Is anyone else house being taken over by spiders??

Is anyone else house being taken over by spiders??

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soad

32,825 posts

175 months

Tuesday 16th September 2014
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Triumph Man said:
It's their house now...

Yes I get them too. The cat is crap at eating them for me. Useless prick.
You want to adopt a hedgehog. wink

chris1roll

1,689 posts

243 months

Tuesday 16th September 2014
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16th C Fishermans cottage built out of pebble = Plenty of nooks and crannies for them.

Those false widow buggers (or something very similar) like it in the disused chimney in our bedroom for some reason.
Got bitten by one just under my left arm in bed on Saturday morning.. Itched and stung like a motherfker. Stuck some antihistamine cream stuff on it and tried to forget about it. Hurt quite a bit and the area ached for two days. Still got the red mark, though its reduced to about 5mm diameter now.
Mrs1roll had a Dyson powered purge yesterday!

IainT

10,040 posts

237 months

Wednesday 17th September 2014
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Not enough spiders in our place... seem to have had a recent inundation of flies though.

Opened a window recently and 20+ came out of the recesses in the frame... had to hoover the buggers up. Went to bed last night and 6 of them in the en-suite. I'd prefer spiders.

elephantstone

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2,176 posts

156 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Well another night, another two fking huge spiders causing havoc in our house. Me and the gf have just moved into our own place and we panic. Think a st fitting loft door is the suspect, will be sealing that up tomorrow thumbup

bint

4,664 posts

223 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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Not in the house, but we are surrounded by hedge spiders. My 2yr old is obsessed with them and blowing on them to make them move. A good way to ensure he isn't afraid of them anyway.

Dan_1981

17,351 posts

198 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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Had four tonight all reasonably big.

Guess they don't like the rain.

Had a huge fker last week pointed it out to one of the cats, she took one look and turned tail. hehe

I would have squashed it but it'd have taken my shoe outta my hand and asked for 7 others.


lufbramatt

5,317 posts

133 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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Spotted a huge bd a few days ago, but it scuttled off before I could get to it. Finally found it last night, and trapped it under a pint glass. Released it back outside, although it probably followed me straight back in!



could hear it tapping against the inside of he glass eek



Mr GrimNasty

8,172 posts

169 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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Tegenaria gigantea, male, ...........probably. Can bite, but not venomous.

Edited by Mr GrimNasty on Saturday 20th September 15:45

soad

32,825 posts

175 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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lufbramatt said:
Spotted a huge bd a few days ago, but it scuttled off before I could get to it. Finally found it last night, and trapped it under a pint glass. Released it back outside, although it probably followed me straight back in!



could hear it tapping against the inside of he glass eek
You'd tap too. Hello, hello - let me out. hehe

Mercury00

4,098 posts

155 months

Sunday 21st September 2014
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Went into the bathroom to brush my teeth the other night and turned to find a spider about three inches across on the door frame - I honestly stopped breathing for a bit. I'm quite happy to let the little ones be but the big ones make me feel sick and I have to find someone to put them outside for me frown

theshrew

6,008 posts

183 months

Sunday 21st September 2014
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I've seen a few this week. All is fine, one of the dogs normally gets them before they get very far.

The one thing I don't get is I only ever see them in the living room. They pop out from under the fire then head straight over the floor to the couch on the other side of the room.

Why is that ?


griffin dai

3,194 posts

148 months

Sunday 21st September 2014
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theshrew said:
They pop out from under the fire then head straight over the floor to the couch on the other side of the room.

Why is that ?
Emmerdale's just started? wink

chris1roll

1,689 posts

243 months

Sunday 21st September 2014
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lufbramatt said:
Spotted a huge bd a few days ago, but it scuttled off before I could get to it. Finally found it last night, and trapped it under a pint glass. Released it back outside, although it probably followed me straight back in!



could hear it tapping against the inside of he glass eek
Keep them until you've got two and then put them under a glass mixing bowl = spider thunderdome smile

PopsandBangs

922 posts

130 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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I'm typing this now in bed on my iPad having (only just) emerged as the victor in a tense 10 minute battle with the biggest bd I've ever seen. I'm still a bit on edge now, my skin is still crawling and I'm itchy everywhere, just eurrrghhh. There ii was, lying on the bed, merrily swiping my way through the delights of Plenty of Fish, when what can only be described as Shaquille O'neals hand came flying up the side of the bed against the wall and shot across the white sheet towards me. I've never got out of bed so quickly or squealed like that before.... Knocked my tea everywhere and dented the iPad on the radiator in the process.

