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Annabel
05-09-05, 11:58 AM
:) I seem to have rather a lot of spiders in my house...
I have heaps of them in my garden which is great, they spin lovely webs and keep those midges at bay....
but the last week or so, they have invaded my house and i have dusted off quite a few cobwebs this weekend particularly round my front door and hallway, although there were two big fat leggy arachnids in my bath yesterday :bigeyes:
i feel a bit mean clearing away their webs but what else can I do?
anyone else seen an increase in spiders in their house/garden?
tortoise
05-09-05, 12:06 PM
Yep loads of them and I hate them indoors. Outdoors fine, but not in my bedroom!! :bigeyes:
I think it must be the weather as we seem to have them all year round now. I am finding nests aswell as cobwebs.
My cousin and his partner have been invaded by garden spiders in their house and they are huge.
You can buy stuff from Kleeneze or Betterware that you spray on sills and door ways to stop them coming in.
yuk :sicky:
I am so petrified of spiders :(
I have 2 pest offence devices to keep them out of the house and we generakky do not get them thankfully :thumbs:
Ooooh its the legs and the eyes on stalks, shudder ;)
phantos02
05-09-05, 12:33 PM
oooh I hate spiders too, creepy things. When we moved into our flat there were no carpets, we used to sit there at night watching telly and they would pop up from between the floorboards, scuttle along, then disappear underneath again. Needless to say we carpeted the rooms pronto!!
Last couple of nights we have been invaded by those flying daddy long leg things which I hate even more than spiders... they're so unpredictable... I have to leave the room while hubby catches them and puts them out the window. Trouble is it's been so hot and we have had to have the windows open... (Tortoise I have been envying you and your air conditioning!)
Annabel
05-09-05, 12:55 PM
we have been invaded by those flying daddy long leg things
I have them as well phantos, but maybe thats why i have so many spiders??????
I am finding nests aswell as cobwebs.
i found a nest as well tortoise, in the front garden, lots of little stripy tiddlers, quite sweet really (sorry, all you arachnophobes), i reckon they will all be marching into my house soon! :o
The weather must have been perfect for their breeding requirements! there were certainly enough gnats, mozzies and other insects for them to feed on this year!
i really dont want to kill any of them, they do a good job, but i just dont want too many of them in my house! :lol:
Have to agree!!
Lots more little creatures than normal.
my friend found a nasty looking spider in her kitchen last week...she identified it as a woodlouse spider, they are one of the few species which bite.... apparently they are common down south, but quite rare up here in the North
JJ
Yep, I trapped a huuuge :o one in my bedroom last night and flung it out into the garden.
I am not keen on them, but would never, ever kill one :no: .
We have heaps of webs outside over windows and the front door etc oh and on my car wing mirrors :lol: . I think it's because there are so many little midges this year - more tahn usual - at least round my way anyway :unsure: .
I usually get 'Charlotte' in my bathroom at this time of year too - she makes a cocoon in a corner of the ceiling and little spiders hatch out. They disappear so quickly and have never been any bother...I never have the heart to clear the little cocoon away :blush: .
phantos02
05-09-05, 01:22 PM
Originally posted by JJ@5th September 2005 - 12:15 PM
my friend found a nasty looking spider in her kitchen last week...she identified it as a woodlouse spider, they are one of the few species which bite.... apparently they are common down south, but quite rare up here in the North
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:bigeyes: Ooh I just googled a picture of that spider... nasty looking. I live in the south and can honestly say I have never seen one of those - I think I would jump out of my skin!!!!
phantos02
05-09-05, 01:23 PM
Originally posted by mazza@5th September 2005 - 12:20 PM
I usually get 'Charlotte' in my bathroom at this time of year too - she makes a cocoon in a corner of the ceiling and little spiders hatch out. They disappear so quickly and have never been any bother...I never have the heart to clear the little cocoon away :blush: .
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Sorry I know you will all say it's cruel but that would go straight up the hoover in my house!!
