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

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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?

My heart dropped when I saw the picture of the spider that DragonBone posted. I don't live in the UK and have not seen these kind of spiders for years, but have had to deal with smaller jumping spiders year round which I thought were also hideous looking. No more!

At least they're outside!

The entire arachnid population of Merseyside seems to see my apartment as the promised land. Thankfully I have two massive tomcats to deal with them. Not a morning goes by when they haven't dismembered a vast eight-legger in the middle of the carpet during the night.

shudder

If they get rid of all the horrible flies that keep coming in my house because my windows are open (last bit of air before winter) then they're welcome for a bit.
We do have a mini tarantula wannabe hiding in our jasmine outside, though. Makes me jump every time I go to hang the washing out.
What I don't understand is, my house is only a year old - where have all the house spiders come from if they don't live outdoors?! It's a long way across the road if they migrated from the next door (older) estate!

I like spiders - they kill flies / mosquitoes. When I see a giant house spider, I sometimes put it in my compost bin - it's warm in there and there are plenty of insects for it to eat.

spiders are like ppl caught in terrorist attacks - just in the wrong place at the wrong time

Spiders ARE like terrorists more like. I had a huge fat one fall on me in the night and fucking BITE me. Harmless my arse.

Me too! I keep walking into them - ugh! On the plus side my 2yo is fascinated by them - watching them keeps her amused!

There's a spider living on the outside of my kitchen window, it specializes in catching wasps. Quite entertaining to watch the wasp being neatly parcelled up while I'm standing at the sink.

Ugh we live in a first floor flat and had a massive one scare the bejesus out of me at 5am this morning when changing my newborn! Had to get my husband out of bed to get rid

Biting spiders? In the UK? Please say it's not true!

We had a giant house spider a few months ago. It ran at me, really fast too DH and DS caught it in a glass, and whilst we were watching it, it was banging against the glass. Terrifying.

I get much more worried about wasps this time of year than spiders. I mostly just ignored spiders and find that they ignore me. Our 2 DDs are terrified of the critters though, so I have to remove them without killing them.

Yes southern, in the middle of bloody London!!!

Love Did you find out what it was?

It just looked like a regular house spider to me!

There's one in my room. It's a freaking giant house spider and I saw it dash behind our bed and now I can't find it.
It's horrible. Honestly it's so big it made a thud when it landed on the floor from the windowsill.
I couldn't sleep last night and woke up 4 or 5 times panicking that it might be on me.
If I caught it and put it out I'd feel fine, but the hiding unnerves me.

when we've had a few lurkers. I made DH basically take the room apart to find and remove the buggers.

I remember having a scorpion in my room when staying with friends in a village in The Gambia. I didn't realise what it was at for and swatted it and it disappeared never to be seen again. Then a couple of days later someone described scorpions to me and I knew that was what it was.

I knew I hadn't killed it so I was very nervous. I was very relieved to have a mosquito net, that's for sure.

My mean husband did a cursory look behind the headboard and shone a torch under the half an inch gap under the bed, declared there was nothing there and then fell asleep snoring. There IS a spider somewhere in our room. He said it must have crawled away and out of the window back to its spidey family, but he's lying isn't he?

Haha Love - you're right the spiders are the terrorists! 😂

I even googled mosquito nets at 1am this morning. I reckon if I got one and suspended it above both of us with the bottom of the net tucked under our mattress then we would be ok. Do Ikea sell mosquito nets

£9.99 is an absolute steal to be spider free!

According to the Daily Mail it's an actual thing!

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4822640/UK-weather-Bank-Holiday-weekend-SPIDER-invasion.html

My garden is slug and woodlice central - I hate the bloody things but can't kill them, ugh.

Biting spiders? In the UK? Please say it's not true!

I'm not scared of spiders and happily live with multitudes of cellar spiders here in a 3 room flat.

My 'party trick' is to pick spiders up and put them outside.

Years ago, I was in a house share and my two housemates came home with multiple bags of shopping.

They left the front door open as they strugged to get the shopping from the taxi and an unwelcome visitor popped in to say heĺlo.

When they closed the front door and saw said visitor, the screams started.

I was called on to do my 'thing', bemused that a fully grown man had gone into scream mode.

It was the biggest huntsman spider I had ever seen.

Clearly visible amongst the shopping bags, it was bigger than my hands could hold.

I gently held one of the legs as I had to get the front door open.

It was so big, it wrapped itself around my thumb and bit me.

It didn't hurt, I was just so surprised it bit me that I dropped it.

I had been loudly keeping a running commentary to keep them updated as they huddled in the kitchen and when I informed them that it had bitten me, one of them started crying.

I opened the front door before I next picked Boris up and finally got him out of the house.

It took a while to coax the housemates out of the kitchen.

I could see a pair of tiny pinpricks on the pad of my thumb for a couple of days afterwards.

False widows do give a nasty bite but they're very shy so it very rarely happens, as I understand it. Unlike wasps and bees, their bite has never been known to kill anyone.

I took a conifer to the local tip a couple of days ago (cut up, not in whole!). When I was down to the last few branches this massive stripey spider appeared. Cue 4 hysterically screaming children and numerous workers in fits of laughter. Next day, reversing up the drive, I looked in my rear view mirror to see that spider had spun a lovely Web across the back of my car, and there he was sitting in the middle waiting for dinner to come along! Hubby tried to catch him, but he was a bit too quick (the spider, that is!)

He is still in the car somewhere....hiding.