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God you can tell it's getting cooler outside because all of the 8 legged buggers are having a mass exodus indoors.

I just found one making itself a coffee.. Well not really but it was big enough.
 
neil_g said:
God you can tell it's getting cooler outside because all of the 8 legged buggers are having a mass exodus indoors.

I just found one making itself a coffee.. Well not really but it was big enough.
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the one that lives in my bath room just about fit into a pint glass when I Moved it from the tub to the window I don't let them out as I like to keep them close
 
I keep washed out coleslaw pots at strategic points around the house, each with an old post card.
When I find one of those 'orrible octopods, I pop the pot over it, slide the post card underneath, flip it over, put the lid on, then slide the post card out and snap it closed.
They then get taken to the hall, for eviction when I next go out.

It's a lot better than killing them, and having a huge icky splat :gag: to clean up.
 
Don't! Been murdering them in cold blood all week. The one in the bath was too fat to wash down the plughole. Swear it had been using the soap... Damn thing had survived several assassination attempts with spray insecticide. Once on the sofa, then it went and lived in the curtain. Then I found it in the bath. Ugh. Had to spray it again, drown it then squash it down the plughole.

Someone needs to invent an in house spider repellent that actually works!
 
srichards said:
Damn thing had survived several assassination attempts with spray insecticide.
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:D That never works, probably because they're not insects. I've seen one so throughly soaked in the stuff, it was leaving little wet footprints as it ran off, completely unharmed.

I don't mind them living under the stairs, or on window sills, but I prefer not to have them under the bed, or falling off the ceiling onto the table while I'm eating. :nono: Those ones get potted.
 
If I see a spider I scream like a big girls blouse whilst climbing the highest object I can find at the opposite side of the room.

All this is done at the same time as crying out for the master spider dispatcher...... my 5 year old daughter
 
The insecticide spray says it also kills spiders!! It only does if you soak them if they're big ones. It kills the smaller ones easily. Don't tend to bother unless I can't reach them with a shoe and then a cloth...
 
It seems to have been worse (or better, depending on your viewpoint) this September than I can remember in a long while.

Sat down to watch a film the other night and this thing the size of a frying pan scuttled across the carpet. Managed to catch it and chuck it outside, sat down, set the film going (feet up on the settee as you do during spider season) and another blasted thing, this time the size of a dustbin lid, legged it under the TV unit.

This one was aggressive and went on the offensive as I tried to coax it out with a stick and torch but I managed to get the b****r and that got the heave ho outside too. Where did house spiders used to live before houses?
 
I've yet to find anything that survives a good squirt of Raid. I'm not very charitable when it comes to spiders. They get exterminated. Put them outside and they'll be back in at the first opportunity. When you've been bitten by something while asleep that takes months to heal and leaves scars then you adopt a zero tolerance approach.
 
They don't normally bother me too much - catch them in a glass and put them out. But last night one did a Usain Bolt across the living room floor straight at me. First time I've jumped on a chair to get out of the way. My lads girlfriend, who hates mice, rats, hampsters, guinea pigs caught the damn thing in her hand :gag:
 
Spuff said:
It seems to have been worse (or better, depending on your viewpoint) this September than I can remember in a long while.

Sat down to watch a film the other night and this thing the size of a frying pan scuttled across the carpet. Managed to catch it and chuck it outside, sat down, set the film going (feet up on the settee as you do during spider season) and another blasted thing, this time the size of a dustbin lid, legged it under the TV unit.

This one was aggressive and went on the offensive as I tried to coax it out with a stick and torch but I managed to get the b****r and that got the heave ho outside too. Where did house spiders used to live before houses?
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The reason I box 'em up for eviction during daylight hours, is that I'm damn sure there's another half a dozen hanging around the step, waiting to race in under cover of darkness while the door's open, if I throw them out at night.
The numbers I have to throw out have definitely gone down since I adopted this policy.
 
