UK spider season (no pictures)

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Blue pumpkin said:
We had new neighbours move in two doors away. Its one of those houses that's totally covered in ivy. Shortly after moving in I came home from work one day and all the ivy had disappeared. I thought it took the whole look off the house and that it looked better before however my husband said bumped into new neighbour and said they can't leave the windows open because it attracts lots of spiders.
One night when they went up to bed there was a spider the size of a hand on the bed 😫
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STOP IT my next door neighbours house is covered in ivy 😭😭😭

squiffle said:
It has begun… one of my fb friends posted a picture last night of one in his bathroom and it was the first thing I saw this morning. He has now been hidden - I do not want to see that and it has freaked me right out. Why do people feel the need to post pictures? So many people treat this phobia as a joke.
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I’m always having to hide posts if I don’t realise in time that a spider photo is coming I end up throwing my phone across the room I’ve got through so many phone screens that way!
 
It has begun in my house 😐 my first spider season in this house. My previous home seemed to attract all the spindly ones which I can just about cope with whereas I'm now in an older cottage in the countryside and I've already seen an absolute whopper. He (I've named him sid..it helps 😂) keeps running back into his hole in the skirting board every time I go near him; he comes out every night. I'm absolutely DREADING spider season in this house 😭
I can't even enter a room without scanning all the walls, skirting, ceiling etc
 
FoksiOska said:
It has begun in my house 😐 my first spider season in this house. My previous home seemed to attract all the spindly ones which I can just about cope with whereas I'm now in an older cottage in the countryside and I've already seen an absolute whopper. He (I've named him sid..it helps 😂) keeps running back into his hole in the skirting board every time I go near him; he comes out every night. I'm absolutely DREADING spider season in this house 😭
I can't even enter a room without scanning all the walls, skirting, ceiling etc
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It has begun in mine too, couple nights ago there was a huge one in my hall 😑. This year I'm going to try spritzing some lemon and peppermint essential oils around, see if that has much effect.
 
I had one in my bed the other night, I was in bits! It wasn't that small either. I only saw it as I was flipping my pillow and I only saw it then as I sleep with the light on cos I'm scared of the dark too, 🙄
I tried to set the cat on it, but she wasn't having any of it. So it was on with the big girls pants & getting a glass & all that rigmarole ..
The conkers thing has never worked for me, I just rely on the cats to keep the place spider free which tbf they mostly do. I guess under the pillow was a bit beyond them..😣
 
merlot said:
I had one in my bed the other night, I was in bits! It wasn't that small either. I only saw it as I was flipping my pillow and I only saw it then as I sleep with the light on cos I'm scared of the dark too, 🙄
I tried to set the cat on it, but she wasn't having any of it. So it was on with the big girls pants & getting a glass & all that rigmarole ..
The conkers thing has never worked for me, I just rely on the cats to keep the place spider free which tbf they mostly do. I guess under the pillow was a bit beyond them..😣
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Oh god I always check under my pillows and quilt ever since I had a big one crawl over me when I got into bed one night 🤢

Also did anyone when growing up get told we apparently ate so many in our life while asleep? I remember my teacher telling us once as he woken up to one next to his mouth the night before and for ages I’d make sure I fell to sleep with my mouth shut and quilt right up to me 🙈
 
Halliestar said:
Oh god I always check under my pillows and quilt ever since I had a big one crawl over me when I got into bed one night 🤢

Also did anyone when growing up get told we apparently ate so many in our life while asleep? I remember my teacher telling us once as he woken up to one next to his mouth the night before and for ages I’d make sure I fell to sleep with my mouth shut and quilt right up to me 🙈
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Yeah, I got told about 8 a year.. I think that's bollocks. But I still sleep withthe quilt right up to my mouth just in case... 😂
 
A few times now I have had a spider crawl on me in bed!! Happened to me a few weeks ago, I jumped out of bed and couldn’t see anything and neither could my partner, got back into bed but felt something on me again so freaked out! Then my partner who was still in bed felt it crawling on him and we finally saw it 🤢
 
Despite having a pet tarantula, I am terrified of the bloody things. I can cope with little ones and the spindly ones just about, but anything bigger than a 5p and I have to hide in a different room.
My daughter has an Ikea kitchen in our kitchen, and its got a removable bowl for the sink. I picked it up the other day to give it a clean and this horrible fat spider was in there :sick: must have crawled up the legs or something. I punted the bowl across the kitchen into the conservatory and shut the door, and refused to open it until my partner was back from work. :ROFLMAO:
 
I am absolutely terrified of them also! I had a huge one on my living room curtain the other night, luckily my Mum was staying with me as my husband was out…I woke her up to come and get it out and it was so big the legs struggled to fit in the glass 🤮🤮🤮.

does anyone have any dogsafe tips for keeping them away? I can’t use conkers unless they are high up as we have a Labrador puppy who eats EVERYTHING! I have used peppermint oil around the upstairs window frames that she can’t get to but we have double doors going out from our lounge to the garden and that’s where the monster came from the other evening…if I out peppermint oil down she will lick it and I don’t think it’s too good for dogs…😩
 
I have found my people!

Reading this thread gave me serious goosebumps. People genuinely don't understand my fear of them. I can't go physically near one or I will have a panic attack. At this time of year I find myself searching every corner of every room. I can just about deal with money spiders. Anything bigger, no. Not great that my partner is a bit scared of them too and when I ask him to kill one, he ends up just losing it and I have a meltdown. Have bought some spider spray of amazon which didn't help when I opened it and on the bottle there was a picture of a huge spider! Can't even lift the spray out of the cupboard to use it cause of the spider on the bottle. We have a cat so I hope she eats them all, though my partners mums cat brought a massive spider to them in bed as a gift :sick:
 
Have to join in here as I’m just heading into my third spider season in my current gaff and I’ve just spotted one for the first time ever 😭 I honestly thought I’d moved into some sort of miracle house and now I’m going to have to burn it down. Little head was hanging out in the bathroom doorway. I can’t bring myself to kill them in case karma sends a bigger one instead 💔
 
Thankful there’s a thread for this 😅 I’m terrified of spiders, I’ve have just recently been able to slightly get over my fear, and I’m now able to hoover up medium spiders. Anything bigger than that though and I freeze.
I’ve had to kill one a day for the last week (no exaggeration!) and the last one ran across my blanket whilst I was sat on the couch, the neighbours must’ve thought I was being attacked after hearing my screams! 🤮
 
The spindly ones you see in corners are called cellar spiders and kill and eat the massive, chunkier house spiders so you should leave them alone if you can. I can happily live with the spindly ones if I means they keep the evil house spiders at bay!

Ive always found conkers do work. I get them from the churchyard in town, but it’s still early and they’re aren’t any on the ground yet.
 
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I love that there's a thread for this. I work in an ancient dilapidated building and I dread this time of year. I'm facilities staff and end up running into the bastards more than most. I've got better as I've got older but last week I found one on the ceiling that was roughly the size of my palm. I took a photo, sent it to a colleague and left a note on the front desk saying that if estates didn't hunt it down the next morning I was resigning. It was enormous and they're the only thing that give me the flights instead of the fights. I get routinely mocked for being able to hold my own in a fight but screaming like a girl (nb: I am a girl) at spiders. Like alright you lot go deal with them then! I don't mock all of you for genuinely reporting hauntings.

Ahem.
 
One of the spindly ones just jumped on me whilst I was in the bath 😣

Bloody hate them - nearly flooded the bathroom jumping out so quickly lol.

Going to throw peppermint oil everywhere tonight 😂
 
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