I find two or three daddy long legs a day in my house don't know where they keep coming from, two nights ago was the biggest black one I've ever seen run across the bedroom, I won't kill them though, so I open the window and throw them in my next door neighbours garden who I don't like to hopefully invade his house
Dyson at the ready. The satisfaction of sucking spiders up in a Dyson and then counting the pieces through the Perspex container.
I'm a huge fan of this pastime - but only monster spiders who evade earlier attempts at capture and release. Sometimes when I look through the perspex I can't see the beast - so I start looking down the pipe to see if it's somehow survived - of course, it never has!
Conkers people. Place conkers in the corners of rooms affected.
It actually seems to work!
How many? Broken up or straight from tree. I put some in the cupboard under the stairs last year. Absolutely no difference.. How about mashing the cookers up, mix with water and then spray the corners....
Conkers people. Place conkers in the corners of rooms affected.
It actually seems to work!
How many? Broken up or straight from tree. I put some in the cupboard under the stairs last year. Absolutely no difference.. How about mashing the cookers up, mix with water and then spray the corners....
Smack the False Widow over the head with the hardened conker on the end of a string - always does the job and was great practice for conker championships (before they were banned by the Health & Safety Executive).
Found this this little baby in our bathroom a few days ago. I think it's probably a Giant House Spider, Tegenaria gigantic. Mrs Stig made me take it out of the house so I put it on the back fence. That wooden panel it's sitting on is over 2" wide and it could comfortably span that without stretching its legs.
We had a huge mofo on the ceiling of my office this morning, I've not seen one as big in this country. Altogether it was 4 or 5 centimetres in diameter, a fat body and even some hair. I don't think it was a false widow, after research maybe a lace webbed spider or tube web spider. I didn't realise we have so many poisonous ones here now.
We had a huge mofo on the ceiling of my office this morning, I've not seen one as big in this country. Altogether it was 4 or 5 centimetres in diameter, a fat body and even some hair. I don't think it was a false widow, after research maybe a lace webbed spider or tube web spider. I didn't realise we have so many poisonous ones here now.
Just put a conker (not in its shell) in the corners of rooms where you don't want to see spiders. My 6 year old daughter hates them with a passion so she collects them at school and they are all over the place in the house but it's a much better place for it because we don't see too many in the house now.
The garden is a different story - I won't go out there unless I am in chainmail!
We had a huge mofo on the ceiling of my office this morning, I've not seen one as big in this country. Altogether it was 4 or 5 centimetres in diameter, a fat body and even some hair. I don't think it was a false widow, after research maybe a lace webbed spider or tube web spider. I didn't realise we have so many poisonous ones here now.
We had a huge mofo on the ceiling of my office this morning, I've not seen one as big in this country. Altogether it was 4 or 5 centimetres in diameter, a fat body and even some hair. I don't think it was a false widow, after research maybe a lace webbed spider or tube web spider. I didn't realise we have so many poisonous ones here now.
We had a huge mofo on the ceiling of my office this morning, I've not seen one as big in this country. Altogether it was 4 or 5 centimetres in diameter, a fat body and even some hair. I don't think it was a false widow, after research maybe a lace webbed spider or tube web spider. I didn't realise we have so many poisonous ones here now.
Anybody else, after seeing this picture start looking around their ceiling?
Found this this little baby in our bathroom a few days ago. I think it's probably a Giant House Spider, Tegenaria gigantic. Mrs Stig made me take it out of the house so I put it on the back fence. That wooden panel it's sitting on is over 2" wide and it could comfortably span that without stretching its legs.
We had a huge mofo on the ceiling of my office this morning, I've not seen one as big in this country. Altogether it was 4 or 5 centimetres in diameter, a fat body and even some hair. I don't think it was a false widow, after research maybe a lace webbed spider or tube web spider. I didn't realise we have so many poisonous ones here now.
That doesn't look native to this country, do work in or near any docks?
We had a huge mofo on the ceiling of my office this morning, I've not seen one as big in this country. Altogether it was 4 or 5 centimetres in diameter, a fat body and even some hair. I don't think it was a false widow, after research maybe a lace webbed spider or tube web spider. I didn't realise we have so many poisonous ones here now.
That doesn't look native to this country, do work in or near any docks?
