Spiders are on the march

[mamalicious3030]

Ok so that's me just spotted the first gigantic house spider of the year. We live rurally and are just inundated with those horrid house spiders every year. This year I really REALLY want to deter them. Anyone have any tips? I hear peppermint spray helps? Please please share your tips!!!

We had a huge on in our bedroom a couple of weeks ago. I'm talking 2in at least and a really thick body and legs

I had loads in the shed at one point, so I sent DH in to hoover it out and put lots and lots and lots of peppermint leaves in open glass jars, I haven't seen any since!

Yep massive, fast bugger in my living room tonight.
Could be the same one I saw a week or two ago.

They are horrible. They always come out at this time of year to mate and then they hibernate in the autumn.

Eek they ain't getting jiggy in my house!! 😖

Ok so I need peppermint and raid! Is it just peppermint on its own in the jar?

Ah I think I read on here about the red Raid rather than Dethlac but had forgotten.

A couple of summers ago I picked up the Rais instead of the Mr Sheen and polished almost the whole house before realising Didn't see many spiders that year ...

Haha bluesky. Maybe that's what I need to do!! Just put raid everywhere!

Bobtheduvet Yes spiders are FANTASTIC, they kill and eat mossies. as well as flies I'd prefer a few webs and no mosquitoes.

All those pesticides are damaging to human health too (apart from the ones with pyrethrum in) . Give them a chance .

A bunch of mint by the door is good against flies but I haven't heard if it deters spiders at least that's kinder than decimating them.

Well I make my own mint spray with mint ess. oil (I use an old spray bottle with just under1\4 gin or vodka ,as a fixative, 15 drops of the ess. oil and make up the rest with water.) I spray around the door opening .Oh it's also very effective as a deterrent for mice\rats.

You can obviously pick a bunch of garden mint and hang just inside the door. A pot of basil does the same against flies We feed our stray cats by the door and I remove their plates with the leftovers away from the house which means the flies follow them and don't enter the house

Thanks ppeatfruit. We get a lot of spiders. If I pop out at night to take the bin out, I can see them crawling up the side of the house. Not small ones either. I don't know why we have so many where we live. We do live in the hills however. I just always put it down to that.

I always think that they were here first!!!!!! We humans are arrogant . I was reading that Song thrushes are on the endangered list and it makes me

Glad I'm not the only one, I have just spotted three monsters over the last few days! The proper autumn style humdingers as well. Maybe it's a family self isolating with me

I hate spiders. Personally, I think the 'brilliant for keeping insects down' is blatant spider propaganda. Don't believe their hype. They eat about one fly every three months then go and have a snooze to prepare themselves for their next Alien skin shed.

I use sticky spider traps without remorse. A fiver or less from Amazon. Put them in corners or spots where you think there is spider traffic - this might take a bit of experimenting - and get someone who isn't you to dispose of them. The results aren't pretty, but they are the only thing I've found that actually has an impact.

I used to leave little conker cairns around my flat until I saw an absolute unit sat contentedly on top of one.

I had sticky spider traps sat in my online shopping basket all last year, in the end I couldn't bring myself to order them 😕 I'm thinking there's a market regarding hiring a fleet of cats short term as spider dispatchers? But knowing my luck they'd introduce mice (playing dead) into the house. We also have a mole problem this year (fortunately not inside 😁). I also have mole traps sat in the online basket. Presumably I'll just do the decent thing and wait for the moles to cave the garden in....

My 2 cats won’t eat my spiders and I thought that was the whole point of having them!
No I’m only joking if there is a spider we at least put it out and rescue it from potentially being hunted.
BUT I am considering wearing a necklace of conkers much like a vampire hunters garlic necklace

We've had a couple of big buggers. I cultivate cellar spiders in my lounge though and they seem to kill the bigger ones

Ooh yes! Cellar spiders! I always leave the wispy ones. They seem to ballerina dance their way around the rugby style bruisers, and then just do them in 😏.

@Lalala205

I LOVE your cat idea

I've never done this myself, but if you feel bad on spider traps, you can free the spider by dampening trap or putting in a shallow bowl of water outside. This frees their spider feets and they can wander off all discombobulated to be eaten by garden birds.

However the real genius of the traps is that once you figure out the best place to put them they will be getting rid of spiders in background without you doing anything and having to steel yourself when Shelob moseys across the carpet.

Also, once one scuttles in and gets stuck, bigger ones are attracted to it (assuming at prospect of easy meal) and tend to follow. They are brilliant, in a ghastly sort of way for decreasing spider (and all other crawling insect) population in house. The trick is just finding the right places for them, otherwise they will be empty for months or only catch midgey things. Along skirting boards, behind fridge at coil, under radiators are good reliable spots.

I have always liked spiders, (there's a poor Daddy long legs in one of the webs here at the moment) It's only in Aus. that they are actually poisonous to humans !!! Give them a chance to catch the mossies.

They're much better than flies and mossies. Think of them as living insect eaters.