It's that time of year again, the spiders are back.

Galwayguy35

The house invasion seems to have started, I've found 5 of these house spiders running around the place so far this week.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

They never went away you know.

corner of hells

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

The house invasion seems to have started, I've found 5 of these house spiders running around the place so far this week.

Its the ones watching you while you sleep that you should fear.

BlaasForRafa

Time to buy a newspaper so I can roll it up and kill them with it.

anndub

At least the ants are gone. For now.

Sarn

They mostly come at night, mostly.

LETHAL LADY

Although I've a stupid fear of spiders I stay away from them if they stay away from me. I've an invasion of bluebottles since yesterday who appear to be coming through an opening in an interior wall, so I'm assuming even though there is no smell that there is something dead in there. I'm hoping a spider will slaughter what I can't squish.

The_Valeyard

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

Time to buy a newspaper so I can roll it up and kill them with it.

Just pick them up and put them out the door.

corner of hells

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

Although I've a stupid fear of spiders I stay away from them if they stay away from me. I've an invasion of bluebottles since yesterday who appear to be coming through an opening in an interior wall, so I'm assuming even though there is no smell that there is something dead in there. I'm hoping a spider will slaughter what I can't squish.

Hmm those bluebottles are looking for a corpse , a new one.

Guy:Incognito

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Just pick them up and put them out the door.

kill them by squashing you say.......

The_Valeyard

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

kill them by squashing you say.......

Fine.....try fire, nothing could go wrong.

nullzero

Where I work is teaming with spiders all year round, don't really like them but I usually let the be, until recently I realised that the place was full of spiders but at the same time full of flies, basically they weren't doing their job so they got relocated, plus one in the canteen would flick fly carcasses into people's lunch now and then. You get people saying spiders are clean etc blah blah blah, they aren't they're lazy gits with no manners and don't belong indoors.

BlaasForRafa

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Just pick them up and put them out the door.

If you put them out they just come back in again, better to just kill them.

c_man

Good! No problem with the spiders, man.

corner of hells

nullzero wrote: »

Where I work is teaming with spiders all year round, don't really like them but I usually let the be, until recently I realised that the place was full of spiders but at the same time full of flies, basically they weren't doing their job so they got relocated, plus one in the canteen would flick fly carcasses into people's lunch now and then. You get people saying spiders are clean etc blah blah blah, they aren't they're lazy gits with no manners and don't belong indoors.

Where exactly do you work , just so as I know never to visit.

Custardpi

Can't understand the animosity towards a perfectly harmless & quite useful creature. Unless you're living in a country with really poisonous spiders you don't really have anything to worry about. Even spiders which are dangerous to humans (funnel web etc) rarely cause any problems, even when living & hunting in close proximity to human dwellings. Chances are your house/apartment is more than big enough for a few spiders & you & apart from occasionally having to sweep/hoover away old webs they should pose no issues whatsoever.

corner of hells

Custardpi wrote: »

Can't understand the animosity towards a perfectly harmless & quite useful creature. Unless you're living in a country with really poisonous spiders you don't really have anything to worry about. Even spiders which are dangerous to humans (funnel web etc) rarely cause any problems, even when living & hunting in close proximity to human dwellings. Chances are your house/apartment is more than big enough for a few spiders & you & apart from occasionally having to sweep/hoover away old webs they should pose no issues whatsoever.

Unless you're in a Spiderman film.

force eleven

Only worry about the jumping ones.

Jan Laco

It was a bumper year for flies this year so the spiders will be big and plentiful this time.

smash

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

I've an invasion of bluebottles since yesterday who appear to be coming through an opening in an interior wall, so I'm assuming even though there is no smell that there is something dead in there.

Shivers down my spine... Better to burn the house down just in case.

nullzero

corner of hells wrote: »

Where exactly do you work , just so as I know never to visit.

We had a false widow two years ago, tried killing it but it's Web was beside a hole in the wall. Big fecker for its size, ie it looked like it was on steroids, ate daddy long legs wasps anything stupid enough to go near it, bodies everywhere it was like an insect Holocaust.

stephenl15

nullzero wrote: »

We had a false widow two years ago, tried killing it but it's Web was beside a hole in the wall. Big fecker for its size, ie it looked like it was on steroids, ate daddy long legs wasps anything stupid enough to go near it, bodies everywhere it was like an insect Holocaust.

Just googled it. Mother of God I would **** myself. I can barely look at one on the screen

Bassfish

My Mrs. found a big spider above the bathroom sink this morning (although every spider she sees is huge!). She was so scared she had to go to work without brushing her teeth. She had to stop in a chemist on the way and buy a toothbrush and toothpaste!

Custardpi

nullzero wrote: »

We had a false widow two years ago, tried killing it but it's Web was beside a hole in the wall. Big fecker for its size, ie it looked like it was on steroids, ate daddy long legs wasps anything stupid enough to go near it, bodies everywhere it was like an insect Holocaust.

Why would you try & kill it if it wasn't doing you any harm? Even if it did bite you, which they generally don't do, the effect is usually no worse than a bee sting. Hardly worth killing such a useful creature over.

smash

nullzero wrote: »

We had a false widow two years ago, tried killing it but it's Web was beside a hole in the wall. Big fecker for its size, ie it looked like it was on steroids, ate daddy long legs wasps anything stupid enough to go near it, bodies everywhere it was like an insect Holocaust.

