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?

They are nice low-maintenance pets.
And when you run out of popcorn they are nice and crunchy, but don't you just hate wiggly legs between your teeth ?
You'd have to measure or weigh them if you want the calorie count

I agree with anyone who says Hoover, burn the cupboard down, Move house immediately and call the police, 999 not 101.

I suspect I'm too lazy to do anything about them. They'll be gone by the winter I expect?

Unless bigchoc comes round and gobbles them up for a movie snack.

Or I could get tarantulas

Dunkling ooh is that true about cellar spiders eating big house spiders? That's good to know, I don't mind the spindly ones but it's the fecking huge hairy bastards I can't deal with. There's a cellar spider that lives on the floor behind my headboard at my parents' and only climbs out if something tugs on its web - it's all pale and spindly so it doesn't bother me.

I have a friend who had a massive house spider bite her cat on the nose

That has actually made my throat feel a bit tight.

MyrtleDove...see here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellar_spider

Betsybell, sorry, they're all year rounders.

I have new babies! Another batch have hatched and they are tiny.

There are distinctly fewer of the adolescent sized spideys though. They're eating each other aren't they.

I am never cleaning out this cupboard now, I've become invested their lives, hopes, futures, dreams...

Thank goodness you left them. I believe that if you deliberately kill a spider, you eff up your good karma for a long long time but maybe not forever!

Aww the little ones are actually quite cute! I can say that because its not my cupboard they're in.

I once disturbed a mummy with egg sac who had been nesting happily in the underside of a table we had stored in the garage, as she was skittering away she was dropping her tiny eggs all over the floor. I felt like a baby murderer. It was awful.

Yay, a spider nursery! I'm envious because this year they haven't bred in my lounge and I loved watching the hatchlings Prefer the big house spiders though because at least I can see them rather than suddenly realise there's an almost invisible spindly thing inches away from me

Well, the problem with baby spiders. They grow up to be big spiders. More mummies and daddy ones. Invading.

Just give them the kitchen OP, if you don't get the hoover out.

Aww. Is that the proud mummy spider with her babies in the photograph. So adorable. Congratulations on the birth of gorgeous babies mummy spider. X

Aww. Is that the proud mummy spider with her babies in the photograph. So adorable. Congratulations on the birth of gorgeous babies mummy spider. X

Their poo is a tiny, clear odourless pellet, about a 10th of the size of a grain of rice.

So you'd probably miss it in your saucepans and have been eating spider shit surprise for months.

Eating spider shit has given me awesome powers. I now shoot webs from my wrist.

This thread is making me feel mentally quite unwell

Yes Lifehasafunnyway! Each spider family has a lovely mummy to watch over the teeny babies - it's sweet and heartwarming. I hope she's not eating them

oh my god, it's like a horror story.

Oh God wish I'd never opened this thread...

Why are you not burning down your house and all your neighbours houses right this very minute?

That way you have no spiders but plenty of firemen. Win-win.

Oh my god, I am never going to look in my cupboards again...you are very brave!!

An awesome event for you try to gather the spiderlings up into a cup and release outside so they can find food.

Yesterday at lunchtime at work I ate one home made sandwich from my plastic box. I then went to eat the other but was stopped in my tracks by the spider lurking underneath.... I think it must have been on the lid - surely I would have noticed if it had been in the base?

Liberated it out the main entrance but couldn't bring myself to eat the other sandwich...

hiddenhome You are right. I am going to set them free amongst the aphid ridden rosebushes today. Plenty of food for them there.

I once took some bin bags of garden waste in the back of my car to the tip.

The next day the whole of my back seat and window was covered in web, with teeny baby spiders all over.

I didn't notice until I looked in my rear mirror whilst driving. Luckily I could just pull up and scoop them out.

I'm not bothered by spiders, but that does still make me shudder a bit!