Erm, I work for a removal company which receives containers from abroad! After a very angry reaction to a glass it is now running free amid the industrial wastelands of Slade Green.
We had a huge mofo on the ceiling of my office this morning, I've not seen one as big in this country. Altogether it was 4 or 5 centimetres in diameter, a fat body and even some hair. I don't think it was a false widow, after research maybe a lace webbed spider or tube web spider. I didn't realise we have so many poisonous ones here now.
I've had a few of them in the house here in Lancashire - I tend to get quite a few spiders here as I live next to a river, which is buzzing with insect life...this is like a dinner bell for the little critters.
The ones above are easy to catch and get out of the house - I'm not a great fan of spiders and always dread meeting the likes of huntsmen when I visit Australia, but the ones above I actually quite like - they look almost cuddly! Would love a proper ID of them, though as I'm not sure that they are any of the above two suggestions.
This morning's little beaut is The Domestic House Spider, Tegenaria domestica. These are common all over England and Wales and are completely harmless.
At first I thought this one was a male because it's got very long palps (the strange little leg-like sex organs at the front). Looking at it closer though, they don't seem to be very bulbous in shape so I think this one is probably a female.
Aka tegeneria gigantea Stig? Or is that a separate species? Cos I had one in my house last night that was so big it's legspan didn't fit under a pint glass
Tegenaria domestica and Tegenaria gigantia (aka Tegenaria duellica) are the same genus, but a separate species. There are six species of house spider in Britain, of which these are two of the most common - particularly in the south-east. The biggest is the Cardinal Spider, Tegenaria parietina, but this is probably easier to call than the others because they tend to have stripy legs. As its name suggests, you'd expect gigantia (or gigantic as my bloody spellchecker keeps changing it to) to be bigger, so it's possibly that's what you had Leroy, but it's hard to say really. In fact, I've been far more cavalier in naming the spiders I've photographed here than I ought to be. You'd never find an expert so readily naming their spiders without them going under the microscope first - only a charlatan like me.
We had a huge mofo on the ceiling of my office this morning, I've not seen one as big in this country. Altogether it was 4 or 5 centimetres in diameter, a fat body and even some hair. I don't think it was a false widow, after research maybe a lace webbed spider or tube web spider. I didn't realise we have so many poisonous ones here now.
That doesn't look native to this country, do work in or near any docks?
Erm, I work for a removal company which receives containers from abroad! After a very angry reaction to a glass it is now running free amid the industrial wastelands of Slade Green.
Yeah, so today we've had a redback arrive from Australia and we're not sure what to do with it.
This morning's little beaut is The Domestic House Spider, Tegenaria domestica. These are common all over England and Wales and are completely harmless.
At first I thought this one was a male because it's got very long palps (the strange little leg-like sex organs at the front). Looking at it closer though, they don't seem to be very bulbous in shape so I think this one is probably a female.
I work in Slade Green. We've now found a load of cobwebs and a dead male in the shipping container, females kill the males after mating... Therefore as much as I'd like to take the young lady on a trip to Bermondsey, she’s going to sit under the glass making eyes at us whilst the container is being sealed until it can be fumigated by specialists.
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It actually seems to work!
Sometimes when I look through the perspex I can't see the beast - so I start looking down the pipe to see if it's somehow survived - of course, it never has!
I'm intrigued
Just put a conker (not in its shell) in the corners of rooms where you don't want to see spiders. My 6 year old daughter hates them with a passion so she collects them at school and they are all over the place in the house but it's a much better place for it because we don't see too many in the house now.
The garden is a different story - I won't go out there unless I am in chainmail!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2766880/House-horrors-More-100-green-fanged-spiders-size-tablespoons-invade-young-family-s-home.html
http://www.courier.co.uk/Arachnophobes-look-away/story-22967020-detail/story.html
The ones above are easy to catch and get out of the house - I'm not a great fan of spiders and always dread meeting the likes of huntsmen when I visit Australia, but the ones above I actually quite like - they look almost cuddly! Would love a proper ID of them, though as I'm not sure that they are any of the above two suggestions.
At first I thought this one was a male because it's got very long palps (the strange little leg-like sex organs at the front). Looking at it closer though, they don't seem to be very bulbous in shape so I think this one is probably a female.