I live in England we don't have poisonous ones. I always put them outside together with bees.
2007-07-09 00:30:04 · 26 answers · asked by S Lounger 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Pick them up carefully,they have very fragile legs, and place them outside where they will make webs and eat all the horrid flying pests
2007-07-09 06:42:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I normally leave them be. They only come indoors to find somewhere snug for the winter, then off out again in the spring.
There is a rather large specimen resident in a shed attached to the house, it did try sneaking over the doorstep once, but changed it's mind when it encountered me tapping my foot on the floor. No I was not trying to stamp on it.
I am in the UK and very grateful that we don't have poisonous spiders - it took me years to overcome my fear, though I'm not sure I could actually handle one now.
2007-07-09 08:04:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on what type they are. the common house spider or duellica that you get in the bath I either put outside or leave a bath towel hanging over the edge so he can crawl out by himself. (I say he because the the ones you get in your bath in September/October are nearly always males coming indoors looking for females). I've got a small one in my bathroom now. Not sure what species it is but in the last fortnight it has caught 4 flies and if it keeps earning its keep it can stay.
I don't understand why people have an aversion to spiders which are harmless (in the UK anyway), yet are not bothered by flies which are filthy creatures that spread disease.
2007-07-09 07:52:48 · answer #3 · answered by Quizard 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I always pick up Daddy Long Legs and put them outside. The others? Well, sorry about their luck. The only Daddy Long Legs I ever killed was one that made its appearance to me on the ceiling of my car as I was driving down the interstate. It was my own fault, leaving my car windows down the night before. Never again!
2007-07-09 08:04:21 · answer #4 · answered by makeitpurple 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely. And I always leave a towel hanging over the side of the bath in case any fall in in the night and can't get out. (You can buy little spider ladders from some of those catalogues full of useless stuff)
2007-07-09 07:59:19 · answer #5 · answered by cobra 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Dad told me he'd never seen a spider sit on the eyelid of a dying child - so he encouraged spiders so they'd keep flies out.
I'm with him... I'll take out spiders if my partner or children are freaking, but otherwise, my house is their house.
I read Charlotte's Web at an impressionable age, also...
Helen
2007-07-09 08:42:52 · answer #6 · answered by cinnamonbrandy8 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely
2007-07-09 08:44:38 · answer #7 · answered by Koko 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sometimes, yes. but some of the spiders just look dangerous, even though I know that there are not poisonous ones where I live, too. and then I act hastily.
2007-07-09 07:44:55 · answer #8 · answered by cmilja m 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I try and put them outside - because they eat the pesky flies.& other creepy crawlies. that come in the house... its a shame when the spiders dont comply and you have to belt them with a magazine..
2007-07-09 07:38:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep me too,my kids lol 18yrs and 15yrs are petrified i live in a bungalow level with the street outside so i can even get caterpillers and worms making their way in through the door too cute xx
2007-07-09 07:35:04 · answer #10 · answered by nendlin 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