In shock - spider

I found one IN MY HAIR the other day! I am just grateful it was only big and not the ridiculous lly enormous one I have spotted running around the living room of an evening.

Spiders are lovely! Even the biggest of them are tiny in comparison to us, and there are no poisonous ones in this country. To those who are scared of spiders: woman up and take it as a challenge to not be afraid of them.

I'm pretty sure all spiders in the UK are venomous, and the same goes for spiders in the rest of the world. It's how they immobilise their prey.

If you mean poisonous as in a danger to eat, not so, though best cooked I understand.

theres no poisonous 1s in the world

Why do they always crawl into the bath, then they’re stuck. We now put a length of toilet roll in the bath and over the side for them to escape. I don’t kill then these days, I used to, but as I’ve got older I’m not so afraid of them.

They live in the house all year round (assuming we’re talking about the big house spiders?), we see them more in September because they come out of their hiding places to mate.

Someone told me that if you put them within ten feet of your house they find their way back in but I don’t know if that’s true!

The mum of the house, of a Twitter account I follow, was woken recently by the footsteps (footsteps!!!) of a big spider going up the wall.

Imagine something so big you hear it's footsteps 😱

I'm going to be sleeping with the light on again tonight now I've thought of it again...

Spider week is coming. When there's a load of rain in September the little creeps appear from everywhere. My house isn't bad but my mother's house was horrendous, never seen spiders like it, we always thought or was because there were a lot of trees in the garden and ivy growing up the house

<closes windows in bedroom>

I am not afraid of spiders but if they are really big I catch them in a saucepan and then put the lid on so they can't get out until I have taken them outside.

It is the mating season so you see the males moving around looking for the females. You generally don’t see the females. They are bigger.

I've had some massive ones lately that even scare the cat! The last one, unfortunately, had a text book thrown on it which I then jumped up and down on.

A few years ago at work a spider landed on my hand and ran up my sleeve.... unfortunately I was right in front of a security camera at the time so was never able to live down my frantic efforts to get it.

Spiders are lovely! Even the biggest of them are tiny in comparison to us, and there are no poisonous ones in this country. To those who are scared of spiders: woman up and take it as a challenge to not be afraid of them. 🕸

That big and you didn’t take a picture?

We’re in Scotland so the weather hasn’t been as extreme, but DD came shooting out of her room yesterday morning as one emerged from the piles of clothes on her floor. She’s normally fine with them but apparently this one was a big bastard. If it encourages her to pick up her clothes I will personally catch flies for it!

yep I’ve seen some bloody huge ones over the last couple of weeks and they seem to be coming out earlier than they have in previous years

There’s a huge one in my garage, I talk to her when I’m sorting the washing.

I found a big dead one inside my pillow case when changing the bed yesterday <<shudder>>

They do seem extra big this year. Wonder if this is a side effect of the hot summer and global warning.

I had one drop on me the other night in bed. It ran down my shoulder and I leaped up (most aerobic exercise I've had in a while) and it flipped off into the pillows. Got an angle poise lamp on the bed because no way was I going to risk not finding it. Flipped back the duvet and shook the pillows, and it ran down and got stymied by the folded over duvet. Only about an inch and a half, but it was confused long enough to get a glass and a card to trap it. Released it under the kitchen sink as I won't kill them. Then spent the rest of the night feeling phantom spider crawling whenever my long hair touched me. I try not to be squeamish and even watch jumping spider videos to try and believe they're cute. I think I'm kidding myself 😆

Try spotting a huntsman spider in the bathroom when you’re having a shower! 😱

My DIL was reading my DGS his bedtime story. He had his head on his pillow, listening to the story and getting sleepy.

Suddenly an absolutely massive spider crawled onto his pillow. She was struck completely dumb and couldn’t move. He turned his head and had eye to eye contact with the spider. They both shot out of his room and barricaded themselves into another bedroom, calling my DS for help. Luckily he’s brave and fearless and quickly caught the spider and rehomed it into his shed. Even he said it was the largest house spider he had ever seen.

i think it’s the weather we’ve had. I found a very large spider in my living room this morning. It was dead and my poodle looked guilty and was licking her lips.

I had one in my hair yesterday morning - thought there was a strand of hair that kept straying over my forehead, went to brush it away and it jumped off!
Don't really mind them at a distance but that made me yelp loudly...

I climbed out of the shower yesterday and a mahoosive spider fell off the shower door frame and scuttled off across the bathroom floor. It must have been IN THERE WITH ME😬😬 Why can’t they munch other insects discreetly in a corner instead of charging about dramatically, scaring the shit out of innocent people? Bloody attention seeking bastards.

I have spotted about 30 teeny tiny little orange spiders in my bathroom. I've just let them be. But fingers crossed they don't grow into humungous beasts. There is one of those cellar spiders with the wibbly legs sitting in one corner so I reckon he/she will eat some of the smaller ones.

It's autumn. They come in the house. They can surprise you very easily. I don't mind picking them up and moving them but they have to go outside as DH detests them.