What do bathroom spiders live on?

Silvertabby

I don't mind spiders either - but if you really want to get rid of all of yours, get a 'great grey hunter' (aka cat - other colours are available).

ThisIsWeird

This is really not helping :-(

Eldi_Dos

Just because you are bigger doesn't mean they do not see you as prey.

I worked on a project that involved being in underground jointing chambers in a desert area. After a couple of weeks a inflamed spot appeared between my shoulder blades. So one of the lads, a chap from Kerala, squeezed it out and in it where four or five little white spheres about half the size of a match head.
The consensus of opinion from the audience was that they where spiders eggs. The chap cleaned around the area with a raw clove of garlic and advised I do the same for a few days.
I have often wondered if this folk medicine method is the basis for those vampire and garlic stories you get in literature.

Grenage

Crushed raw garlic contains allicin, which is an antiviral, antifungal, antibiotic, and antiparasitic.  Very likely the reason.

FreeBear

ThisIsWeird said: I'm terrified of it, but wife insists it stays

Grow some balls and deal with it...

RobfromCornwall said:

subjecttocontract said:

I think now is the breeding season so your spider is very probably looking for a mate.

That's one way to get rid of the wife...

The spiders that eat their partner is usually the female. So TiW probably looks like a decent size meal for the spider.

strawb_shortcake

FreeBear said:

ThisIsWeird said: I'm terrified of it, but wife insists it stays

Grow some balls and deal with it...

RobfromCornwall said:

subjecttocontract said:

I think now is the breeding season so your spider is very probably looking for a mate.

That's one way to get rid of the wife...

The spiders that eat their partner is usually the female. So TiW probably looks like a decent size meal for the spider.

The picture is likely the female, female spiders sit and wait for a mate. The males are likely to be the ones that run across the room looking for their mate. 

I learnt that on a living with spiders course to combat my phobia 

Belenus

What do bathroom spiders live on?

Have you tried searching the web for an answer?

ThisIsWeird

strawb_shortcake said:

FreeBear said:

ThisIsWeird said: I'm terrified of it, but wife insists it stays

Grow some balls and deal with it...

RobfromCornwall said:

subjecttocontract said:

I think now is the breeding season so your spider is very probably looking for a mate.

That's one way to get rid of the wife...

The spiders that eat their partner is usually the female. So TiW probably looks like a decent size meal for the spider.

The picture is likely the female, female spiders sit and wait for a mate. The males are likely to be the ones that run across the room looking for their mate. 

I learnt that on a living with spiders course to combat my phobia 

Wow! Brilliant!
So, you love my pic :-)

ThisIsWeird

Belenus said:

What do bathroom spiders live on?

Have you tried searching the web for an answer?

Don't be silly. What's the fun in that?

(Oh ma gawd - I only just 'got' that! )

Brie

Keep_pedalling said:

ThisIsWeird said:

Thanks.
I'm terrified of it, but wife insists it stays - she's even given it a name. Hubby-killer or something?
So, should I give it a light misting? Serve it a fly?

She sounds like my kind of woman. We have a number of daddy long-legs spiders, Pholcus phalangioides, scattered about the house. At this time of the year they don’t get to eat too often but if spiders have gotten in so will a few things they can eat will as well, including other spiders. 

If you are really lucky you might find the odd Spitting Spider, Pholcus phalangioides, but they are not that common, are small and nocturnal hunters so rarely seen. 

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/57450-Scytodes-thoracica

Thanks for that @Keep_pedalling.  Your spitter is a real beauty.  

My husband's biggest complaint about spiders (currently at least) is that George's web is blocking the entrance to the garage.  Since George just sits there other than occasionally having a light snack I wonder if he is a she.

And no matter what @Silvertabby might think not all cats are great hunters.  Most just like to have something fun to play with and get bored and wander off if its "toy" (aka your pet) is too far out of reach.  Or they're like our old Ariadne who would simply sit there and watch the spider/mouse/dustball skitter across the floor right in front of them.