:.He is having the time of his life at the moment because of the daddy long legs, its like he enjoys torturing them:D

pjblink

Frugal wrote: »

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!

My GF is afraid of these the most!!

CupOfChai

Speaking of sp... spi... arachnids, who knows when the times of year are when they like to come indoors into human space?

I want to be prepared, and to see how well my electronic repeller works as I am still sceptical of it.

chocolatetabby

They usually enter your house early September/hunt at night

daydreambeliever_3

September is the usual time although we've had loads this year from July onwards.
I bought two of the electronic sonic repellers from primrose-london. One is supposed to do a four bedroom house which we've got, but it's quite spread out so I got two to be on the safe side.
They made no difference whatsoever. I've seen at least one spider a day, sometimes two or three. I tried them for over a month and sent them back.

funkymonkey849

CupOfChai wrote: »

Speaking of sp... spi... arachnids, who knows when the times of year are when they like to come indoors into human space?

They have already made themselves quite at home in my house. My question is when are they likely to leave!!

I have never seen so many different sizes and type of spider since I moved into my house this year. The house is quite old (although there doesn't seem to be many holes to block up) and we have a garden backing onto a field so I don't know if that's why we've seen so many.

I really hate the big thick one with the pinchers/teeth at the front. Actually I hate them all

triticale

bluemoon wrote: »

Do you get daddy long-legs in your house? Also called Cellar Spiders.
Here's a pic: http://www.uky.edu/Ag/CritterFiles/casefile/spiders/cellar/cellar.htm#longbodied

We get quite a few of these and I try to leave them be when I come across them because they tend to stay out of the way and they provide a very useful service - they eat the much scarier house spiders (Tegenaria types)! So, if you can be brave enough to leave a few cellar spiders around the place, that might help some.

When you said 'Daddy Long-Legs' I thought you meant as in Crane Flies! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly

I had images of these dozy, flappy things beating the cr4p out of a massive house spider...:rotfl:

sistercas

urgh i hate spiders as does DD

there were 2 in her room last night big huge black ones , she wouldnt go to bed until i had caught them , one DH got , the other scuttled into a cupboard under her window seat :eek: dh just said leave it alone , but dd was having a fit, so i ended up putting on wellies lol and poking things out of the cupboard with the end of the hoover , eventually it shot back out , we both screamed but i managed to suck it up the hoover . i had to get DH to empty the hoover though:D
she slept with light on and her bedroom door open lol

debtdesperado

urgh... I can't bear them. I have to kill them as there is no way I could even think about picking them up in anything. There is one that lives in a crack in the wall outside my back door and I call her Shelob... she's lived at the house longer than I have!

I don't think the conker thing works... what does seem to work is regularly vacuuming the corners, dusting etc, never leaving stuff on the floor. I don't think they like being disturbed, so anywhere with a bit of dust or a dark corner seems to attract them to nest.

It's certainly made me a lot tidier!

hannahO_2

I am very popular amongst spiders. Several of them have taken residency (without paying me anything) in quiet corners. I'm also housing lots of ladybirds too though they are all huddled up and hibernating now.

If spiders are placid, I just let them be but if it is one of those fast-runner, agressive type, they are captured using a takeaway plastic and taken to the next street. I am not dumping it in my next door neighbour's garden because it's just too close.