They're still around. Found one two days ago under the window sill in my front garden.

nullzero

stephenl15 wrote: »

Just googled it. Mother of God I would **** myself. I can barely look at one on the screen

Our one was jet black, it was getting bigger from all the insects in was eating, was sprayed with everything imaginable and whacked with anything that could reach it. It didn't give a fvck, tough little cnut all the same just vanished one day, worryingly enough. Saw another one in an out building in the job before, had to read a meter under its Web, it was the only spider alive in this Web and it was massive, tattoos in its legs and everything, smoking a cigar, a Web full of dead large house spiders, I looked at it and it said "howaya?" got the fup out of there asap.

nullzero

Custardpi wrote: »

Why would you try & kill it if it wasn't doing you any harm? Even if it did bite you, which they generally don't do, the effect is usually no worse than a bee sting. Hardly worth killing such a useful creature over.

Useful? It was making a huge mess. It was like having a messy compulsive eater throwing wrappers all over our workspace.

LETHAL LADY

What is the name of the really big black hairy fat bodied and legged spider that you find here? Tried googling it and came up with nothing. I've had one in the house a few years back and have seen them mainly in garages and the like.

smash

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

What is the name of the really big black hairy fat bodied and legged spider that you find here? Tried googling it and came up with nothing. I've had one in the house a few years back and have seen them mainly in garages and the like.

Tegenaria Gigantea


The most common ones I find in the house are cellar spiders.

LETHAL LADY

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

What is the name of the really big black hairy fat bodied and legged spider that you find here? Tried googling it and came up with nothing. I've had one in the house a few years back and have seen them mainly in garages and the like.

Probably the same as the one this thread is about.

Called a house spider.

They're pretty big in fairness, about the length of a fag box and the legs can be as thick as a match(as opposed to big ones with legs like a head hair).
You can hear these walking on the ground they're so big.

They start coming indoors around Aug-Sept as they're looking for mates.
I think the bigger ones are males, the opposite sex are small whichever way it goes.

I'm not too scared of "big spiders" but these ones kind of get me in fairness.

LETHAL LADY

smash wrote: »

Tegenaria Gigantea


The most common ones I find in the house are cellar spiders.

Nope that's not it. This thing was really hairy looking and had a fatter body than legs and no markings. I'm getting shivers just thinking about it.

Nearest thing to it.JPG

smash

gilberto_eire wrote: »

Called a house spider.

They're pretty big in fairness, about the length of a fag box and the legs can be as thick as a match

This is entirely not true with the common house spider.

hatrickpatrick

nullzero wrote: »

plus one in the canteen would flick fly carcasses into people's lunch now and then.

Even as someone who's pretty terrified of anything above average sized spiders, this one sounds like great craic altogether. He'd be a fun gimmick to have performing at parties

nullzero

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Even as someone who's pretty terrified of anything above average sized spiders, this one sounds like great craic altogether. He'd be a fun gimmick to have performing at parties

He's was a pratt, had enough of him after a while, dirty git, he had to go.

Junkyard Tom

Interesting fact. In an average life time a person will unknowingly swallow four rats while asleep.

nullzero

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Interesting fact. In an average life time a person will unknowingly swallow four rats while asleep.

That's just a story made up to hide the fact that people love eating tasty rats.

Guy:Incognito

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Interesting fact. In an average life time a person will unknowingly swallow four rats while asleep.

And an otter

Junkyard Tom

I heard about a guy who heard about a guy who had a 14 foot long Boa Constrictor surgically removed from his stomach having unknowingly swallowed it in his sleep.

smash

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

I heard about a guy who heard about a guy who had a 14 foot long Boa Constrictor surgically removed from his stomach having unknowingly swallowed it in his sleep.

Did he swallow it after it used to sleep beside him while it was secretly measuring him up for dinner?

hatrickpatrick

nullzero wrote: »

He's was a pratt, had enough of him after a while, dirty git, he had to go.

Ye have absolutely no sense of humour, he was only having a bit of harmless banter. Now, if he'd started chucking bits of fly sh!te at people, that's where it would cross the line into just plain obnoxious.

LETHAL LADY

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

I heard about a guy who heard about a guy who had a 14 foot long Boa Constrictor surgically removed from his stomach having unknowingly swallowed it in his sleep.

Killed Johnny Cash too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By2erwMb7rQ

Junkyard Tom

smash wrote: »

Did he swallow it after it used to sleep beside him while it was secretly measuring him up for dinner?

Something like that yeah. Apparently he said he was dreaming about eating spaghetti.

smash

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Ye have absolutely no sense of humour, he was only having a bit of harmless banter.

If he used the word 'banter', then he deserved to die.

murpho999

Don't get the hate for spiders, they keep to themselves, don't go near you and kill flies and other more annoying insects.

Was at a Bug Zoo in Canada years ago and got to hold a tarantula in my hand, completely docile creature and would cure anyone's fear of spiders.

corner of hells

gilberto_eire wrote: »

Probably the same as the one this thread is about.

Called a house spider.

They're pretty big in fairness, about the length of a fag box and the legs can be as thick as a match(as opposed to big ones with legs like a head hair).
You can hear these walking on the ground they're so big.

They start coming indoors around Aug-Sept as they're looking for mates.
I think the bigger ones are males, the opposite sex are small whichever way it goes.

I'm not too scared of "big spiders" but these ones kind of get me in fairness.

That's all fine until one of these spiders decides it wants you as its mate.

challengemaster

nullzero wrote: »

Our one was jet black, it was getting bigger from all the insects in was eating, was sprayed with everything imaginable and whacked with anything that could reach it. It didn't give a fvck, tough little cnut all the same just vanished one day, worryingly enough.

I bet you didn't spray it with FIRE!