[balletmum]

All of a sudden I have an outbreak of what look to be baby huntsmans in my house. They are quite small (about half a five cent piece). I wanted to find out if these are huntsmans or just small spiders that just look similar.

Do huntsmans have any web at all? When I spray these ones some fall directly, but a couple have tried to scramble back up a web.

Can they overrun a house like this (I have killed about 16 since last night).

And does anyone know how long it takes for baby huntmans to become adult huntmans?

If they are a different already full grown spider, I can cope with them around the house, but think I'll need serious fumigation otherwise!!!

Thanks for any advice!

[Bacongirl]

Burn your house now. There is no escape.













PS. i hate all spiders. Especially the big hairy ones.

[joy07]

Oh dear. Only 16 babies. Your ceiling could end up looking quite black with the amount of babies that will hatch. These are just the early ones probably.

Yep when you spray them they dangle from a thread of web.

So they sound like baby huntsmen to me.

I remember an apartment I rented and one morning woke up to see a corner of the ceiling black and part of the wall. On closer inspection there were hundreds of baby spiders. The patch just kept getting bigger. Then they appeared in the adjacent room also and some came from the floor as well. Lots of spraying and poor dead baby spiders hanging from the ceiling, I managed to control it.

[lafonda]

huntsman spiders are the WORST!!!

[MakeLoveNotBacon]

I remember an apartment I rented and one morning woke up to see a corner of the ceiling black and part of the wall. On closer inspection there were hundreds of baby spiders. The patch just kept getting bigger. Then they appeared in the adjacent room also and some came from the floor as well. Lots of spraying and poor dead baby spiders hanging from the ceiling, I managed to control it.

OMG. I think I would die. Would that be from just one spider?

[meggs1]

Don't spray them. Just leave them a day or so, and the strongest will eat the weakest and you'll just have a few big fat ones.

[Flibbertigibbert...]

Don't spray them. Just leave them a day or so, and the strongest will eat the weakest and you'll just have a few big fat ones.

And a greatly diminished cockroach problem

[niknok]

Don't spray them. Just leave them a day or so, and the strongest will eat the weakest and you'll just have a few big fat ones.

seriously??? Id rather a few fat ones than a thousand lil ones!!!

I had a baaad experience with a huntsman family while 8 months pregnant!!! i nealry gave birth there and then..

[Mercurial]

Usually 100s of babies. Very scary. Vacuum cleanerse work well

[nlman]

I would be paying overtime rates to any fumigator prepared to come out tonight