Spiders in da house!

[c_dug]

I dont have any problem with them, im just deeply puzzled.

There are at least 6 although i think probably quite a few more of these spiders in my bathroom.
https://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee81/paddy2007dug/Pholcusphalangioides.jpg

It is a Pholcus phalangioides, also called the cellar spider or daddy long legs.

But, this is the bit that puzzles me, and i wonder if anybody can offer a solution. What the fuck exactly are they eating? Some of them are getting pretty hefty so theyre obviously not on a diet! And they dont appear to be eating each other since if anything there are more and more of them appearing.

And actualy that raises another point, where the hell are they coming from, they all appear to be male (according to wikipedia)

Anybody care to offer a solution, because as far as im aware there isnt a flourishing eco-system in my bathroom...

c_dug
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Call me Krismael.

Fuckin' hate spiders, creepy bastards. Had a "house" spider 4 inches in diameter in my kitchen last year. My g/f phoned me whilst I was at the gym, I had cycled down so it was a good 30 minutes away, saying there was a massive spider. I thought it was on of the regular 2 inch ones i get oh too often. When I got home she was actually in tears with a newspaper in hand just watching the crack under the kitchen door. I chuckled and went in to kitchen with newspaper, there it sat on my breadboard, creepy cunt. I swiped it and it ran behind my fridge. Bastard!
So we closed kitchen door, put a towel under crack and went out for chip. Got back and I went to get cheese from the kitchen. Dirty little pillock was on the door frame and I hadn't noticed him upon entry. Girlfriend screamed and I hit it with a book. Dead spider, happy Kris. Truth be told I was very relieved it had ventured out from the fridge, as I wouldn't have found it and would have terrorised me till this day.

It was the 'Sarah' who, in her long and melancholy search for her dinner, found another spider.
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[trevoriv]

They will eat anything thats around the same size or smaller, so other spiders, flies and insects and i'm sure they would eat each other if need be.
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[cyberglass]

Just keep an eye out for our new imigrants

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-470981/Poison-nightmare-wife-bitten-black-widows-cousin.html
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[Phoenix]

Those spiders actually eat other spiders, including big house spiders, therefore they're great. They don't bother me because they don't look horrible and don't run fast or suddenly appear from nowhere.

I kill house spiders with extreme prejudice, there's no mercy. I do however have a problm with another type of spider in my house, can be quite large, Mouse spiders or Scotophaeus blackwalli, I get them on the walls a lot, and had a spate of getting them in and on my bed (had about 7 or 8 in last 2 years in the bed), they bite with 100% certainty, gives me itchy red lumps that go in a few days.

I swapped my bed for a legged one to prevent it but it hasn't, presumably they fall off the ceiling onto it. Thankfully they don't bother me too much, I just hope they keep the big house spiders away.

[quacker_boy]

I remember being at my gran's house when I was 12 or so and going to shower. Now, my gran's house is a typical old lady's house, pretty creepy, creaking floorboards and the like. So I got naked and climbed in and turned the shower on, at this point as soon as the first few drops of water started going down the drain a daddy long legs crawled out. I screamed like a girl and proceeded to run out of the bathroom stark bollock naked. Still screaming. My dad found the whole thing hilarious
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[Tonka]

Goodness, fellas! It's not the Tropics - these aren't man eating spiders, they're just harmless house spiders! Pick 'em up and release them outside so they can be where they should be (in someone else's house )

Think this is where I'm supposed to say 'grow some'
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[karoshi]

the only problem i have with spiders is that i'm pretty sure they grow to fit the conditions of their surroundings and food supply.

what this means is that if, for example, your house is a big/rich enough habitat to support 100 healthy spiders of 1inch across, there'll be 100 healthy spiders of 1inch across.

now you come long with your death-slipper and have a spree killing 50 of them, tales of this dark day for spider-kind are relived in hushed tones around their spidery camp fires for years to come, whatever.

now you have a habitat fit for 100 spiders that's only supporting 50, which means that the 50 survivors can double in size.. giving you 50 2inch spiders.

2inch spiders are more noticeable so you kill another 25, leading to 25 4 inch spiders in your house..

with each spider half-life doubling in size you could conclude that if you undertake an intensive spider culling policy in your house over a number of years, what you're actually doing is breeding a massive, battle hardened breed of super-spider
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[Luke_Retrofly]

Unless you kill all 100 in the first wave of slipper bashing

[bladerunner]

Well that last idea might not be totally wrong as buy late summer I have less but much much bigger spiders knocking about....by that point I tend to keep them out of the house!! Mostly for fear of the cats you understand

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[c_dug]

Ive got no problem with the spiders i put in the first post, these...

https://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee81/paddy2007dug/Tegenariagigantea.jpg

Are the ones that give me a shiver!

Still i dont squish them i just chuck them outside, although for those who think that is more humane, most of them will die from the cold anyway, probably not in the nice weather we are having at the moment, but in the autumn when it gets colder.

I seriously dont see the first spider having a chance at killing the one in this post, but if BCF says so it must be true

c_dug
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[Stelmer]

Could be worse, you could find a Huntsman behind something:

https://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z116/lynn2611/clockspider.jpg

[Luke_Retrofly]

Shotgun is not overkill for that thing.

[c_dug]

The last two posts remind me of this

https://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m316/GuttermouthSIN/health_bar_spider.jpg



c_dug
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[Stelmer]

Same spider I think.

The Huntsman is notorious for hiding in small spaces such as on the sun visor in the car.

They do not bite but they look very menacing...


Or how about a Camel Spider:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rjdzJsLIeY

[karoshi]

[trevoriv]

Although not as scary I once, as a child, got into my dads van and hanging about 5cm from my head was a ball of just hatched spiderlings about the size of a small football. Squeaky bum time!

https://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44372000/jpg/_44372681_spiderbabies.jpg
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[Whosthedaddy]

No Huntsman yet...but this was outside our front door until a large boot squashed it to a pulp.

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[Ste]

Spiders are cool, as long as they're no where near me.

https://www.richard-seaman.com/Insects/Vietnam/Spiders/Highlights/YellowHairedSpiderWithGrasshopper.jpg
https://www.richard-seaman.com/Insects/Vietnam/Spiders/Highlights/index.html

https://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/

[lllN30lll]

[Stelmer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxHhddwxADs

[Fisty]

https://www.rvgould.uconn.edu/week2_files/image033.jpg

Camel spiders FTW
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[Dragonfly]

I am extremely jumpy after looking in here.

wanted to say i have about a million red spiders(blood suckers) in my bathroom, they came in through the sky light out of the heat . They dont scare me they just dont go with the decor.

I am glad my lap top is sh*t as some of the pics are just blocks .
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