Spiders

Our selection of spiders.

Symptoms may be: Extreme soreness around the bite wound, Swelling and redness, Nausea and abdominal pain, Difficulty breathing, General muscle numbness and muscle spasms, Profuse sweating, Heavy coughing. Disorientation and confusion leading to unconsciousness

Would not like to get bitten. Fortunately if you get medical help, no one has died recently because of the development of anti-venom.

Huntsmen are the common spiders that we get in our homes in Sydney but they are harmless and eat small insects.

Edited By Paul Lousick on 20/07/2023 13:06:00

peppermint sprays are used by alarm companies to stop false alarms due to spiders getting where they shouldn't. Also there is the conker (horse chestnut) in the corner of the room solution, which is supposed to discourage them, I'm not sure how this works or if it does work, but my wife places them in each room in the corners and we have had very few spiders or webs since she started to do this

Well, my daughter had collected a few conkers whilst on holiday, and we had them on top of the gas fire in the living room. Didn't see a spider for months. She then moved them out of the room and the very next day, I spotted a spider in there. Coincidence? Maybe, but it convinced me.

Rob

(just realised, now I have my glasses on, that this is not a spider...)

Not had a great deal of success with using conkers to discourage spiders, in my workshop I put little piles of conkers in the areas that the spiders were frequenting, they used the conkers on which to build their webs. Dave W