Spiders!!!

larrlin24

Is anyone else having a problem with HUGE house spiders at the moment? I seem to find them everywhere. They're not the type of spiders that just hangout in the corner of the ceiling. In fact I've never seen them up high. They're always running across my floor, in my wardrobe or on my bed!! :eek: Is that even normal? I don't know what to do. Even the thought of them makes me shiver. Does anyone know if those plugins from Woodies work? Or is there any other way to get rid of them? Help!

elfy4eva

larrlin24 wrote: »

Is anyone else having a problem with HUGE house spiders at the moment? I seem to find them everywhere. They're not the type of spiders that just hangout in the corner of the ceiling. In fact I've never seen them up high. They're always running across my floor, in my wardrobe or on my bed!! :eek: Is that even normal? I don't know what to do. Even the thought of them makes me shiver. Does anyone know if those plugins from Woodies work? Or is there any other way to get rid of them? Help!

They're in invasion mode at the moment to find warm/mates. Completely harmless though keep a jam jar handy and ferry them elsewhere

EDIT: As far as I know those plug in things are just a gimmick.

mymo

I have loads of them coming in, I don't mind them, pick them up with a glass and a piece do card, bring into the garden and deposit far from the house.

Or

Call one of the cats as my daughter does, she brings one cat to bed to be sure, they love eating spiders!

Daughter read on internet that peppermint oil is a deterrent so I have that on my shopping list.

larrlin24

mymo wrote: »

I have loads of them coming in, I don't mind them, pick them up with a glass and a piece do card, bring into the garden and deposit far from the house.

Or

Call one of the cats as my daughter does, she brings one cat to bed to be sure, they love eating spiders!

My cats ate two of them today. I'd just prefer if they weren't in the house at all. My room is spotless, yet they still seem to find a hiding place and then appear beside my bed at night

TheDoc

Yup massive problem here.

We have sort of heading around the front of the house and its like a breeding ground. I'm killing s good few everyday.

I actually just did a search for s thread now...because a big bodied one was scattering up the wall.

Went out for a smoke and noticed one of the biggest I've ever seen by the window. After some more investigation with a light found loads.

Definitely freaking me out especially with a new born baby in the house. They are all over the place

This thread pops up this time every year. Had a huge one myself he took up residence in my house when it was empty for 6 months ....

larrlin24

Deleted User wrote: »

This thread pops up this time every year. Had a huge one myself he took up residence in my house when it was empty for 6 months ....

:eek::eek::eek::eek: I'd pack up and move if I saw that!

larrlin24

TheDoc wrote: »

Yup massive problem here.

We have sort of heading around the front of the house and its like a breeding ground. I'm killing s good few everyday.

I actually just did a search for s thread now...because a big bodied one was scattering up the wall.

Went out for a smoke and noticed one of the biggest I've ever seen by the window. After some more investigation with a light found loads.

Definitely freaking me out especially with a new born baby in the house. They are all over the place

Ugh they're horrible!! After this post, I had two of them run at me while I was watching tv in bed. They're so fast which makes them hard to catch. I feel like I can't relax now because I'm always on the lookout

ShaShaBear

I have an average sized dining room, and since last night there are no less than 5 squished spiders bigger than a €2 coin on the walls. Me and OH are absolutely TERRIFIED of them. I mean like I would vomit if one was on me kind of terrified. We had one in our old house last year that was so big it got STUCK in where the hinges are on the door (between door and frame). All we could see was the legs waving about, and when OH opened the door it jumped to the floor. Not fell, but jumped.

alie

Had one on the sitting room wall and I thought someones pet had escaped , horrible looking, had a huge body and thick legs,
R.I.P

whitelight

we have huge wolf spiders in our house.....errgh they get really big.they some times jump off the stairs through the spindles onto sitting room floor and you can hear them land!!! also feckers for hiding in laundry basket. freak me out every second day. someone said put conkers [as in horse chestnuts] some where in your room and they wont stay for long I am tempted to try this, sounds a bit mad but they are very gross!!! bonkers conkers!!!

