Spiders in a house

balletshoes

nonnatus wrote: »

I seem to be some sort of Queen to Spiders - they are DRAWN to me!!

Always loads in my bedroom, but nowhere else in the house - and no webs either!??

There's always one or two around my bed and I make sure I always shake my clothes before I dress now and there's generally a "thud" most mornings as one hits the carpet and scuttles away!!

There is also a very persistent spider that has set up home on my car's wing mirror - I never see the spider but his / her web is there every morning and I wipe it away, only to find it back again the next day.

The kids think it's hilarious...:o

my wing-mirror spider lives in the back of the adjustable mirror bit .

Patchwork_Girl

balletshoes wrote: »

my wing-mirror spider lives in the back of the adjustable mirror bit .

I have one of these too. And I'm pretty sure there a monster spider living under my car bonnet. No idea what he eats there but there a tunnel type web and I've seen some big brown hairy legs a couple of times!

Marisco

balletshoes wrote: »

my wing-mirror spider lives in the back of the adjustable mirror bit .

Patchwork_Girl wrote: »

I have one of these too. And I'm pretty sure there a monster spider living under my car bonnet. No idea what he eats there but there a tunnel type web and I've seen some big brown hairy legs a couple of times!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't belong to the "Sunday morning clean the car" brigade!

Fluff15

I hate spiders, they're one of my fears. Luckily my cats like eating them, so if I spot one that's got in before the cats do, I pick the cats up and set them after it. It's gross and I do feel bad for them, but I can't even bare (bear?) to trap them under a glass. Thanks to my kitties, my house is practically bug free! Back to the OP, I wouldn't judge somebody for spiders in their house, or cobwebs.

Person_one

AnnieO1234 wrote: »

I know some people will think it's cruel or whatever but there's absolutely no way I want them to bite my little ones.

The risk of a spider bite in this country is so small as to be practically zero.

London50

When I first thought about posting this question I must admit that I expected about 5/6 replies saying that they would not believe a persons home was dirty or unclean {as is the way I feel} but I did not expect the amount of views and the way the thread has gone in a few directions. I thank all on here for the replies they have given and the way it has expanded into other thoughts, perhaps in the future I will try and post another madcap question and see what happens then.
As a silver surfer with a lot of time on my hands I enjoy reading the questions and replies on this website and if I think I can aid in any way I do try and give a point of view {perhaps some better than others}. So for now I will let all you happy posters do your house/car checks to see how Webster ect are doing :0)

Thanks again

catkins

I am not sure why I even opened this thread as I am absolutely terrified of spiders and now I feel sick and am looking round the living room in case one is lurking.


I keep reading about how big they are this year (why do the papers have to put a picture of a spider when we all know what they look like?) but so far luckily there have been none in my house.


I get OH to catch them and put them outside but if he is not around then I cannot go into the room where one is until he is back and catches it.


I could never ever live in an old house or a thatched house because of the spiders. A friend of mine lives in an old cottage and I rarely go to her house as she has lots of spiders indoors and I just cannot relax there

SailorSam

catkins wrote: »

I am not sure why I even opened this thread as I am absolutely terrified of spiders and now I feel sick and am looking round the living room in case one is lurking.

Ooohhh it's behind you Catkins. It's incy whincy.

PlymouthMaid

Just been inmy daughter's garden inspecting her half dead plants and every step I took she was saying, 'watch our, there's a spider'. Garden was full of them and she has had two monster ones in the house so far. I haven't had nay yet but weirdly i get a couple of slugs on my kitchen tiles every night. No idea how they get in.

Marisco

Genuine question her to those who are frightened of spiders - what exactly is it that you are afraid of??? :think: Now I could understand it if we had the Funnel Web spider, Brazilian Wandering spider, Black Widow etc, but ours are totally harmless!