Spiders infestation

[GuernseyFrench]

I have had troubles with spiders in the garden for a few years but now with DS starting to be in the garden playing with the lawn, I want to sort it out.

The spiders are quite little, black with short legs. We do have a nest as every years they start carrying eggs.

I get allergies to their bites and do not want DS to be 'attacked'

Do you have any remedies to either move them away or kill them?

PS yes I know spiders are good but not when there are so many of them.

I've never known spiders go round in numbers carrying eggs. Where I've seen baby spiders, a nest has been made by the mother and then they all seem to start exploring at the same time.

GuernseyFrench - I suspect you have ants (I assume the eggs are creamy in colour and not sperical, but like grains of rice).

Of course a photo would really help identify what you have in the garden, and perhaps prove me wrong!

If yours are at ground level, there's an even greater chance they are ants not spiders - spiders will usually be 'out of the way' not making a mound in soft soil, either in the garden or somewhere at ground level (such as soil inside a greenhouse or below a shed).

NetworkGuy that is all so true, I remember seeing hundreds of new baby spiders out scrambling and exploring up high (6/7 ft) on the stems and branches of several Verbena bonariensis I grew in a large pot.

I really meant to slip the word 'hatched' in before the bit about exploring. Somehow that word slipped past my thinking earlier !

The nests I have seen were between golf-ball and tennis-ball size (around 40 years ago, when I was in Sussex and we had a big glasshouse/ shed that was half the size of our back garden, with a sloping roof, and strong enough to walk on... anyway, spider's nest was inside, in warm and dry (and not too bright) part of the shed.

When the spiders all hatched and came out through windows etc, it was a really amazing sight.

OK, big, really big, spiders, do give me the creeps (tarantula, for example) and I know there are some which can bite, with sandy/ black stripes horizontally across their backs, but nature is wonderful really, isn't it, even if slugs and snails aren't the most attractive, and rats, maggots, etc are at the nasty, disease spreading, end of the scale.

HaHa!! Neworkguy, my other spider story involves one of those "balls" of eggs, unfortunatly I was underneath it and slightly stuck when they all started coming out. Happy days... not

NetworkGuy that glasshouse/shed sounds amazing! Half your backgarden, what a spectacular sight when the spiders hatched!

As a child I used to collect all the snails in our garden and put them in a nest (I would make a bird nest on the grass for them), but as a gardener I'm always glad to see a frog hopping through our veg patch

KAQ what a place to wind up stuck what timing!

But oh my ankle is itchy

Oh FFS WHY did I open this thread? I am now itching, shuddering and about to shit in my computer chair....

I have these spiders every year, I can't even hang my washing out as soon as you step on the grass or stones thousands of them run everywhere, some have big sacks of eggs on their back, then you get millions of babies. Last year we completely dug out the garden flagged half and put artificial grass on the other half just so we can use the garden and then today I go to hang the washing up and again they run out of the artificial grass ????, I think the nest must be in a neighbours garden as we dug everything up. We don't even have one plant and when I say thousands I mean thousands every year just gets worse. They run off the grass all over the patio I spent a fortune last year and now I can't enjoy the garden again can anyone help !!!!

Hey, I know this is a very old feed, I wanted to read it all, but there is a lot of back and forth and people taking the P, but I totally get this, I have been in my house for 2 years and I had my whole garden turned over with diggers with new turf and patio, but my patio has raised because of these spiders, my gardener said he has only ever seen ants raise a patio like that before, when the grass is cut there are hundreds of spiders running up the fence, that is not an over exaggeration! How can I stop them for lifting my garden patio to this extent, it’s been lifted and re-laid 3 times now 🤦🏻‍♀️