To ask if anyone has encountered any of those huge house/ field spiders yet?

[Summerdayzhaze]

Just had the 3rd huge one in as many days. Actually cannot cope. Usually I don’t have to worry about them until at least end of July/ August 😫 Early this year!!

I let them stay and explain the house rules to them.
Stay out of bedrooms - they are not your space
You are permitted to run from under the chair to under the TV and back on an evening but the sofa is out of bounds.
Stay off my clothes
Stop climbing over DD(17)s face. You really freaked her out last time!
Stick to all of the above and DH won't put you back outside.

Oh and please eat as many fruit flies as you can catch. We had no 8 legged friends last year and a fruit fly explosion that drove me mad.

And if you do have babies please refrain from hatching them right above the front door so when I get in from work I'm instantly covered in hundreds of your offspring.

P.s I will try not to let the cats eat you but I can't promise anything.

The thought of the giant female does scare me, but the most horrifying thing about spiders is how they move, so if she sticks to one spot I think I can handle it.

It’s pointless those of you getting angry with us for our responses to spiders. We can’t control our fear, I know it isn’t rational. But a giant spider tuning across the floor just immediately sets off my flight or fight response. I’d love not to be scared of them. I’d love simply to be able to pick them up and pop them outside.

You all need a spider hoover! Doesn't hurt them and you don't have to get close. Takes all the fear out of it (for me)

Katcha Battery Operated Vacuum Spider Catcher amzn.eu/d/7Bk3MMJ

Question - Does Indorex actually work by acting as a deterrent (as well as killing the spiders already in rage house), or is it just toxic to spiders so they'll still come in but just die?

He better if it actually put them off coming in in the first place because removing dead ones also fills me with fear

If they'd STAY in the corner, I'd be perfectly happy. But when they come scuttling across the room, perilously close to my bare feet, it's goodbye from me!

I’m sorry to people I have offended but it honestly is a genuine phobia for me. Tbh it’s all I’ve thought about since that huge fucker last night. I just can’t cope.

I’m really not sure re the Indorex. I think it may act as a deterrent, but could be wrong. We had a huge one in our conservatory on Wednesday and it scuttled behind the sofa, I ran and got the indorex and sprayed the whole room….next day it was laying dead (and still bloody huge) in the middle of the conservatory floor…!

The huge hairy house spiders you see in your house do not come in from the outside. They and their ancestors have always lived in your house where you cant see them. It is usually the roaming males you see in late summer/early autumn looking for a mate.

The skinny wispy spiders are excellent at hunting the bug fat hairy ones though, so best to encourage them.

I'm with you though, I hate the hairy ones. Why are they so big and why do they practically gallop?

I find giving them a name then berating them for dragging their willies across my cream carpets and treating our home as a knocking shop before kindly popping them outside helps with the fear.

We are far bigger than them they have far more to fear and our eco system needs them.

I’ve noticed it’ll kill all the one hiding that you can’t see but also I’ve noticed a drop in new ones when I’ve used it. Not sure if it’s a deterrent as such but it definitely helps. I don’t like the dead ones either, I suck them up the hoover and tip them into the wheelie.

Lots of pro spider people getting annoyed as per usual, remember arachnophobia is a genuine phobia and some of us have panic attacks and fight or flight responses to spiders. Not explainable but phobias rarely are.

I don't know why I click these threads. I'm so itchy now. Are they on me? I feel like they're on me!?

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No wonder the world is so fucked when people are killing helpful insects with such abandon 😕

It's awful killing them with flea spray.

@WildFlowerBees how wide is the nozzle on the spider vac as it doesn't look big enough to suck up the giant one in my sitting room

Every house spider at London Zoo is apparently called Simon, so they're all Simon in my house now too 😆

Honestly although I agree with the sentiment that insects should be protected, I'm not sure it's a sign of the times. I can't really imagine an age where insects would have been welcomed in the house. I'm fairly sure the Victorians or folk in the Middle Ages wouldn't have got upset at the thought of squashing a spider.

(They’re not insects)

(sorry)

Yes! Spray harmful chemicals everywhere and do your bit to destroy the environment!

It’s depressing isn’t it.

And we’re all supposed to be ‘Squeeeeee! Burn your house down, it’s the only way to be sure!’ on these threads.

And then there are those upthread teaching their children to be scared of spiders too.

Well I have a severe phobia and can't help that. I have done the zoo spider course and it didn't work. My current house is almost infested with giant cellar spiders so I am hoping they will keep the giant ones at bay. I can't spray or anything as I have a parrot. Even she is afraid of them as she kept screaming the last time she saw one until DP put it outside.

I have previously tried the scented stuff people have mentioned and guess the spiders heard I was setting up a day spa for them as I found one on the diffuser.

I am still freaked out by my encounter last year where I found aragog in bed with me and when I tried to put a vase over it, because it was the sodding Rock of spiders, it chased me. Even now before watching a movie I check the bed in case another one wants a cuddle. I swear, ones in that house were so big I couldn't put the jug over them and DP would come home to a variety of mixing bowls over the floor.

@Hoardasurass you can take off the end bit so it's wide enough for the gigantors.

Thanks @WildFlowerBees might just get 1 then