Spiders

[Planet 24]

I didn't really know where else to post this but over the past 3 weeks or so I have been plagued by spiders. Big large brick spiders inside the house seem to be popping up every other night or so - and I don't like them :eek:
I haven't got the heart to squash them so they take over until the other half can catch them and take them outside.
Does anyone know of anything you can spray etc that can put them off coming into the house, given that I find out where they are getting in. I have a huge one in the hall somewhere that popped up last night and then I lost him. Yuk!

[losingtheplot]

Hi Planet 24

I don't know of a spray, but in our house my cat Safi takes care of all the spiders, she see's them as a tasty snack! I think it's the time of year, our indoor pepulation has increased somewhat! You can get a grabber that does not harm them, from gadget shops. it's quite long so they can't get to your arm, I bought one for my friend who hates crane flies.

[Eeyore]

I hate spiders

We have a pest offence thing that you plug into a socket and since we got it, the amount of spiders and the like we've had in the house has vastly decreased, you can buy them on the internet or home shopping channels

Failing that, suck em up the dyson!

[Planet 24]

I wondered if one of those pest offence things would work. It's no good me trying to catch one - I just go clammy, but I cant kill them nothing to do with bad luck etc - I just can't kill anything.
I bet I find the one in the hall in a minute and then sit there watching it to make sure I know where its gone so the other half can catch it and put it out when he comes in. What a wimp huh?

[Annabel]

I have a lot of spiders as well, but I just trap em with a glass and a bit of paper, cos I think they are wonderful critters, would never kill one - they eat up flies so they are cool!

however, my colleague at work doesnt like them either and she got some kind of implement that she got - its a tube like thing, battery operated and sucks them up gently and then you can tip them outside. I think it might have been one of these things:

http://www.pestcontrolshop.co.uk/acatalog/SPIDERS.html

there is other stuff there too - that repeller that eeyore mentioned by the looks of it

[mazza]

Sometimes shops like Aldi or Lidls sells the plug in repellents. I always wondered if they were any good :) .

I also have loads of spiders - it's something to do with the wet naff summer, supposedly. Every am when i open my front door, I have to break through the night's web making activity! :o

I never kill them either as they are useful insects. I m lucky in that I am ok about being near to them to trap them & chuck em out, I do feel sorry for people that can't deal with it though!

[Annabel]

My rotary dryer is covered in webs all the time, i clean the webs off but have found a few spiders in my dried washing bet that would give you the adbabs P24:lol:

they do make lovely webs and when it is frosty or dewy in the morning they look so beautiful. works of art:rolleyes:

[Eeyore]

Spiders are great - outside and far away from me! when I walk the dogs on a morning often there is web across the path from tree to tree and it gives me the heebie geebies just to break it, brrrr :eek:

But IMO the electronic plug in things do work, we have seen a definite decline in the 8 legged things :)

[Planet 24]

I never found the one last night, but I'm looking on the website you gave Annabel for something to keep them at bay. I don't mind them, just not next to me.;)

[StoneHenge]

Conkers!

They hate them. get a load of conkers off a tree and put em in a bowl next to a corner of the room, and you will find they start to disappear as if by magic. In my residence, we get loads of the little blighters.

Whilst me fear of them has dwindled (I usually leave them alone in corners or glass and paper em out), they do hate conkers, and most of the spider stop sprays you can by contain conker oil or crushed conkers.

[Planet 24]

Ah so I have to get hold of conkers? A job for the other half I think :)

[mazza]

:lol: and they aren't really ripe enuff yet, so you've got a while yet to suffer them! How interesting though, I never knew that about conkers!

I luv conker hunting, I will stash a few near my front door when the time is right and see if it helps :thumbs: .

[Planet 24]

Its right enough, I looked at the ingredients of the spider spray and it's made from Chesnuts. You learn something new every day. :yes:

[mysty]

Spiders. Nan used to say..'if you want to live and thrive...let a spider run alive.....M

[Omega]

Spiders - I hate them and we too have had a few around, they just seem to get bigger each year!

Conkers? Thats a new one to me, you learn so much information on here :thumbs:

I usually get a glass and paper too that seems the easiest :yes: The other night hubby got rid of a huge spider in a glass and I made him walk up to the end of the driveway before he let it out - just in case it beat hubby back indoors before he could shut the door :hihi:

One evening when it was cold and raining I put a spider outside on the patio and it just curled up and sat there for hours, expect it was wondering where the warm cosy room he was last in had gone :lol: bless!

Quote Mysty if you want to live and thrive...let a spider run alive I always remember that saying and tend to live by it; as long as it is put outside ;)

[Planet 24]

I found the one missing from the hall, he was over the top of the wet room door this morning. He is now outside and yes I know its raining but he's still outside and I hope he stays there.:p

[StoneHenge]

They won't suffer for rain. I've never heard a spider sneeze!!!