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?

So it's a bit of a fib that if you find it inside and take it out then you're removing it from its natural habitat

Not in the case of house spiders. With garden spiders wandering in, of course that can happen and putting them back outside is fine.

Oh I know, it's just I've always been told that it's always the case (not necessarily on here, I mean in general), and that taking any spider outside that you find inside is basically murder just as much as squashing it would be!

Nah, not always. It's probably the case that some spiders couldn't survive inside (although I don't have any sources to back that up, I'm just assuming it would be the case. Putting garden spiders outside is no different to butterflies/caterpillars/ants/frogs/rhinos or whatever else happens to wander in back outside :)

The orb weaver (Araneus Diadematus) relies on catching flying insects in its vertical web. So it's genetically programmed to be outside in the open where there is more chance of catching them. So it's rare to see them indoors.

Not in my house!

I'm surrounded by farms, if that makes a difference?

I can't get over how many spiders there are this year, if they were to stay outside I wouldn't mind but its 20 odd degrees tonight and I won't open my bedroom window due to seeing the mother of all spiders of my bedroom wall a few weeks back... I sprayed so much raid at it to get it to fall down so I could whack it, that the only thing in danger of falling down was me... I was ill for 3 days and genuinely thought I needed to go to the hospital as I felt so bad. Don't even get me started on the one on the stairs the other night which must have had doc martins on, or the one on my conservatory door which was the size of my hand, oh and I am trying not to think about what it was that scrabbled across my conservatory roof so quickly and hid in the gap when I turned the light on .... suffice to say I am a bit of a nervous wreck now!!

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I was ill for 3 days and genuinely thought I needed to go to the hospital as I felt so bad.

I'm really sorry that your phobia has made you so ill. Why don't you get some help to deal with it. There are a number of treatments that can help, that have been mentioned in this and other threads.
Do please get some help - there is no need to suffer like this.

Ugh! Hate spiders!
I'm a community care worker, I do home visits and last year I was preparing breakfast for one of my ladies. I opened up the weetabix box, pulled one free and tipped it into the bowl. To my horror a bloody massive spider falls into the bowl and starts freaking out at being woken up so suddenly! Well I screamed, ran away and let my double up partner deal with it!
And ever since that day I am still scared of cereal boxes!

Didn't want to join this club...but half an hour ago as I ran in to the toilet I found this one scuttling across the floor. Hairspray (I don't have spider spray) and then Lakeland's spider hoover, but I'm still clamy and the spider is sitting in the tube cleaning it's eyes Will have to wait till DH gets home tonight to dispose of it.

We have year long spiders in our house, can't get rid of them. They like to hang out in the corners. We call them spindly spiders because they have really long legs and tiny bodies. They are teeny, tiny and then grown huge. It's scares the hell out of me when they climb out with their long legs from some corner.

Oh my gosh, I've got the heebie jeebies reading this thread and seeing those giant house spiders.

OK now I keep finding the grey, desiccated husks of mother spiders' bodies where her trillion babies have been born and left her like that

The spindly spiders eat the big house spiders itsonlysubterfuge so might be worth letting them stay hehe. I have a cellar full of them, and until recently a plug in spider repeller and between the two not seen a single house spider in 2 years.

The house spiders don't live inside, houses are actually too dry for them really so it's best to put them back outside. They're only called house spiders because they're the species you'd most commonly find inside but they don't belong there.