Too many spiders

Flibsey

catch and release. I'd never dream of using raid to deter them as it can also kill them and they're a good pest to have around!

MaggieBaking

The way I see it unless I spray it on a spider it wont kill them, just keep them hidden in the walls of the house or wherever they are and stops them venturing out to visit me. If it forces them outside away from the spray all the better.

As long as I see no evil I'm happy.

GlynD

taxsaver wrote: »

I've no idea whether or the conker remedy works... but it IS conker season now, there are plenty falling off the trees in my garden anyway!

I can't see how this would work - unless you throw the conkers at the blighters.

Nicky2905

When we lived in our old place (a flat) we use to get huge ones coming in through gaps in the very old front door - we bought a plug in spider repellent (apparently it omits sonic waves or something that they don't like) anyway, we plugged it in in the entrance hall and never had another one for the next 3 years that we were there. Wouldn't work in our house now unfortunately as no plug sockets close to front or back doors x

20somethinghousewife

There do seem to be lots of really big ones around this year. People keep posting pictures of them on fb and I have to scroll down really quickly with my eyes squinted so I don't see them properly :cool:

I had a really embarrassing experience recently. I was on the computer in the spare room one eveing while DH was at the cinema and out of the corner of my eye I saw a HUGE one strolling across the landing like it owned the place. I started to panic but pulled myself together enough to grab an empty flower pot that could be used to put over it and cautiously went to look for it in the direction I saw it running. But I couldn't find it :eek:
I decided to go back in the spare room where I knew I was safe and intended on getting my DH to find it when he got home. But 10 minutes later (obsessively watching the door) I saw it come back across the landing and enter the room coming right for me!!!
I was seriously panicking by this time, screaming uncontrollably, shaking, crying (yes I'm really that bad!) but at the same time there's a really rational voice in my head telling me to shut up before the neighbours think someone's being murdered and catch the thing so I can get rid of it.
So I'm grabbing boxes and tipping the contents out and throwing the box towards the spider but missing completely. All the time the horrid thing is running round the room getting closer to me. In the end I'm cornered, standing on the bed with the spider running towards me. I decide to jump and aim for the landing but land awkwardly on my ankle and sprained it badly
So my poor DH comes home to find me a complete wreck, shaking, can't get any words out, can't walk on my ankle. I felt really bad cause afterwards he said he though someone had died
He was my hero and went in and found it (eventually). It got squished. He's good with them but even he said that was a pretty enormous one.

Ahem.. so yeah... that's my confession. Everyone had a good laugh at me when I told them how I sprained my ankle Anyone else that bad?

I'm off to look for some conkers with my head hung in shame...

katie89

I'm not sure them being a sign of no damp is true! We have had some huggggge ones in the flat were renting, and damp is a real problem (so much so we're moving out this month). I have some spider stop spray my mum gave me, but i'm not sure how effective it is, as we still have them. That said though, I only spray around windows etc, and i'm sure there are plenty of other ways they can sneak in.

GlynD

katie89 wrote: »

I'm not sure them being a sign of no damp is true! We have had some huggggge ones in the flat were renting, and damp is a real problem (so much so we're moving out this month). I have some spider stop spray my mum gave me, but i'm not sure how effective it is, as we still have them. That said though, I only spray around windows etc, and i'm sure there are plenty of other ways they can sneak in.

Sink, bath and shower wastes are a nice way in for our old pal Boris. I minimised spider infestation in one house by making sure the plugs were kept in place throughout the winter.

pineapple

You are not the only one 20 something. I'm creeped out just at this discussion! I spotted one scrabbling into a corner of the room the other night and tried to forget I had seen it - telling myself it would be long gone etc etc. Anyhow, moments later the b* thing re-appeared legging it towards me and I'm afraid I hammered it with a shoe. I then went to bed and dreamed about being assailed by spiders with large pop up white eyes.....
I have been known to catch little ones with some card and an upside down mug and put them outside but sorry, biggies have to be terminated on sight.
You can get spider catchers by the way which allow you to catch them at a distance and remove them outside without harming them. There's a bristle based one and a vacuum type.

Beetlemama

I was sitting on the phone to British Gas the other day, trying to renegotiate my bills (as you do) and there were some cooking apples on the counter that i had brought in earlier....one of them had that little bit of silky web around the stalk and I was absentmindedly picking at it expecting to see a worm hole underneath and to my surprise and quite distinct horror, it suddenly flipped up like a trapdoor and out poured hundreds of little tiny baby spider!!

I was chained by the phone and couldn't do much, so I opened the back door and threw it out, only to have it promptly and proudly fetched back to me by a labrador lol

GlynD

Beetlemama wrote: »

I was sitting on the phone to British Gas the other day, trying to renegotiate my bills (as you do) and there were some cooking apples on the counter that i had brought in earlier....one of them had that little bit of silky web around the stalk and I was absentmindedly picking at it expecting to see a worm hole underneath and to my surprise and quite distinct horror, it suddenly flipped up like a trapdoor and out poured hundreds of little tiny baby spider!!

I was chained by the phone and couldn't do much, so I opened the back door and threw it out, only to have it promptly and proudly fetched back to me by a labrador lol

Loved this one. Just like on a Disney cartoon