It's the time of year for huge house spiders.I've got one up in the ceiling corner.They don't bother me but my niece is scared shitless by them.I had to go into the lav yesterday,she was in mid pee aand screeched for me to get the spider out of the bathroom.It was a big old bugger. I've captured and released four in the last few days.

I think he's enjoying it.  He's hopping about.  Never seen that before. 

They are all legs really,totally harmless.I remember on Q.I. a while back they said that they are male spiders looking for a mate.I love the way they run across the carpet etc.My niece just shrieks like a mad woman.

Your niece and I could form a band

Actually Katty, I don't mind them through the day, but am not keen on sharing my bedroom with one

Is he still there Bateman?

The females have bigger bodies and live in tunnel webs in undisturbed places,back of cupboards/washing machines etc.The ones that run around are the males looking for luurve!  I had a couple living under the radiator in my room.I never vacuumed there,I find them fascinating.

TBF, I don't give a fook what they do as long as he doesn't take a dump in my mouth at 3am.  I draw the line at that. 

He's wandered off into the hall. 

Ewwwwwww!

Hahaha - my 16 yr old has just come downstairs to say that "the biggest spider in the world is in my room"

I reached for the book ... then changed my mind and sent her dad up there

Rexi is a wuss! Rexi is a wuss!

 My daughter always had to do it for me and now for her daughter, she's my hero. My son wouldn't go near them, he still doesn't like them and he's a soldier.

I don't know about that, I couldn't even do the book thing, I'll just let them have the house.

We are supposed to eat 4 spiders a year in our sleep, thank you for reminding me, thats me up all night. 

Awwwww please people, they're more scared of you than you are of them

With your gob taped shut?

 

Guardian link to spiders eaten whilst asleep.

Oh please, how dare you be rational at a time like this?  

Xochi, I can't bring myself to go and read it. I'm always hoping that whole thing is an urban myth.

Haha! proper PMSL at that!

Shhh! Don't tell anyone! It's quite a funny blog read though! 

OMG

Very unfortunate for the vegetarians.

Quote from reaction to that article:  " I sleep with my mouth shut. ".  You do now....baahahahahaaaaa....

Nah, they just need to think of it as crunchy cabbage *gets coat and runs*

I had a question printed in Notes and Queries once.

I hope they are not huge ones we eat. 

Jonathon West, MD, Denver, CO, USA  

You may never know

Id run too,       I lived in the far east for a couple of years, and I had a banana tree in the garden, I would hit it with the yard brush  so the spiders would run off, then I would snap a couple of to put in the children's school lunch box.

You fed your children spiders?  How avant garde!

Oo-er! now snapping's another thing

fresh meat, I was a good mother.

Just met him in the loo.  Next stop - plumping the pillows and waiting with an alluring leer.

Your going to find him squished between your toes before then.

I like spiders, and it's that time of year where they start coming indoors for a warm!
Last year we had one the size of a small glove, who used to come out from under the TV stand every night and patrol the floorboards. We'd always know he was around when we saw a big, jaggedy shadow making its way across the floor in the lamplight. Never managed to catch the bugger either, he was too quick!

I had a dream about a spider last night, it was huge with a massive hippopotamus head!  What the heck is that all about? 

(I hadn't even seen this thread then, so I can't blame that)

I never kill them - if the weather's warm enough I put them in the garden. If it's cold, I leave them where they are.

Sorry i tryed to edit my post and deleted it lol, i was about to add i hate flies with a passion.. and i couldn't pick a spider up or touch one, only take it out in a container. 


The edit is being difficult for some reason