To ask how to get rid of cellar spiders?

I tolerate the cellar spiders as long as they’re not in my face - don’t like the thought of them inside pans or running across surfaces.

There is one who has taken up residence above my shower. I’ve warned him he’s probably going to get splashed with water and/or horribly killed but he’s not listening.

I have a conker tree in my garden and can assure you putting conkers around the house makes not a shred of difference to the number of spiders in my home. Indorex flea killer does deter those horrible big house spiders though ime.

Bloody hell those tidy bodies (granted long legs) eat the big spiders?! That’s deffo something new I’ve learned today!

Daddy long legs crane fly............ and Daddy long legs spider - too different creatures.

Its the Daddy long legs spider that is apparently more properly known as a cellar spider - but always and only ever known to me as a Daddy long legs. Never heard them called a cellar spider before.

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I was going to say YABU because they eat the big ones but getting them in your pans etc sounds extreme. I echo pp and say try a dehumidifier.

Daddy Long Legs is a type of crane fly.

I hate, hate, hate spiders but, after reading on here a few years back, I keep one per room to eat the big fuckers (although, I'm not convinced they do, because I still get those as well!).

That's not nice to be infested with them, though. Bleurgh!

As PP has suggested, apparently Indorex will leave your home like a spider massacre. It's supposed to last six months. I'm going to get some next month to ward off the BF (big fuckers).

Daddy long legs aren’t the same as cellar spiders

Daddy Long Legs! (Ive never heard them referred to as cellar spiders before)

I hoovered up 12 yesterday out of one room! They like the damp, I can tell which corners they will be in and check them every day and hoovering them up. As pp said maybe a dehumidifier would help

@KnittedCardi I had to google them and omg I feel stupid for moaning about cellar spiders. WTF those are terrifying! 😱Are you in Australia?!

We've had a lot of false widows!!!!! They are good at catching flies though, so I let them stay in the conservatory. The only spiders I allow in the house are the cellar spiders, as others have said, they eat the other big buggers, which is a good thing.

We've always had a few of these (I didn't know what they were called til I googled the other day) and I'd leave them be as they usually just hang in the bathroom and there would only be one or two. But honestly they are EVERYWHERE the past month! I go round with the hoover every night and get at least 10! Most of them are tiny but a couple are the big ones, and they've started walking along kitchen tops and down walls and breaking their deal of just hanging in the corner 😱

Then the next day there more are, it's ridiculous. It's probably my fault as I do get everywhere damp from excessive handwashing and we had a lot of woodlouse in this year so that may be why. They've definitely reduced woodlouse numbers. I feel your pain though, I'm not sure what to do other than get rid of them every day. I would rather the normal ones too, they never appear in these crazy numbers.

I keep cellar spiders when they appear because I'm ridiculously afraid of the huge buggers they eat, but have the red Raid spray for emergency spiders and have also heard people say Indorex gets rid of them all. But be careful with both if you have pets, and around your food prep areas.

The extra humidity caused by the damp from the wet room could well be an issue. Try a dehumidifier or two. If this is the issue though you could well see more for a while as they move around looking for somewhere better.

BUT, them being in your bags, shoes, cupboards and pans...eek.

I don't know but try and keep a few as funnily enough they eat all the really big house spiders. You wouldn't believe it because of the size but it's true!