It’s been a bad year for us humans, I seem to have to get the ‘hoover’ out each week to suck the blighters up.  Not just the workshop, in the house as well.

I would like to know what deters them from taking over our homes.

Bob

Food is one of the primary motivators of any organism. If they’re trying to keep you out then likely it’s due to a recent increase in the use of fly cutters…

pgk

On 11 October 2024 at 06:41 Speedy Builder5 Said:

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I would like to know what deters them from taking over our homes.

Bob

Chemicals. I let off a couple of aerosol ” cockroach bombs” in my workshop twice a year to keep the insect/ arachnid population down. Same in the house. Otherwise, yes they will take over.

Haven’t come across any human eating spiders but we have tarantulas that eat birds here in the tropics. In Africa I heard tell of flesh eating camel spiders that allegedly would anaesthetise and eat the lips of sleeping drunks lying on the ground so always ensured I made it to the safety of my bed. You only had to keep the blankets off the floor so the 4 inch scorpions couldn’t climb up there.

I have several spiders living in my workshop, all rent free, and we get along fine. They do no harm that I can see and they do indeed take care of those bluebottles, for which I am glad. Yes they do build webs, but only in places where I have put something I seldom use, so it,s not likely to be disturbed, until I need it, then it,s a different matter—-demolition !

However they are very understanding, and just move house and build all over again.

BTW, I have seen worse houses being built !

Leave them alone.