Huge house spiders

[GingerRogers84]

I've just moved into a house in the countryside surrounded by fields of sheep. Lovely!
However I've been here a week and I've had to get my husband to evict four big hairy house spiders already.

1. Are they here because the house has been empty since December?
2. If so will they kindly stop their squatting due to human and small dog presence? Or at least hide better?
3. If not how can I send them back to Mordor through the evil portal they opened?

I know I'm being unreasonable and probably quite irrational seeing as I'm a big human and they are tiny demons sent from the tenth circle of Hell but I needed advice and have posted here for traffic.

I'm in bed reading this and can now feel them on me!!!

Well I got some peppermint oil and put a few drops in a spray bottle with some water and sprayed lightly around dark corners, entrances etc!
I must have agreed the arachnid gods as a MASSIVE hairy boi ran across my sons cot again as I was putting him to bed!

Apple cider vinegar also repels then. Don’t try to wash them down the drain though if you want to avoid a panic attack.

I think I have some apple cider vinegar in the cupboard. I've found 5 now since living here, that's almost 1 for every 2 days! I don't think my nerves can handle this rate of spider incidents!
They run at me in a menacing fashion! 😭

I don’t get how spindly leg spiders eat the big hairy fat ones.
They don’t have much of a body and are pretty much all legs so how on earth do they kill the hideous ones? Having said that, I have spindly ones at home and haven’t seen any horrible ones, so maybe they do.

Thought I had a big black hairy spider in the corner above the stairs. No a small spindly one eating something it had caught.

Spindly ones live. Big black hairy ones die.

What the heck does 'spindly' mean? I hate spiders so can't Google that word just in case.

And where in the UK are there hairy spiders? 😥

I can’t help with scaring them off but I bought a spider catcher from Amazon which is amazing! It has bristles on so picks them up, doesn’t hurt them and they just run off. Best tenner ive ever spent and it’s long enough to now go too close to them. I’m terrified of them and it’s actually changed my life!

The spindly ones are those you see in the corners with tiny pin prick bodies and very thin legs. They are always lightly coloured, and never seem to move out of their space.

I am TERRIFIED of spiders and we get really big ones. Last year, I sprayed peppermint oil (mixed with water) over the windows and doors and yes I still got a couple but no where near as many as previous years.

My parents had their loft sprayed as there was woodworm. Didn’t see any of those hairy buggers for years after...

I could try very hard to leave a big bugger alone if all it was guaranteed to do was stay confined to the floor and not dart around as they do.
It the fright of one flashing across the towel you've picked up after showering, or one coming up from the middle of the clothes pile unexpectedly or it jumping out at you when you move the tins in the cupboard.
I found one in my mug once. Mug was on the window shelf with a coupke of mouthfuls left. I went to take a sip whilst watching TV and good thing I glanced down. I almost inadvertently chucked the mug across the room. It must've been crawling the curtains or the shelf - who knows. But they can access anywhere, thats what i take exception to.

I use flea spray from the vets every late august. Light spray around the egde of every room and extra attention to the gappy nooks and crannies, especially bathrooms.

I want to do hypnosis to treat my phobia. Just dont have the money yet.

@smileeachday@
That really made me laugh.

Awww I had a spindly one called Frank that lived above my bedroom door for months, then one day just disappeared 😞

I don't like the big fat black ones as the scuttle fast and you see them out the corner of your eye, so put them outside. I did laugh in shock when one reared on it's back legs at me as I put a glass over it though, feisty!!

I also find the ones that abseil down from the ceiling with legs spread quite amusing, I once had an hour long game where one was doing it over the sofa and every time it got close enough I poked it and it would shoot back up again 😂

Now we have cats who aren't great hunters of most things but flies (aka sky raisins), butterflies (😞), grasshoppers and spiders are their forte. In the summer our kitchen looks like an insect graveyard when we come home..,

When they all started to come in for the winter I was standing by my bed barefoot and felt something tickle my foot, looked down and nothing there, assumed it was the belt of my dressing gown hanging down or had brushed against the bedding.

Then I turned round and saw that I wasn't alone. The cheeky bugger was sitting in the corner watching me. I have some plastic glasses and bits of card around the house for these occasions so I gently scooped him/her up and took him down to the garage and popped him on a shelf as they die in the cold.

Now, they usually arrive in pairs so I wasn't surprised when the same thing happened again a couple of nights later...

Currently have a spindly one in the junk room, with her egg sac. She is staying close to the wall and glared at me when I moved the boxes she was hiding behind, all was fine when I told her it was OK I wouldn't disturb her and slid them back again.

@BrusselPout
Sky raisins!!
My cat used to also murder everything that moved and we frequently found dead insects everywhere too!
One morning we realise she'd caught a mouse in the night and had left a CSI worthy crime scene complete with blood spatter patterns!
I need another cat!

Get a cat. Mine sees them as a tasty low calorie snack (prob why her diets not working) . Bathroom cupboard had mahoosive ones. But since I used Indorex flea spray for the home, haven't seen a single one.