Spider season 😭

[Hardknocks]

I need all your foolproof tips. DH and I both scared of spiders, it’s pathetic. I just found a giant house spider in the bathroom and we both spent half an hour working out how to trap it, it involved a broom because both of us were too scared to go in the room and a very big tub!

I hate them so much, I can handle the smaller ones but the giant ones make me want to cry.

I thought this too. Its mating season for them. They come out looking for a mate cos frisky.

What the hell are huge cardinal spiders arghhhh.
I live in Somerset and we only get small ones here that my cats eat. I rarely see any.
When I lived in Bedfordshire the spiders were massive, real monsters. I'm never going back there.
Get some cats. They will stalk and eat them.

I have had FOUR already. God help me It's going to be a long season. I'm even scared of hoovering them because if I miss and they run and hide. Or come down the outside of the pipe!! And so far my cat has been useless. She played with one for a while and then let it go.

I have this kind of spider catcher too, it’s pretty good.

I also second doing the Friendly Spider Programme at London Zoo. I still don’t particularly like them but I’m much less scared than before and importantly I don’t worry about them unless there is actually one there.

Just hoover them up. No point with the spider catchers and putting them outside. They are house spiders in the main, so you are killing them anyway.

Cultivate you spindly jobs, they are the best spider catchers available.

@PortiasBiscuit I know it’s irrational and illogical and ridiculous to be so actively frightened and I hate it and wish I didn’t feel like this but I do.

I can’t even look at most of the links people are posting because they all have pictures of the creatures in question on them!

I have learned to put up with the spindly ones because they take out the larger ones but I’m still on edge when I walk into a room, and I’m scanning all the corners and hidden dark spots. It’s exhausting.

DD and I are terrified of them. DS just picks them up and puts them out. He is never being allowed to leave home

Why on earth would you want to kill them? FFS. They're just living their lives.

I genuinely despise people like you.

My husband woke up with a giant one on his head last night!!

Just don’t Google image them - they are basically massive house spiders like huge…. Ooh I’m even anxious writing this now…

My mum buys a repellent spray called Zero and says she never gets them now.

so they genuinely can actually get onto your bed - is your bed against a wall 🤞 (hoping that’s the case as mine isn’t)

They don't come in from outside, they're house spiders so they're there all the time. One of their favourite homes is behind skirting boards.

They can climb up the legs or fall from the ceiling. But do try the Zero spray, maybe spray it around the base of your bed.

I even have just shutters in my house as I can not bear the thought of having curtains especially ones that touch the floor as I have previously had them and spiders hide in them agghhhh

Yes, we've got one.
Great for catching bees that stray indoors too.

I'm not scared of them but found a spider on my shoulder the other day, must admit I yelped and brushed it off, it crawled slowly across the floor and I hoped lived!

At least the poisonous ones in the UK don't have jaws strong enough to bite humans 🙂

This time of year I get so anxious before I go to bed. If I see one In my room I can't sleep.
We've been known to have 4 in a week before 😱
Interestingly, the only room I have seen one this year is in dc room. That's the only room I remove the spindly spiders from too! The spindly ones are allowed in to stay in the other rooms.

I also let spindly ones hang around - big ones with boots on have to go outside

Funnily enough I saw 5 or 6 last night and thought it was a bit early for them.

I just leave them be but I don’t have a phobia of them (I keep tarantulas and I always look for egg sacks on bananas/grapes) if the cats catch them then so be it.

Bit like bees spiders are an important part of the eco system.

Good tip - leave a folded up hand towel or whatever hung over the side of your bath over night - any beasts that fall in the bath can therefore get themselves back out using the towel to climb up and you don’t have to see them phew…

not seen a spider in my bath the last 4 years Ive been doing this 👍

they are obviously still in the the bathroom you just don’t have to see them.

Well that's just silly. I hoover up flies, I kill fleas on the cat, I trap mice. There are things that you don't want in your house. Anything can live in my garden, I have a wildlife haven, but not in my house.

Flies, fleas and mice are hazards. Killing them is reasonable. Killing spiders is spiteful and counter productive given that they kill flies and do no harm.

Jesus fucking Christ! Climbed into bed the other night and saw a HUGE bastard on the wall above my bed. Palpitations started & called DH who was watching tv downstairs. Had to keep my eye fixed on it while waiting for him to get upstairs in case it moved. This freaked me out the most I think.
He grabbed it in a piece of tissue and took it away.
I spent the rest of the night imagining it has dropped onto my bed.
I had to text him to make sure he'd definitely removed it.
Pathetic but I was terrified.
I'm nearly 50 ffs.
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Helpful.

Maybe because I’m in Scotland but I had some bad ones a couple of months ago. One giant one was on the headboard of my bed when I went up. It was horrific and I had to sleep in the spare room for a week while I got my dad over to check every inch of the room and then did a massive declutter. I’m still haunted by it.