Spiders in a house

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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!??...

Not all spiders make webs, for example Wolf spiders jump on their prey. Also, some males don't make webs.

fairy_lights

Marisco wrote: »

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!

They have eight legs and eight tiny hands they can use to hold tiny knives and guns and nunchucks, and can shoot webs out of their bums to tie you up while they beat you to death. Or something. To be honest I don't know why im afraid of them, I just always have been and I can't see that ever changing

balletshoes

fairy_lights wrote: »

They have eight legs and eight tiny hands they can use to hold tiny knives and guns and nunchucks, and can shoot webs out of their bums to tie you up while they beat you to death. Or something.
To be honest I don't know why im afraid of them, I just always have been and I can't see that ever changing

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: - I am definitely not showing my DD this post :rotfl: :eek:!

building_with_lego

peachyprice wrote: »

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.

I'm utterly entranced by someone who looks at a spider and thinks "Jaffa cake" :rotfl:


I feed mine. We had a lovely little one set up web in the kitchen window, and I'd feed her greenfly off my windowsill plants. Since she disappeared I've taken to admiring the leopard print garden spiders just outside the window but we've not had anything heartstopping indoors yet.

barbiedoll

My mum has a real phobia, she can't even bring herself to say the word "spider", she always calls them "whatsits"! :rotfl:

I've seen a few dead ones curled up at the bottom of the stairs, our new cat will chase anything that moves so I'm guessing that she gets them in the night. She also has the lovely habit of bringing in worms from the garden, I'm always putting dazed and confused ones out of the kitchen window. I trod on one the other day...yuk yuk.

We don't seem to have had too many indoors yet but there are always lots in the garden, they love my unbrella-type clothes line! I did spot a beautiful little greeny-silver one on my begonias back in the summer. Which apparently, can change colour slowly, to blend in with the surrounding foliage. And there was a whopper (digestive biscuit-sized, at least!) lurking just outside my bedroom door the other morning. No-one else spotted it so I left it alone and it was gone by the evening. DS and DH would have gone it all guns blazing if they'd seen it, so I just kept quiet

Reams

To answer the original question, yes spiders can be a sign of lack of cleaning as I saw a huge beastie stagger from beneath the piano covered in dust and hardly able to breathe. I helped him out by vacuuming the dust off of him. Ooshed! up he went but I was only trying to dust him off.
I am terrified of them. There was a massive one clinging to a back door hinge. It was seriously big in the legs were angled so high that if flattened it would have been record breaking. He went to Miele heaven too.
I am armed to the teeth with anti spider gadgets, moving from floor to floor with a can of Insectrol, spraying window surrounds with SpiderX, I even have insecticide bombs if needed. Oh and of course there is a plug in deterrent as well.


Few spiders eat flies, wasps do that. Both wasps and flies have been scarce this year. Spiders are cannibals and the big eat those tiny ones in between the wall and ceiling, so if you don't like biggies, vacuum the littlies. They do not bring you money.




There are spiders making webs all over outside on the windows which I would never disturb, anything in the house though is doomed.


Don't get me started on Moths who feed from corpses!

wik

I have to say that I am not very keen on spiders,(but as a mum i have to pretend I am!) and any less than the size of my smallest fingernail I can scoop up and rehome - out the window! anything bigger than that - long suffering granddad is summoned from his end of the house to rehome!!
My whole life has been spent in rural areas, and come September spiders come into the warm, so much as i am not keen - as long as they are not on me I cope!
Oh and they dont seem to mind a clean house or a dirty house.. they just want to be warm and cosy for the winter :rotfl:

aileth

Our house is infested at the moment and I'm pretty convinced they are out to get me. I don't care whether spiders or venomous or non-venomous, friendly or nasty, it's the way they move that gives me the heebie jeebies.

First one was on bedroom ceiling as I was getting into bed, needless to say I moved like lightning back out just as said spider descended onto my pillow...

Second one was on ceiling in shower room, I started inching backwards and then it dropped into the shower right where I had been...

Third one was yesterday in our study, came off the PC to go downstairs and it was above the door. I ran through the door and it dropped down just behind me...

One of them got my husband good the other day though. During the time we were at work, a spider had spun a web directly over the front door and then was sat in the middle of it. As he walked into the door he got a decent sized spider in his face along with a good sized web. Always funny seeing a grown man flail about.

victory

I have just had to throw a bucket of water over a web right outside my kitchen window, every time I looked through the window there it was, yikes, it grabbed it's web and went off, now I don't have to look at it

Primrose

I always feel so guilty at destroying spiders' webs. This weekend I dismantled my runner bean and tomato plant poles and consigned all the old foliage to the compost heap. In the process I destroyed lots of spiders webs, many of them with great big spiders lurking around them. Poor creatures had probably been busy spinning them all night, waiting for breakfast to arrive and some thoughtless human arrives and wrecks everything in moments.