They're heeeeere!

[Liverbird77]

Yes, spider season has begun. I has to call DH downstairs this morning as there was a mahoosive one on the skirting board in the hall. Bless him, he walked right down the road with it in a glass so it was nowhere near the house. He's away for a week on a business trip in a few weeks...aibu to check into a hotel in case one appears when I am alone?????

Two cats here. They have had so much fun with flies all summer and we had a adult hand sized spider in the kitchen last night - male cat was purring in delight at the sight of it. It wasn't something I considered in the getting cats decision but I think i should have.

Erm celler spiders not caller

@QueenOfIce - i truely think you should! And please come live next to me- so i dont look so strange running out the garden with a glass and a postcard trapping a spider in, holding it out at arms length and sobbing that the blighter doesn't pay rent so it can bugger off to some other bordello to find a fancy woman 😂

Dh and I don't mind spiders but my dc hate them and I'm sick of being woken up in the early hours to remove one from a bedroom. My cats love supplementing their diet with spiders too...and flies. ...and butterflies...

As a pp said, better spiders than wasps. I HATE wasps.

PickleyPickles " I'm trying to be braver this year though because I don't want DD to be as terrified of them as I am!"

^ Pickles, that's what worked for me! I didn't want to pass on my irrational fears to DS, so I worked on my acting skills. I pretended not to be worried about spiders and tried to keep my voice calm and 'normal' when one appeared.

Inside my head my internal alarm was saying "panic! Spider! Emergency!" On the outside, I said "oh look, a spider. Let's put it out in the garden so it can find it's way home." I would catch it in a glass and put it outside.

Miraculously, after a year or two, I found that I actually was less scared and I actually did feel calmer.

I am still not at all keen on the buggers! But I found if you" fake it" for long enough, you can effect actual changes in your emotions and behaviour.

I imagine all the spiders I find to be either in camp 18-30's or landed gentry depending on how fast they run. I once had one in the bathroom right next to the toilet, I was bursting so I talked to it the whole time I was in there.

"Hello sir, I'm not sure this is appropriate you being in here eyeballing me with my pants around my ankles so please avert your eyes and don't move!"

Will be watching future visitors much closer now, and classing them before removal- thanks!

I don't mind spiders. I try to pick them up and put them outside before my cats pounce on them and eat them.

Wasps are what I hate, as several pps have also said.