alie

Omg, thats the stuff of nightmares!! We have a large amount of conkers and no ....the feckers seem to love them

kylith

I nearly stood on one in my stocking feet last night *shudder*. Plonked a glass over it and found a suitably sturdy piece of card and, when I'd built up my nerve, flung it into the front garden.

whitelight

alie wrote: »

Omg, thats the stuff of nightmares!! We have a large amount of conkers and no ....the feckers seem to love them

ah balls!!! I was hoping to use nature against nature!! I'm bit evil, if there in the bath I grab the hairspray...blast them till they freeze all stuck together and then hoover them up!!!and they other half is always moaning as to why he has to empty the hoover bag!!

corsav6

A pic from a few weeks ago. This guy isn't even close to the biggest I have caught this year.

Edit: When I try to upload a pic I just get invalid file, not sure what's going on as its a standard .jpg
Point is the spider is huge, I'll upload pic when I figure out the problem.

aoife molloy

larrlin24 wrote: »

Is anyone else having a problem with HUGE house spiders at the moment? I seem to find them everywhere. They're not the type of spiders that just hangout in the corner of the ceiling. In fact I've never seen them up high. They're always running across my floor, in my wardrobe or on my bed!! :eek: Is that even normal? I don't know what to do. Even the thought of them makes me shiver. Does anyone know if those plugins from Woodies work? Or is there any other way to get rid of them? Help!

yes in my bed also my shoe in bedroom in kitchen i am phobic

SingItOut

I haven't found any inside the house in the last few weeks but I'd die a death if I found one in my room let alone my bed!!! We usually get them in the kitchen and bathroom, there are tons of the huge black ones in the shed, may they stay there!

jopax

We have had loads of them in our house too, really big ones.
I don't mind them too much in the kitchen but the bedroom is a different story.
I have to check the bedroom every night and some nights have had to take three out of the room. Can't see where they are coming from, but I could not go asleep if there was one in the room.

Rubberchikken

Have loads, some as big as kittens;)
Glad i dont mind them, i pick them up put them outside but im starting to recognise them as they come back in;)

larrlin24

This is the 6th one this week!!! Think it's time to move out :eek::eek:

http://oi62.tinypic.com/24159x0.jpg

larrlin24

Rubberchikken wrote: »

Have loads, some as big as kittens;)
Glad i dont mind them, i pick them up put them outside but im starting to recognise them as they come back in;)

My Dad's like that. He just walks in and picks them up and puts them outside. I wish I could do that. I scream, run around, frantically look for the hoover and the cleaning spray. It's quite embarrassing!

aoife molloy

SingItOut wrote: »

I haven't found any inside the house in the last few weeks but I'd die a death if I found one in my room let alone my bed!!! We usually get them in the kitchen and bathroom, there are tons of the huge black ones in the shed, may they stay there!

I am panicked when i see them even now breathing is full of angst

DBB

Jayney
I'm not madly keen on them running around the place, but jeez, I find it terribly sad to read of all the spider deaths, some all of which are really unpleasant
They may not look nice and they move fast, but the Big Picture is that they are vital friends of ours... if you're prepared to get close enough to them to spray them with hairspray or suck them up in the hoover, then you're surely prepared to get one of those spider grasper things so ye wouldn't have to get close to them, and just put them gently outside? And you do need to be gentle with them, flinging them out the window can crack their exoskeleton and cause a slow death.

Spider grasper:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/2762085.htm

Spraying them with hairspray, sucking them up in the hoover is just, well, cruel

Genghis Cant

TheDoc wrote: »

Definitely freaking me out especially with a new born baby in the house. They are all over the place

How are spiders impacting on the child?

I can't abide anyone killing a spider. It's completely unnecessary. It's a slippery slope, what next butterflies, moths, cats dogs?
Serial killers in the making.

larrlin24

Genghis Cant wrote: »

How are spiders impacting on the child?

I can't abide anyone killing a spider. It's completely unnecessary. It's a slippery slope, what next butterflies, moths, cats dogs?
Serial killers in the making.

Really? :rolleyes:

Genghis Cant

larrlin24 wrote: »

Really? :rolleyes:

Yeah.

