Huge spiders

dubrunner

Has anyone else seen the influx of the massive spiders???!!!!!!!!!!!

One suspects, that's what you get for living on farmland!!

Sparks115

Oh My God Yes ...we were watching tv and saw a huge one on the curtain rail I nearly died. I then was cleaning my curtains and had a freak when I oopend out the curtains and there was 2 of them in the folds!!! arghhhhhhhh. Last night then my other half was putting something in the bin and he saw another huge one crawling outside the door. Honestly they are huge black and hairy and I HATE HATE HATE them!!!:eek: :eek:

matt-dublin

we call them chicken spiders, after a recent documentry on discovery about spiders about 2 inches long that kill and eat chickens!

birdwatcher

Funny you should mention that....my bird nearly had a stroke last night when a big brown one appeared in our sink....I should probably clarify....I'm still taking about spiders!!;)

Coolhand

I should rent out my cat. He is a spider killing machine. He even eats them when he gets them so theres nothing left to clean up. He also is good for daddy long legs and flys. Its a tenner an hour and and all the milk he can drink.

irlirishkev

It's the time of year that it is. Having grown up in Greystones, I think I can honestly say, those big brown ba*tards show up around autumn every year.

You'd just be sitting there watching telly, and then see something moving in the corner of your eye. Big ugly brown spider eyeballing you from the corner of the room. I used to get my dad, and yes, even my grandmother to get rid of them.

These days, as an adult, I'm much more manly. It's the hoover of death for these little monsters!

daveco23

Walked into my 11 month old's room this morning to find him happily munching away on one, with another running for its life away from the cot...
Picking spider legs (still moving) out of a toddlers mouth is not the best way to start the day...

foxy06

I came down from bed because I couldn't sleep......then I read this.......Now I'm never going to get asleep!!!

SuperSean11

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055143487
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dubsgirl

Was watching telly last night and I swear to god I heard footsteps on the other side of the room which made me look at it! In my haste threw a cushion at it and it moved the cushion!! Even typing this my heart is racing at the memory!!

Eventually he got the croc of death!
(used my daughters croc shoe to crush him)

Ru

They come in through the air vents. I know this because i put one out last night and the little git ran straight back to the vent, i went inside and there he was, popping through again.

I plan on replacing the vents with the slidey ones you get in woodies for about €12. I did this on the back room when we moved in first and they fit nicely

Charlie-Bravo

I saw this thread yesterday and said to myself: 'do we not have anything else to be doing?'!!!!

Anyhow, was sitting on the couch last night and saw a big f3cker leg it across the stairs...ok not worth posting, I've seen bigger...but in the middle of the night the missus went to use the bathroom, turned on the bathroom light, saw the f3cker in the middle of the bathroom floor, she screeched, ran into the bedroom, jumped on the bed to get her bear feet of the ground...now, she doesn't like spiders but I thought it was a bit much to react like that so I went in to have a look! Yep, he was a big f3cker and it was as if he grew overnight! So stupid me says to her, 'ah sure, I saw him on stairs earlier'. She wasn't impressed!

katek

I could not believe how big they are. We had a family and I cant figure out if they are new ones coming in or the same ones coming back. I went nuts when I saw them. I dont mind little ones but they are HUGE!

Mullie

We've had 2 in the past week - monsters! Too big for a pint glass, get your pyrex dishes at the ready!!

LMC

Ok, totally freaked out now! As someone who suffers from Arachnophobia, :eek: since reading this I have been checking the house each night - thankfully nothing SO FAR I know they are going to come in (time of year and all that) but is there anything to buy as a deterent??? the only thing Ive seen is a powder but dont want to use that.

Hendrix89

Yeah there's one big guy livin outside behind my drain pipe. I guess they're kinda similar to the shape of a black widow. Massive things though!

I also suffer from Arachnophobia, but would never harm a defenseless spider.. Guys don't go killing them just cause your don't like em around. They are more afraid of us, you know that right?:D

irlirishkev

Hendrix89 wrote:

Guys don't go killing them just cause your don't like em around. They are more afraid of us, you know that right?:D

Yeah right! And do you think that if our sizes were reversed, that they'd leave us alone? I think not!

matt-dublin

yeah don't kill em, killing em causes it to rain!

