To expect HUGE spiders NOT to move into my house when the weather turns cold!

[DaphneMoon]

.............here we go again, summer on it's way out, winter on it's way in and all the bloody huge, hairy spiders are marching their way to my house. I had one last night galloping its way across my carpet, which I could have almost predicted as DP away.

.......now have spider size of donkey trapped under glass mixing bowl in middle of lounge, which will stay there until DP gets home tonight!!

Then had to spend rest of evening with feet on coffee table in case it's big brother came looking for it!

Oops the spider-lovers have hijacked the thread a bit.
We're a gentle lot though. Not one of us has told the OP she is BU (she isnt)

Perhaps we should start a new AIBU..."To really quite like spiders"

lol, tinto, I haven't really found a reason for the existence of roaches either other than to keep ones guard up (to keep them away).
I'd still rather deal with the american spiders than some of those in Austrailia or the Congo.

Well, I had a fun time today. I found three brown widow nests - spiders included - in my kitchen today.
Don't care if it's bad luck to kill the feckers - i willingly committed arachno-genocide. Just hope I got 'em all.

Feeling very creeped out and a little woozy from insecticide inhalation....

Aphrodite what country do you live in?

LOL at some of these threads I didn't know it had carried on.

Not had any more of the wankers spiders since the glass bowl incident other night. But keep legs firmly in settee when watching tv and occasionally nervously looking around. Perhaps they all saw their mate imprisoned and made a run for it

We had one in our bedroom 2 nights ago and I am not kidding it had the longest legs I have ever seen on a spider. I couldn't sleep that night and I hardly dare have the window open in our room in case its mates come looking for him.

I live in Cyprus!
Next door neighbour had a blunt-nose viper in the garden the other day. Nasty buggers, those!

OMG I'm definately not moving from blighty.
Roll on winter now as far as I am concerned, don't get many then.

DethLac kills them! It's fab. You spray it on door-frames, floors, cracks (in your floorboards, not fanjo), etc. It dries to an invisible lacquer kids & pet safe and if a spider crawls over it, it dies.

All you find are scrunched-up corpses, no more living ones.

I know it's cruel to kill them, but I am TERRIFIED of them & literally couldn't stay in the house if a big one was in there.

Get it from garden centres, hardware shops, those weird little chemists that sell everything. Bloody ace.

I have just hoovered a very large house spider from the trap door to the loft. I had to leave the hoover running for 5 mins, just in case it had managed to hold on to the edges of the tube, a la Alien in air-lock.
The loft terrifies me. 100 years of spiders and their leavings. My dh went up there to sort the water tank and he said that when he shone his torch on the lid one of them reared up at him on it's back legs.
Spiders are bastards. I've had them in my bed under the sheets, I've tolerated their presence, buying all that 'Oh, they're more frightened of you than you are of them, a-hur, hur' nonsense, only to check it was still in the corner and have the thing run down my front. I also had a colony in my room, that would not be killed by a sulphur candle (or should I say 'snuffed').
Bricking it now about the mate. I knew they ran around looking for action but that is just unbearable. One came at me while I was eating my dinner last week, I screamed, jumped and took the beading off the edge of the table with my knee. Found its pitiful carcass in the sofa cover two days ago.
We also get queen hornets. You thought wasps were bad? These are 3 inches long and they hibernate in our house. They sound like doodlebugs. Someone said they might be horseflies. No idea, but they're enormous.
Anyone else have 'spid-ar'? I swear that I sense them, it is always me who sees them first.

I can sense them. I hate it, that horrible feeling of knowing there's one nearby but not being sure where.

do you know what else? not only are the spiders getting bloody cheeky. SO ARE THE FLIES. i swear to god i swatted one about one thousand times today and it still kept flying at me i was like FARK OFF!!!

urgh

if they wanna live in my house, they can help pay the mortgage (not that i pay one lol )

BEAUTIFUL pmsl at your explanation of what you meant by cracks!!!!!!!!!!

LOL ethanchristopher, I went completely nuts this summer over the flies in our house, one was definately stalking me and laughing at me with his disgusting hairy fly mouth.

Whyohwhyohwhy did I click this thread? The hairs on my neck are up. We get huuuge ones in our house & only ever when DH is out or away. The one time I lived on my own I was targeted by the buggers. With no-one to protect me I once had to resort to dropping the Vogue Princess Diana memorial issue (it was a heavy one) on a large hairy specimen that was chasing me round the bathroom. Dethlac sounds more practical & less blasphemous...

www.thedailymash.co.uk/animals/animals-headlines/terrifying-spider-to-redo-kitchen-and-bathro om-200808291212/

That article above reminds me of a local newspaper report I read many years ago where some woman claimed that a spider of indiscriminate (but, apparently, highly venemous!) description climbed out of a banana bunch in her fruit bowl, and, before she could catch it, disappeared down the back of her - very old and decrepit - kirchen unit. She called the authorities and insisted they rip up her old units to try and find the intruder.
No spider was ever found, but she was able to make an insurance claim on a brand new kitchen.
Hmmmmmm.......

It is DH in our house who has the spider phobia and me who does the glass, card and out the window trick. Which means it is me who always gets everything out of the garden shed and me who cleared out our garage single handed last time we moved .
I am ok with small to middling ones living in the corners, but have to admit even I get a bit of a fright when the ones with flick knives and tatoos come running out across the floor.
DH is making a real effort not to obviously react to them now though, so as not to pass the phobia on to DD - who currently likes spiders (incy wincy spider being a nursery favourite).

Just out of curiousity!

Why are people scared of spiders? esp if you live in the UK because i dont think there are any dangerous spiders!

If i see a spider, because i dont like the in the house because they are insects, i just pick it up and throw it out a window or door? its not like its going to chew off my finger or spray me with poisonous gases?

I dont get it ???

Phil Jupitus has it nailed:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cUiCW-KfUQ

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n-kUOZk0A8

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqdKid3T9hU

I didnt realsie so many people were scared of them! i thought my little sister loved spiders and bought her a tarantula for her birthday because she has always been a little weird and a little eccentric.

It turns out she too hates them, you should have seen her as soon as she realised what it was, am laughing remembering now it was so funny, she just stuck to the other end of the room.

I realise that it is a real fear but it is completely irrational, are any of you seeking help? not that you NEED help but because it could help you face your fear.