To be sick of feckin spiders!

[Sillysausage2]

Has everyone gone mad with spider stories on Facebook??
I can't scroll through my newsfeed without seeing either pics of fucking spiders, people sharing articles or even just liking pics and articles.
I've caught a load of giant ones in the house in recent weeks, I'm terrified of them and it's really putting me on edge

Where are you, in the south?

I don't get the spider thing on Facebook. If we've seen the same thing, spiders have been coming into our homes for years, it's nothing new.

I'm desperately scared of them too and I wish I wasn't. I don't kill them but I don't do anything to stop others killing them

Buy some plug in spider repellents.
They give off a high pitched sound and the spiders can't be doing with it.

I'm not on face book so I'll have to tell on here.
I've got 2 spiders in my living room. They're like my pets. I was hoping they were going to get it on and have tinsy winsy babies but they've walked past each other a dozen times (They could be the same gender though)

I think you can use the programme 'unbaby' me to block all kinds of unwanted pictures. I rem,ber someone on lj raving that they use it to bock babies, pets and religious stuff. No idea how she did it though but someone else may know?

Eucalyptus and peppermint oil, you have to keep redabbing though- it does wear off.

Ilive - there two in my son's bathroom this morning making babies - I could send them round . . . my house if full of them and they crap everywhere which is pretty gross.

apparently they don't like the smell of conkers, I am assured this works :)

Desertmum What kind of spiders are these? And how big are they if you can see their bowel movements? And how do you know if they were at it? They could have just been having a row over who sleeps on which side of the web.

i hate them too and its always stories for arachnophobics im sorry but the fastest way to stop someone scared of spiders reading an article is to put a picture of a giant spider on it! seriously am i the only one who knows that?

Get yourself a cat OP, I have not seen many in our house this year as the cats always get there first.
Now and again I will have to sweep up a dead one but the most I usually see are the legs hanging out of one of the cats mouths on the way down!!

What does spider crap look like anyway???

someone recommended lemon juice, so I got a spray bottle and squirted LJ all round the house.

house smells nice and so far so good (bar one or 2) no sign.

having said that I still check everywhere all the time. cant stand the bloody things.

We live in a timber framed cottage and it has always been full of our arachnid friends - mainly the very thin-legged type. My teens loved the Spider!(Spider in the Bath et al) videos as young children and we recently watched some again on You Tube. My DH can pick all of them up in his bare hands -I can do as large as a new 10p but we always put them outside if they are in the way. They are just tiny harmless creatures who share our lives and catch flies...but then I saw this cartoon!!

Desert (Aww) so cute. Congratulations to mummy and daddy spider on their impending arrivals.

I would post a picture of spider crap but have cleaned it all up today - so will post tomorrow
the spiders are huge and they were either bonking or eating each other...

I have cats and dogs who are useless at catching anything wild - I obviously feed them too much!

Just googled spiders are pregnant for 2-4 weeks.

I trapped one under a glass before bedtime the other night and then ds kissed it goodnight! 'Night night fiiiiiiber' so cute i nearly died.

Ilive - do they then build little nest like things for the eggs or babies or whatever ? Mine seem to have little cottony nest tyype things in the corner of the rooms. The bloody things are everywhere - we live in an old house that is full of spiders and mice. We have an enormous conker tree outside the kitchen window - I think they are all taking refuge from it in my house.

I thought. Oh how adorable.

I went to drive to the cinema today, got in the car started the engine and looked out the windscreen to see a web that started from the top of the garage right down to the floor with a huge fat body spider in the middle.

Sorry but this year is the worst - I have never seen such big webs before. My neighbour has 4 of these fat body spiders and huge webs in their front garden.

I brought some rentokil insect control spray and sprayed it all around my doors and windows and so far it has kept them away so I can at least open my windows to get some fresh air in.

YANBU! I get that no one likes to find a spider strutting across their bedroom floor, but why trap it in a glass and take close up pictures and post it on FB?! I'm just innocently scrolling through FB and end up with a huge 8 legged beast in my face... I'm sure it causes a mini heart attack each time?

I hate them too and can't seem to scroll through FB without some fucking news site plastering pics of massive buggers all over the place...one page actually posted pics of people holding fuckoff great black hairy ones on their arms/in their hands and I screamed because the thought of them touching me is nightmare material.

And yes I am aware this is pathetic and there are bigger things to be scared of but it is totally irrational and I have no idea why they bug me so much (no pun intended)

I went to my friends house on Friday night and they had a spider there the size of my PALM. It was seriously the biggest spider I have ever seen in this country (outside of the zoo). It was in their bathroom, luckily I had just peed before I spied it or else I would have had to go for a pee in their garden!

Hi desert. Mummy can have between 2 and 100 spiders babies (Aww). She covers her eggs in silk them wraps them up in the silk to make an egg sac she then puts the egg sac somewhere safe and guards her little pride and joys. When the spiderlings hatch they often stay inside the sac to develop further. Some mummy spiders will stay with their babies until they leave the sac while some leave or die before their babies are born.