Anyone else been inundated with spiders?

[OllieMartin]

When I went outside on Saturday morning my garden was strung from one side to the other with spiders' webs. Since then there are new ones daily.
It seems a shame to break them, but I can't get to various parts of my garden without doing.

Has anyone else noticed an increase in webs?

[Nicos]

Ha !...yup...but mostly inside the house

...and nope- that's not a reflection on my lack of domestic skills!

[FB.]

There are usually lots of spiders in my garden and they're allowed into the house as long as they're not too big.

Early in the summer the baby spiders make webs in my fruits trees and seem to feed on aphids/greenfly that are clumsy enough to fly into their webs. Later in the year the spiders seem to catch a lot of cranefly, which is the adult form of the leatherjacket.
Spiders are great pest controllers.

[Glutton4...]

Nope. Just bladdy craneflies, hence my post a few days ago!

Spiders are fine by me. I have a Garden Spider (Fatty) right outside my window by the computer table. I often sit and watch her when I'm on the Poota. She's having a lie-in today, must be that fat fly she was wrapping up last night!

[Pumpkin Becki]

Yup, Autumn is coming in, and so are the spiders **shudder**. We've had some enormous ones in the Boardroom at work, and huuuge ones at the holiday cottage a couple of weeks ago.

...I don't like spiders...they make me squeal...

[weekendwellies]

I always have some resident spiders inside. One ENORMOUS one which shows himself when rain is due.
Also have noticed before torrential rainfall the last couple of weeks that I have slugs climbing up the outside of the windows, right to the top of the ground floor ones which must be 8 feet up. They are my new weather indicators now.

[rustylady]

I always have spiders, both inside the house and in the garden. However just lately the webs have been beautiful - a sure sign of Autumn.

[OllieMartin]

...I don't like spiders...they make me squeal...

If you don't like spiders DO NOT click on this link:

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Saw this the other day when researching, it made me feel itchy and I'm not bothered by spiders!

[janeyo]

I have NO intention of clicking that link.
Am shuddering at the very thought.
We had one so big the other day its legs spanned the whole tread of a stair.
I made OH go round taping up all the holes left from the extension and so far we have only had one more. Had had about a dozen before then.

[Pumpkin Becki]

If you don't like spiders DO NOT click on this link:

Believe me, I will not be clicking that link my boy!!

[Pumpkin Becki]

...something has just brushed against my leg!!...its either the handle of my handbag, or a you-know-what **jibber**

[sbeneli]

We have discovered the hard way that they are entering our house through the waste pipe in the tub. Discovered while having a bath! It explained why every day I had to rescue a stranded spider from the empty tub. Haven't seen one in a week or so, thankfully.

[weekendwellies]

for all you who like spiders !

[Madame Mucksprout]

where do the spiders go in winter?

It got really super cold last year how on earth did anythign that tiny survive? Im sure hiding in a crack or crevice wouldnt be enough to survive a cold winter?
And what do they eat? infact - where do all the flies go

[ailsasyl]

We have had some really big ones, so has my mum, I usually catch them with glass and piece of paper and take them outside.