Is spider season over?

[EricNorthmansMistress]

I haven't seen any in a couple of weeks

No. A massive dark grey beastie interrupted Downton Abbey on Sunday

It is also Daddy-Long-Legs season. Horrid flying spiders!

They're luring you into a false sense of security. Just wait til the weather gets colder, they'll all be using your duvet to keep warm.

Feck feck feck
I hate the critters
Cries

I have one in my house named Boris. He is the size of quite a small mouse. I am terrified of him, but allow him to stay because I am Only A Girl and therefore unable to deal with him.

So they like the warm do they...?

Sorry, we had one that was literally the size of an actual shire horse on our stairs last night. DH had to put reins and a saddle on it to get it out of the house. I was a bit pissed off, I could have ridden it to work and saved on the congestion charge.

'cept this October is going to be very sunny and very warm!

'fraid not, owing to the weather over the year it's going to be a bumper crop in both garden and house. We have loads stringing their webs across the paths in the garden, and have already found a couple of whoppers in the house.

Think you've got another month to go- sorry. My OH hates them too, though I'm not bothered and consequently spend September and October running round the house with stiff card and a pint glass to pick them up and move them where he can't see them chuck them miles away from the house

I have two tortoiseshell spiders (Harry and Charlotte)outside on humungus webs, in fact they are the mansion of webs. I am sure they have skye TV and a telephone line installed.
Harry spider is between the back door and the lounge window, he has been resident there for over a week and is getting bigger and bigger by the day.
The dog whipped his mansion down with his waggy tail but the next day the mansion was rebuilt bigger and better and there was Harry in the centre with a "bring it on " look on his face . I kid you not this little fucker has tattoos and looks like he is practising with numchucks .
I may send him to Dale farm to be a bouncer .
The second spider (Charlotte) is a little smaller but fast and has a web almost the width of the shed, in fact , I reckon she is looking at squatting in the shed ..and I will let her or get S.A.S. in . My money would still be on the spider.

Didn't realise it had started!

Barr a couple tiny one's in the garden I haven't seen any in my house this year.

I couldn't care less what creepy fuckers made webs outside. It's just ... WHY WHY WHY must you insist on trying to shower with me, Mr Spider???? This morning, I showered, turned to face the wall to rinse off soap from my left arm and there was one, happily waving at me from where he had dropped down from the ceilling. He was at Honest to God eye level and looked incredibly cheerful. Cheeky no good fucker. I pay a premium for that water you know.

Obviously I then had to exit without getting all the soap off.

At work one day this summer me and the chef found a stripey red spider in the eggs (they have their own chickens) and I have never seen a spider move so fast and then HIDE. I hate how when they hide they can literally disappear.

Spider season is definitely NOT over. Shudder.

BUT I don't mind them, they catch the flies (the joys of living near a dairy farm), the ones I DO hate are the vast amount of DaddyLongLegs's's's - ARGH its like a weird Hitchcock movie in our house, they are everywhere (but mostly in the hoover bag now).

We had one the size of a small dog in the bathroom last week.

I am vaguely interested in this idea of spider traps, but am afraid to google for them in case the have pictures of spiders near them. And I can't even look at pictures of spiders.

Think the worst is over but we're not out of the woods yet. I have been more successful this year at keeping the beasties at bay.

We always get loads of the massive ones as our house backs onto some woods so this year I was determined to step up my game as last year it was like the final scenes from Arachnophobia

So this year...did a big house clean, top to bottom, then liberally sprayed 'Spider Stop' around. Had lots less spiders (which is good considering this is meant to be a bumper year for the blighters).

DP has turned the heating on. I may give him a choice between disrupted sleep and massive screams or a hot water bottle. I found one so large in our bathroom on Monday night that it took me several minutes to calm down and pluck up the courage to brush my teeth in case it had been running over it

He killed it and picked it up with his hands to put outside. I made him scrub them before he went back to bed. I'm another who can't look at pictures of spiders. I hate their creepy long legs. Tiny spiders are fine-ish, but I can't deal with anything bigger than a 5p piece.

The brown spotted/striped garden spiders that build the really sticky webs are still in the garden but I HOPE the giant black ones have stopped coming into the house

I've 'borrowed' a few of conkers my DSC collected in the hope it will deter the monster creatures that have taken up residence behind the TV, so far so good!

i have bites from camping this weekend too.

Where can we buy spider stop? I need some!

Rose he killed it

I hate the hairy feckers but don't kill them, swill em down the plug hole, glass and card trick, hoovered em, but nooooooooo don't kill em.
neglects to inform readers I have been known to use hairspray to make them stay still so I can glass and card em and have covered a particularly large one (think small mouse) in a full can of shaving foam, which probably made it cough somewhat
but never kill em .

Im lying aren't I the hairspray and foam would have deaded em wouldn't it

We've had loads throughout the first part of September, but DH (who's more wimpy than me!) has spread conkers around the house, and it may just be coincidence but we've lad loads less spiders for the past week.

He's feeling very proud of himself!

Link for Spider Stop

www.amazon.co.uk/Betterware-Spider-Stop-500ml/dp/B003D4UJF6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1317221578&sr=8-2

Smells nice too - lovely clove-y smell

fit2drop I was a bit :( at the killing. Everyone I've conned by screaming hysterically at asked has always moved them outside for me. I also (if they're small enough) move them outside. Dad calls them 'George' and has his 'George Catcher' (earbud tub and a postcard).

I think the hairspray will probably might have killed them, yes You can get spider hoovers although I may get some of that Spider Stop.

Having said all that, I'm not adverse to dropping an encyclopaedia on a big one if it runs across the carpet and I'm by myself.