When am I going to stop seeing spiders and finding webs in my house. And more Spider questions?

Question

I know the males are searching for mates this time of year and all that. I really want to know when we can expect to stop seeing spiders crawling around in the house and finding new webs every day. I've been taking down webs and cleaning, but I keep finding new webs.

Also, where do house spiders hang out for the Winter INSIDE of a home? Why don't they continue crawling around inside the house in the Winter, since the inside of a house is warm? Is it instinct to become less active after the mating season is over with?

Also, where should I look for any egg sacs? When will the females start laying eggs? I want to avoid a repeat of what happened this past year.

Answer 1

Spraying for spiders isn't a terribly useful thing to do - if there's plenty of food available (as there generally is, regardless of how much you spray) there are plenty of spiders around to move in. Personally, I regard the sprays as vastly more dangerous than any household pest could ever be, but that's your call. The obvious spiders you see moving around will vanish in the next few weeks anyway, although you're right that house spiders will still be around. Most of the time you won't see them, though. Most of the spiders that wander will be either tucked away until spring (for instance the 'red-and-white' visitors, or the (genuine) wolf spiders you see indoors in spring and fall) or dead after mating or laying eggs. That's an interesting point about the wandering hunters in houses, though. I don't usually look out for them much, but I'll actually see what I can find of things like yellow sac spiders this winter. I have vague memories of at least some activity during the winter, but nothing positive. The basement spiders calm down a lot, because we don't heat the basement in the winter, and my wife (for some inexplicable reason) doesn't like to have cobweb spiders all over the house so I can't say much about indoor web-dwellers in a heated house. Still, I'll keep a weather eye open for them, too.

Answer 2

Some spiders do come into a house anytime of the year. They can find things inside the house to feed on. Lots of tiny bugs get into your house searching out your food, the spiders come in search of them. In winter a lot of bugs die because it gets so cold (common knowledge) it could be that bugs no matter where they are, inside your house or out, die in winter.

Females will carry her eggs with her for the majority of the time. But when they do get put into webs look in dark places. In your basement, in dark corners, in ceiling rafters etc. Places where the spider might think her eggs will not be disturbed.

Your story reminds me of a show I watched... almost identical. Go to netflix or on demand or something and look up Animal Planets Infested!: Spiders

Watch that episode and see if it helps you. Its a little gross though, fair warning.

Answer 3

If you are seeing too many spiders and webs, your best bet is to get some bug bomb and some bug spray. It sounds as though you have a lot of spiders and that could be potentially fatal as some spider bites can paralyze you, kill you, and decay your flesh. Spiders tend to hide within walls in high cabinet corners etc. basically anywhere that is secluded, dry and out of the way. It is instinct for them to become less active during colder periods. I would not waste your time trying to locate egg sacs as they are usually very well hidden or even carried by the mother spider anyway.

Answer 4

Well, this past year alone has been one of the warms years in decades the over abundance of spiders and bugs are result of really warm weather. If we could start getting some cold weather again some of the spiders and bugs would die off or go dormit.

Answer 5

You cant stop us, we are slowly taking over.



As to the point why do spiders hang out for the winter inside a home .... would you go out camping in the middle winter??

Answer 6

the phobia of creepy , crawling , slithering issues is familiar. So, at the beginning, you at the instant are not on my own. To in the present day i like to examine spiders , centipedes, scorpions and cockroaches ...as long as those are in advantageous, risk-free , field cages the place they particularly can not get out. I genuinely have completed loads of artwork interior the rain forests of SE Asia and my fabulous worry substitute into to pass to my camp mattress for the night and confront some stupid centipede, spider or snake that desires to share my mattress. !!!! At domicile , i'm getting goosebumps if ever a cockroach gets directly to my pants !! So i understand and understand what you propose because of fact I nevertheless sense an identical way even after greater beneficial than 40 years of this. the solid information is that I genuinely have not ever been stung via a wasp, bitten via a black widow or centipede...yet have been attacked via a python . ( in this conflict i substitute into greater beneficial and had it for dinner.) All i will assert is all of us would desire to confront our fears . None of those issues will ever pass out of its thank you to attack someone that's maximum of , many situations larger. even however you have stated the seriousness of the subject i could propose you to make gentle of it ! do you prefer to pass in regards to the backyard with an entire spray of spider repellent ? Or shake the vegetation and shrubs with a protracted stick each and each time you enter the backyard.? Your backyard spiders are the least of your problems. they don't look to be feasting on your worry yet have swung / jumped on on your outfits / hands / neck basically via twist of fate. Heck ! you do not choose a psychiatrist, counsellor ....or crutches. in simple terms look them interior the attention and brush them away..