Baby Spiders! Help!

[NixieDust]

I've been out doing some gardening and I've found several clusters of baby spiders nestled in my shrubs and bushes.
I am terrified of spiders and google tells me these are baby garden spiders (which happen to be the ones I'm afraid of most!) I'm not sure of the best way to get rid of them so if anyone has experienced these before and have some advise, please help! Leaving them be is really not an option as my DS2 loves playing out there and my skin is literally crawling. Attached is a picture of the first lot I found and disturbed when I was trimming the hedge

Aw just leave them. They’ll suddenly scatter and find their own homes. Garden spiders don’t head into the house.

How soon is soon ... 🤣

Don’t pass on your unreasonable fears to your kids. Leave the spiders alone - live and let live.

You have no choice but to move house! I hate spiders.

We once had one spring/summer where we were absolutely overrun with baby garden spiders, some of them did end up in the house. It was miserable, especially for me as an arachnophobe. We did end up moving (not because of that but I was very happy to leave them all behind 🤣). I think you can only hope the birds will have a big feast and reduce the numbers. They won't all survive to adulthood

Please leave them. The birds and other predators will eat them and wildlife needs as much help as it can get right now. Also, the garden spider webs will catch mosquitoes later in the year.

They won't harm you.

Mum will probably return to eat most of them/rain/other predators will get them. About 5 will make it to adulthood it’s a problem that will resolve within a week or so.

If they’re in a hedge why are they bothering you so much?

Leaving them be definitely is an option. The right option.

They'll go ballooning (seriously) and disperse very quickly. My sympathy to you, I'm sure having a phobia of something is literally dreadful.

We found a similar nest of babies last week! Love spiders 😍 Sure, I wouldn't want a next of black widows in the garden, but happy to have some lovely native species that won't bother me and WILL bother the flies and pests!

Aww no OP, most of them won't make it to adulthood anyway as the birds and other insects will come across them and have a feast.

Know it’s hard but they won’t hurt you or your DS and like
previous posters have said they should disperse soon.

I’m being a hypocrite though. I can live with spiders but my reaction to finding a wasp nest would probably involve a flamethrower 😅

I certainly make sure he's not afraid of spiders, infact I put on my big girl pants and showed them to him positively, but yes deep down I wasn't enjoying it! I'm aware they're nothing to be scared of,
However I am scared of them but I definitely try and hide that fear from him!

We literally moved here at the end of last year 😭

If they're going to move on that quick then I will leave them but I've never seen them before and was scared they'd turn into big spiders and I'd be overrun!
They're not just in the hedge, I have shrubs round the patio and decking and there's several nestled in there, one right next to the path that my son likes to fly by on his ride on car 🚗

If you want to do something proactive perhaps put up some feeders and encourage birds who will also feed on them. Please please dont do anything else to harm them though, humans have made such a mess of the natural world already and a big part of that is our insistance on destroying everything that shares a space with us. Appreciate phobias are horrible but we really need to protect ecosystems more than ever.

Now whah do you mean by "ballooning" 😳

I really don't want to harm them, I more wanted to know how I could.. re locate them, ask them to go elsewhere if there's at all a way like something they don't like

Oh my goodness absolutely not! Not in the house.
Excuse me while I google natural spider repellent and cover my doors and windowsills

You'll have Father Dougal round any moment now!

He loves spider babies. 🕷

Ballooning means they'll fly away thanks to their spider web strands being picked up by the wind! Like a tiny kite surfer.

Garden spiders don't grow all that quickly, they likely won't reach adult size until next year - this autumn if they're very lucky. Also they probably came out of the egg sac because you disturbed it! You’re a spiderling mummy now ;)

Also, they don't do anything.

They're not really in a sack,
There's about 5 dotted around the garden and they're all just there in a web in a big clump! Honestly I've never seen it before 🤣 well I hope they fly away while I'm away haha
There's also a clump of them on my garden chair which I find bizarre and those ones I really would like to move on so I can enjoy the summer

Those sound like garden orb spiders, they will disperse and most will vanish. Try not to worry about them!

No, what happens is that the mother spider lays lots of eggs in a nest made of spider's web. It looks like a creamy white pea-sized ball hidden away in the dry underneath things. They each hatch out of their tiny little egg, and as soon as they are big enough, each spider sends out a long single strand of web. The strand drifts in the wind and then the spider lets go. Off it flies. Thanks to the PP who said it is called ballooning - I didn't know that.

Spiders are the good guys in the garden. They eat insect pests.

I have googled,
And yes they seem to be! I definitely saw their
Mummies around autumn and winter, there were a few just hanging out between the bushes and I kept well away 🤣

@BeNiceWhenItsFinished that's actually really interesting!
Thanks for the info, something I can tell my DS about tomorrow!