[Closed] The invasion has started (arachnid content)

They're babies.

They’re babies.

The parents are probably lurking under the sofa.

We've had 2 in 2 days. One was huge. I f*#king hate spiders.

Spiders are awesome. The big, uppity ones have to be rehomed, though.

I can hear mine sneaking up on me on my floor boards.

Good sign - mice eat them, so you probably haven't got mice 🙂

One of those chaps up there ^^ (or a sibling) ran down the bed from the vicinity of my pillow the other evening.

It wasn't hanging about!!

I'm a glass* over and bit of card kind of a guy.

I like them but am I **** picking them up.

*Those shotglasses up there wouldn't cut it sometimes I need a pyrex bowl.

Timing! Found one about that size in the sink this morning.

found the remains of one.... i think the cats had a substantial meal!

Had maybe one or two others. I also dont like spiders, but never kill them. I just hope when putting them out they find a new home to invade and dont return to mine!

If it's a house spider it'll die when you put it out.

I got bit by one the other day. Didn't hurt but surprised.

Also found a orange reddish spider in the garden. No idea what that was

I'm a vacuum cleaner at arms length with all the extension pipes on kind of guy!

Not a chance I'm getting close enough to put a glass over the evil things! 🙂

Is it their birthdays?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/16/the-guardian-view-on-spiders-season-of-the-web

We've moved into a rental place in April just inside the Cumbria border, its a very old cottage and I've a life long hating of moths and spiders and what is the inside covered in? YEP!!!! My fella the other day managed to kill 14 moths in one evening, I continually carry a zapper around with me to try to destroy the sods. I also have to carry a vacuum around with me to get the spiders, it's great that not a single floor is flat/level otherwise I might stand a chance of not falling over!!

Does anyone else call big spiders Bernards?

Aw man. Killing spiders and moths isn't cool.

I have some false widow spiders living by the outside tap. Loath to disturb them, but equally don't want to risk getting bit or having them move indoors.

Aw man. Killing spiders and moths isn’t cool.

Exactly... And you wouldn't need to kill the moths if you didn't kill the spiders!

I can hear mine sneaking up on me on my floor boards.

+1

Also, re-home don't kill. Spiders are lovers not fighters.

Always use the glass/card method for capture and relocation.

My mom always told me "don't destroy anything you can't remake"

Aw man. Killing spiders and moths isn’t cool.

Yep, agreed. Just don't get the need.... its not like they are going to realistically to hurt you

Also found a orange reddish spider in the garden.

Woodlouse spider is the only red ones ive found

You can predictably get gadgets for catching and releasing spiders if a glass and a card is too much.
Don't kill them.

We've got some False Widows too - luckily they've all been outside in this house.

I've got one of those spider catchers,as I'm very uneasy with them around but I'm also a little superstitious so won't kill them.
Once heard that arachnophobia is generational, related to a 70's Doctor Who episode.

Once heard that arachnophobia is generational, related to a 70’s Doctor Who episode.

For me its related to a childhood growing up in Australia and encountering spiders that could genuinely kill you or ones the size of my head. It's filled me with a sort of primordial dread of them, yet I also find them fascinating.

I still try and avoiding killing them though.

my shed is full of false widows. Evil on legs. Always shake out the gardening gloves

Just googled false widow (shudder) and realise there are a couple living up the top garage amongst some old timber I keep just in case it's needed.They will have to go,better ask the missus.

I think I've had a few false widows (South London) but they do look quite similar to native garden spiders so not entirely sure.

Not just any inside yet. Spiders get a glass and card, wasps and flies get a rolled up newspaper thump.

Be nice to them, they really are not nasty unless trapped against your skin.

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how-dangerous-are-false-widow-spiders.html

Be nice to them, they really are not nasty unless trapped against your skin.

And most false widow spiders are false false widows anyhow, press fuelled paranoia.

I like spiders mostly. Except the damn cellar spiders which account for 90% of the biomass on my house, make my skin itch and mostly eat other spiders, all reasons to hate them! I'm fighting a loosing battle against those.

I got bitten by a false widow. The bite was a stinger, felt like a hot needle, I then rapidly had a racing heart and I got very sweaty but it all passed pretty quickly. The worst thing I was on the Tube at the time, so looked like a maniac on the platform tearing off my coat to work out what the sudden pain was.

Thing with cellar spiders is they can get themselves out the bath.

So you don't have to do the dangle the big roll until it jumps on and swiftly depart before it runs up and onto your hand.

I tell my other half I am putting them outside... Then deposit them next to the wall vent so they can pop back in.

I had to chuck one out the window the other night. I like all creatures but with spiders there's a limit to the size that I can tolerate in my vicinity. Those biguns have an annoying habit of just suddenly bolting out from somewhere right next to you and scaring the bejeezus out of you. So they have to go. People say they catch and eat all the other creepy crawlies in your house, but do they really? Ain't no webs in my house so where and how do they catch their prey. Also, where do they live? Or are they coming in for the winter? And if so, how? I live in a flat, did it take the lift?

And what's a cellar spider?

Not bothered by spiders, I love watching them. Especially zebra spiders

I put them out for MrsMcf.

Moths are pretty cool no need to kill them. They're like butterflies but better.

Moths are pretty cool no need to kill them. They’re like butterflies but better

Not if they eat your newly purchased sarong.

This one tried to rob me while I was sleeping.

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Pretty much all spiders in our house are dispatched with maximum prejudice, on the basis that a) I'm not good enough at spider identification, and b) a significant number of spiders in Australia are poisonous.

I think we get some of these: white tail spider, or at least they look enough like these to justify their immediate destruction. According to who you ask, the bites either cause "a red mark, local itchiness, swelling and pain" or lifelong tissue necrosis at the bite site. So they get the flip-flop - it's the only way to be sure.

The only ones that don't are Huntsman spiders (ironically, as these are the largest) as they are easy to identify and very hard to catch! Also, they eat the cockroaches - which is welcome.

The kids know that if they see a spider, don't touch it and come and tell dad.

We embrace the spiders in our house. They keep the mozzies out to some degree and the kids are genuinely fascinated by them. We got shown by a spider expert how to collect and identify different types and he gave us a book, so the kids look them up. What amazed me is that there are so many new species yet to be identified. Holding a plastic container under a tree branch and shaking it collects them and in an hour or so a group of us had found several that this guy had not yet identified.

The rule of thumb in our house is that the little black ones are the ones that get put outside. They're the ones that are most likely to be dangerous.

The Huntsmen get old, slow and their legs start to fall off. We tend to recognise them as individuals then and they become part of the family. Eventually they don't move for days and finally we'll find them tucked up dead in a corner. Then the kids put them next to the TV for some reason.

Anyway the snakes are way more dangerous, but even some of them are great as a) they keep the other snakes away, b) they eat the rodents.

Ah that feeling when you see a big spider on the carpet, run to the kitchen to get a glass and come back to find it's disappeared "WHERE THE **** DID YOU GO!?!"

Also my dad's getting on a bit now and his sight is pretty poor - spent last weekend hoovering up all the cobwebs and countless spiders in his house - his basement was like a scene from Arachnophobia (although they were all spindly light coloured spiders) - there's not much worse a feeling then getting a face full of spider's web as you're walking about

This one isn't in the house, but has set up home on the back of my car:

She's quite happy there at 70mph.