Is spider season over?

[EricNorthmansMistress]

I haven't seen any in a couple of weeks

I actually deliberately coaxed one out from the back of the TV once with a broom , because the dog was laid in front of the sofa and I knew he would eat it.
He did eventually after bringing it to me with its great ropey fucking legs hanging and kicking shudders at the memory out the front of his mouth.
That'll teach me.

Harry and Charlotte (the outside stripey spiders) are still going strong.

Barrrrrstarrrrds!!

We have one outside our bathroom window, which in all truth, is the size of a mouse.

Then there's the huge one in our old kitchen sink (in playroom, where else?) which is enormous, and has been living on captured daddy longlegs for the last month.

I woke this morning to see one walking along our bedroom ceiling. All I can hope is that he didn't have a friend who ended up in my mouth when sleeping.

Spider season is still happening.

Don't worry if you're missing them, they'll be back next year.

I have a spider living in the wing mirror of my car. It probably likes the fact that my wing mirrors are heated.

It doesn't enjoy commuting much though, I find it in a web in the morning, it clings on like grim death all the way down the dual carriageway and finally gives up, crawling back into the wing mirror in a big fat strop as I turn into the car park at work.

I've tried telling it that it isn't going to catch a lot of flies this way, but it isn't listening.

Is spider season over? Not in my FRIDGE its not

I caught three massive spiders last night, and four the night before! Still plenty around in my house

carabos

Please tell me you are joking

Spiders cannot live in fridges, they just can't , no no no . omg even my pork cutlets aren't safe
faints

Thank you Eric for that article.

"According to Stuart Hine, spider expert at the Natural History Museum, the largest domestic spider is "the Tegenaria parietina, or cardinal spider, reputed to have bitten Cardinal Wolsey. These can measure up to 6in across, about the size of a beer glass.""

Six inches? Oh. My. God.

Fit that's what I thought until last night. I just reached round it to get the butter ignored it and shut the door. Still there this morning, not there now (which means its somewhere else .

Hormones don't worry - those six inches will have been measured by a man

No it's not over there was a MASSIVE one in my kitchen this morning, and dd1 (3.5yrs) was V V impressed with me taking it out with a glass and a piece of paper. She thought it was cute

Over? It's only just the BEGINNING!

evil laugh

We seem to have a lot less spiders since we had double glazing fitted. I'm hoping it's keeping them out. The garden is F-in' full of the bastards though

we do have conkers round the house too - may look bonkers to someone eho hasn't read the 'conkers keep away spiders' thing but

well, i am doing my best to reduce the population. 4 large ones and 2 small. had a little one appear last night... and then disappear into the bin. daren't let them live. the neighbours would complain about the blood curdling screams...

Oh my word this thread has just had me in fits of giggles! I'm so pleased I'm not the only one who hates the fuckers :o
My dh works away three nights a week and I swear they know, they only come out when he's not here. Thank god, only downstairs at the moment. I really don't think I could sleep if I knew there was one rampaging around the bedrooms..........
Shudder.

Thank your lucky stars it's mere spiders you have to worry about . Where we live (southern Spain ) I was just wondering whether COCKROACH season was over yet.

Actually, I like spiders. Sorry.

I do tend to put the humongous ones out though. Always humanely, in a glass, but still.

They don't half looked miffed when you put them back out in the cold, all scrunched up legs and sulking.

Oh, and not to scare you guys, but those big ones that don't weave webs will actually bite. They are natural predators that hunt things, as opposed to waiting around in a web for dinner to come along (couch potato predators???). It's not quite as bad as a wasp sting, but still nasty. Hence the glass.

pointy you're right about the biting and its possible to have an allergic reaction to the bite, like with any bite or sting. Supplement the glass with rubber gloves just to be sure because sometimes they escape and turn nasty that they don't accidently nip you.

Argh.... Not the glass and dump them outside technique. I have told DH that I shall leave him if he does that again. Where spiders are concerned, I want them dead dead dead. They are gigantic HOUSE spiders - the clue is in the name! They'll just climb back in through the window....

carabos I always slide a piece of cardboard under the glass so no direct hand contact. Then I take the whole shebang outside and pull the rug out from under them. Which probably explains why they look so miffed.

I still like them, though. I'm the kind of person who goes to zoos where they have animal encounters and sits there with a Chilean rose-backed spider on her hand, going 'ooooh, so beautiful'. Sorry once again.

pedicuri - but I like spiders! I really don't want to kill them...

My mum is the same. She once put one down outside and was very distressed when a large thrush swooped down and ate it.

I have found that tea tree oil seems to repel them quite well, BTW, and sprinkle it around the bed/ door frames this time of year.
(sadly also repels DH!)

I put some conkers in the corner of my lounge by the door but it seems some spiders are still in my lounge but I guess they could have been there before.

I'm struggling with wasps, we seem to have loads coming into the house at the moment, poor DS ran into the house earlier with one sat on his sock!

Picking up on Pipoca - I found that living abroad in areas with huge cockroaches trying to invade your house somewhat diminishes the over-arching fear of spiders. We also had black widows and brown recluse in the area.
But I just can't do those big house spiders. The ones with fangs. I get goosebumps just talking about them.