:lol: I know...I've turned far too soft in my old age!! :bigeyes: :blush:
Annabel
05-09-05, 01:43 PM
ROFLMHO@ phantos...you wicked beast you!!! :P :P
:unsure: Ooo, that spider looks horrid!!!!
Don't open this link if you are an arachnophobe!!!
Lots of British Spiders!!! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/livingworld/florafauna/spiders.shtml)
Ooooo.... :bigeyes:
ive had loads of spiders too i counted at least five indoors on saturday
they dont really bother me
not sure i would want to see a woodlouse spider though
that bubbly body is gross yuk :(
phantos02
05-09-05, 02:00 PM
Originally posted by Annabel@5th September 2005 - 12:43 PM
ROFLMHO@ phantos...you wicked beast you!!! :P** :P
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I know... years ago when I was living with an old boyfriend, who was just as phobed as me, we had a humungous black spider that ran behind the TV unit. We couldn't bear to go to bed knowing it was still loose. So we put the longest extension part on the hoover (didn't want to get too close), sucked it up, and stuck a plastic bag over the nozzle, secured tightly with a couple of elastic bands, to make sure it didn't come out again.
Paranoid or what!! They make me feel sick though. Silly when you think how tiny they are.
Have to agree with phantos on this..
Spiders are horrid and they belong in the hoover... but am to scared to suck them up because i know that they will get their own back when it comes time to empty it!!! They might even have babies in there so lots of little spiders too..
I have to get Mr T to catch them. I can't be in the same room as one. If there is one in the bath i have run the taps and then put the plug in until Mr T gets home just in case it comes out again.
Would never ever sleep with one in the bedroom....especially since the thread when someone said they had one in their mouth 8-X
Yep I agree, best place for a spider is up the vacuum cleaner :rolleyes:
I once left our dyson in the utility room for Mr Eeyore to clean out and put away when he came in from work (at 1am) as I'd been real brave and sucked up a spider with it, then I realised what I'd done and I was horrified that it might still be alive in there and crawl out :blink: so I put the dyson out, and left a note for Mr Eeyore, bless him, he did it too.
And a couple of months ago I really freaked myself out, I touched one :( and squashed it :blink: Our stair carpet is black and the stairs area is quite dark, as I was walking down I spotted a lump of brown fluff so I picked it up between my fingers and it crunched - it was a one of them :cry:
I was screeching, running round, threw it down the sink and scrubbed my hands, what a carry on, I just am so terrified of them, the thought of touching one had me in such a state ;)
my daughter used to have a very bad irrational fear of spiders
if she saw one she would hyperventilate and she really would become terrified
at one point it took over her life completely
we even had to pick her up from a friends when she was having a sleep over at 2 am one time because she saw a spider in her friends bedroom and became hysterical :blush:
she is now completley cured of the fear because her husband has a turantular :bigeyes: he has always kept them as pets long before he met her
all i can say is love must be a powerful thing although she cannot watch it when it moves or feeds she can sit in the same room if the lid is firmly on :)
i on the other hand dont mind spiders but dont like the tarantula at all :(
tortoise
05-09-05, 03:34 PM
If you don't want to kill them then that spray I mentioned should be good. They just walk away from it.
There was one on my bedroom ceiling the other night and Mr T dropped it! :bigeyes: It went behind my bedside cabinet and I totally freaked out!
I slept as far over in the bed as I could!
Domestic Goddess
05-09-05, 05:32 PM
I don't mind little spiders, it's the big, fat hairy ones that wear top hats and boots that make me run for the hills!!
I don't know how Australians cope with all the nasties they have out there - I'd be walking around in a suit of armour!!
Originally posted by Eeyore@5th September 2005 - 2:07 PM
And a couple of months ago I really freaked myself out, I touched one** :(** and squashed it** :blink:** Our stair carpet is black and the stairs area is quite dark, as I was walking down I spotted a lump of brown fluff so I picked it up between my fingers and it crunched - it was a one of them** :cry:
I was screeching, running round, threw it down the sink and scrubbed my hands, what a carry on, I just am so terrified of them, the thought of touching one had me in such a state** ;)
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:wow: Oooo nasty nasty nasty 8-X :o Made a shiver go down my back!!!
