How to kill Spiders in the home

roddydogs

ragecake wrote: »

Use humane traps please, the spiders did nothing to you, and they keep the house clear of flies, and other little nasties.

Im usually the one in the house who has to get the little !!!!!!s, but I just put them outside, they wont hurt you.

Putting them outside kills them as they are house spiders, unless they can get back quickly.

Azmataz

Mrs.W wrote: »

You're meant to hit the spiders with the rolled up Daily Mail, not read it to them!

True, but reading it to them probably has the same effect!

blossomhill_2

Good luck OP - it's horrible isn't it! We have a plague of the large black ones at the moment - 9pm nightly cat starts strange sound and dancing like Michael Flatly which tells me she has spider in her mouth - she drops it for me and I use a garden hoe to get it outside

Apart from the obvious entry points of windows etc I remembered they came in last year where the gas pipe enters the house and via the tumble drier vent so have sprayed outside and in there and the numbers have gone down

I got up at 5:30 on Monday in a good mood, put something away in the wardrobe and next thing found one of the big black ones on my bare shoulder, just by my long hair - let out a roar that would have scared off a grizzly bear! Still twitching now when my hair brishes my shoulder!

Need to remember to shake out all towels and flannels before use and to take a bamboo cane ahead of me when going down the garden at this time of year

Strangely I am not afraid of "housemen" of which were plenty when I worked in the shed yesterday

blizeH

atlantis187 wrote: »

blizeH wrote: »

Get one of these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brainstorm-Spider-Catcher/dp/B000G04RDK/ref=sr_1_1?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1346228221&sr=1-1

Does this spider catcher thing actually work, looks very interesting could be just the thing for me

Yup - it works brilliantly. Like I said, I'm terrified of them but this gives me an easy way to get rid of them, and again it's much more satisfying to see them scurry away than it is to try all manner of ways to kill them, and then spend ages cleaning up afterwards.

Marisco

There was a beaut in my bathroom this morning!! It must have been at least 3" from leg tip to leg tip, I got hold of it and hoyed it out the door. It must have wanted to get back in, as it made a bee line back to the door, so I grabbed it and put it on a potted fern I've got a few yards down the path!

shays_mum

Yellow pages dropped from a great height?, can't stand the pesky creatures!!. I had one squaring upto me recently, it was bouncing up & down like it was going to leap, as i threw a newspaper at it it shot away .
Never saw something so large & hairy move so fast!

VitaK

We have a cat that activly hunt and destroy spiders.

Plushchris

VitaK wrote: »

We have a cat that activly hunt and destroy spiders.

We just used to point them out to the cat and he would eat them, if both me and the cat was out the OH would put a pint glass over them until one of us got home.. (I would put them outside though)

They dont really bother me, I'd quite happily live with them as I hate flies but the Mrs hates them.

RoseFairy

while in Australia we used to get big ones called Huntsman - Im terrified of them! i couldn[t even get to vacuum them up because it would make a crackling sound while getting sucked up in the tube - and the thought of having to block the end with tissue and taking out the tissue when reusing vac - is another story. so some friends there suggested using hairspray or as i discovered (coz i picked up the wrong can instead), ironing startch spray - works gr8!!

pawlala

is perfect for every single one. kills them in seconds. spray regularly on window and door openings to keep them at bay. then spray again.