I'd have no objection to killing a spider if you were goin to eat it. Otherwise it's gratuitous.

Morf

I made great friends with the spiders in my shed. They'd stay in the same spots and we were both happy.

Less happy about them inside but adrenaline rush and panic reaction has diminished hugely recently.

alie

Morf wrote: »

I made great friends with the spiders in my shed. They'd stay in the same spots and we were both happy.

Less happy about them inside but adrenaline rush and panic reaction has diminished hugely recently.

Speaking of spiders in the shed. I was cleaning mine out yesterday. I am suprised the gaurds werent called. I was doing grand and then I moved a box.. O holy mother of god. There was a family of big brown ones
My screams were blood curdling. I dropped the sweeping brush and fled. Even the dog backed away.

northgirl

Was watching some tv before bed on the laptop last night and one ran across the keyboard. A monster. Stripped the bed and panicked alot, don't know how I slept

larrlin24

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Yeah.

I'd have no objection to killing a spider if you were goin to eat it. Otherwise it's gratuitous.

Each to their own I suppose. I wouldn't go out of my way to kill one if I saw it just hanging out in a corner somewhere, but if it's running at me then the only thing I can do is throw a shoe at it and hope I kill it. It's hard not to panic when you're deathly afraid of them!

Genghis Cant

Genghis Cant wrote: »

How are spiders impacting on the child?

I can't abide anyone killing a spider. It's completely unnecessary. It's a slippery slope, what next butterflies, moths, cats dogs?
Serial killers in the making.

Keeping spiders is a slippery slope also, first spiders, butterflies cats, dogs, then humans.
Kidnapper in the making.

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Just after i posted this, i saw my cat go into hunt mode, and he just killed a monster spider. I have another one in my living room.

northgirl

Deleted User wrote: »

Keeping spiders is a slippery slope also, first spiders, butterflies cats, dogs, then humans.
Kidnapper in the making.

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Just after i posted this, i saw my cat go into hunt mode, and he just killed a monster spider. I have another one in my living room.

I'm thinking to borrow the neighbours cat for a few weeks

zef

My cat just earnt herself a treat. Left the window open as I was out all day, was just getting into bed and I notice Dobby is watching something. There was a daddy long legs earlier, so thought the noise was another one. Saw it was a huuuge big black spider, hiding in a paper bag. Gave it a rustle and we caught him, she ate him. Owe her a salmon dinner. Ar'n't cats great :-)

Genghis Cant

I don't understand the double standards here. Were I to suggest setting my dogs on a cat to devour it or indeed much more humanely, shooting cats as they enter upon my property, there would be outrage here.
Why is it accepted that spiders be killed?
It sick. Simple as that. Only a sad excuse for a human would routinely stand idly by and allow the slaughter of innocent spiders.

endacl

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Simple as that. Only a sad excuse for a human would routinely stand idly by and allow the slaughter of innocent spiders.

It's the only way to protect the flies.

Spider cull!!

:pac:

New Home

Just came across this...

endacl

New Home wrote: »

Just came across this...

A clever move from some peppermint oil salesman...

New Home

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Yeah.

I'd have no objection to killing a spider if you were goin to eat it. Otherwise it's gratuitous.

Genghis Cant wrote: »

I don't understand the double standards here. Were I to suggest setting my dogs on a cat to devour it or indeed much more humanely, shooting cats as they enter upon my property, there would be outrage here.
Why is it accepted that spiders be killed?
It sick. Simple as that. Only a sad excuse for a human would routinely stand idly by and allow the slaughter of innocent spiders.

I don't have arachnophobia so spiders and I cohabit quite happily, and I hate killing them/seeing them killed.

Having said that, GC, I think you've answered your own question - cats/dogs/birds/even fish eat spiders, they're part of the food chain/it's natural selection - cruel, but "normal", for lack of a better word. A human being setting his/her dog on another animal, or shooting another animal because it trespasses into your property, is not justifiable, it's cruel and gratuitous. So, that's your difference.

New Home

endacl wrote: »

A clever move from some peppermint oil salesman...

