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  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,741
    If one of those comes anywhere near me its getting stamped on.
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,868
    The one in my picture quite swiftly did.
  • RedMist
    RedMist Posts: 1,404
    Derek1952 said:

    I was told by my Grandmother so probably an old wives tail,that if one heard a Ticking Spider in the house it meant some one was going to die soon.

    What's a ticking spider?
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,002
    RedMist said:

    Derek1952 said:

    I was told by my Grandmother so probably an old wives tail,that if one heard a Ticking Spider in the house it meant some one was going to die soon.

    What's a ticking spider?
    A spider, which is ticking. You're very welcome. ;)
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    RedMist said:

    Derek1952 said:

    I was told by my Grandmother so probably an old wives tail,that if one heard a Ticking Spider in the house it meant some one was going to die soon.

    What's a ticking spider?
    Is it the Welsh version of fecking spider? ;-)

  • RedMist
    RedMist Posts: 1,404
    do spiders tend to have very noisy wristwatches then?
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,002
    RedMist said:

    do spiders tend to have very noisy wristwatches then?

    No, but they wear eight at once. It all adds up...
  • RedMist
    RedMist Posts: 1,404
    thenewbie said:

    RedMist said:

    do spiders tend to have very noisy wristwatches then?

    No, but they wear eight at once. It all adds up...
    Damn you you stole my punchline!!!
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,649
    Derek1952 said:

    I was told by my Grandmother so probably an old wives tail,that if one heard a Ticking Spider in the house it meant some one was going to die soon.

    I think she mean't bomb.
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,002
    RedMist said:

    thenewbie said:

    RedMist said:

    do spiders tend to have very noisy wristwatches then?

    No, but they wear eight at once. It all adds up...
    Damn you you stole my punchline!!!
    Ooooops... ;)

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,036
    I had a little Steatoda nobilis in the bedroom last night. What a beauty!

    image
  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,105
    Stig said:

    I had a little Steatoda nobilis in the bedroom last night. What a beauty!

    image

    The rare 7.5 leg specimen I see.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,036
    Ha ha, the other half a leg is there, it's just tucked under.
  • Addicted
    Addicted Posts: 2,804
    Stig said:

    Ha ha, the other half a leg is there, it's just tucked under.

    Probably concealing a shiv of some sort
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,853
    I've had about 15 of these things on my balcony/outside my windows (slowly moving inside)

    Hard to kill the buggers...
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,853
    Just done more research. They were actually harmless silver side sector spiders.

    What have I done :-O
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,256
    Huskaris said:

    Just done more research. They were actually harmless silver side sector spiders.

    What have I done :-O

    There's too many spiders in general these days. I know it's the time of year, but about 3 weeks ago, there was one in my bath in the morning, one on the stairs when I got home, and about 5 mins later when I was ironing my shirt, another little bugger just runs across the landing hall and under the spare bed. 3 in my house in one day is disproportionate I feel. Roll on a cold October I hope
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,941
    It is on that cold October day that they will all move inside.......
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,256
    DamoNorthStand said:

    It is on that cold October day that they will all move inside.......

    They're already moving inside. Isn't October the time of year they all die out?
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    Just wait until the Real Widow Spiders turn up.

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  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,256
    Yet another one. Bathroom floor, just now! My fault for wishing for October and them to all die out.
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,002
    cabbles said:

    DamoNorthStand said:

    It is on that cold October day that they will all move inside.......

    They're already moving inside. Isn't October the time of year they all die out?
    No, it's the time they PRETEND to be dying out, when all the while they have crept into your house, watching, waiting... scheming.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,256
    thenewbie said:

    cabbles said:

    DamoNorthStand said:

    It is on that cold October day that they will all move inside.......

    They're already moving inside. Isn't October the time of year they all die out?
    No, it's the time they PRETEND to be dying out, when all the while they have crept into your house, watching, waiting... scheming.
    http://www.wonderpediamagazine.co.uk/nature/why-are-there-so-many-spiders-my-house-autumn

    Can't we just build them warm huts outside to do their business
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,941
    My missus is utterly terrified of spiders.

    One time I got a call at work saying there was one on the dining room floor and she was in a panic and could I come home.

    I got in a couple of hours later and found her up on the dining table (where she had been for a few hours, luckily with her mobile so she could ring me). She hadn't got down to go to the toilet or anything.

    To be honest, I (like everyone if you ask me) have my own phobia. I am terrified of sick, being sick, and other people being sick.

    Last week my little un had a stomach bug and there was a whopping big spider in the bathroom. Our household was like Nut hatch central I can tell you.
  • Darty Valiant
    Darty Valiant Posts: 618
    Dyson at the ready. The satisfaction of sucking spiders up in a Dyson and then counting the pieces through the Perspex container.
  • Charltonparklane
    Charltonparklane Posts: 5,786
    prefer a tin of Silvikrin and a lighter
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Lynx and a lighter smells good whilst burning them or burglars eye balls
  • Charltonparklane
    Charltonparklane Posts: 5,786
    nth london addick said:

    Lynx and a lighter smells good whilst burning them or burglars eye balls

    Lynx Oriental

    FACT

  • superdec
    superdec Posts: 32
    My wife has to kill them as i admit it im scares of spiders. We normally get 2 big 1s this time of year but 5 this year ... people say put them outside but why would i do that when he will bowl back in my house the next day and eye ball me again so i nearly sh1t my self again like bill murry in ground hog day .. thats torture ....kill 1 less to worry about is my thought because im too scared to sit on my new 40 rug incase one and they can bitr my ass.... so squash them

    Deccy
  • red10
    red10 Posts: 835
    Not really seen many this past year or so since we got the cats. Any we do see we have to get to first or its curtains !

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