Is it that time of year again (spider related!) Warning for those who don't like spiders - photo included!

[Hyppogriff]

Last night I went up to bed to be greeted by this on my headboard (hopefully photo will work). I wasn’t brave enough to tackle it myself and my husband missed it so it ran over the bed and disappeared . I slept downstairs. I’m going to have to move aren’t I?! How long can they live ?!

Photo (hopefully)

Where is he.

NO.

Not YET. 😭

They hate peppermint oil, put some in a spray bottle with water and go round your windows and doors, and any places you've seen them lurking.

@Awwlookatmybabyspider hopefully you can see him if you click on the photo! He was rather large!!

They live on average for 1-2 years. Im not going into all the 'He's more scared of you than you are of him" If you're scared of them you're scared of them.
He's very handsome, though. He's probably looking for a girl friend to make lots of cute little baby spiders.
Joking aside put a warning up on your thread about the picture.

Is not usually September they start coming into the house? You need to keep a glass and magazine in the bedroom to catch him.

Surely the only option here is to burn your house down?

You put a warning in the title and I still looked. WHY?!

I always imagine the ones I see are the mommy ones and there is an even bigger daddy one somewhere 😱

No. The big ones are the mummies.

Awwww, he's so cosy and warm. What a cutie.

@CuriousaboutSamphire

No. The big ones are the mummies.

True. The HUGE spiders will (almost) always be female. (Probably HUGE coz they ate their man after mating with him to make more HUGE spiders!)

Daddy ones have little balls on their antennas. It's if you could get close enough to look.

I just cannot do spiders. I know it's irrational but I have to get someone to chuck it out. I once had to drag the postman in to get one. I was in my dressing gown too.

I saw this on the news this week although it appears to be from last year. I still wonder if it's real. REALLY REALLY REALLY DO NOT CLICK IF YOU HAVE ARACHNOPHOBIA REALLY

www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/australian-man-let-a-spider-the-size-of-a-face-live-in-his-lounge-for-a-year/

[quote Sparklingbrook]I just cannot do spiders. I know it's irrational but I have to get someone to chuck it out. I once had to drag the postman in to get one. I was in my dressing gown too.

I saw this on the news this week although it appears to be from last year. I still wonder if it's real. REALLY REALLY REALLY DO NOT CLICK IF YOU HAVE ARACHNOPHOBIA REALLY

www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/australian-man-let-a-spider-the-size-of-a-face-live-in-his-lounge-for-a-year/[/quote]
Now that one is too big!!!

I literally shuddered.

I can live with spiders. I don’t kill them. I have a policy of “you stay up there on the ceiling, don’t come down and you’re fine”

I regularly have a spider in each corner of the house

But that one?! Fuck no

@Soubriquet do you think it's real? I can't decide, it looks almost TOO big.

Oh yes it’s real

Huntsman spiders get alarmingly big. About the size of a dinner plate

Harmless to humans but still...a spider has no right to be that big

@Soubriquet

Oh yes it’s real

Huntsman spiders get alarmingly big. About the size of a dinner plate

Harmless to humans but still...a spider has no right to be that big

How big are the webs?

I don’t think they build webs like normal spiders do

They tend to hunt, as the name suggests. So they lay in wait and will lunge out at their prey.

They web to moult but that’s like wrapping webbing around themselves.

Nope. Google says no webs

@Soubriquet

Nope. Google says no webs

Opportunist hunter spiders. Ewww.

They aren’t they only type who don’t build webs

Jumping spiders are little ones who don’t web. They will make hammocks and lay in them to rest but will jump on their prey

I am petrified of them and i even had spider therapy to get over it but I knew the woman was building up for me to eventually touch one through slow desensitisation so I left. You can get spider spray on amazon that tries to keep them out. There was a huge one on my wall in the bedroom a while ago and my dh hit it with my iron!!!!!! What i rub on all our clothes!!!! 😩😩😩