UK spider season (no pictures)

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One of my worst ever encounters with one, years ago I bought some fancy underwear from Ann Summers, I had opened the bag to look at them, but not tried them on. Went to try them on a couple of days later, looked in bathroom mirror to see how they looked and there was a big spider on my bloody pants! They were frilly so I hadn't noticed when putting them on, it was hiding in the frills. Never dropped my knickers so fast 😬
 
We have had 5 big ones in the house in 3 days. This has never been an especially spidery house! What is going on?? I'm on constant spider alert.
The first one I did not even see, as my husband liberated it before I came down, but he said it was enormous - normally he calls big house spiders small, so this must have been a monster. Apparently it stared down our border collie!
 
This thread is very funny - I don’t have a spider phobia but am the same way about moths so do understand the fear. Agree that the season started much earlier this year, possibly because of the rubbish August?

My friend used to live near a place called Tropical World in Leeds and joked that the spiders had escaped from there as the ones in her flat were massive and I laughed as everyone imagines things bigger when they scare you (moths as big as birds etc.) but one day I was round visiting and she’d gone into the kitchen to get us a drink and I heard a tapping noise and couldn’t work out what it was. Looked down and it was the biggest spider I had ever seen walking across her wooden floorboards 😂 Have to admit that shook me up a bit. Told her I’d get rid of it and it was so big that I couldn’t get a pint glass over it’s legs: had to use a vase!
 
Has anyone ever been bitten by one? I had a horrid experience in my old house, went into the stair cupboard to fetch the hoover, on the way up the stairs felt something sharp on my neck, rubbed it, big spider fell on the floor 🤢 I was traumatised for ages after that, and sent my partner into the stair cupboard for anything I needed, I wouldn't go in there anymore!
 
Lorny said:
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.
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My husband isn’t very sympathetic, but he will get rid of them quick, and kill them.. not just put them outside (as if they won’t just waltz back in).

If anyone else is like me.. it’s best to avoid this thread at bedtime or when you are alone 😂
 
Nottonightbabe said:
Has anyone ever been bitten by one? I had a horrid experience in my old house, went into the stair cupboard to fetch the hoover, on the way up the stairs felt something sharp on my neck, rubbed it, big spider fell on the floor 🤢 I was traumatised for ages after that, and sent my partner into the stair cupboard for anything I needed, I wouldn't go in there anymore!
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Yes, I was running down the stairs holding onto the bannister when I was a child and I felt a sharp stabbing pain in my finger. Thought it might be a splinter but looked and there was a spider. It swelled up a bit but fortunately my finger didn’t drop off 😆
 
Saw my first whopper of a spider today in work. Crawled across the classroom floor in broad daylight and then went and hid behind the bin. I didn’t make a fuss as I don’t want to put the fear onto the kids, but it didn’t half make me jump!
 
Cooriedoon said:
Hi,
If anyone else is as terrified as I am about spiders then I’m sure you are getting as twitchy as me. Just looking to find out if anyone has any tips to minimise invasions of the beasts!
I’ve got the plug in things but I don’t really believe they work - I’m just not willing to unplug them now 😂

anything over the size of a 5p is too much for me to be near or hoover up. I mean I have sleepless nights, im on edge from now until around November expecting one to jump out on me 🙈

I’ve heard of people having hypnosis etc but first and foremost I just want them to stay out of my house - and vent to like minded scaredy cats 😂
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I honestly DREAD this time of year. I keep windows and doors closed, plug the sinks, constantly looking about the floors at night. Gosh it fills me with dread, they have got so huge these days. The sight of them absolutely turns me, they are so disgusting and run so fast. I long for the cold winter 😭😭😭🔫🔫🔫

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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Hate those types of houses for that very reason. I drive past one often and they have their windows open and I just imagine the horrid 8-legged rats all about the place 🤢🤢🤢

Sally1993 said:
We have an electric fly swat. Sorry, but no spiders live for long in my house.
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Omw have never heard of them???? Could you chuck it at the spider, or do you physically have to be holding it and flatten them with it? I can’t go near them 😭
 
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DevaVictrix said:
I honestly DREAD this time of year. I keep windows and doors closed, plug the sinks, constantly looking about the floors at night. Gosh it fills me with dread, they have got so huge these days. The sight of them absolutely turns me, they are so disgusting and run so fast. I long for the cold winter 😭😭😭🔫🔫🔫


Hate those types of houses for that very reason. I drive past one often and they have their windows open and I just imagine the horrid 8-legged rats all about the place 🤢🤢🤢


Omw have never heard of them???? Could you chuck it at the spider, or do you physically have to be holding it and flatten them with it? I can’t go near them 😭
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Are we the same person? 😂 people always ask me why I don’t just hoover them up but I can’t go near enough to them, and absolutely will not entertain the idea of holding on to something that sucks them up passed my hand, no thanks. 😭 Iv been having meltdowns every day this week and having to tell myself I just need to get through the next few weeks and then it’ll be over for another year 😭
 
Hooverd up one this morning that was stationary in the hallway and it had such a big body you could feel in the tube when it hit the sides. I assumed it was a leaf or something to start with.