Unbelievable.... it actually went for me. I cannot believe how quickly it moved!! I reached for the nearest heavy object which happened to be a copy of Alan Sugar's autobiography and slammed it against the bd which was clinging to the side of the bed looking at me. But no, such was its strength that when I moved the book the bloody thing got up and ran under the bed completely intact! Dragged the bed across the room and couldn't see it, so went round the other side and it had done a full lap and was waiting back where it came from the first time. Alan sugar saved the say this time however.

I wouldn't normally be so violent towards an animal but that was one seriously belligerent Spider. Not even safe in my own bed

Stu R

21,410 posts

214 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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We get some good sized ones over here. I don't mind them at all, along with frogs, toads and bats they eat the annoying little bugs. Ants are the big annoyance.

I got bitten by a black widow last year, that smarted a bit and ruined the skin for a while.

Mabbs9

1,072 posts

217 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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AnimalMkIV said:
Not sure what they are, but this year, the house seems to have been infested with spindly pallid things with thin, cigar-shaped bodies. They weave straggly webs all over and hang upside down in them. The kitchen, hallway and stairs are full of them.

Some cracking Garden Orb spiders outside although they don't listen to me when I tell them to stop eating the bees.
They'll likely be cellar spiders. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae


MGJohn

10,203 posts

182 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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Mabbs9 said:
AnimalMkIV said:
Not sure what they are, but this year, the house seems to have been infested with spindly pallid things with thin, cigar-shaped bodies. They weave straggly webs all over and hang upside down in them. The kitchen, hallway and stairs are full of them.

Some cracking Garden Orb spiders outside although they don't listen to me when I tell them to stop eating the bees.
They'll likely be cellar spiders. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae
That's a devils. Lots in my garage. Thanks for that link. "Vibrating Spiders" as I have observed and mentioned in a previous reply.

said:
Threat response

When the spider is threatened by a touch to the web or when too large a prey becomes entangled, the spider vibrates rapidly in a gyrating motion in its web and becomes blurred and difficult to focus on. For this reason pholcids have sometimes been called "vibrating spiders", although they are not the only species to exhibit this behaviour. Doing so might make it difficult for a predator to see exactly where the spider is, may be intended to signal an assumed rival to leave, or may increase the chances of capturing insects that have just brushed their web and are still hovering nearby. If the spider continues to be harassed it will retreat into a corner or drop from its web and escape.
Reaching into my darkened garage late last night to pout away some tools, one of these spindly devils was all legs and little else with the remains of a small woodlouse bound up with silk resting on the double light switch. Saw it was on my hand as soon as the lights went on and tried the drop trick escape straight into my other hand... Bad luck.... smile

I'm going to have a good clear out of my garage this coming winter. Bet I find a few hibernating lurkers there. Ideal weather conditions thge past year or so. Availability of food/prey means there are far higher populations of spiders now according to media reports. Some of the Orb Webs in my garden and even on the cars are a superb work of silk engineering. They like to use the car door mirrors to lurk and construct webs between mirror and door... on every car ... overnight even when cleared away each morning .. rolleyes Those webs on the mirrors can survive a high speed Motorway runs undamaged.




Mr GrimNasty

8,172 posts

169 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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Woodworm spray (permethrin type) takes out spiders very effectively, as an added benefit. Don't last for long though.

AnimalMkIV

685 posts

143 months

Tuesday 23rd September 2014
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Mabbs9 said:
They'll likely be cellar spiders. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae
Yep, them's the buggers. I'm not squeamish with bugs, but there's something slightly icky about them and if they eat other spiders then I'll be having a mass eviction at the weekend.

Was outside the other night picking caterpillars off the mint and feeding them to the garden orb spiders.