To ignore a cupboard full of baby spiders?

[BetsyBell]

I just got out a torch to retrieve a utensil from the back of a large corner cupboard in the kitchen and the light revealed many families of spiders, including a large, pre-natal mummy spider.

I'm not phobic of the 8-legged beasties, or indeed too bothered about sterile kitchen environments, but it has grossed me out a little bit.

It's a well used cupboard with all of my pots and pans in.

I can't bring myself to hoover them out so am I being unreasonable to pretend I never saw what I saw?

YANBU -do the hysterical heeby-jeeby dance around the kitchen a few times, then get the hoover to them!

Standard procedure for this type of event is to set your house on fire. HTH.

There won't be a food source, except for themselves, so the little spiders will be eaten first.

Get them individually into a cup and put them outside.

I love spiders and I can't use my shed because I won't disturbed their webs, I also leave the she's door open so they are fed.

Argh yabu! Kill them all

I am not scared of spiders but I wouldn't necessarily want them breeding in my cupboards!

I would try to put them elsewhere (shed or garage maybe?) if possible.

There seems to be something wrong about hoovering up a pregnant female - even if she is a spider!

want a photo! YANBU though. they are the Guardians of the Pans and should never be disturbed or hell will be let loose on your utensil cupboard.

Yabu. I would be cleaning my cupboard with a blow torch

I live in a spider infested Tudor cottage (lots of hidey holes) and generally leave them be unless they are huge, but I wouldn't be happy with what you describe. Can you try and individually remove them in a cup? Or get someone else to? I have been known to call dh home from work for particularly monstrous ones!

YY to setting the house on fire. It's the only logical thing to do. Hth

I say you take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

birds Ooh, they'll eat themselves will they? I need one of those nest-cam things to observe this exciting thing.

The shed is already entirely full of spiders santas

mrswinnibago Yes, I think you might be right.

to setting fire to the house - I can never find any matches though...

spiders are sweet and will eat flies for you. leave them be.

Melon the blow torch would make their little bodies pop and crackle. WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE BABIEEEEEESS...

(Actually, I would try to move them outside).

Aargh...I'd be snapping on the marigolds and ordering industrial sized bottles of chemicals. This is your pan cupboard?? They could end up in your dinner!(headless chicken alert)

As long as it's only pots and pans kept in there, just leave them be. I have to hoover spider eggs out of the food processor and pasta machine every time I use them and that is a pain in the arse. I do hoover up or shift the spideys, but they always come back.

I actually like spiders but I would Hoover them out and empty bag into outside bin straightaway. You can't have 100s of them in your kitchen cupboard.

I normally do cup and paper thing but not with so many babies.

Warning! Pictures! Egg sac mummy spider and one of the families. Cupboard filth is old bits of web so I think many other families have passed through.

TBH I have had to remove spiders from some of the pans as I've got them out the cupboard for weeks but I hadn't realised the scale of the nesting until now.

I think there's been fewer fruit flies in the kitchen this summer. I prefer spiders to fruit flies.

badtime
At least it sounds like they're not the size of bloody aliens!

Jesus. I think I would close the door and never open it again. Just replace whatever's in there and accept that cupboard doesn't exists any more.

I wonder if the spiders have been having sex in your pans.

""birds Ooh, they'll eat themselves will they? I need one of those nest-cam things to observe this exciting thing. ""

You are Evil personified!

Free the innocents!

I get this on one particular cupboard all through the summer. It doesn't matter what you do, they will keep coming back. I now tend to ignore them.

Spiders aren't my favourite thing but as long as they don't have thick legs I manage. DS has a spindly one in a corner of his bedroom. He says goodnight to it and gets cross if any more spiders come into his room as "I already have a pet spider to eat the flies mummy!" :o