Spidaers!

[EcclesCake]

I feel over run with the damn things. I thought houses were invaded in the Autumn, not Summer?

Are any of you finding a number of spiders lurking in your home.a

[magpie]

about 4 months ago i saw a big spider about 4" span in my bedroom. at about the same time i had a plague of small ants in my kitchen. about 1 month ago i had a swarm of flying ants in my bedroom used a whole can of raid to bring them under control. i live in a housing association flat where they do NOT exercise pest control for individual flats despite that it is a fault in their building!!!

[sherrardk]

There's a lot of spiders in this house - little, tiny ones and those gangly, skinny ones (so far, none of the big, fat (slightly terror inducing) ones) - don't know if it's normal for this house or if the spider population is on the increase.

[Baldric]

Very few about at the moment here, did have a largish one from under fridge couple of mornings back, one of the Dogs spotted it and had it as an appetiser before breakfast, that's about it.

[Arksided]

I was thinking earlier today that they seems to be a lot of the gangly, skinny ones about... even the monsterous ones don't bother... just seems to be a big increase of them.

[kvalidir]

We live in an old house, and practice all Spido precautions ( lemons on the windowsill, conkers scattered about all over the place etc) but we still get the odd commando ones, but I've not noticed a massive increase, but we did have a walloper under a brick the other day in the garden :(

[Cloverjo]

I haven't seen a big spider for ages, although there was a tiny one recently which OH thought might have been an Australian redback. I don't mind them too much. I can easily pick them up to chuck out of the window.

[Arksided]

but we still get the odd commando ones,

I like that a big smile, thing is I cleaned every where last weekend and now the ganglies have moved in. I just let them be, as they're are good at catching flies etc..

[jno]

a redback? And you're still living in the same house? Your OH had better be wrong, Cloverjo!

[webbo3]

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Dave.

[kvalidir]

I like the ganglies Arksided, it the big chunky mafia jobs I hate that run towards you ....euurrrrgghhh- thing is we won't kill anything just because we don't like it (and I think they know that lol ) so I'm totally at their mercy :)

[sherrardk]

You can bet that the only time a big, huge, terrorising spider is found in this house will be at bedtime - and it will be in a really difficult place to reach and all the spider catching kit (empty pot of some kind and a piece of card or book) will be nowhere to be found.

[Barmaid]

This is your war correspondent from somewhere in deepest Cambridgeshire (aka The Spider Capital of Europe) writing - from a place of abject terror.

There are hundreds of them! And they are the big brown or black ugly "run at eleventy billion miles an hour" things. Of course, the cat - who is normally interested in anything that moves at more than an inch an hour - looks at them with disinterest and me with disdain (to be fair by this point I am normally squatting on the sofa screaming like a banshee).

I want to use a very bad word now, but we have a new Ed and she might ban me.

[marval]

I haven't noticed any spiders here, my neighbours have ants though. We had a few ants but they seem to have retreated.

[sherrardk]

I remember catching the mother of all spiders (spotted at the top of the stair well at bedtime) and gingerly took it downstairs (using aforementioned container & book combo) and thought I'd show it to boy #2 and promptly dropped it on him, still feel bad now for traumatising him.

[Jackdaw33]

Aren't the gangly ones just Daddy-Long-Legs or crane flies?

[rccatnap]

Working as cabin crew for many years I stayed in many hotels of varying standards. One colleague of mine told me whenever she was aware of a spider or cockroach in her room, she sprayed it with Harmony hairspray. The poor things went rigid in a couple of minutes and were able to be tossed out of the window. Poor things!

[naomi24]

No sympathy. Suck 'em up the hoover!

[Jackdaw33]

Hairspray is much more effective than fly spray.

[jno]

lol, rccatnap, if I see a spider with fabulous hair, I'll think of you!

[Cloverjo]

I wasn't bothered by the one that OH thought was an Australian redback. I was going to pick it up to throw out of the window but it escaped out of my hand. Might still be in the house. I hadn't thought about it since, until I read this thread. I'm sure it'll be fine. :))