To ask if it's only my garden that's suddenly become spider central??

[Cantthinkofanythinggood]

Literally LOADS of webs have appeared around my garden with menacing looking spidees in them! I'm frightened to walk round have to check I'm not walking into their webs - has anyone else noticed this in their garden this week?

Its coming up for spider season!

I follow a UK spider page on FB, and its basically post after post of people asking to identify giant house spiders, and orb weavers (european garden spiders).

I think spiders are cool

Black widows??? Where do you live?

Branleuse

Exactly.

Plus, the Giant House Spider is not the biggest in the UK. The cave spider is, I've been very fortunate to see these, I have many videos and photos of them!

When I trawl through various hard drives to find the pics I will post them! Loooooove spiders :)

I have a few, but more noticeable in the last week have been masses of slugs in the garden. Give me spiders any day!

This morning I opened my back door and there was a giant Web with spidey in the middle on the door, head hight. Another huge web/spider combo spanning the width of the door, this spider then dropped to the floor by my feet and there was one other (that I could see 😨) millimetres away spanning the pathway.

My garden is now officially dead to me until the middle of winter.

thing is, you can't put something "back" outside that was never outside in the first place

I'm not sure I've understood this correctly. I hope you're not telling us that giant house spiders are already in our houses biding their time and waiting to emerge.

Somerford

Yes, that is the case.

They have evolved to live indoors, hence the collective term "house" spider as opposed to "spider that would totally never come inside"

And I'm not being sarcastic to you there, just explaining.

House spiders live indoors all year round, we usually only see them (UK) in autumn, this is when they become active and most of the ones you'll see (the big hairy ones) are the males wandering around looking for mates :)

They seem to have freakishly stronger webs this time of year when I walk into them

I hate this time of year. I seem to spend my life checking towels/bedding/dressing gown for the eight legged bastards!

My anxiety levels have increased so much. I'll start to feel bether around Christmas...

better

Yes, even I - who spends half my life pulling cobwebs out of my hair; didn't leave my washing out last night as it is spider crazy at the moment.

I was thinking if it would be possible to go out and hoover them all into my hand held wet and dry device, and deposit them into the horrid man down the road's garden. Shall I, shall I??? Can I be that horrid [to the spiders]???

spider crazy at the moment

Kinda jealous tbh! Not entirely due to the extreme lack of spiders (I normally get a good few whoppers but have only seen a tiddler so far)

I like autumn for all sorts of reasons and I kinda take the giant house spider as an indication of the season. The leaves are changing, as is the air (which to me is good) but a lack of spiders so far.

Bring them over to me!

@FallingOrbit

If my house is riddled with hoards of those sneaky bastards already I'm going to have to move out. WHY ISN'T THE GOVERNMENT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT? This is a scandal. I've always known that the males wander about in Autumn but I thought they were just passing through having come in from the garden. But no, the Barbarians are already at the gate. And they've made webs all over it.

Somerford

can I move in with you?!

@FallingOrbit

If you don't move in immediately I am burning the house down. I need you here in the next hour ideally to coax them all out of their hiding places so I can see what we're dealing with and understand the scale of the problem.

What annoys me most is that I've not had a penny in rent from any of them. I've no way of knowing how long they've been lodging with me, making little web-hammocks behind the radiators and whatever else they get up to when nobody is looking. I'm not running a spider hotel here FFS

Not the garden so much, but our bathroom looks permanently Halloween themed! I sweep away the webs I know are vacant, but have a no spider killing rule in our house so leave all the webs I think are in use (which often have giant spiders on them).

A wolf spider had spun a web from our trellis to a shrub that is no word of a lie, 6 meters away. How the hell can a spider do that?? I assumed they jumped across with the silk behind them, but this dog spider must have actually crawled along the ground and up the fence. It could literally catch a human in it's web. It's made more apparent by the dewy mornings and the beads of water on them in the mornings. Beautiful and terrifying

Ive got one living on my wheelie bin handles, its a bit of a pain as I get a handful of web when I put the bin out. The spider makes itself scarce though, thankfully.
I get a lot of garden spiders, and a large brown spider living in an outdoor herb pot, it looks like a house spider but must be some sort of outdoor version.

The spider love is making me smile

I love the little critters too.

Ah yes. About now is the time my house turns into a rest home for elderly arachnids.
Although these days it's more like an all day buffet for Devil cat.

We had a spider baby explosion in our bathroom last week, so lots of tiny 8 legged bastards.

I felt the mother was a kindred spirit when I watched one of her offspring approach her (probably going "MUM! MUM! MUUUMMM!") and she promptly grabbed and wrapped it for her tea.

Can't say I blame her, thought has crossed my mind numerous times this summer holiday.

We keep finding these! Are they false widow spiders?

They're everywhere. Everywhere I look, I keep walking through cobwebs, I'm trying to not pass on my fear to dd but I find it so hard not to scream yelp.

The in laws live in a 300 year old Manor House and had a huge infestation of spindly cellar spiders last year. MIL said she had not seen a single other type of spider and she was desperate for a regular spider because of the noticeable ( irritating) amount of flies they had at the same time! It was true, with the cellar spiders eating all the house spiders the flies had a right old party to themselves! A quick google told her she had to get rid of the massive gang of cellars so her house spiders could carry on trapping the filthy flying disease bags

Aaaaaarrrgh!!! Stop sending pics of spiders!! 😱