"Zipadee Doodar" wrote in message
...
I know they do no harm, and are almost mans' best friend but I hate them.
And in this house where we have lived for 2 years, they are enormous and
scare the compost out of me. Is there anything available to persuade them
to
go away, or at least not to appear in the bathroom etc? I was thinking
something on the lines of those sonic cat scarers etc.

BTW I can handle them ok in the garden, just not in the house.

Going off topic from the off topic......

The last couple of months have been 'spider time' where all this year's crop
grow up and build webs everywhere.

We had one in the back bedroom (where I am now) and it never seemed to move
during the day - just sat in the web.

However it kept growing.

So - what do the little darlings feed on? This one just seemed to be drawing
in sustenance from the air.

No 'larder' of small insects in evidence at all.

I can see the ones outside (which look to be the same species) catching
insects in their webs but the ones inside just seem to grow!

Not a huge hairy one - just the common ones found on all the plants.
Brownish with yellow markings.

One of life's little mysteries.

Dave R