Spiders in a house

j.e.j.

London50 wrote: »

With all the talk in newspapers and on the TV news about both the size of spiders this year and the fact that they are {as normal} entering our homes,it made me wonder if you visited a persons home and saw them {but no cobwebs around} would you think that the owners did not keep a "clean house" or just except that, as advised by some they remove other unwanted insects?
Personally I would have no problem seeing them but what do others think?

My ex father-in-law had a spider's web in his fridge :eek: His house, to put it bluntly, was filthy. I strongly suspect the spider got up and left in disgust.

SailorSam

I've read on here and in the papers, i've heard on the Tv and the radio, everyone seems to be saying how many really big spiders are around. But i've not seen one, not a single spider to be seen in the SS household.

peachyprice

SailorSam wrote: »

I've read on here and in the papers, i've heard on the Tv and the radio, everyone seems to be saying how many really big spiders are around. But i've not seen one, not a single spider to be seen in the SS household.

The quantity here hasn't increased this year, but the size most definitely as, we get on average one a week about the size of a jaffa cake, last year they were probably the size of a 2p. This year they're real meaty beggars with big muscles in their legs and huge bodies, not nice at all.

I manage to pretend they're not there until Mr P comes home and puts them outside for me.

Georgiegirl256

London50 wrote: »

if you visited a persons home and saw them {but no cobwebs around} would you think that the owners did not keep a "clean house" or just except that, as advised by some they remove other unwanted insects?

No. Why would anyone think that? What a weird thing to think!

Rats on the other hand would make me think that.

London50

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

No. Why would anyone think that? What a weird thing to think!

Rats on the other hand would make me think that.

If you read my response to this {post23} you MAY see why I asked. It was NOT to say that I have ever thought that people that have spiders in their homes were in any way dirty or have an unclean house. I thought it was a fair question to ask and as by the replies on here so far everyone seems to agree with my thoughts.
Over the years I have been a member of this website I have read far worse questions being asked.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

BarryBlue wrote: »

Someone was on the TV the other night saying that research had been done into this and there is no evidence whatsoever that conkers repel spiders. It is an old wives' tale.

Probably repels them a bit - if you stack a pile of conkers by the sofa and spend the evening hurling them at the hapless males that are just looking for a nice lady spider.

dirty_magic

I like spiders, they eat the flies! I always sweep their webs away so I'm surprised they stay, but they just seem to keep making new ones!

DKLS

I like spiders but one of my cats likes munching them even more so they don't get much chance of spinning a web inside the house.

PlymouthMaid

My friend told me that if you see one large spider marching about, there is probably another nearby in the house as they are 'on the pull' so don't relax too much once you put the first one out as his lady friend will soon be out of her corner wondering where he has got to.

Primrose

Loads of spiders in our house. We have huge one nicknamed Jimmy Spider who seems to spend most of his time lurking down around the plughole in the bath. We have to carefully remove him every time we want a bath to
save him from drowning.:rotfl: Not sure some of our overnight visitors would be very happy about him but he doesn't bother us.