UK spider season (no pictures)

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I'm a bit blind without my glasses but I can see enough to get by - everything's really blurry though and I can't make out faces. Anyway, I had my glasses on my head earlier and went wandering into the kitchen (I was on the phone to my partner at the time), thought I saw a massive spider on the floor, screamed and said I'll call you back. Basically scarpered out of the room. When I plucked up the courage to go back in (glasses on this time) I noticed it was nothing more than a clump of my cat's black fur :ROFLMAO: and the embarrassing thing is, I do this often! I should wear my glasses more :LOL:
 
Gym&Tonic said:
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’m curious about how they can both win these fights and eat the other spider give the size difference? I don’t want to Google it because of photos 😂
 
I've just found this:

"It’s the web that overpowers the prey, not the comparatively frail spider that made the web. The intruding spider gets tangled in the cellar spider’s web, which is dense and cage-like, sort of like a fishing net. Then the cellar spider approaches and wraps more and more silk around its prey without even having to touch it. When the prey is well and truly subdued, the cellar spider moves in with a venomous bite, then waits for the venom to do its work.

This is a typical scene among all the web-building spiders. They have different-shaped webs optimized for different kinds of prey. Cellar spiders happen to be numerous around our houses, so we’re more likely to see them in action than we do other spiders. And the fact that these “daddy long-legs” are so skinny and fragile-looking makes their hunting skills seem even more marvelous. But really, it’s the web and the venom that do the trick, not physical strength of the spider."
 
PillowsofFluff said:
I'm a bit blind without my glasses but I can see enough to get by - everything's really blurry though and I can't make out faces. Anyway, I had my glasses on my head earlier and went wandering into the kitchen (I was on the phone to my partner at the time), thought I saw a massive spider on the floor, screamed and said I'll call you back. Basically scarpered out of the room. When I plucked up the courage to go back in (glasses on this time) I noticed it was nothing more than a clump of my cat's black fur :ROFLMAO: and the embarrassing thing is, I do this often! I should wear my glasses more :LOL:
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It's ok, after my experience the other day I shrieked and physically felt my pupils dilate at the sight of what turned out to be a strip of black bag so...!

eta: I didn't know that about the spindly spiders! I can just about cope with those if they don't surprise me. I mean I don't want to be personally involved in spider murder - they have the right to be here and I'm a fanny - but if another spider wants to then let it, I say.
 
FoksiOska said:
I've just found this:

"It’s the web that overpowers the prey, not the comparatively frail spider that made the web. The intruding spider gets tangled in the cellar spider’s web, which is dense and cage-like, sort of like a fishing net. Then the cellar spider approaches and wraps more and more silk around its prey without even having to touch it. When the prey is well and truly subdued, the cellar spider moves in with a venomous bite, then waits for the venom to do its work.

This is a typical scene among all the web-building spiders. They have different-shaped webs optimized for different kinds of prey. Cellar spiders happen to be numerous around our houses, so we’re more likely to see them in action than we do other spiders. And the fact that these “daddy long-legs” are so skinny and fragile-looking makes their hunting skills seem even more marvelous. But really, it’s the web and the venom that do the trick, not physical strength of the spider."
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just saw a spindly one and was going to hoover it up but I’ve decided to leave it 😂
 
PillowsofFluff said:
I'm a bit blind without my glasses but I can see enough to get by - everything's really blurry though and I can't make out faces. Anyway, I had my glasses on my head earlier and went wandering into the kitchen (I was on the phone to my partner at the time), thought I saw a massive spider on the floor, screamed and said I'll call you back. Basically scarpered out of the room. When I plucked up the courage to go back in (glasses on this time) I noticed it was nothing more than a clump of my cat's black fur :ROFLMAO: and the embarrassing thing is, I do this often! I should wear my glasses more :LOL:
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Hahaha I had the opposite to this last year, left my glasses at my bedside and went to the loo at bedtime, stopped just short of a darker patch on the floor but thought it was just the pattern. Nipped back to get my glasses and when I returned it was a massive one 😭 love that everyone else is saying they scan rooms when entering during this time of the year. My husband says I attract them, but it’s really just because I actually see when where most people wouldn’t bother scanning a room and would miss them 😂

