Spiders - too many of them in car and house

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samhain

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Didn't know if I should put this under house and home or cars but both of these places have loads of spiders in them.

We only got the car about two weeks ago and every time I drive it I see spiders walking around happy as you like. I normally don't mind spiders and would not hurt one but because there are so many of them I am starting to feel itchy when I see them. Today I pulled the car over to take a phone call and I could hear a scratchy noise coming from somewhere in the dashboard and it made me feel very discontent with my "new" car (1996).

As if that wasn't bad enough every room of the house seems to have one or more resident spiders. Please God we will be having a new arrival to the house in the next week or so and I would be grateful for any advice on how to get these spiders to find a new home preferably without the use of anything that would hurt them or the unborn baby.

Thanks in advance.

Samhain
 
They must be fairly big ones if you can hear them, surely a good spring clean of the car should sort that out, but they are harder to remove from the house. Don't know of any other humane way of dealing with them other than picking them up and throwing them in the garden.
 
Just remember that they can do you no harm and it might help you cope with their presence. And that they are probably much more wary of you than you are frightened of them.
 
It's that time of year again. Spiders always seem to be more prevalent in the early autumn. I think there are previous threads on the subject on AAM.
As for getting rid of them, there's not much you can do other than spring clean the car and house.

At least Irish spiders aren't poisonous and can't hurt the baby. They're not going to be like * from Lord of the Rings.

*Link not suitable for arachnophobics!
 
samhain said:
Didn't know if I should put this under house and home or cars but both of these places have loads of spiders in them.

We only got the car about two weeks ago and every time I drive it I see spiders walking around happy as you like. I normally don't mind spiders and would not hurt one but because there are so many of them I am starting to feel itchy when I see them. Today I pulled the car over to take a phone call and I could hear a scratchy noise coming from somewhere in the dashboard and it made me feel very discontent with my "new" car (1996).

As if that wasn't bad enough every room of the house seems to have one or more resident spiders. Please God we will be having a new arrival to the house in the next week or so and I would be grateful for any advice on how to get these spiders to find a new home preferably without the use of anything that would hurt them or the unborn baby.

Thanks in advance.

Samhain
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Some spiders love humid/moist/damp conditions. These spiders (e.g. dust spider) can be fairly big and feed on dust mites which love the same conditions.
So is your house generally damp ? Are the windows full of condensation in the morning ?
Do you have lots of woodlice too ? Grrrrr...Woodlice are Teabag's kryptonite, I hate them !
Is your car full of condensation in the morning ?

Try using a Dehumidifier for a while in the house and see if that helps.

They say a house with a MHRV unit has very few spiders because the damp air is romoved regularly.

Failing that, call Spiderman, he will know what to do.
 
They'll do you or your baby no harm. Not much you can do about it in any case.

If it wasn't for spiders the planet would be overrun with insects. I read somewhere that the weight of insects they eat every year is more than the weight of all the humans on the planet.

glass + card + window = outside. our kids love doing this.

We have HRV and have very few spiders.

SSE
 
Lived in a thatched house for some time and it had a constant plague of round bodied, long-legged spiders - I never managed to rid the place of them and had to go round every couple of weeks getting rid of the cobwebs and their makers. I started off being humane, but then the sheer volume of spiders & spiderlings made this impossible, so the vacuum cleaner came out.

I did find that they clung to things, so when I moved, I found some round-bodied, long legged friends appearing in the new place, and another new place after that - nothing that the trusty vacuum couldn't sort. There's no longer a problem.

You're house has been invaded - just make sure its not damp in places because that's definitely what my issue was - and you're carrying them into the car accidentally on bags or clothing you put in the car.

They can't hurt you as everyone says and they're only a bit freaky cos of the sheer numbers and cobwebby thing. I'd get out the vacuum!
 
Are you sure?

The Science Behind Kryptonite
In Superman: The Movie, Lex Luthor describes Superman's enhanced Kryptonian physiology as being vulnerable to kryptonite's particular radioactive "signature". More recently, some issues of Superman indicate the mechanism by which green kryptonite may hurt Superman. Superman's cells absorb electromagnetic radiation from stars (like Earth's sun). Kryptonite's radioactivity interferes with this semi-photosynthetic process, driving the energy out of his cells in a painful fashion.
Long-term exposure to kryptonite is said to have the same effects on human beings as exposure to other radioactive materials; an extended storyline in the comics around 1990 involved Lex Luthor developing cancer from the kryptonite ring he kept on his finger.
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Hi Samhain,

I had the same problem when I was 8.5 months pregnant. The truth is there wasn't any more spiders than there would normally be in the house. I was just over cautious about everything. I had DH up in the attic looking to see was there a house of spiders up there. I had visions of them crawling over my baby :eek: Funny enough once the my daughter arrived the spiders seem to disappear ;)

All the best with the new arrival.

Tilly.
 
samhain said:
We only got the car about two weeks ago and every time I drive it I see spiders walking around happy as you like.
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I don't like spiders either but would never hurt them unless challenged ;)

I'm thinking of charging rent to the few that we have living in the wing mirrors on both cars. Can't open the windows on occasions because they appear out to have a daredevil trip.

The enormous ones that live in the garden shed are the most frightening of all.
 
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