Tiny red spiders! ! ! ...EVERYWHERE ! ! !..arrgghh

[EvesMama]

doors windows inside windows sills and now one on boxes packed in bedroom?????

bright red, lots of legs and when you squish them, they leave a 'bright' red stain????

We've got these outside - haven't noticed them inside yet. Poor you.

where are you?..im in teesside.

Oxfordshire. So not just a regional thing.

hmm.thought they were baby ladybirds at first?..but they just get bigger not change..uuurrrghh

I don't think they get any bigger.

We have them bu tthey don't last too long, if i remember from last year.

the bottom of DD2's sandals whad all tiny red dots on them where she'd trodden on so many at the weekend!

Think they're known as spider mites.

no not huge, just seem like longer legs if that makes any sense?..urgghh creepy

they turn into huge red spiders that only come out at night!

aw i remember them, my mate used to jump on them to make me cry. (when i was little obviously)

we are northwest and we also have 'em.windowsills are covered in them..Make me itch thinking about them tbh..!!!

urgh..made dp a coffe after work and when he went to drink it there was one floating aorund in it..bleeurgh

We've got these too, inside and out. I thought they were mites. We've not had them in previous years.

there is a plague of red spider mites this summer.
there has been ladybirds, greenfly, thunderflies etc in previous years.
Something in nature is out of whack.

We call them blood spiders! DS1 loves squishing them to get red fingers!
Must be the only spider im not scared of.

urgh..their horrible, not scary but..euuurghh..one was happily strolling along top of dishwasher earlier...squish!

I'm in wiltshire so I guess it's a national thing.

When I was a little I used to play the piano and had to practise every day, but the piano was in the spare room where mum kept the chicken feed. One day I was practising and started to itch, and noticed I was covered in them - head to foot. Mum had to stand me in the bath and hose me down. Don't think I stopped screaming for hours

[shudder]

I'm in Essex and my mother had them on her window sill the whole summer a few years ago def. spider mites

so what are mites?baby spiders or a diff kind of spider?

I had a proper big housespider land on my back this morning. Am still feeling ill thinking about it.

Tiny diddly ones I don't mind so much but a whole host of them. You have my sympathy Evesmama!

argghh, i got all goosebumply!..poor you

Arrrrrghhh..get this..last night found thre red legged, red bodied translucent winged tiny fliying beasts..on our bedrrom window sill..when squished..what happens...red goo...are they evolving???