Feel like we all finally have a support group 😂😂
 
Cooriedoon said:
love that everyone else is saying they scan rooms when entering during this time of the year. My husband says I attract them, but it’s really just because I actually see when where most people wouldn’t bother scanning a room and would miss them 😂



Feel like we all finally have a support group 😂😂
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Yes!! My husband asks how i always spot them. Erm because i look for them 🤣🤣
 
Right we’ve had our first big one of the year. What’s the best thing to douse the place with? Peppermint? something more citrus? Help!!!
 
If my husband is at work I phone my father in law who comes round to get them. When my best friend first lived on her own she phoned me up in tears cos there was a spider in her bedroom at bedtime 😂 I had to stay on the phone to give her moral support as she caught it 💪🏻 I was in awe 🤣🤣

My bloody postman delivered me a massive spider a couple of years ago it fell out of his bag into my hall as he was passing me parcels 😱😱 I was too frozen to do anything and then my toddler tried to pick it up and I lost my tit Cos it had a red mark on its back and I was scared it was poisonous! I caught it under a bowl and husband got it out.

When I was at work the other day there was a massive spider in the lounge so my husbands aunty who was babysitting caught it Unser a foam brick with big holes and shouted for my husband….who came down to find the brick moving along as the spider tried to run away 😭

I hate spider season 😩😩

Why did I read this thread at bedtime 😬
 
Omg so I’m normally ok with spiders if they’re not too close to me. Tonight midway through showering I noticed the biggest (fat body and legs) spider crawling in the shower tray with me. I have no idea if it was already in there, on the shampoo or if it was on me 😰😰😰😰
 
ejej123 said:
Right we’ve had our first big one of the year. What’s the best thing to douse the place with? Peppermint? something more citrus? Help!!!
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First big one here last night too. Iv spent all week hoovering and washing the floors daily and spraying a mix of peppermint & eucalyptus (I just bought essential oils and poured them in to a bottle with a bit of water). Well yesterday was the first day I didn’t do it and we got one so either it works daily, or it does absolutely nothing and that’s just the first one we have had 😂🙈 thankfully my husband got it flushed pronto.

All I know is that I didn’t sleep a wink last night and have been on edge all day cleaning 🙈
 
ejej123 said:
Right we’ve had our first big one of the year. What’s the best thing to douse the place with? Peppermint? something more citrus? Help!!!
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If you have a spray bottle, put some cooled boiled water in, then lemon oil, and some peppermint oil, around 20-30 drops for a normal size spray bottle.

The other thing that deters them is hoovering regularly, they like dark, dusty undisturbed areas. Leaving a light on overnight in a room, say like a bathroom where you might need to pop in the night, also deters them, they aren't as comfortable with the light, so you're less likely to get a shock if you go in a room at night 😬

With the conkers, my understanding is that it's effective when it's crushed or split open, so the essence is more apparent to them x
 
I am so happy to have found this thread. I am absolutely terrified of them, I do the whole scanning the room when I enter and every now and then when I’m sitting down. If I’m alone I sleep with earphones in listening to a podcast so I can’t hear any scuttling if it crawls over something. I get sweaty and panicky when I see one and cannot kill them myself unless they are tiny and on the floor to stand on them. My dad was always sympathetic to my phobia and would kill them straightaway and tell me to keep calm. Now living with my boyfriend he rolls his eyes and leaves it for a bit until he can be bothered getting up to get it 😡😂really pleased I’m not just overreacting and others out there feel the same.
 
Omg, I went food shopping the other night came back and just plonked the bags down on the floor in the conservatory until I could be bothered to put it all away 🙈 half hour later, picked up the one bag, put my hand in and spotted a giant spider! I literally threw the bag on the floor and was like nope.. had to get my brother to put the bag outside and even when he said it had gone I refused to pick up or put my hand in that same bag or any others before he’d checked them!
 
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