I'm not that bothered by them, but does freak me out when I can't sleep so I'm in the lounge at 2-5am and see them scuttle around. They must do that every night while I'm in bed. One even crawed up the sofa blanket on to me 😱

Just off to hoover up all the little ones that have crawed through the ventilation grate
 
I’ve heard on several occasions that the big ones don’t like the ones like daddy long legs (Cellar Spiders) This link ****THERE ARE PICTURES**** Says they eat other insects! https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/spiders/cellar-spider

I don’t mind spiders, we all have to live on this earth and I loath killing anything because of my own fear however I appreciate others fear and I can’t say I’m a big fan of the big ones. For the last 2 years I’ve let the Cellar Spiders live harmoniously in my house, they are quite lazy and stick to quiet areas and tend not to move much and I’ve not seen one big one since! Obv this is purely my own experience however since I let them live their good life in the house not one big beast has graced my presence since.
 
It's funny how some houses just seem to be "spider hotels" and others aren't. Years ago we took my baby daughter on holiday to a lovely cottage in Pembrokeshire. It was old but modernised and not ivy-covered or anything. Very clean and tidy.
Post baby, I had to get up for a wee at least once every night and the cottage was all on one floor and linear, so you had to walk from the master bedroom through the sitting room & kitchen to the loo. When i entered the sitting room I could see even in the semi-dark big blotches on the walls so i switched on a light - it was several massive spiders! I woke my husband and made him accompany me but he flatly refused after the first trip. I'm ashamed to say I used a bucket I found in the kitchen next to the bed for the rest of my holiday ( I did bleach it thoroughly when i left...)
I didnt see any in the day time BUT apparently one night I was sitting on the sofa cuddling the baby my husband saw a massive one leisurely crossing the wall just behind me. He didn't say anything as he assumed (probably rightly!) I'd leap up screaming and drop the baby!
I was never so glad to leave a holiday home (apart from the place where we encountered bedbugs and to be far I'd rather have spiders than them...!)
 
Cooriedoon said:
Are we the same person? 😂 people always ask me why I don’t just hoover them up but I can’t go near enough to them, and absolutely will not entertain the idea of holding on to something that sucks them up passed my hand, no thanks. 😭 Iv been having meltdowns every day this week and having to tell myself I just need to get through the next few weeks and then it’ll be over for another year 😭
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Twins separated at birth, I believe!!!!

Geranium said:
It's funny how some houses just seem to be "spider hotels" and others aren't. Years ago we took my baby daughter on holiday to a lovely cottage in Pembrokeshire. It was old but modernised and not ivy-covered or anything. Very clean and tidy.
Post baby, I had to get up for a wee at least once every night and the cottage was all on one floor and linear, so you had to walk from the master bedroom through the sitting room & kitchen to the loo. When i entered the sitting room I could see even in the semi-dark big blotches on the walls so i switched on a light - it was several massive spiders! I woke my husband and made him accompany me but he flatly refused after the first trip. I'm ashamed to say I used a bucket I found in the kitchen next to the bed for the rest of my holiday ( I did bleach it thoroughly when i left...)
I didnt see any in the day time BUT apparently one night I was sitting on the sofa cuddling the baby my husband saw a massive one leisurely crossing the wall just behind me. He didn't say anything as he assumed (probably rightly!) I'd leap up screaming and drop the baby!
I was never so glad to leave a holiday home (apart from the place where we encountered bedbugs and to be far I'd rather have spiders than them...!)
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Omw you could literally have written this about a renovated old barn we stayed in one Easter, on the Isle of Wight. I actually wrote a tripadvisor review and mentioned the spiders🤮🤮 one of the worst weeks of my life. Never so glad to leave a place. HORRIFIC.
 
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This past week I’ve been going to bed around 9pm so I don’t see any run out from under my sofa in the living room 🤢 Although I remember sitting on my bed once getting ready to get in and go to sleep and to my left I see a huge spider in the corner of my eye, just casually sat right next to my foot 🤢 I couldn’t even look at it I just told my partner to quickly get it. Haven’t came across any since then in my bedroom but I’ve probably gone and jinxed it now 😂
 
My worst spider encounter had to be in my student flat. My room had no natural light and was very damp so attracted a tonne (not great for my phobia). One morning I got out of bed to use the toilet (was bare foot) and felt something fluffy under my foot. I assumed it was loose fluff from this cheap rug I had next to my bed, so shook my foot to get rid of it. I learnt it wasn't fluff when it ran away and disappeared. I avoided that bathroom for a long while after.
 
Am i the only person who hates the thought of living alone because I’d have no one to call on if I found a spider?😂 Someone I’m friends with on Facebook has had to go round and remove a spider from his next door neighbours house on several occasions because her husband works shifts! I can imagine me being exactly like that!
 
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