HUGE house spiders!!! Please help??

[John_M]

Originally Posted by tatty

i have seen on 'how clean is your house' they used conkers on the window sills and citronella spray on the walls. the people of the show came back a year later and had no more problems. you will get a couple every now and then but keep on top of the cleaning and you will be fine.!!!

Spraying the walls with citronella? I'll stick with the spiders thanks, at least they don't stink!

[tomomoto17370]

Originally Posted by John_M

I haven't seen too many Brazilian wandering spiders in this country so far.
Where is your evidence that they move into your house?

brazilian wandering spiders ( Phoneutria spp.) are found in banana plantations and do bite a lot of workers anually, some fatally. They are very prolific in the city of Rio De Janerio and are regularly encountered in buildings there. Although not native to the UK they do come into the country by means of imported fruit cargo.I lived in Bournemouth for a period in the aerly 90's and cam remeber an incident in a fruiteers shop where a nest of Black widows was found in a mattress in the flat above the shop, and of a Brazilian wandering spider found in a bunch of bananas in a super market in Kent, which was caught and humanely dispatched by the R.S.P.C.A. They are a highly aggressive and toxic species, so much so, that the M.O.D. chemical and biological warfare research department in Portandown house a few of these spiders in glass domes which are alarmed straight to the emergency services, such is the threat potential from spiders of this genus.

[basquesteve]

Any one remember the supermarket Fine-Fare when I was a boy and had a Saturday job there 12/6p a Saturday Spiders were always coming out of the bananas my colleague just beat them to death as they were so common place

[daveyiv]

Im not saying they lay eggs in bananas. im saying that they can come into the country in crates of bananas.

"I haven't seen too many Brazilian wandering spiders in this country so far.
Where is your evidence that they move into your house? "

they dont sort of WALK into your house and they would be FAR from a regular sighting its just they find their way into your house a hell of a lot easier in shipments of fruit. Bananas are an export of south america and thats where these creatures reside.

They jump & Do this pretty cool leg formation if threatened.

YouTube - Una Phoneutria Nigriventer in presa di posizione

[Cowgirl]

That's it! Never going to Rio! I don't particularly mind spiders but they take the biscuit!

Am going to Sainsburys tonight, do you think I'll get funny looks if I take a 10 foot pole with pincers on the end to choose my bananas?

[artdemole]

The thing with conkers is-- Pierce as you would to put on a piece of string.This releases an aroma which spider does not like.Could thread on wire, make a circle and use as an Autumn wreath.

[~T~]

Here is one actually in a bag of bananas (I saw this on the related vids at the side).

YouTube - Brazilian Wandering Spider

The conker thing was disproved as a myth was it not?

[Tringa]

I did not know the idea of spiders in bananas was an urban legend, but it is something that I believed for a few years as a child.

When I was about 8 the headmaster of my primary school showed us a big dead spider that he was given by a local greengrocer. The head said these spiders were found in bananas.

From then, for a few years, I believe that fully grown spiders could somehow get inside a banana (I think I was under the impression they stretched their legs out in front and behind and lay under the skin) and they would come out when you peeled the banana.

Dave

[SpikyPhasmid]

Originally Posted by Tringa

From then, for a few years, I believe that fully grown spiders could somehow get inside a banana (I think I was under the impression they stretched their legs out in front and behind and lay under the skin) and they would come out when you peeled the banana.

The spiders in banana bags/crates are not urban legends, but this idea is. And a nice, creative variant, too. It's a really creepy mental image.

[daveyiv]

Originally Posted by Cowgirl

That's it! Never going to Rio! I don't particularly mind spiders but they take the biscuit!

Am going to Sainsburys tonight, do you think I'll get funny looks if I take a 10 foot pole with pincers on the end to choose my bananas?

Yeah :P

Brazillian Wanderings have made a home in South America the same as Tegs have made a home in GB.

The whole point of bringing up the Brazillian Wandering thing is to not fear a Teg when there are much more dangerous ones out there

I wouldent hold any sort of spider but im not averse to putting books to good use if one comes near.