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?

It's nature's way birds. I don't think they will eat each other as I think they get in and out via a gap at the back of cupboard. I'm going to have to do a census to find out aren't I?

Call the police.

DH is slated for all spider killing, it was part of the agreement to becoming my husband. :)

Close cupboard door and nail it shut, then close kitchen door and nail that too, then inform family you will be eating out from now on as the kitchen fell off.

I have now left the door open for them.

Urethra probably. And doing poos too no doubt.

hoover it. They won't stay in just that one cupboard, there'll be all over your kitchen, everytime you eat anything, you'll have to think "was there a baby spider in the pan I didn't notice and now I'm eating a dead spider?" every glass, cup, bowl etc.

Just hoover, then disinfect, then put every pan from that cupboard through the dishwasher on it's hottest setting, then possibly get out more disinfectant/bleach for a final swoosh round that cupboard before returning things.

(I don't like spiders)

I also think I might have to run the dishwasher with everything else in the kitchen just in case too...

Oh and when you're scrolling through the thread the photo appears BEFORE THE WARNING. Eeek. Now I can't open my saucepan cupboard either.

See mary If it were something properly gross like cockroaches or mice I would feel that way (and would have to move house), but spiders seem quite benign and hazard-free to me.

Holy fuckballs. Blow torch now

Vacuum
Then burn the vacuum

blimey potnoodles they are just innocent little arachnids!! if we were in Australia for example I could understand that view.

Those beasties are Cellar Spiders. I never had them before we moved into our thatched cottage. Or maybe it is the area. But now we get loads and now particularly I am overrun with babies. I am an arachnophobe but leave these be, unless they are somewhere unavoidable like the shower this morning... let the kitten loose on that one. I felt terrible! The reason is, they feast on those large hairy monstrous house spiders and it must be true as I never see those anymore. Plus, cellar spiders just hang, and stay. You at least know where you are with those!

I, too, agree with the other mummies standard procedure for a spider in the house is to set the damn place alight.

For a whole bunch, I would say nuking it from space wouldn't been seen as an over reaction.

They have 8 legs each and are wandering all over your pans and crockery with their mucky little spider feet spreading spidery evilness all over your plates.

Hoover, dishwasher, bleach.

Oh and do you have a biohazard suit? You'd not want one to jump towards your face while you were hoovering.

Good god get rid of them!

I don't think I can even go in my own kitchen now!

who knows whats lurking...

Are you absolutely sure you've been checking your pans carefully and not eating spider bolognais or similar?????

oh you have, haven't you? You've been eating baby spiders....

I have three pet tarantulas so really rather like spiders
An average egg-sack will have 150-200 baby spiders, only 5 will make it to adulthood.

Spiders are great....they don't urinate and have evolved to use every single bit of what they eat. Their poo is a tiny, clear odourless pellet, about a 10th of the size of a grain of rice.

I live in a Victorian house and used to get lots of spiders. Since I got the tarantulas, we hardly get any other spiders at all (realises this might not be helpful to arachophobes)

Call an estate agent now & get your house on the market this afternoon.
Or burn it down. Those are the only sensible suggestions.

at HappyMonkey's solution. Think I might do the same.

Just to reassure everyone that I have been checking pans before using them and blowing washing out any cobweb residue. I definitely haven't been cooking baby spiders even though they are probably excellent lean protein

goldierocks OH NO What becomes of them all? Will I find hundreds of tiny baby beasts squished against the cupboard door hinges?

You must get rid of them or they will take over your house and then your street and your neighbourhood will look like THIS.