Spiders in the UK

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

The Mrs has spiders legs nowadays....

 

[CrustySack]

I don't mind spiders. I just put them out the window. I've noticed the butterflies as well. I've recently had one landing in the same spot on my livingroom window nearly everyday for the past week.

Now daddy long legs are another thing altogether. For some reason I kill at least one a week in my bedroom. I've no idea where they come from because I've plugged every gap. I was paranoid I could feel them crawling over my head during the night but dismissed it until one night. Half asleep, I thought I could feel something on my eyebrow so grabbed what I thought was fluff or something and began to roll it between my fingers and threw it to the side.

It wasn't until the morning when I saw it's mangled body on the floor. Bloody huge bugger. I hate them.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Never mind spiders.
My cat has just bought in a record breaking 10th mouse .
Dead of course....

 

[Rita_Poon]

Never mind spiders.
My cat has just bought in a record breaking 10th mouse .
Dead of course....

give it a dish full of cream from me.

A hero!

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

give it a dish full of cream from me.

A hero!

Doesn't like milk or cream...but I'll give her an extra cat treat.

 

[WA Toffee]

Just had to squash a spider the size of my hand since living on Merseyside.

Came running at me the hairy f'er

Anyone else had anything like this recently?

You better not be starting a thread about how there are so many flies in your house next week

 

[StreetEndBlue]

I get loads of those cellar spiders in my house. I generally catch them and evict them rather than kill them as they're pretty harmless.

I heard they preyed on the giant house spider and one night I went downstairs through the night and there was one with a giant house spider in it's jaws feasting on it in my kitchen. I left it alone and went back to bed and in the morning it's carcass was on the floor. I've rarely seen giant house spiders in my gaff since I've had cellar spiders.

 

[magicjuan]

Wouldn't be able to run, he’d be too stoned to be arsed.

A spider that does wheelies

 

[magicjuan]

I get loads of those cellar spiders in my house. I generally catch them and evict them rather than kill them as they're pretty harmless.

I heard they preyed on the giant house spider and one night I went downstairs through the night and there was one with a giant house spider in it's jaws feasting on it in my kitchen. I left it alone and went back to bed and in the morning it's carcass was on the floor. I've rarely seen giant house spiders in my gaff since I've had cellar spiders.

Same here. Cellar spiders are supposed to be the most vicious, as you say, mainly to other spiders, and as they tend to stay in one place we let them be.
I was petrified of spiders when I was younger but had to 'man up' when I met the wife

 

[Rita_Poon]

Only writer to make me cry, with the ending of the road. Don't know still if it was a 'man' thing or a 'dad' thing, but at a time when there was a burgeoning male pushback, without being aggressive or macho about it, he managed to capture what I believed to be the essence of a man and the role of a father.
The fears and responsibilities. The need for role models and softness in tge harshest of environments, plus his sacrifice.

Same here. Cellar spiders are supposed to be the most vicious, as you say, mainly to other spiders, and as they tend to stay in one place we let them be.
I was petrified of spiders when I was younger but had to 'man up' when I met the wife

22 minutes between these posts. It's because I'm reading them back to back that they stick out to me. The human condition never more applicable.

 

[Drico]

I never kill spiders.

I am one of those pathetic softies who defends them to the death from my war-like, but terrified, other half and 12-year-old son who, whilst running for the hills, would torch the poor buggers in an instance of horrified fear. Then, once I have shown my valour, I orientate the innocent arachnid on to a piece of paper - or inside a glass - and delicately deposit outside.

No doubt this means they fall into an environment of predators and enemies, but at least I wasn't responsible for their demise.

I just can't kill something - unless it is a genuine threat.

 

[Drico]

Never mind spiders.
My cat has just bought in a record breaking 10th mouse .
Dead of course....

As much as I hate to see that, it's nature. It's when they kill birds that I feel guilty. Not the old or sick - that's nature too - but when they kill healthy adults out of pure opportunistic sport.

 

[notrevE5]

We’ve got a whopper that lives in the kitchen, that I feed flies to.

My missus has no idea that it’s there or I’ve turned it into an evil pet

hope you've got full suitcase discreetly packed away, a good friend with a nice comfortable sofa and the best solicitor money can buy when she does eventually find out

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

As much as I hate to see that, it's nature. It's when they kill birds that I feel guilty. Not the old or sick - that's nature too - but when they kill healthy adults out of pure opportunistic sport.

Hes very timid
She's hopeless with birds...like myself.
She took one in and I thought it was a toy,picked it up,and shat myself, it was a tiny bird.
As you say it's only natural.

 

[degsy]

Just had to squash a spider the size of my hand since living on Merseyside.

Came running at me the hairy f'er

Anyone else had anything like this recently?

Sounds like a Huntsman Spider.
The smaller greenish ones are uk natives.
Darker brownish ones have hitch hiked in cargo, or been deliberately Introduced
We have them in Australia, not venomous, the clue is in the name.
As long as they eat they'll keep growing and they're 'kin fast.
The biggest I've seen was 4in across including legs.
I leave Mrs degsy Mk 2, being an Aussie to deal with such things...it's like Ripley Vs an alien - no contest