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Tolerate False Widows on the house?

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  • howardssdunnhowardssdunn Posts: 2
    Skandi said:
    I have a rule with spiders, anything that isn't huge and hairy can stay in the house all spring summer and autumn, where it is expected to catch and eat as many flies and mosquitos as it can. then come the autumn clean I catch all of them I can find with the vacuum cleaner, that can get to 20-30 EACH room we only really get cellar spiders, I believe they eat all the other ones. By the time spring rolls round again they have bred and are back to 2-3 each room and so they are ready to keep the flies down until the next autumn when I cull them again. outside everything gets to live (spider wise).
    It is a great idea to vacuum all spiders. As often you make a vacuum cleaning at home especially in corners and under the furniture as faster you will forget about spiders. 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I couldn't do it even to the big fat hairy ones. A glass , paper and OH works fine.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    When I was heavily pregnant with Possum I could no longer drive the vaccuum cleaner or floor mop - essential with tiled floors downstairs - so we got a lady from the village to come and do.  She was brilliant but always moaned about how many spiders we had in our house out in the country - all of 1.5ms from hers in the village.

    Different spiders here both in quantity and size.  Never kill them, just ignore or scoop up in my hand and put outside except when it's very cold cos that would be mean.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    i read somewhere that if you hoover up spiders, often their legs get broken off but they don't die. it seems a cruel way to dispose of them.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Has anyone here tried using conkers as a spider deterrent?

    Clever-clogs saying that it's difficult to aim straight enough need not reply 
     ;) 

    https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2019/08/conkers-spiders-and-facts/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    My Dad tried that years ago @Dovefromabove, there were conkers in corners all over the house.
    He thought that they were working at first, but was soon proved wrong .
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