Probably :rolleyes:, but at least your house will have a lovely minty scent...

Genghis Cant

New Home wrote: »

I don't have arachnophobia so spiders and I cohabit quite happily, and I hate killing them/seeing them killed.
Having said that, GC, I think you've answered your own question - cats/dogs/birds/even fish eat spiders, they're part of the food chain/it's natural selection - cruel, but "normal", for lack of a better word. A human being setting his/her dog on another animal, or shooting another animal because it trespasses into your property, is not justifiable, it's cruel and gratuitous. So, that's your difference.

Nature is not cruel. It is simply indifferent. I'm indifferent to cats but would not be cruel.
If spiders were cute and fluffy the attitude on here would be completly different.
Such **** being posted, one poster worried for his newborn child, another throwing shoes when spiders ran at her. It's a sick joke. Picking on a harmless creature.
What about bees, or bats, why stop at spiders?

DBB

Surely gratuitous means that it's *not necessary*?
In light of the fact that there are perfectly acceptable and no less scary means of removing spiders alive and unharmed, spraying a spider with hairspray is therefore gratuitous. So is sucking them up into a Hoover.
I'd prefer to see a dog or cat finishing them off instantly if that's what a phobic person requires, feckit, even squash them with a shoe if it's a dire emergency, but the above two methods prolong their death and are utterly unnecessary.
I'm still trying to understand why one would get so close to one with a Hoover, shoe or hairspray can, but nobody has said they'd opt for the humane grasper I linked to already. The spider stays the same distance from you, but it's not killed in a horrible fashion, or injured to die a slow death.

shamrock55

One of those wolf spiders ran out from under the tv tonight and just stood there in the middle of the floor stareing at me, i swear he was the biggest spider ive ever seen in real life in my 37 yrs on this planet, anyway i squeezed him into a pint glass and threw him out, 2 mins later his buddy came rushing out looking for him and got the same treatment:D

salamanca22

One from today



(click image)

larrlin24

Genghis Cant wrote: »

I don't understand the double standards here. Were I to suggest setting my dogs on a cat to devour it or indeed much more humanely, shooting cats as they enter upon my property, there would be outrage here.
Why is it accepted that spiders be killed?
It sick. Simple as that. Only a sad excuse for a human would routinely stand idly by and allow the slaughter of innocent spiders.

Surely you're not comparing spiders to animals like cats and dogs? Come on :rolleyes:

Irish Stones

New Home wrote: »

Just came across this...

What about cats and dogs in the house?
Would they love peppermint scent all over?

New Home

No idea. Some cats like catmint, but that's a different kettle of fish.

Just photographed this today . I think it might be a false widow spider on the side of my house.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=92219989&postcount=1

DBB

larrlin24 wrote: »

Surely you're not comparing spiders to animals like cats and dogs? Come on :rolleyes:

I know I would place more "value", if that's the right word, on a dog or a cat's life.
That does not, however, invalidate the fact that I hate seeing any animal killed inhumanely, or for reasons that are hard to justify ("I'm scared of it" doesn't cut it in light of the fact that releasing them humanely requires just as close contact with them as killing them inhumanely).

New Home

I'm 100% with you DBB - just because they're ugly it doesn't mean they don't suffer.

salamanca22

New Home wrote: »

I'm 100% with you DBB - just because they're ugly it doesn't mean they don't suffer.

Actually it is wildly still debated whether not invertebrates can feel pain and suffer. In fact the Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876 specifically excludes invertebrates from it.

Based on their biology even if they did feel pain it would not be in the same way we would. It would be a completely different sensation.

zef

A small to medium spider or other insects don't bother me, and if I get to one before the cats do I will put it out the window.
But this great big black thing... I would not have been able to sleep in the room, and as ive just started uni as a mature student I find I really need my sleep.
I don't agree with any type of unnecessary cruelty, but in the case of the big black spidey , it was him or me. I saw this thread the other day and was hoping I wouldn't have to post in it! Sleeping with white bed clothes too so I can see the feckers should they go on my bed.
It's a pain not being able to open the bedroom window until the spider fest is over.