Spiders - How to get rid..

[Richard Donnelly]

Can anyone help me with a bit of a problem with spiders? I seem to have hundreds of these things in the house. Heres a quick youtube video

[Cursitor Doom]

Massive??? You obviously don't live in Australia. :-D

[Chris Hogg]

One of our cats loved spiders, and would consume them with gusto. Get a cat!

I'm surprised you have them in the house at this time of year. It's usually autumn when the weather turns cold that I get them coming indoors. Whatever it is they're crawling around in, seems to be a pretty effective trap.

[Cursitor Doom]

The mini-series of 'beasts from the East' seems to have confused them this year and there are some big hairy ones out now (so my sister, who has a preoccupation with such things, informs me). I expect there will be fewer in the Autumn this time around as a consequence.

[alan_m]

If you have hundreds indoors it possibly means something large died, attracted flies with in turn fed a spider which then produced a lot of offspring. They possibly still have a food source attracted by the dead animal.

I once had many hundreds of spiders the size of a pin head abseiling from my loft hatch when a couple of pigeons were trapped and died after a roof slate repair. However the infestation only lasted a day and the spiders dispersed never to be seen again.

[Marland]

We had a cat like that,for added joy it preferred to eat them up against the glass of the outside of a window which was feet from the dining table. Lovely view of spiders legs twirling about as they were disappearing past the cats lips While you were trying to enjoy meal.

GH

[FMurtz]

Why? they eat nasty insects,I even put a dressing gown cord over the edge of the bathtub to allow spiders egress.

[Brian Gaff]

Yes in the autumn I have the babies abseiling from the cracks between the tiles in my bedroom ceiling some years. Brian

[fred]

I think these things are cyclical. Some years back the bricks in our house, which have a rough surface, don't know the terminology, were badly infest ed with spiders nests. (Little white cocoons). They were impossible to remo ve easily. Power hose, deck brush etc. Haven't seen them since.

[Mark]

Yes. Spiders are your ally by eaying flies and other unpleasant insects.