What would you do? (Spiders involved)

[JoyS]

Fairly certain I'm BU but don't really care.

We have a pretty nice 3-wheeler pushchair. About a week ago I was on my way out the door with it, stopped to put the seat back so DD could have a nap and noticed that a giant spider had NESTED underneath the seat liner, right next to DD's head.

When I say giant, I mean the size of a 10p coin. And nested as in, with eggs.

So I have bought a new pushchair (that's the unreasonable part) but what to do with the 3-wheeler?

A)Clean out spiders and sell it on mumsnet or similar (anybody want to buy a pushchair?)

B)Clean out spiders and continue to use it

C)Take it to the tip (would have to go in the car then)

Any opinions? Any advice?

come and see teh spider photo....

Ewww! Waaaaah! That is a MONSTER!

what?

the spider or Ds4

DS4 is cute, but the ///\\ is sssssscary.

OK, that is freakishly large and wrong, but not quite as scary as I thought. It's because the proportions aren't terrifying: if the body was bigger, I'd have shat myself, but the really leggy spiders don't get to me so much.

Jaysus! ladytophamhat... you are so brave putting your hand next to that. Even if it was dead.

I think teh body woudl ahve been bigger, but throughtout teh day while I still thought it was the screwed up bundle cotton, it had been squshed and walked on a fair bit.

It was very flat there becasue I'd had to unravel it all....

"Tegenaria parietina gets its common name Cardinal Spider from the story that the spiders living in Hampton Court used to terrify Cardinal Wolseley. This species has longer and more hairy legs than T. atrica, which it matches in size. The sheet web is larger than that of T. atrica and they occur in the south of England, being absent from some counties. Because of their size, some consider T. parientina to be the most frightening night prowler....."

"Tegeneria parietina (Cardinal Spider), body size up to 20mm"

copied and pasted from British Arachnological Society.

"they occur in the south of England"

I want to find out which counties they're absent from, and if I'm not living in one of them today, farking will be by tomorrow.

see, you're a great big scaredy cat now, ain'tcha???

If you want to live and thrive, let a spider(and her babies in this case)run alive!
Good job we aren't spiders trying to care for our lo's eh! I don't fancy being sucked into a vacuum cleaner!

Thank God i live nowhere near the south of england!

Well that is certainly bigger than the one lurking in my pushchair ladytophamhatt. I cannot believe you UNRAVELED it.

JoyS if you lived near me I'd happily come and move it, I love spiders. Have done ever since I realise they kill flies.

The bigger the better. I like to hold the tarantula every time I go to Butterfly and Insect World.
And the giant millipede.

How could anyone kill the poor spider and her babies? Its not like they are poisonous and the spiderlings are cute

Off topic - I used to be scared of wasps too till an enlightened soul taught me not to be. Had them eating jam off my finger.