To just kill all of the eight-legged bastards?

[BastardSpiders]

I am being personally victimised by the entire spider population of the East Midlands.

They jump out at me from under furniture, they are lurking underneath my bed and they are BLOODY MASSIVE. Our bedroom is the worst. They try to climb right to the top of the walls but cannot seem to grip onto the decorative coving around the top of the walls and plop to the floor. Its terrifying. :(

Every time I hear the slightest noise I am terrified that it is yet another massive spider scuttling around. I cannot sleep if I hear any slight noises, as I am paranoid that a spider will fall onto my head whilst I am asleep.

I have found the bastards in my shoes, in DS1's toy box and I even found one in my freshly-made bed once.

I HAVE HAD ENOUGH. My tether is at its end. I am sick of catching the bullying little shits with a glass and releasing them outside. They just think its a hoot and come straight back inside.

Last night a spider crawled up my leg whilst I was sat on the sofa (THE SECOND TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED) and I snapped and ordered six rentokill spider traps that were very well-reviewed on Amazon. These will kill them, but I just don't care anymore.

I know that this makes me an evil spider-murdering, cruel bitch but I JUST CANNOT TAKE IT ANYMORE.

I have one of these which is quite useful but I will flatten the 8-legged bastards if they are in an awkward place and can't be safely caught!

Yup, I've used Spider Stop spray when I seemed to have an influx of the sods back at the end of August. I need to do another spray around but it definitely reduced the number coming in.
Failing that, it's horse chestnut season so get out to the woods, gather loads up and put them in the corners of each room and by all external doors. That'll put them off too.
(should confess that I almost always have the hoover within easy reaching distance if DH is away for a night!)

Why oh why do I read these things.....

Spiders over eyes
Dropping on heads.
Running up legs.

I won't sleep tonight :(

I'm with OP, but as a single parent trying to teach caring, sharing life-enhancement attitudes to stroppy teenagers I try to adopt the "do no harm" approach and put them carefully outside.

Then, when no-one is watching, I KILL THE F***RS!

My cats eat them for me

Does the horse chestnut thing really work? I thought it was just an old wives tale?

Why why why did I read this?! I'm going to have nightmares.

I would kill them,all of them if I wasn't so frightened. Woke up with one crawling on chest as a very small child. It's one of my earliest memories.

My OH let's them out safely so they can come back in when I'm not looking,bastard because he doesn't believe in killing them. Often wonder if in fact,this is a deal breaker.

He went away for the weekend a while back. Of course huge spider turns up in our teeny tiny bathroom. I ran out screaming,eventually managed to bring myself to close the door and spent the rest of the weekend "visiting" people so I could use their bathrooms.

All spiders should die. We have fly killing spray now ffs!

The thing about the spiders mate being around is untrue. Spiders don't bond as a pair. They may mate several times with different individuals.

Think about the many species where the male ends up as a tasty post-coital snack for the female!

It's the siblings you have to watch out for - there might be a whole nest of the fuckers in your house.

You're a bad person badtime

treaclesoda - octopuses or octopodes, never octopi!!

No, you see them in the Autumn because the males are chasing the females down. So if you see one, there will usually be another one lurking, either the love-sick boy - he will be smaller and sporting what looks like boxing gloves which are his spermy bits and in this house is known as 'Rory', and the sex-mad female - she will be usually be bigger and is called 'Amy' (Guess what we watch...)

The way these posts come over it seems that you are all proud of being scared of spiders.

I thought we were all now supposed to be intelligent, independent, responsible adults - instead of simpering wimps running for hubby at the sight of a harmless insect.

And displaying this attitude in front of children in order to teach them to be the same is just stupid.

Errrrrrr is that true Laura because I had to evacuate one this morning and it did indeed have boxing gloves on. Should I be expecting a larger horny female one now?

Sallyingforth I don't have children yet. And am aware I look like an utter twat screaming about a spider. Though to be fair...they do bite,well some of them. And some are poisonous. In some parts of the world it's not irrational at all.

I plan to use a former bosses method to cover up being frightened of spiders in front of future children "mummy is a bit busy,could you take that spider outside please"...obviously I still need to work out the baby/toddler stage. Hmmm.

MumsGoToReykjavik, you should be expecting:
a) a larger female
b) more males
Sorry.

Sallyingforth it is not a harmless insect! It is a harmless arachnid!

Well, mostly.
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Alis,
This has all been covered many times before, but;
There are no native British spiders that will actually hurt you. One or two species can just about penetrate the skin but won't cause any harm. You have to work hard to get that close though.
The large house spiders that get some people so excited are Tegenaria. They are totally harmless in every respect.

Last wwek I read a thread on here,where virtually everyone said let bugs live,including spiders.
Are you all a different group from last weeks? Or have you all changed your minds
fwiw, I have been a squasher,but for some reason this year,I have been putting them outside. and now you lot are saying they will come in again

When I was about 9 I was playing in the garden with a spider. It was running over my leg when I got the worst pain ever (to a 9 year old anyway) and was convinced the spider had bitten me (I actually had cramp in the back of my knee)

But, I'd accidentally killed a spider a few days before and was adamant that this biting spider was its mum or dad and had come to take revenge on me.

I've not killed a spider since.

Plus, I'm not sure what gives me the right to end a life, even if it is that of an insect or bug. It's not doing me any harm - and they eat flies, I hate hate HATE flies. I was bitten by a spider a few months ago but that was my own fault for sticking my hand down a dark hole.

I don't overly like spiders, but they leave me alone and I leave them be.

It's not my fault that my toddler chases them and tries to eat them. Sorry spiders.

Your house sounds strange. By all means, you have my blessing to kill the little shits, but perhaps get down to the root cause of them infesting your humble abode.

Is your house damp? Do you have an old house with loads of nooks and crannies? Why are they so big? They must be feeding on something. I suggest giving your house a deep clean to get rid off bugs that may be acting as food for them.

Sallyingforth I know it's irrational,but can't help it. My spider eating cat seems to keep the population down out of sight. I am determined that when I do have kids I don't pass it on. So will have to take a deep breath and deal with it. Like a real grown up. :/

I thought that the cold weather killed them off, I'm wrong am i!

op, I would blitz them daily.
See whether things have improved in a weeks time.

I know they are harmless and eat flies, and although I would never kill one they still give me the creeps. Technique in our house (invented by DDs) is to pop a plastic cup over them with a postit note bearing the legend "SPIDER!", then wait till DH comes home. I am more than happy to do lots of "man" stuff - changing fuses, wiring in fridges, unblocking sinks etc etc, but he does the spiders. We all try to be very nice to him.

My ds(5) picks them up by their body and chases my dd(8) around the house!!

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