To want my front door back? **Warning: spider pictures from the outset!** title edited by MNHQ

[Tellmealittle]

We have many tube spiders living around the front door.

They terrify me, but I can cope with them when they're in their tubes.

However, Saturday evening I couldn't get in as one was right by the key lock. I had to tap on the window to alert dh to open the door, whilst I hurtled, bent over, through the door.

I've counted 8 large tubes so far. They are growing in numbers!

[Tellmealittle]

Is there a "spider expert" on mumsnet that I could message to clarify these are just house spiders?

[UnderTheGreenwoodTree]

There is - is it hiddenhome?

[Moonandstarsandback]

It's similar!!!!

[CrownofStars]

Sorry, I'm pretty sure that you are right. They are tube spiders.
Shine a torch on them at night. Their fangs are really pretty... until you remember that you are looking at their fangs. 😆

[Tellmealittle]

It's starting to get dark so will take a pic with flash, to see if any bits glow.

[Lj8893]

Oh god they are horrible. I held a Chilean rose tarantula recently and it was actually quite lovely, but no way am I holding one of those nasty looking things!

[IonaMumsnet]

LEAVE THE BASTARDS! (Seriously, OP. Move house.)

[zoobaby]

Just Googled a tube spider. Argh! It says they're cannibals, so if they're growing in number, how many are lurking hidden? They look frickin gruesome, and I say that as an expat antipodean who's always called upon to dispose of spiders. You have shoes for a reason you know (and it's not for keeping your feet dry).

[Tellmealittle]

Ok, here is the pic. Not that dark yet and this one is usually out more.

[IonaMumsnet]

That one's definitely giving you the side eye, OP. You'd be legally within your rights to Kill It With Death. No judge in the land would consider it anything but self defence.

[ghostyslovesheep]

Iona can we have a teeny thread warning that this has spider pics in it - I just almost really actually died of terror when I clicked on it

[DartmoorDoughnut]

What you need is one of those guns that shoots flames rather than bullets

[NeedACleverNN]

I am normally terrified of spiders and pictures like these would send me into shock.....but I must be calming down as they don't spook me as much.

Those pics look interesting, I watched a spider outside my living room window wrap and devour a fly AND I even helped a baby long legged spider out the bath with my hand. Something I would never have done before! I wonder why?

In college I did hold a pink toed bird eating tarantula once(I nearly shit myself) and admitted it felt like an 8 legged hamster..

I also do have a bug of my own now that I feed flies too. An orchid mantis. Maybe that's why they don't bother me so much

[Lordamighty]

Dyson hand held - suck them up - whizz around to disorientate the bugger - release outside - job done.

[Lj8893]

When you say trip lines....does that mean what I think it does?!

[SmallGreenBouncyBall]

yes, but for ants and flies

[BillThePony]

This won't be popular, but if you really want them gone you can by a spray on Amazon called dethlac, my friend swears by it.

DH puts our in the garden and sometimes they come back.

[CobblerBob]

oh they are rather amazing looking! I love spiders. I'm not keen on them running over my face in the night but I do love a spider. I think they are fascinating. My daughter is like me and has one called spid in her bedroom that she talks to.

My son and husband would be shitting themselves at your ones though!

[lamiashiro]

I'm sorry, but I think an RPG is the only answer here.

[hollinhurst84]

This was right next to key swipe fob. I contemplated selling the house

[Tellmealittle]

Hollin, wtf is that? What country?

[Lj8893]

Hollinhurst.....that's not a British spider surely?!

[Moonandstarsandback]

Hollin, what is that one?

[TitClash]

We get those giant crab spiders with the fat bodies and they build their web at night from the wheelie bin, up to the porch roof, basically like a giant net over the front door.

DH noticed one when he opened the door and we stood there for a minute debating what to do next, then I shoved him really hard. He sort of flapped around a bit screaming and completely refused to accept it as a form of 'flooding' therapy to get over his phobia.
I also refuse to accept that if he did that to me I'd fucking kill him. I'd never let him forget it but I certainly wouldnt go that far.

[IonaMumsnet]

Ghostylovessheep - yes, good point. It is a bit RIGHT THERE when you open the thread. Title now edited.