Tomato

You can buy plug in repellers - they emit some sort of a soundwave that stops spiders entering the room where its plugged in. Can get them in Woodies.

LMC

Thanks for that Tomato

bullvine

Do you not remember the story from about 10 years ago, some fella found a black widow in his shed in Delgany.

ron_darrell

Moved out to a new house in the country, we only visited it during the day when we were viewing it and it was lovely but at night the place literally crawled with big, hairy spiders. My girlfriend is badly scared of them so I spent most of the night and next day rooting everywhere killing them. Six came up, one after the other out of the sink when we turned on the tap!! What's the story with them this year. I've never seen so many

PS: BTW we had to move out of the house and back to the city

nice1franko

tip: fashion a flame thrower from a can aerosol and a lighter

nice1franko

further tip: don't use it around curtains.

~Marky~

I was bitten last night when I was a sleep have a bump on my leg and it has two holes in it..I keep finding these huge spiders all over my house its mad.

JupiterKid

I definitely think spiders are getting bigger in recent years. Maybe it has to do with global warming but I've also heard that some type of biggish spider from the Canary islands has come over here as an illegal immigrant and has settled down and multiplied.

I've never heard of anyonee here getting bitten by a spiter - that's a ppretty scary development...:eek:

Grovey

i saw two of them in the house.scary monsters :eek: but because they are so big, it makes them easier to catch. no more since

podgeandrodge

i catch them in a "bug catcher" - cover and slide trap door. Then let them out up the road and around the corner. These guys can see you coming. They are not one of God's creations. They are evil personified..or perhaps spiderfied would be more appropriate.

Grovey

i'm very scared I went into the kitchen last night and there were 12 spiders carry away a frozen chicken. i tried to stop them but one of them put me in a headlock. they are gone now but so is my chicken. if you see a frozen chicken hovering around will you get it back for me.

dubrunner

We caught 2 huge ones last night. A few of the neighbours have spotted some of those hairy brown ones last night.

Their bodies appear to be bigger than a 2 Euro coin!.........

Are we looking at small/growing tarantulas????

nice1franko

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSOHkcyllxY

FirstIn

I was listening to one G Ryan the other morning and his take on the whole women afraid of spiders, mice etc is that they fear that these creatues will run up their leg and continue onwards and upwards into their "fallujah", interesting I thought.

Womens bodies incorporating a part of Iraq! Thought I'd write that before someone else did!

dublingirl

Have seemed to found a solution after one stared me down in my bedroom 3 weeks ago. Managed to get it out via the hoover but it came back in only to be evicted again the next morning. Bought one of those plug in repellers and plugged it in. Also got some Nikon Ant Killer spray in woodies and have sprayed all around the windows, doors, vents (which I now have taped up due to the draft) and anywhere I thought they could get in. None seen inside the apartment since and a lot of dead bodies outside.

TnJ

Big Mother F*8kers is what they are. I think they are invading Charlesland and taking over a bit like George Orwell's book, "Animal Farm", eight legs good, two legs bad!!

Even our cat is afraid of them and that's saying something coz he'd eat a wasp.

SOS

Tomato

Spiderpig.. spiderpig... maybe Homer is to blame. Watch out if they continue to grow and then start to turn pink.

matt-dublin

we saw what can only be described as a flock of them crossing the duall carriageway the other day, from the fields around the fairways coming up to charlesland.

mikedragon32

You can't say you've not been warned:

http://www.free-lyrics.org/Bill-Bailey/33785-Insect-Nation.html

Bill Bailey wrote:

The spiders are not insects,
but in a war they will side with the insects.
Traitors, traitors, spider traitors,
they'll betray us, and they'll make us...
human slaves, in an insect nation!

dogmatix

You should ask the guys over in the nature forum about this - they would know. As far as I know - around September/October the big males, after a summer feasting on flies (and each other) start to go on a walkabout looking for a bit of action with the ladies and to ensure a new generation will be scaring the bejaysus outta ye next autumn!

