Huuuuuuuuge Spiders!

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Has anyone noticed bigger/more spiders about? We normally get a fair number of the giant house spiders and have become pretty accustomed to them, but there seem to be a lot more of them in the last month or so and they are fucking huge (as in much bigger than normal). I have a spider phobia that has been pretty under control but I’ve just seen yet another massive one on the landing and now feel like they are everywhere. Have just checked my room and bed for the first time in years. Feeling very creeped out. Why are they suddenly so big and prolific?

Has anyone tried this…..

https://www.primrose.co.uk/product/_/advanced-spider-repellent-whole-house-by-pestbye/classid.8743/sku.PB0100/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22153917528&gbraid=0AAAAADt1SLDRlLl2-Tul-pt67Wt-iC0m6&gclid=CjwKCAjw24vBBhABEiwANFG7y5UnYPysPMemsJM72spr3EutMMzCNtof_ZpdVDQIuSk3Ig3S9VwKARoCbIQQAvD_BwE

I’ve had some huge ones recently but they don’t bother me. I just don’t want them to drown in the bath.

Aaarrrrhhhhh

Why did I open this thread.!

Now I’m going to have to check the house and we have beams in the bedroom 😫
im going to need a coffee for this

Waits for the Australian contingent to join the chat …

Sorry! Didn’t mean to pass on my fear. If it helps I’ve not slept yet and have checked by bed twice! In bed now but feeling nervous….

😂

My DH is home 24/7 at the moment, so we have windows open that whole time. My skill at catch and release has gotten pretty good! I don't think ours are any bigger than before though.

Not slept either….but I’m not blaming you as I did have that coffee 🤣

My problem is that we have jetties on two sides of the bedroom. The only thing between me and the outside world and lots of these big spiders is one layer of floor boards. I can see the grass below through the gaps. So now I’m imagining them all crawling up through the floorboards.

The dog went a bit looney a while ago and ran to the corner of the room seemingly after something and my first thought was huge spiders 😆 ( usually I think it’s a ghost which tbh I’d prefer )

We’ve definitely had some thick legged monsters since we’ve moved to an old house in a more farm / rural location.

Yes, those big thick ones are fast and I go after them immediately. Smaller spiders or the spindley legged ones I might leave and see if they make they're own way out!

I’ve hardly (knowingly) had a spider since I got my dog 7 years ago, he’s disgustingly keen on the stomp and chomp method of pest control. There was one time he was in the living room, fully engrossed in wrestling with one of his toys when he stopped dead, jumped up and ran through the hall into the kitchen and found one on the back door curtain. DO THEY SMELL?

@MooseBeTimeForSnow hi 😁

When I lived in the UK I used to have the kind of arachnophobia that meant I couldn’t be in a room if there was even a tiny spider I could see. Now I can deal with huntsmen - don’t like them and if DH is around he will do it - as actually they are the good guys, they eat the poisonous ones so it just feels wrong to do anything other than usher them outside. I do get my house sprayed annually though so they are very rare.

I’m usually running in the other direction

Is there a spray to stop spiders coming in ?

Hi!

Big spiders like huntsmen spiders? Not a fan of them. The southern states’ huntsmen spiders might be friendly but the Queensland ones are vicious bastards that will jump at you. DH deals with them thankfully. No catch and release. Just kill.

@DrPrunesqualer You can get the house treated for insects meaning that there will be no food inside for the spiders, so spiders won’t bother coming in. Gets rid of geckos too because there’s no food source.

In the UK a shallow dish of white vinegar in the bedroom at least means if they are in the house, they are unlikely to choose that room. I live alone though so can get away with the weirdness of doing this 🤣

Haven’t seen a spider of any size for ages I am extremely grateful to report!

Thank you that was the kind of tip I was hoping for. I can cope with them (just about) elsewhere but I don’t want them in my bedroom. I’ll put some vinegar out……

Haha this reminds me of a cat we had, he loved to eat those big spiders, and he always knew when there was one, I used to think they must sing, that's why he could hear where they were and find them in the dark!

Current moggy will chase them and play but am not yet convinced he'll finish the job, just chase them to a place I can't get to them with the spider catcher!

Sorry the vinegar thing is bullshit. As if a spider is merely scuttling along, runs under a door into a vinegar smelling room and thinks "nope". It just carries on because it's a spider and it has no sense of floorplans.

Honestly if you saw me now on a mattress in the middle of the bedroom and no furniture other than an old 50s wardrobe you wouldn’t think you were so weird.

Just off downstairs now to get vinegar and bowls
Thanks for the tip.

Re pets eating spiders there are so many false widows about, are pets safe to eat them I wonder they give extremely nasty bites

My bedrooms are small the doors are all open, one room has a vinegary smell about it, so yep it does deter them. Not many people would find the trade off worth it, but I do. But now you've put the picture of a spider with a little rolled-up house plan under one leg, which it carefully consults before it's next strategic move, so thanks for that 🤣

Waves.
I actually have sympathy because I too was scared of spiders while I still lived in Melbourne as a kid. Then I moved to the tropics for a while and saw a bird eating spider on my friends arm. Now they would have to run across my face to bother me. DH screams like a sook when he sees anything bigger than a daddy longlegs. He's always lived in Melbourne though.

Singing spiders!!!! That’s almost redeemed them for me!