Spiders - normal ?

LisaLou1982

Ive got loads of Spiders in my house too OP! I think its all the damp weather we've been having

Im forever hoovering up too. Im not much for them but tbh id rather the spiders than the bugs!

jog

Dragonette,

I used to work as a health visitor and about 15 years ago used to visit a family who had a pet tarantula that they used to let wander, it was very distracting trying to do a visit whilst sitting on the edge of the sofa trying to keep an eye on where the spider was!

donnac2558

Anyone know about the bright red ones which seem to pop up in my bathroom and then? I kill them straight off, no way will I let the cats at those .
My big boy(cat), chews the legs off and then sits staring at the body waiting for it to get up again for round two.

bazster

Cats, gotta love 'em!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

bazster wrote: »

I used to fish many years ago, I thought maggots were cute. I liked the way that they would wriggle off your palm, squeeze between your fingers and come out the other side!

When I was a kid, I used to press my hand into the tub and feel them tickle as they welled up over it

I also act as chief moth catcher indoors - the cats are in awe of my moth catching abilities, and most perturbed that I don't share the wealth with them. Oh, and caterpillars are cool - I grow nasturtiums purely because a) the flowers taste nice in salads and b) butterflies lay their eggs on them in preference to my veggies.

My girls were never impressed by my picking up earthworms, caterpillars or beetles to show them. Guess the media idea that every girl has to be scared of bugs got to them in the end.


And the MIL was brought a frog by one of her cats recently. You'd have thought it was a bomb the way she approached it. I went up to get it, she ran off saying she'd get me some gloves and a stick. I picked it up and it was back by the stream by the time she'd come back into the kitchen.


Wildlife is cool


I sound like such a big kid, don't I?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

donnac2558 wrote: »

Anyone know about the bright red ones which seem to pop up in my bathroom and then? I kill them straight off, no way will I let the cats at those .
My big boy(cat), chews the legs off and then sits staring at the body waiting for it to get up again for round two.

Bright red, possibly whiteish bit to body? Walk like a tarantula rather than scuttle?


Woodlice eating spider. Means you've probably got a leak behind the bath panel and woodlice eating the rotten floorboards.


Solution: put spiders outside, take bath panel out, sort out leak, treat for damp and then woodlice have nothing to eat, so the spider has no reason to be there.

And cat has to find something else to torment.

Notsosharp

Spiders DO bother me but not to the extent I'll run screaming from the room when I see them.

For years I had a house spider in the bathroom, it was called George and it fed on all the moths that divebombed into the bathroom at night. Unfortunately George took it into his head to venture down onto the floor one night where he was swiftly Tinkered (fluffy black ball of terror cat).

Another time I was having a shower when I came across what I thought was an obese spider, it was hugely, huely fat. Turns out it was pregnant so that got put outside fairly quickly, I can handle one or two spiders but lots and lots and lots of them? That's pushing it!

There is a spider living in my bathroom, one even had laid it's eggs in there, they hatched but I'm not sure what happened to the babies, one day they were there, the next day they weren't. I like to think they went into the garden because there's a few tiny spiders out there who all build their webs on the washing line.

None of these are the same as good old George though .

Now show me a woodlouse and I'll freak, they seriously scare me, it's when they get stuck on their backs and all those legs start waving all over the place....a woodlouse spider is more than welcome in my house! I don't like silverfish either, but there's a load that have taken up residence under a damp tile in the bathroom.....ick!

There's cobwebs all over my house but I don't take them down incase I mistakenly hoover a spider whilst doing it!

heartbreak_star

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Bright red, possibly whiteish bit to body? Walk like a tarantula rather than scuttle?


Woodlice eating spider. Means you've probably got a leak behind the bath panel and woodlice eating the rotten floorboards.


Solution: put spiders outside, take bath panel out, sort out leak, treat for damp and then woodlice have nothing to eat, so the spider has no reason to be there.

And cat has to find something else to torment.

Yep, I've seen these before. Note that it's probably best to do the glass-and-card trick with these rather than picking them up as they can nip, it's not a big bite but can give an annoying local reaction.

Notsosharp: blaaahhh silverfish are horrible things! My ex had them in his bathroom!

HBS x

thehappybutterfly

I don't like spiders, slaters (woodlice), daddy-long-legs, centipedes, earwigs, millis, slugs, worms and snails.

In fact, I only like creatures with 2, 4 or 6 legs. Anything less or anything more, I run a mile. I don't mind beetles, bees, wasps, butterflies or ladybirds. I quite like them in fact. But Daddy-long-legs - they're just spiders with wings *shudders*.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

thehappybutterfly wrote: »

I don't like spiders, slaters (woodlice), daddy-long-legs, centipedes, earwigs, millis, slugs, worms and snails.

In fact, I only like creatures with 2, 4 or 6 legs. Anything less or anything more, I run a mile. I don't mind beetles, bees, wasps, butterflies or ladybirds. I quite like them in fact. But Daddy-long-legs - they're just spiders with wings *shudders*.

But if you mean a crane fly, they've only got 6.