spiders in the house

watercooledman said:
our home is around 8 years old i have noticed there is quite a few spiders around high up, not the dark gritty type the light coloured ones with long legs.

do you get rid or leave them be ?
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I personally leave them if they're the spindly ones. They're harmless but apparently are aggressive to other spiders, which is good. If they're annoying me I put them out the window.
 
Only tend to remove them when cleaning.

That's the second time this week (from another thread) that i've heard about the spindly spiders being able to keep the bigger meaner looking spiders at bay. Wouldn't have thought it would ya.
 
The one in my bathroom got super lethargic and wasn't moving much anymore, so I tossed it outside.

The one in my lounge looks dead, been stuck in the same place for a few days.

Keeping spiders around = they just die anyway.

Scoop em up and chuck em outside.
 
mjt said:
Spiders eat flies. Flies (and wasps) are the spawn of Satan, therefore spiders are good.
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That's my reasoning as well. I'd much rather have a spider sat around quietly minding it's own business than a fly buzzing around my head!
 
mjt said:
Spiders eat flies. Flies (and wasps) are the spawn of Satan, therefore spiders are good.
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That goes for me too. I hardly ever find any spiders upstairs, but there are always some downstairs. The silly buggers often fall in the bath and I have to rescue them, but that's a minor inconvenience. I hardly ever see a fly in my house and never twice. The spiders are welcome to make some webs in corners of rooms, but some of them make whispy webs that drift around at head height. Those webs get removed.

It would be different in some places, but none of the spiders native to the UK are dangerous to humans and up here in the north (it's grim) we don't get dangerous spiders visiting from elsewhere. UK house spiders won't even bite you. Maybe those big ones you find in sheds and gardens, but not the ones in houses. Not my house, anyway. It's all routine indoor UK spiders, very civilised.
 
I don't like touching spiders (unless I'm drunk) so I just get the Dyson handheld on them.

I've woken up a few times with spiders on my face / back and that's not my favourite thing.
 
If I see them in the house they die quickly. Usually use an electric fly swatter with very explosive results, especially with the larger 5p size and bigger ones :D

Usually have one hiding in my car wing mirrors thats an absolute pain in the ass, usually end up with a big web everyday that I have to wipe away. My area is terrible for spiders, if you disturb the garden you can get absolutely tons of the buggers running about. Ends up like something from the arachnophobia film :eek:

The ones I see mostly around here are big completely black ones that seem to be about the size of a 2p coin when fully grown and they are really fast.
 
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Nasher said:
I had a tiny one in the car that seemed to have an endless supply of web.

Also, there is a spider living in every single wing mirror.
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They always seem to have super cling powers that can resist being blasted with jet wash. A little squirt of insect killer in the corner of the mirror so it gets behind into the void sorts them though.
 
My daughter lives in Australia, I'm glad I don't live there. Although we were there for a few weeks without seeing any and it was only on the last day she showed me a Redback that I hadn't seen earlier, although there was a big one in her car once, made me shiver.
She now lives in the countryside and if she goes out in her garden at night with a torch the whole place lights up with spiders eyes reflecting back
 
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