I am embarrasingly petrified of spiders, if there is one near me & have to get the mrs to kill it & then insist on seeing its body before I will venture back in the room.:shake:

The mrs fave way of slowing them down to kill them, is to spray them with hair spray as this sets & makes them unable to move very fast, making dispatching of them easier!:thumbs:
 
ukglyn said:
I am embarrasingly petrified of spiders, if there is one near me & have to get the mrs to kill it & then insist on seeing its body before I will venture back in the room.:shake:

The mrs fave way of slowing them down to kill them, is to spray them with hair spray as this sets & makes them unable to move very fast, making dispatching of them easier!:thumbs:
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me too but if i dont get rid of them the missus is too busy hiding..

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I used to live by a tyre center, and some of the spiders I caught had boots on... I saw one abseiling down the stairwell wall once, and I swear I heard it land on the carpet...

Spare a thought for the Aussies though - they get bloody great big things like huntsmen spiders invading their homes... and even the little spiders they get, like the white tail, are nasty enough to put you in hospital (if not worse)...
 
saw a pretty big one running along the living room carpet the other day, friend caught it in a glass and put it outside, reckoned it was a wolf spider. Was about as wide as the glass itself...
 
srichards said:
Someone needs to invent an in house spider repellent that actually works!
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Doesn't a solution made by boiling conkers work quite well? Not got any conker trees close to us here and since having DG fitted, relatively few spiders.
 
Nod said:
Doesn't a solution made by boiling conkers work quite well? Not got any conker trees close to us here and since having DG fitted, relatively few spiders.
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I have heard of it but I don't think it works.
 
I've evicted three so far,the one last night was in the process of lifting a large picture off the wall above my head :gag: :D

Do the electronic sound emitting type gadgets that plug in to a wall socket work to any extent ?
 
We have the same problem at the moment. The male giant house spider, which I'm guessing is what you guys are seeing too go looking for a mate in the Autumn, that's why you'll find them scuttling past your sofa etc in the evening.

I'm a bit cruel to them to be honest, I do the catch them in a pint glass with a postcard thing and take them outside. I'm sure they think 'Yes! I'm going to be free again!' As I tip them out onto the path... Then I stamp on them. :D
 
gazfy said:
...The male giant house spider, which I'm guessing is what you guys are seeing too go looking for a mate in the Autumn...

...As I tip them out onto the path... Then I stamp on them. :D
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Well at least you make sure that they get well-and-truly fcuked!
 
On the plus side I find them infinitely preferable to flies. Flies really need to learn to fly back out of windows like other flying insects seem to be able to manage.
 
I'm quite good with spiders, there's only been one that I wouldn't pick up.
My wife and daughter are hysterically afraid of them.
My wife once got a friend to drive 10 miles to get a spider out of the bathroom and my daughter once dragged a stranger in from the street to get one out of the kitchen.

I paid for her to go on an overcome your fear etc. course run by the RZSL. It was great until she had to handle one. Hysterics ensued which became infectious until the whole class had to be taken outside breathing into paper bags.

This fear can be genuinely disabling. Would be interesting to know why some have it and some don't.
 
Grandslammer said:
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Do the electronic sound emitting type gadgets that plug in to a wall socket work to any extent ?
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In my experience, no :( I have 2 of them plugged in in my lounge and hall. They've made absolutely no difference whatsoever :shake: The buggers still treat my house as if it was their own!

I agree though, there do seem to be more spiders in the house this year than I can remember. Some huge ones too :help:
 
It's just the usual late summer influx of Tegenaria duellica (Giant house spider) males looking for a bit of nookie. The chances are that you have a female or 2 already living in fairly undisturbed areas of your house, and probably always have - you don't see them out very often.

They're not aggressive and they'll typically shy away from humans. They can bite however, but it's rare that they do.

They keep the flies down.
 
