HUGE house spiders!!! Please help??

[ChrisJB]

Originally Posted by nadmat24

The hover does kill them, as does a big spray of cillit bang...sorry to all you spider lovers, but i live alone with my son so i am unable to flee my house, and if i could catch them to put them out i would, perhaps hypnotherapy is the way forward????

Cilit Bang? Never thought of that. I'll get some. Ta.

Regards, Chris

[And]

Just remembered hearing on Terry Wogan's R2 show about someone who used Cillit Bang on greenfly .... Terry paused and then said "Cillit Bang kills roses." (You had to hear it, his comic timing was perfect.)

The latest Tegenaria keeps falling in the sodding bath, there's now a bath sheet draped into the bath and onto the floor permanently so it can escape without scaring me witless at 6 am.

[S-J]

geckos are the absolute answer - and will deal with all sorts of other nasties too. very common in south africa (where i lived for over three decades), but i don't think we get them here, do we? now there's a household pet i'd love to have - preferably a mating pair in each room!

[col188]

I've a permanent string dangled over the bath side, as my bathroom Tegenaria frequently ends up in the bath overnight.
Noticed my Bedroom (behind the Wardrobe) Mouse Spider - Scotophaeus blackwalli having a nosy in the bathroom the other night.

Haven't seen any of the other residents from under the bath, no Silverfish or Woodlice for ages. Everything's in balance

I'm semi - scared of big spiders......... if they're heading in my direction

Col

[Dianthus]

I had a HUGE spider in my flat late at night a few days ago. Unfortunately, it was very high on the wall behind my computer desk and I couldn't get at it with my usual glass/card arachnid-removing kit so I had to sit and continue with what I was doing on my computer while shooting frequent glances at it to make sure it was still there and not starting to move.

The worst thing is that when I woke up the next morning it had vanished so I have no idea of its current whereabouts - which makes things very alarming because at least when I could see it I knew where it was but now it could be anywhere at all!

I'm not scared of anything else. I've happily handled all sorts of bugs and beasties including large stag beetles and cockchafers and various snakes and lizards but, although intellectually I know that British spiders are harmless and they're more scared of me than I am of them (but that I doubt very much!) and they're many times smaller than I am, emotionally I turn into a quivering wreck at the mere sight of any spider larger than a money spider. Even photos of them give me the galloping heebyjeebies.

I can trace my fear of spiders back to when I was living in Cyprus in the early 1960s. My father was in the RAF and we were stationed over there at the time. I was sitting in a corner of the living room reading a book when I noticed a movement out of the corner of my eye. Coming towards me was an ENORMOUS hairy tarantula - and I MEAN enormous, it must have been at least 6" across ! I shrieked and my father came rushing into the room, saw it, took off his shoe and started chasing it round the room trying to bash it while I legged it right out of the house and stood quivering on the verandah! We used to get jumping spiders out there too which were alarming because, although they weren't as big as the tarantulas, they could jump a fair distance and - because they were almost round - you never knew which way they were facing and which way they would jump!

[Dianthus]

I shared a house when I was a student with three other girls and three cats. One of the cats ate spiders, but spat out the legs so we would frequently find spider legs all over the house - blehhhhh !

Another of the cats was terrified of spiders and when she encountered one she went and hid and refused to come out for hours!

[galanthus]

I just wondered does anyone else read over this thread and start to nervously look above them on the ceilings and walls and pop feet off floor onto computer chair legs

[BloomingMarvellous]

Spiders don't understand that they scare people, anyone who kills Spiders should look at my Spider Catcher thread. I don't like Spiders much but I wouldn't Kill one just because It entered my space.

Have a thought for the Spider, it's Alot more frightened of you, than you are of the Spider.

I read once that if you Will a Spider away It will go, just tell it to move on in a nice gentle manner and it will find a different place to house itself.

Don't Kill them, Will them.

[treecreeper]

Originally Posted by Dianthus

The worst thing is that when I woke up the next morning it had vanished so I have no idea of its current whereabouts - which makes things very alarming because at least when I could see it I knew where it was but now it could be anywhere at all!

No mystery about this Dianthus. It's upside down, below the seat of your computer chair

[demicav]

As I've said on other threads, we have a large number of pholcus phalangioides in the house so don't often see any Tegenaria species. However I've been relocating some Pholcus p due to them increasing in seriously large numbers and have found the remains of many Tegenaria discarded under the Pholcus webs. I removed one very large pregnant female Pholcus p from under the shoe rack and she had house spider remains also. They definately keep the numbers of the Tegenaria down but for those who have a serious spider phobia it may not be the best option.