Anyway...don't they mutate if you suck them up the hoover and come out even more bigger and fierce??? :blink: ???
phantos02
05-09-05, 05:42 PM
Originally posted by mazza@5th September 2005 - 4:36 PM
Anyway...don't they mutate if you suck them up the hoover and come out even more bigger and fierce??? :blink: ???
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Oh Mazza don't say that!!!!! :bigeyes:
I think it's the time of year! We always get more spiders in the house in September :unsure: Don't know why, but I am seeing my friend who is a biology teacher tomorrow so I'll ask her :unsure: She knows all about things like that.
Eeyore, Ive done exactly the same thing! :o I've sometimes picked up what I thoight was a bit of fluff off the carpet only to find it was a spider. It had the same effect on me, Eeyore :lol: :blush:
Annabel
05-09-05, 06:18 PM
:lol: Lol at you arachnophobes!!!!
i am not in any way scared of spiders, but one day at work there was a MASSIVE one in the wastepaper bin...it had really long thin legs and its body was a perfect circle...
anyway my colleague is scared of them and she thought it might crawl out of the bin and up her leg, so i offered to get it out of the bin and put it outside.
i got it on a piece of paper , went to chuck it out of the front door...
the flipping thing dropped on the ground and ran back in the office :o :wow: :wow:
cue much screeching on BOTH our parts, gathering up of skirts and jumping onto chairs....
we never saw that spider again, its a mystery were it ran and hid :lol: :lol:
ihatethemihatethemihatethem, oh and I hate them :lol:
just reading this has made me itch. Hubby can lift them and put them out, but I'm a hoover person.
rb
Ohmigod Mazza, don't say that, spiders come back bigger and more fierce! :blink: Panic panic panic
Eeyores mam
05-09-05, 08:03 PM
Spiders - yuk ;)
One night when I came in from work, there was Eeyore siting with her feet up in the chair, never said a word, she just pointed. I looked and saw this tarantula sized spider on the floor, and immediately I sat in the other chair with my feet up :blink: :lol:
We sat there for half an hour just watching it to make sure it didn't move, which it obliged and didn't ;) and when Mr Eeyore came in from work, we both just pointed and gave a strangled noise :lol:
He never said a word, he just disappeared, came back with some kitchen paper, picked it up and put it outside - phew, I could then take me coat off and get my cup of tea :lol: :hihi:
:wow: :hihi:
This thread is cracking me up (sorry to laff at everyone's fears :blush: ) :lol:
phantos02
06-09-05, 11:12 AM
We had a power cut last night - not only was it right in the middle of Eastenders (bad enough) but it was just as I had spotted a flying daddy long legs dancing about by the ceiling!! :bigeyes:
I had to escape to the kitchen, and send hubby in with a candle, to try and find it. He couldn't spot it so I went to bed, shutting the door firmly behind me!!
tortoise
06-09-05, 05:58 PM
Huge Spider in my bathroom this morning.
Right by the cold tap so I nearly touched it.
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Mr T came to my rescue http://bestsmileys.com/superhero/1.gif
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I was plagued by 6 blimmin daddy long legs last night...they were weird too, brown not like the usual gangly things :unsure:
Yuuukkk!!
Now daddy long legs I don't mind ;)
even if they buzz right next to your ear and you can feel the draught their wings make??? :blink: :ph34r:
I usually keep my window open in the kitchen in the evening, but recently been loads of daddy's and moths too!!!
yikes...get that hoover out :o
JJ
Resident Evil
06-09-05, 10:46 PM
:( I'm a serious arachnaphobic I feel physicall sick when i see a spider or a daddy long leg it has to be disposed of safely very quickly or dead. I know the fear is irrational but cannot help the way i feel when i see even a baby one! 8-X :sicky: If my NFH turned into one I'd be horrified!
