She has eaten him.

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My rather splendid female spider has today eaten her mate.

I am a little sad, they have been sharing a web for the last couple of weeks, I was beginning to think they had a Understanding . But alas, today Mr spider is no more.

For reference they are not pets, rather squatters that inhabit my ceiling.

... and a bottom freezer, and a head freezer, and a limb freezer ...

😈 😈 😂 😜

He he! If there was a spider mumsnet we would be saying Eat the bastard!!!!

Mine has been marinading in an Estrella lager jus and dry curing in the Mediterranean sunshine. What should I serve him with?

My DH is vegetarian, so we could eat him.

Rice and salad. Squeeze of lemon.

Anyone else now feeling the guilt at ‘getting rid’ of spiders taking refuge in the house? Might be a male spider that’s run away from its mate 😬

Also voting for this to be moved to classics @mnhq

Pork recipes work well for wayward husbands I hear.

BellaTheDarkOverlord · Today 09:04

When I told dh he said “oh yeh that’s Bruce, he is a dick but I love feeding him flies and watching him eat.

We've had a succession of house spiders in the toilet in our garage. A few years back, the first was Cindy (so named by my daughter - spider was female) who was there for more than 2 years. Cindy was eaten by a cellar spider. 😥

Shortly afterwards, Sid inherited her web and my daughter caught a fat bluebottle to feed him, he rushed out like Tyson, bit it and dragged it off and then hid, until the thrashing stopped. A few more such incidents followed.

Sid vanished, we hope not eaten. A couple of months later, a small male, Simon, spent a few days investigating the underside of the web, before taking up residence. Again, my daughter fed him with a greenbottle from the house.

He's gone now and there are several cellar spiders wandering about on the remnants of the web.

One autumn and winter we had a resident spider that lived in the corner of a window frame in the kitchen. She spent her time guarding her egg sac and very rarely left it. If our cooking made the window steam up, she'd come down and gather the moisture, leaving a herring bone pattern on the glass, so if our cooking didn't steam up the window, we'd flick a bit of water at it and she'd gather some of that. Come spring, she disappeared and we rather missed her. It was all very 'Charlotte's Web'.

We had one try to move into the Lego Home Alone house last autumn. I’m afraid we weren’t up for being spider landlords and evicted him posthaste.

@MNHQ please edit this photo asap! I can’t remove it argh

That looks like a scene from a horror film!

That is a beast.

Absolutely terrifying and I don’t normally mind them.

It sounds like the ideal way to raise a family. No toddler tantrums, no school run and no likelihood of the offspring moving back home when they are twenty-three and staying for nine years.

I think, though, in some species, the spiderlings eat the mother before they move on to independent living.

Those are my favourite type!

She should have just LTB.

😂😂😂🙌

If my DH was well hung I wouldn't be eating him , Well I mean there may be some bits of him id want to ummm taste ( I am sure I dont need to go into more detail ! ) 🍆

We have them in the bathroom periodically. I remember at one time there were two in there, until I looked one day and there was only one left. It was considerably fatter than it had been the day before.

If you think that’s a beast, wait until you see his big brother who we found sitting like a jaunty fascinator on the head of my son’s Doggy. Doggy is about 10 inches tall, to give you an idea of scale.

😂

My kind of thread

@WolfFoxHare where the heck do you live?! Ugh.
Don’t mind them as long as they stay in their lane!

Urgh. In one way a good idea but, in another, what would they taste of? Farts and testosterone?