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Anyone got any tips or tricks to keep these little sods out of the house? As we're hurtling towards Spider Month (September) at an ever increasing rate I'm finding more and more spiders about the house. Problem is I don't much like them and am not really very good at catching / killing them. The reason for me posting this is that I've just had to deal with the largest one since moving in - a medium-sized house spider. It was running about the hallway and resulted in me smashing it with a baseball bat.
Don't get me wrong, this worked very well, but I'd prefer not to kill them if possible or - even better - not have them enter the house in the first place. I'm not terrified of them per se (unlike the girlfriend, who could be found standing on the sofa, shrieking), but I wouldn't be upset if I never saw another spider ever again. Any ideas, or should I just buy a baseball bat for each room?
P.S. Can house spiders bite? I'm sure I've read somewhere they can.
Don't get me wrong, this worked very well, but I'd prefer not to kill them if possible or - even better - not have them enter the house in the first place. I'm not terrified of them per se (unlike the girlfriend, who could be found standing on the sofa, shrieking), but I wouldn't be upset if I never saw another spider ever again. Any ideas, or should I just buy a baseball bat for each room?
P.S. Can house spiders bite? I'm sure I've read somewhere they can.
poing said:
Scary, that's what that is!
Note the big nest of another 3000 of them due to come out shortly 
Personally, a jam jar and a bit of card and chuck them out. Don't like killing anything unless unavoidable, keep thinking of Karma
Wasps are fair game although I will try to get them out first before using the electrified bat.I had one abit like that last year crawl up my bedroom blind although i don't think it was that big.
It didn't half make my arse twitch especially when I clouted it with a book n it still managed to scarper off.
I was searching for about an hour as there was no way I was leaving it to plot revenge, I even tried to get the dog to find it.
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ks I've scared myself again now
It didn't half make my arse twitch especially when I clouted it with a book n it still managed to scarper off.
I was searching for about an hour as there was no way I was leaving it to plot revenge, I even tried to get the dog to find it.
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ks I've scared myself again nowIf they're not in my garage, they're in my house, wandering around putting me on edge, especially if found around bed-time.
I found one the other day in the bedroom, black typical house spider. I couldn't reach him to squash him with a handful or bog roll, (my usual method of relocation) so I broke out the hoover to get that extra reach and confirmation that he was removed and not just knocked onto the floor behind the wardrobe.
He hung on like a good'un, I had to physically knock him up and into the nozzle to suck him up. Mind you, he was only small, and our hoover is crap, this was exactly what I needed to prove to my missus that the hoover was crap, as she kept claiming it was fine - it couldn't suck a small spider up!
Anyone else noticing that there seems to be a lot of those spindly spiders that look like daddy long legs around? Usually I used to just see them in old, not very used rooms of old buildings, but now they seem to be everywhere, they infest my garage and are the main occupants of my house - I've only come across two or three house spiders in my four months here, compared to well over fifteen spindly ones...
I found one the other day in the bedroom, black typical house spider. I couldn't reach him to squash him with a handful or bog roll, (my usual method of relocation) so I broke out the hoover to get that extra reach and confirmation that he was removed and not just knocked onto the floor behind the wardrobe.
He hung on like a good'un, I had to physically knock him up and into the nozzle to suck him up. Mind you, he was only small, and our hoover is crap, this was exactly what I needed to prove to my missus that the hoover was crap, as she kept claiming it was fine - it couldn't suck a small spider up!
Anyone else noticing that there seems to be a lot of those spindly spiders that look like daddy long legs around? Usually I used to just see them in old, not very used rooms of old buildings, but now they seem to be everywhere, they infest my garage and are the main occupants of my house - I've only come across two or three house spiders in my four months here, compared to well over fifteen spindly ones...
From the youtube thread Spider vs Wasp
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fd3_1313494047
Fastward for 1 min for jaw dropping action!
I did see one of "my" garden spiders catch a fly like this.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fd3_1313494047
Fastward for 1 min for jaw dropping action!
I did see one of "my" garden spiders catch a fly like this.
Holy strewth, it's easy to catch them and dump them outside, or put them through your neighbour's letter box.
Get a tennisist ball plastic tube thing and plop it over the spider. Wait for it to run into the tube, or slide a piece of a stiff paper between the tube and floor/wall, then turn the tube upside down. Spiders can't climb out of the tube.
Take it outside and tip it into the garden/road/passing tramp's hood, neighbour's letter box. Job's a good un...
Tennisist ball tube ---->
Or a two litre plastic pop bottle, cut in half, will do...
Get a tennisist ball plastic tube thing and plop it over the spider. Wait for it to run into the tube, or slide a piece of a stiff paper between the tube and floor/wall, then turn the tube upside down. Spiders can't climb out of the tube.
Take it outside and tip it into the garden/road/passing tramp's hood, neighbour's letter box. Job's a good un...
Tennisist ball tube ---->
Or a two litre plastic pop bottle, cut in half, will do...
...or just smack them with something big and solid, preferably at the end of a long stick! Keep hitting them until dead then hit them for another few minutes to be certain then hit them again until they are a brown smear and some stray legs. Then get the garden gloves on, 10 sheets of kitchen roll and wipe them up, squish as hard as you can then flush down the loo, twice.
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