phantos02
07-09-05, 10:27 AM
Originally posted by mazza@6th September 2005 - 8:12 PM
even if they buzz right next to your ear and you can feel the draught their wings make??? :blink: :ph34r:
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:bigeyes: :bigeyes: :bigeyes: WAAAA!! Mazza now I feel sick :sicky: :( :cry:
I've never had buzz near my ear, wings a flapping, mind you any flying beast comes near me, one flick of my ponytail and it's dead meat :lol:
phantos02
07-09-05, 01:05 PM
Article on BBC new website today (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4218436.stm)
tortoise
07-09-05, 01:13 PM
Phantos, you didn't say there was a picture. :bigeyes:
I am now sitting with my feet up on the sofa.
:thumbs:
phantos02
07-09-05, 02:06 PM
sorry :blush:
tortoise
07-09-05, 09:30 PM
Originally posted by phantos02@7th September 2005 - 12:05 PM
Article on BBC new website today (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4218436.stm)
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Thanks for that link Phantos. I mailed it to my cousin and his partner who have been overrun with spiders in their new house.
These look just like their spiders, so they are going to call the EH now.
Cheers Darling.
T xxx
The main body of the female spider can measure up to 18mm with a leg length of 30mm or more," the spokeswoman said
Thanks phantos I think i need a bigger hoover :bigeyes:
Domestic Goddess
07-09-05, 10:40 PM
Argh!!!! I think I migh invest in some thigh high boots so no spiders can get me!! We had a huge one in our house today, I managed to get it out the front door while Mr DG bravely squealed like a girl!!
annoyed1971
07-09-05, 10:45 PM
This thread has had me in stitches......we've noticed loads of spiders in our new place but were not sure if it was because we are next to a small wooded area or if we had just moved to "Spider central". I really don't like them much but i'd much rather live with them than the jazz loving hippy with the laminate floor that used to be the bain of my life!
I've looked at the weblink that shows all the different spiders.....just one question...when did Mothercare start making spiders?
Re the Hoover debate....I'm sorry but I could never bring myself to hoover up a spider...not because I think it's cruel but simply because how do you know that it's dead????....maybe it would just live in the bag/cylinder and pop out another day...or worse still, have hundreds of babies in there just out of spite! A good whacking with a large shoe/book/keyboard/hammer is rally the only safe way to dispose of these beasts!
sesentayuno
14-09-05, 04:30 PM
Like Mazza, I have a soft spot for spiders (I think they are a misunderstood bunch), in fact, I was planning to get some tarantula (spiderlings) and watch them grow but my gf gave me an ultimatum (it was either her or getting the tarantula). I did mention along the line of arguments that the latter is cheaper... :lol: (of course that didn't go down too well :spor: )
Like some of you, I do have an issue with DLL, the flapping of the wings and the unpredictable nature, they are noisy and annoying like flies but are a lot slower to whack....I did try to be nice to them but when I accidentally pull their legs or wings out by mistake while trying to catch them, the soft snapping sound sends chill down my spine and I end up feeling more guilty than killing them. So a quick death is what I would grant them if they cross my path...
Ses
Annabel
14-09-05, 04:40 PM
:o I think its is reaching a crescendo in my house, there was not one, but two ginormous ones in my kitchen sink yesterday, first time I have ever seen them in there, and
for some reason i happened to look up at the kitchen ceiling and there were at least half a dozen webs with spiders and tons of daddy long legs trapped in them, it was absolutely disgusting..... :bigeyes:
i am sure they were not there last week, absolutely positive....
I have to say the hoover does come in very handy on these occasions...
i have more trouble with wildlife living in London than i ever did living out in the sticks :blink:
phantos02
14-09-05, 05:52 PM
I wonder what we will find in our new house (assuming we ever get there!). It has been unoccupied since March :(
Originally posted by phantos02@14th September 2005 - 4:52 PM
I wonder what we will find in our new house (assuming we ever get there!).** It has been unoccupied since March** :(
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Don't move in until you have attacked it with a Hoover!!!