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My eyes are like radar for spotting spiders. I once saw a big one whilst watching a film in a darkened room, running across our dark green carpet. A phone directory was to hand - the old type that were a couple of inches thick. I dropped it on it and resumed watching the film. After, we put the light on and me and girlfriend got down to examine it. After lifting off the phone book we got close up to examine this huge specimen lying there all crumpled and squashed. After a few seconds it suddenly levitated vertically then in mid air straightened out its bent legs just inches from our faces and made a run for it. Boy did we both scream. It didn't survive a second attack of the phone book.

Did you read about the soldier from returning from Afghanistan who accidentally brought back a Camel spider in his kit bag. Apparently something like 6 inches or more across. It killed their dog then disappeared in the house. They had to move out until it was found, but I don't know the outcome.
 
:eek: Horrible, evil creepy things . . . kill them all !!!
I don't know what it is, I'm absolutely fine with all other wildlife of any size but I just HATE spiders.

srichards said:
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I can vouch for the power of Ralgex pain relief heat spray :thumbs: One of the buggers had me cornered in the bathroom and it was the first thing that came to hand. Worked a treat :D
 
I don't like to kill them, but I'm hardly their biggest fan either...
One of the kids saw one earlier in the dining room... So I got a wine glass and covered it, slid an envelope under it, and put it elsewhere so I could get rid of him after dinner...

...so afterwards, I get the glass and this thing's trying to jump through it to get free - it was definitely in 'kill' pose! I open the front door, wondering if I hurt it's leg while trapping it - the leg was at a bit of a funny angle. Turns out it was okay, and he was probably going for the sympathy vote. They're crafty like that... So, I quickly walk down the road, past a cat and there's me wondering if said kitty would like a new eight-legged toy to play with...

I think better of that plan and decide that the street really doesn't want this b****r running around, so I get to the junction and drop him out of the glass onto the street, and he starts to cross the road. He must have seen the first car cos he actually stopped until it went past... but he sure as hell didn't see the second car coming! But hey, at least it wasn't me that killed him!
 
Had one running loose on the carpet one night. It hid then reappeared. Then one of the cats sat on it! What a way to go. Under a cat bum. Think it did survive. She'd been looking for it and played with it too so it was even funnier. Hopeless cat.

I'm not sure I'd want to make it warm and fuzzy with pain relief spray!

Tempted to get one of those stick things that picks them up and holds on to them so I could put them outside but I know they'd just run in behind me the moment I let them go....and I don't really fancy tramping all the way over to the canal to drop them in that for a swim either.
 
i've read somewhere that conkers in your room stops them not sure if it works as i've never tried it
 
I found out from a loud scream that there was one in the bathroom. So, armed with a glass and envelope I went to open the hurriedly closed bathroom door and I couldn't, the damn spider was holding it shut. I pushed harder and harder still but the spider was holding the door firmly shut and I could hear its heavy breathing as it fought to keep the door firmly closed......... It's still in there and I think I can hear it laughing. :shake:
I also think it may have been using my phone whilst it's been in there to call some of its mates over and now I've just heard a scratching sound at the back door. :help:
 
Im odd - house spiders I'm not keen on really, I now don't evict them all from my room (my room seems to get loads), just the big ones or any above my bed.

Yet, we used to have tarantulas which I loved :D
 
srichards said:
I'm not sure I'd want to make it warm and fuzzy with pain relief spray!
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:lol: Believe me, there was nothing warm and fuzzy about what was left !!!

Splog said:
I found out from a loud scream that there was one in the bathroom. So, armed with a glass and envelope I went to open the hurriedly closed bathroom door and I couldn't, the damn spider was holding it shut. I pushed harder and harder still but the spider was holding the door firmly shut and I could hear its heavy breathing as it fought to keep the door firmly closed......... It's still in there and I think I can hear it laughing. :shake:
I also think it may have been using my phone whilst it's been in there to call some of its mates over and now I've just heard a scratching sound at the back door. :help:
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Assuming you're still alive, get out of the house NOW !!!! ;)
 
SarahLee said:
Assuming you're still alive, get out of the house NOW !!!! ;)
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You must be joking! .... around here the spiders are so big and clever they nick cars. :D
 
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