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Christina Websell · 12-10-2015, 08:01 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

"Janet" wrote in message
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In article ,
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On Sat, 10 Oct 2015 18:33:11 +0100, "Christina Websell"
wrote:

"Broadback" wrote in message
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This year our house has been inundated with large spiders. Thank
goodness
neither myself of my wife a frightened by them. Almost every morning
there
are one, and sometimes 2, in the bath. Where are they all coming from?
It
is not the same one as they are flushed away each morning.

It's spider breeding season. The boys are on the march after the girls.
Please do not flush them down the plughole, they will die if you do.
Get
them in a towel and put them outside. I was once very afraid of spiders
but
I've progressed to "scoop up in fluffy towel and flap outside"
I can't do the glass/cardboard thing. The minute the spider runs up the
glass, I drop it.

Tina

I prefer the glass and card trick. with a towel, tissue etc I cannot
see where the spider is, with the glass I can.

+1

With the towel method there's always the chance it will run back up
the towel, over your hand, up your arm and into your hair

quick, nurse; the smelling salts

Janet

Absolutely not.Just get the spider into the middle of the Bigfluffytowel
and take hold carefully. You will never know it's there. Then just flap it
outside. It's the only way I've been able to do it. Never had one escape
from the towel and no spiders were harmed in this process as far as I know.