We Have Had The Fly Question, What About Spiders.

[netherfield]

So what about Spiders. Love them or loathe them.

We've a little camera watching the side path and door, very handy for seeing what delivery people do,when the postman or paper boy delivers, or to be able to ignore the politicians close to election time or those trying push religion, I'm not against religion, just don't want it pushed at me. 

So every now and then a spider decides to put a web in front of the camera, in bed at night mobile gives a beep, then another, 15 times is the record. I've been out and sucked the web and spider up with vac, two nights later his mate has taken over the job.  I don't like killing the spiders just need a way to get them to go elsewhere.

 

[douglas9401]

In other webcam-related news...

[chelle7272]

Lol @ Douglas

If the web is on the camera itself try covering the casing with vaseline so they cant attach so easily.

[pastafreak]

Don't kill them! Spiders are good guys.

 

[ladybirder]

Good idea chelle.  Please don't kill them they are precious.

// Spiders are extremely important to agriculture and horticulture. They are predators and their main prey are insects, many of which eat our crops and pester our livestock. In Britain alone, it has been estimated that spiders eat more than the weight of the human population in insects each year! \\

[Barmaid]

This house is affectionately known as "Spider Central".  There are lots of VERY big ones.  I thought that when we moved from the thatched cottage there might have been some respite, but I think they have followed us.  I HATE them.  I can, however, now put a glass over them to evict them.  That presupposes I get to the spider before one of the cats who rather rates spiders as a tasty nighttime snack.

[youngmafbog]

Just relocate it.  Thats what I do.

[rowanwitch]

Try clove oil...but very little repels them.    

My sister is terrified of them her place reeks of cloves from Mid July to around the end of November.  Her cats are too lazy to catch them.

 

[Prudie]

I am also terrified of them so rarely join these threads as they have to be taken a long way away from the house by someone else (the card thing and out the window is pointless, they come straight back in) or killed by someone else. I can't even get near them without a cold sweat and tears overwhelming me.. 

I've never found any of the natural remedies deters them but ant powder along external door areas etc has certainly reduced the number of what I call the really big house spiders in the autumn.

[ladybirder]

I guess you realise you are suffering from Arachnophobia Prudie but it can be cured with CBT if you're willing to give it a go?  I wonder when you first got it, from someone in your family perhaps?

[Prudie]

That's what they say LB, I know I've been scared since first memories from about 4 but it got way worse when I got older and into adulthood. I have a very good memory and I could probably recall and write a book about all the large house spiders I've had to deal with in my life - from walking across me in bed, thumping a glass over one and going to bed and next morning finding just 4 legs under the glass, coming through the bath overflow and in my 20s when my first husband left me I used to get my neighbour's husband to come and get them until she accused me of only asking him at night when he was in his pyjamas. I sat on the floor and cried my eyes out. I utterly detest them.

[straydog]

Ten days ago while out pruning roses in my new smart leather gloves I felt a prick on my thumb so naturally assumed it was a thorn.  I brushed the glove, then felt another prick but could see no trace at all of a thorn in it.  After several more pricks I took the glove off and there sat on my thumb seemingly attached to it was a spider no bigger than my small finger nail.  I brushed it off very quickly but saw no evidence of a thorn although my thumb was tingling.  Within the hour my thumb started to swell and I could see quite clearly about 8 bite marks and it really did start to hurt. For 5 whole days my thumb was painfully stiff and swollen.  My skin was tingling a lot despite being treated with hydrocortisone cream and antihistamine tablets.  I was seriously worried that the poison would go up my arm so I kept it covered to stop me scratching it.  On the 6th day it was much calmer and has gradually eased.  I’m assuming that the spider fell into my glove while I was pruning and was extremely unhappy about it.  I had no idea we had spiders with so much poison here in the UK and such small ones at that.  Spiders have never bothered me at all before and my house was full of them, however after this, I’ve become almost paranoid about them and any I see now, especially in the bedroom, get the Dyson treatment straightaway.

[straydog]

BTW Barmaid, when we had cats they all loved them too and I had no worries about it.   It's a thought though if they can do so much harm to a grown adult.......

[ladybirder]

Prudie a youngish friend of mine's wife is just like that.  If he's not in to deal with it she runs out into the road screaming until a neighbour comes in to sort it for her.  

[Barmaid]

Prudie, I used to be terrified beyond words and would leave or splat the thing into eleventh billion pieces. Two things have helped me overcome. The first was a large spider appearing in the the presence of my sister who is worse than me. Her blind panic was far worse than the spider. The second was learning a bit about how the primitive brain works together with hypnosis (general not aimed at spiders). I can now ignore medium sized ones and evict very big ones. It just took a bit of brain training.

[Hopkirk]

Rumour has it spiders don't like conkers.

[netherfield]

I'm trying the vaseline idea at the moment.

As to conkers, a few cars ago we had trouble with a spider inside, put some conkers in  the car and it seemed to work well, never saw another web inside, the exterior mirrors got it instead. Finding conkers is a problem now, there was one in the garden when we moved here, but it started to lean badly until it was almost touching the roof, it had to be removed, used to be loads in the graveyard up the road, now over the years they've all died due to some virus or other. Thinking of all the places we found them as children, none seem to have survived.

[Hopkirk]

I think spiders are fitted in car wing mirrors in the factory.