I’m being terrorised in my own home.

[Stressedafff]

Okay dramatic kinda……

Fucking cellar spiders. I’m massively arachnophobic and my house seems to be over run with them. They’re in every corner, they’re in my cupboards. I literally feel on eggshells in my own home. I want them out.

I do have some small holes in the ceilings from wear and tear etc which I have got some stuff to fill them in to get rid of the pesky little spindly legged fuckers.

Any other advice before I literally add them onto the tenancy and surrender to them

@Stressedafff

My mum gets them there as well. 🤢 plus her carpets like a beigey colour so they pretty much blend in, I can’t go up them stairs without shoes on it makes me puke

Is there any way you can try and shift your mindset? I used to be scared if them but made a conscious choice to think if them as interesting as I didnt want a phobia brushing off on my daughter.

I started by talking to them. " of dear, you dont belong there do you, you're going to be sad about going outside" just keep talking and eventually you'll get there! It's amazing to go from scared to avie to confidently just grab a glass and paper and move them on! And less stressful in the long run!

It does seem you have a lot and it must be very annoying though.

I keep them too. The cats scared of house flies so she’s subcontracted pest control to them.

She runs under the bed if she sees a house fly 🙄

It’s the annoyance of them, they just seem to take over. Like why are they in my cupboards?!

One or 2 living in the corner of the ceiling I’m fine with, they’re obviously on shift to eat other creepy crawlies, but I find them everywhere, and their bloody webs

Quite angry about the number of people advocating Indorex or insecticides for spiders; unless the spiders are venomous surely you shouldn't be killing them?!

I just pop them outside or leave them be in the bathroom, and they soon toddle away. I don't have a phobia but even if I did I couldn't kill a small defenseless creature.

@Sealover123 you might feel differently if you had a crippling phobia of something. Trust me, I do not want to lie awake during the summer months having anxiety attacks over spiders, nor do I want to make a fool out of myself screaming and crying in front of people over spiders, but I unfortunately do both of those things and more.

Peppermint oil and water in a spray bottle. Spray around doors/ windows/cracks. They hat the stuff

i used to do it it once a week at my old place and spiders reduced

@Sealover123 I am with you there but mostly I'm wondering why people aren't more concerned about liberally spraying pesticides through their home.. regularly too! Hello health problems!

This. I do still get cellar spiders (if they are the gangly ones that live in the corners) but actual proper spiders I hardly ever see thankfully. We've lived here coming up 9 years and I can count on one hand how many big spiders I've seen (certainly not double figures anyway)

When we moved in we had 3 cats, then 2 for a bit then 1 for ages so we've had a lot of help with spider assassination. We are back to 2 cats now but I'm not sure on the newbie, he's scared of his own shadow so I can't see him going up against a huge spider but you never know.

I sprayed round all doors, skirtings, windows, in cupboards, literally everywhere. The house was crawling with spiders when we moved in.

I mostly leave our many cellar spiders alone (old house) because they eat other spiders and hopefully keep at bay the population of giant nightmare-haunting wolf spiders. I do think cobwebs are more or less holding some of our beams together at this stage

Would you like me to post pictures of a spider bite that nearly killed me? I live in Scotland btw. You can be as angry as you like about the use of Indorex, some people have phobias and can’t just ‘pop them outside’.

I wouldn't spray the actual spiders with it so if you can release them outside.

Use the spray around the outside of the room aiming for the cracks, so edges of skirting boards, window frames and doorsteps and any vents. Its to prevent them from returning. On stairs do the edges.

You can spray on carpets but since spiders don't live in them (unlike fleas) there is no point.

I thought this too until today. Have managed to develop a tolerance of spindly spiders having learned they kill the big horrid ones. Tried to gently relocate one today as was moving something and when I put the card out for it to climb on it ran at me. I screamed and ran faster. They're speedy buggers.

Just to add none of my cats have helped fight spiders. My much beloved desceased toothless cat used to bring massive spiders in from outside.

Harvestmen are also often nicknamed Daddy Long Legs too (they are more closely related to scorpions than spiders though), there are 3 different bugs that get that nickname.

Oops, that was supposed to be a reply to an earlier post.

No, daddy long legs have wings. These spiders are often I correctly called daddy long legs, but they aren’t.

I know them as harvestmen. I don’t know if that helps.

I hate cellar spiders, ghost spiders they’re known as in this house as they’re so pale and creepy. I’d love for them to get the fucking memo about eating the giant house spiders here!

@Sealover123 you can't just pop them outside if you have a phobia though, or settle knowing they're there.
I suggested based on noticing we were getting no spiders after treating the house with indorex for fleas.

Harvestmen are a different bug again, they have round bodies and don't spin web, very rarely if ever come indoors, harvestmen are not a type of spider.

Daddy long legs is a nickname given to crane flies, cellar spiders and harvestmen as they all have very long spindly legs.

I have no idea what a cellar spider is then 😊

Or a Whippet! They eat spiders, or bodge them with their sharp noses so they are ''Dedded'' {Or play dead}
Spiders can and do play dead...then get up and run away!

I don't mind spiders, so will let them be, but we haven't many of them.
In UK, they are not harmful, but Australia..Some scary ~ass spiders there!