I'd imagine most of them will be dead in a month or two - either the cold or the from being eaten by the females post-coitus. It's a tough life for a randy spider to be sure. And they bite too - as the family dog learned many, many years ago.

It's not just Greystones - it's an annual occurrence everywhere, at least it is up here in Ballinteer. I hate this time of year too - me being an arachniphobe as well.

annmarie124

Hi Everyone,
my dog broke his leg and was on bed rest for two weeks so in feeling sorry for him i would bring him into my sitting room and have a pillow on the floor near the couch. i was rubbing his head and out of the corner of my eye i thought i saw something running across the floor. i had a look but couldn't see anything so paid no more attention.

the following evening in the sitting room an enormous spider ran out from under a press. my first reaction was to stand on it only the little bugger was so big he could run really fast and i couldn't keep up with it. he stopped under the foot stool and i trapped him with a pint glass and released it outside in the nearby park.

Last night washing the same sitting room floor the same spider ran out from under the couch!!! i wasn't so kind to him this time though cause i stood on it. i was afraid the spider might go for my bedroom next and jump down my throat for kicking him out the first time. he was about the size of a 2 euro coin too!! two weeks ago got rid of an even bigger spider than that.

anybody know where i can get one of those plug ins that scare off insects?:eek:

TnJ

TnJ wrote:

Big Mother F*8kers is what they are. I think they are invading Charlesland and taking over a bit like George Orwell's book, "Animal Farm", eight legs good, two legs bad!!

Even our cat is afraid of them and that's saying something coz he'd eat a wasp.

SOS
"...the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before the Spider's feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the development of Charlesland." To top it off, the Spiders outlawed the pets in Charlesland, which had served as one of the only remaining ties between Charlesland and the rest of Wicklow.

girliegirl

Sorry Tomato, these things dont seem to work, we have one and we still see spiders, although i think they do keep Mice away... the plug in's not the spiders... although with the size of some of the spiders i swear thats what they feed on. I had a roast chicken the other night that i swear the spider had its eye on

dubrunner

We caught a beauty last night!............ there appears to be numerous nests thoughout Charlesland!

Tomato

girliegirl wrote:

Sorry Tomato, these things dont seem to work, we have one and we still see spiders, although i think they do keep Mice away... the plug in's not the spiders... although with the size of some of the spiders i swear thats what they feed on. I had a roast chicken the other night that i swear the spider had its eye on

Yikes, thats not good. Haven't got one myself yet as was feeling very smug that we have not had any visits from these monsters, only I got too comfortable too soon and had a run in with one in the kitchen. Was planning to buy one tomorrow ( my mother swears by them, has them plugged in all over the house due to bad spider phobia.. )

Will have to revert to plan B....

matt-dublin

and most of these spiders are daddy long legs...
the only known wild spider in ireland (apart from the black widow around delgany) that has enough poisin in its system to kill a man, but had no way to deliver it!

here's hoping they don't evolve

Fiachra2

We dont seem to be having this problem in the ....ahem.. "older" parts of Greystones.

Have you considered parking a BMW. merc or SUV outside the front door? Perhaps thats what scares them off!

matt-dublin

i have a bmw outside my door and i don't seem to have a hugely big problem with spiders!!

i think you may have found the solution fiachra!

Charlie-Bravo

Matt, I reckon its the walk from the gates to the mansion is why the don't have this spider problem. Perhaps a shuttle bus service would be appropriate!

mikedragon32

But then you run into the problem that the service is for spiders and comes out of their service charge, but ants and beetles try to use it as well despite the fact they haven't paid for it...

matt-dublin

mikedragon32 wrote:

But then you run into the problem that the service is for spiders and comes out of their service charge, but ants and beetles try to use it as well despite the fact they haven't paid for it...

roflmao

Maisy

matt-dublin wrote:

roflmao

Me too.....

avantarklu

No spider problems in old Greystones - too many wasps around