How many big house spiders have you seen in your house this season?

[JellyTot222]

I think this year has been our worst. It started early august and still going now. I’ve just had to kill one this morning and now I feel guilty. Dp usually deals with them but he’s not here. I’m fed up feeling a prisoner in my own home.

1 giant one last night and it was right behind our brand new pram for baby so it was going OUT!! Been a few average ones but this was a proper spider season monster.

It's my 1st day of mat leave today so now I'm in the house more I'm sure I'll see more!

Shitloads here.
They're plentiful and huge.
I let them live their spidery lives and only bother removing them if they're in peril.

We've had loads and they are gigantic. I am terrified of them. One ran over my bare foot the other day - hideous. DH was away last night and I took the hoover to bed with me, just in case!

There was a huge spider in our living room last night and we didn't manage to catch it so it's still lurking somewhere! We never kill them, we have a spider box and relocate them to the garage.
I hate the idea of killing them or hoovering them up even though I'm a bit scared of the really big ones.

We have had maybe 4 or 5 since the beginning of August, but I never kill them! Can’t believe anyone does! I scoop them up in a tea towel and either put them outside or I put them on the wood stack in the garage. Here’s a pic of one on the kitchen door a few days ago. It’s quite small compared to some I have found in the house

If you are putting house spiders outside, you basically are killing them.

The ones you put in the garage will have more of a chance.

That makes sense, although I have seen a cellar spider take down a huge adult house spider. The house spiders don’t make webs and aren’t equipped to cope with them, so the spindly guys cast strands of web at and over them, tangling their legs and disabling them. Then they go in for in the kill. I don’t know if it’s mostly defensive or mostly predatory though, or what happens if they get it wrong.

Where do house spiders live before scaring half the population a few months of the year? We’ve had a monster in the bathroom which is a bit too close to the bedroom for my liking. Won’t ever kill one but they will get a talking to for startling me.

Just one truly enormous one. Unfortunately for me it was crawling on my shoulder. I’m usually reasonably zen about spiders but not afraid to say I absolutely lost my shit. Even DH, who likes to scoff whenever I say spiders are big, had to admit it was a very large one when I made him retrieve it.

Seems a shame that these House spiders who can't survive outside, haven't managed to build a mutually supportive relationship with humans over the years. We had a whopper in the kitchen yesterday who kept walking back in. If he or she would agree to stay in one corner I would let them take up residence but then I may end up with hundreds of spiders babies too.

I've had a couple of house spiders this year. I like spiders though so I don't mind them..I do tend to put them outside though, as otherwise they get eaten by cellar spiders of which there are many (every once in a while I will chuck them out too but thy're more useful than most at catching flies that get in so I usually just leave them).

I think they just chill out in dark corners. I’m sure I read that when you see them running across the floor this time of year, it’s when they’re looking for mates.

I saw a massive one mooching down the pavement the other night when I was walking the other way. It looked a little lost; I wonder if it had been chucked outside by someone.

We have two young cats this year and they have dispatched a couple so far. Predecessor cat was never interested, so this is a brilliant development.

On the whole though, September is a terrifying month for me. Dh went away on a business trip yesterday, so I resorted to my usual routine in spider season when he’s not here - I went to bed at 8.45pm and turned off the lights. Can’t see ‘em, they’re not there…

We have several of the wispy gangly spiders, but each of the last two days I've had to capture the big fast meaty ones from the bedroom. Last night was the worst. I literally heard it run across my pillow. I jumped up, light on, see it rubbing towards DH, got him out of bed, do a search whilst he asks if i imagined it, I find it, get it outside. We love sleeping with the windows open, but I'm done with that for a bit. I'm a big fan of spiders, but I do not want them in my bedroom.

4 or 5 massive ones. Feels like more than usual, and they started early too.

I actually feel a bit guilty now knowing they can’t survive outside. I get lots in my house, my partner would squish them so I thought I was being kind by catching them and putting them outside.

Maybe they’d have a chance in the wood store and that could become their new home.

2 large house spiders in the space of 3 days, and a dead false widow in the bed shudder.

I have to admit I’ve used Spider Spray on the House Spiders, cos Me & DP are TERRIFIED of them, and can’t bring ourselves to get near them. However, we’re slowly cultivating a collection of Cellar Spiders, to try and naturally cull the population. The spindly boys are our friends. We don’t tend to bother them, as they don’t bother us. They just pick a corner, and stay there. There’s also one living behind the loo, who I say hello, to every morning 😂

Interesting! Got my peppermint oil arriving this morning so fed up of living like a nervous wreck.

There's one cellar spider in the bathroom I say good morning to. He's been around ages.

We've had so many fruit flies and wasps this year though.

I don't see it that way- we release ours by the small block of flats next door to our house, there is a covered carport and multiple residences/ some garage/ shed spaces. I feel like they have a chance to find a new home. And even if they don't I'd rather they become food for a bird than wasted in the rubbish.

2 in my dd’s room much to her horror, one large in the kitchen, still hiding somewhere. I will try to rescue and chuck out the window, even the spindly ones are not safe to have around, I left one alone in the corner of my bedroom for a week or so, dd was more suspicious and one day said ‘mum it’s had babies’ 😱

Such a sad thread, poor spiders.
I don’t understand why they get so much hatred and fear, British spiders don’t harm us at all.

Several, either leave them to it, catch them using a glass or card or get DS to take them out (he's really good at getting them into his cupped hands gently). Put them outside in the log store. Never kill them.

So far - none thankfully. I'm absolutely terrified of them.

I have had a lot of the cellar spiders and the ones that have a fatter body, little legs - but no harvest spiders that I have seen.

If I do see one, I'm afraid it's a case of him or me - so I will use spider spray on him .... half a aerosol if need be!!!

When I was with my husband he would deal with the eight legged freaks. In fact, that was the only thing he did do!!!

I more meant people who chuck them in the garden because they “can’t see how anyone could kill them”. Fine if you think it’s better to feed the birds, I can see that that makes sense.
But house spiders die in the temperatures outside, so it’s not reasonable, in my opinion, to put them outside and act aghast at people who kill then directly.