And last night I saw the first one of the season…sigh…
It was in the kitchen. I kept my cool and opened the door to the back balcony. She stepped out. All was well and I was congratulating myself until I remembered…my laundry. Now it is hostage to the spider.
I let jumping spiders hang out by my windowsill. They scare the shit out of me occasionally when I go to water my plants but they do good work keeping the area free of bugs.
I woke up once in Australia with a couple of huntsman on me, one tickling my chin and the other on my chest, which caused a bit of a phobia in spiders for a while, each one was pretty big.
We get about a dozen LaYa type huntsmen in the house a year. Unfortunately we can’t B@B them all, so inside the house and we do have a couple of nets but usually it’s a sandal.
Because in part they are really fast, they can jump at least a foot a foot and a half up a wall and I have had one or two disappear in my work room, knowing there are there but hiding for a couple of weeks only to reappear cm’s away.
Cats will get them before you know they are there though.
I get them a fair bit (10 or so a year), if you go to kill make sure you get it, they are super fast and will hide for a week or so. Had one in my computer room I missed and emerged after a week right in front of the monitor.
Sorry, although killing them may hurt some peoples sensibilities, this isn’t a house to breed spiders and they are everywhere around here.
I would love a better way, they are speedy and can jump a good foot up the wall. Although when they do that they dont seem to get traction.
Had the remnants of one left by my two cats as I was cleaning legs off the floor this morning and one more on the outside door that died from natural causes perhaps.