Spider Invasion - UK

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Britain Braced For Huge Spider Invasion

There is bad news for arachnophobes this autumn with conservationists predicting an increase in spiders in our homes and gardens.

The charity Buglife said breeding conditions are perfect this year for British spiders like the daddy longlegs (or cranefly) and house spider.

Nature-lovers may be pleased with the news but it is likely to send spider-haters running.

Autumn is typically the season when arachnids turn up in houses and garages, often causing dramatic reactions in home-owners.

The charity is also asking householders to poke around in their sheds and in dark corners in their homes to see if they can spot 10 species over this weekend or the first weekend in October.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090925/...s-870a197.html



dunno if they mean HUGE invasion or HUGE spiders, but either way i'm already ever-so-slightly freaking out.

"..asking householders to poke around in their sheds and in dark corners in their homes to see if they can spot 10 species..." - yeah, right

[Lucy]

Even your 'huge spider invasion' numbers are probably only a quarter of what we get here lol. I'd rather have spiders than cockroaches. The other night I walked down the hallway barefooted and heard and felt something crunch under my foot. I freaked out and got the jitters and kept saying 'eww ewww!' and shaking with the creeps, thinking I had cockroach guts stuck to the bottom of my foot. (I can't even bring myself to step on them wearing shoes). I turned on the light and found that I'd stepped on a little piece of crackly silver paper!

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hmm i don't think i'd like cockroaches in my house either..

i found a massive spider in my lounge, just my luck - the one night my partner was away out of town lol. it dropped, scuttled under the bookcase, and i'm sure it's still there, growing bigger every day.. i can feel it watching me..

[Fen Star]

Just do what i do Minx completly ignore the fact that spiders exist in anyway, oh and kill them whereever you see them had quite a few monsters in the house allready, but if one had got under the bookcase in my house i would have to hunt it down otherwise i wouldn't be able to rest....

@ Lucy couldn't stand cockroaches either((((Shudders))))

[crafth]

Spiders are great, they kill bugs.

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Originally Posted by crafth

Spiders are great, they kill bugs.

noooo.... they're big hairy leggy scary things that might fall off the ceiling into my hair, or crawl inside my slippers..

lol

[crafth]

They don't fall off the ceiling lol, they do that on purpose

Reminds me of a story my uncle told me. He was out camping in Spain but the weather was so good that he decided to just roll out his sleeping bag on the beach somewere. He just went out to the nearby bushes to take a leak and when he came back, crawled into his sleeping bag, he noticed something hairy, moving down at his feet. He'd zipped close the sleeping bag so all he could do is to kick and tramp on the moving hairy thing untilit stopped moving.
When he opened his sleeping bag he discovered the slimey remains of the biggest tarantula he'd ever seen.
I guess he was lucky in a way