Has spider season started early this year?
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Getting loads of big f
kers coming into the house already this year. Normally it's at least mid- to late-September before they start coming in.
Not impressed with my "No More Spiders" spray this year. They've changed the formula; it used to smell of cinnamon but now smells of peppermint, and doesn't seem to work as well.
I'm surprised, because it's been a reasonably warm summer and although it has gone a fraction cooler in the last week or so, it's still not exactly cold. Or is this not driven by falling temperatures? Perhaps the males are hornier due to the nice summer and are out looking for females earlier.
Are you starting to get horrific great monsters coming into the house already?
kers coming into the house already this year. Normally it's at least mid- to late-September before they start coming in.Not impressed with my "No More Spiders" spray this year. They've changed the formula; it used to smell of cinnamon but now smells of peppermint, and doesn't seem to work as well.
I'm surprised, because it's been a reasonably warm summer and although it has gone a fraction cooler in the last week or so, it's still not exactly cold. Or is this not driven by falling temperatures? Perhaps the males are hornier due to the nice summer and are out looking for females earlier.
Are you starting to get horrific great monsters coming into the house already?
Dr Mike Oxgreen said:
Getting loads of big fkers coming into the house already this year. Normally it's at least mid- to late-September before they start coming in.
Not impressed with my "No More Spiders" spray this year. They've changed the formula; it used to smell of cinnamon but now smells of peppermint, and doesn't seem to work as well.
I'm surprised, because it's been a reasonably warm summer and although it has gone a fraction cooler in the last week or so, it's still not exactly cold. Or is this not driven by falling temperatures? Perhaps the males are hornier due to the nice summer and are out looking for females earlier.
Are you starting to get horrific great monsters coming into the house already?
I haven't had any personally but I know people who have in the last couple weeks. I believe it's due to the drop in temperature at night time recently! kers coming into the house already this year. Normally it's at least mid- to late-September before they start coming in.Not impressed with my "No More Spiders" spray this year. They've changed the formula; it used to smell of cinnamon but now smells of peppermint, and doesn't seem to work as well.
I'm surprised, because it's been a reasonably warm summer and although it has gone a fraction cooler in the last week or so, it's still not exactly cold. Or is this not driven by falling temperatures? Perhaps the males are hornier due to the nice summer and are out looking for females earlier.
Are you starting to get horrific great monsters coming into the house already?
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lamboman100 said:
UK spiders are almost completely harmless. Not sure why some get kicks from killing them for the sake if it. Leave them be.
Thus speaks someone who isn't afraid of them. Good for you, but unfortunately no amount of rational argument is going to change the fact that for some reason my brain is wired to be very, very scared of them.Get a cat.
(Get a Bengal, if you can)
No insect lasts more than forty seconds in my house due to Alfie's ever vigilant and 'eat it quick' attitude. He can throw himself near five feet upwards into the nearest crazed bluebottle. And there's no pawing around - no playful toying here. The job gets done there and then (apparently, according to The Internet, this is down to their wilder ancestors preferring birds to rodents). And spiders stand even less of a chance that Billy Blue Arse.
So, that's my PH tinted suggestion. Woefully impractical, prohibitively expensive, and ever so slightly boastful.
Now, I must get back to work to powerfully direct some beta males about.
PS. Buy an MX5.
(Get a Bengal, if you can)
No insect lasts more than forty seconds in my house due to Alfie's ever vigilant and 'eat it quick' attitude. He can throw himself near five feet upwards into the nearest crazed bluebottle. And there's no pawing around - no playful toying here. The job gets done there and then (apparently, according to The Internet, this is down to their wilder ancestors preferring birds to rodents). And spiders stand even less of a chance that Billy Blue Arse.
So, that's my PH tinted suggestion. Woefully impractical, prohibitively expensive, and ever so slightly boastful.
Now, I must get back to work to powerfully direct some beta males about.
PS. Buy an MX5.
MM93 said:
THX said:
OR!
I say we take off, and nuke the site from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
I second that. Or burn the house down. I say we take off, and nuke the site from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
"A homeowner who killed a spider by setting it alight had to call 999 after her house caught fire."
Edited by jmorgan on Friday 15th August 09:49
jmorgan said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wale...
"A homeowner who killed a spider by setting it alight had to call 999 after her house caught fire."
"A homeowner who killed a spider by setting it alight had to call 999 after her house caught fire."
Edited by jmorgan on Friday 15th August 09:49
You can't make that stuff up! Only in Wales... 
lamboman100 said:
UK spiders are almost completely harmless. Not sure why some get kicks from killing them for the sake if it. Leave them be.
They are but I got attacked by a house spider the other day ;-) I saw him sitting there on the wall, big bd he was. Me being me I thought I'd touch it. Well the git turnt round a nipped me on the finger then pegged it into a hole. Was quite surprised as I've touched and grabbed plenty of the big house spiders to remove the from the house with no nips before. Maybe they're mutating ;-)
THX said:
Get a cat.
(Get a Bengal, if you can)
No insect lasts more than forty seconds in my house due to Alfie's ever vigilant and 'eat it quick' attitude. He can throw himself near five feet upwards into the nearest crazed bluebottle. And there's no pawing around - no playful toying here. The job gets done there and then (apparently, according to The Internet, this is down to their wilder ancestors preferring birds to rodents). And spiders stand even less of a chance that Billy Blue Arse.
So, that's my PH tinted suggestion. Woefully impractical, prohibitively expensive, and ever so slightly boastful.
Now, I must get back to work to powerfully direct some beta males about.
PS. Buy an MX5.
As a Bengal slave (and ex MX5 owner) I would agree up until the spider (a rather large one in this case) bites the cat (yes they can). Then the previous fearless Bengal becomes much more wary of spiders and is less keen on pounding them into the carpet. Similar things can occur with ants.(Get a Bengal, if you can)
No insect lasts more than forty seconds in my house due to Alfie's ever vigilant and 'eat it quick' attitude. He can throw himself near five feet upwards into the nearest crazed bluebottle. And there's no pawing around - no playful toying here. The job gets done there and then (apparently, according to The Internet, this is down to their wilder ancestors preferring birds to rodents). And spiders stand even less of a chance that Billy Blue Arse.
So, that's my PH tinted suggestion. Woefully impractical, prohibitively expensive, and ever so slightly boastful.
Now, I must get back to work to powerfully direct some beta males about.
PS. Buy an MX5.
We've had nine now, all in the past two weeks and all Giant House Spiders. Usually we get a couple a month in Sept/Oct, not one every other day.
The one tonight was in my Son's bed!
Tried all the usual sprays (including the twice-yearly flee spray which usually kills everything), but nothing seems to be deterring them this year.
The one tonight was in my Son's bed!
Tried all the usual sprays (including the twice-yearly flee spray which usually kills everything), but nothing seems to be deterring them this year.
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