Monster spiders in Ireland send shiver throughout the nation

I caught one reading a book

Thans very much, EphraimKibbey. May your happiness continue to increase with time!

Maybe the male spiders should start commenting on IC to find a mate. Good Luck handsome68! I found mine at our local water/snow ski club 31 years ago. She's a really cute snowbunny.

"Are looking for a place to call home ..." Should get onto Ireland's National Assets Management Agency (NAMA), and move into those spanking new houses in those ghost estates around the country. Incidentally, for those arachnophilics on line, there's a trader selling collections of exotic spiders in glass display cases (in South Great George's Street Shopping Arcade in Dublin 02). Never saw anything like 'em. Black widows and everything. Some so big they look like they work out at the local YMCA. I'd hate to guess what they're bench pressing. Barn door lats!

If it weren't for spiders, the earth would be nine-feet deep in insects.

I found 2 huge spiders in my house in Dublin at different times last week, they were so big. I live in London most of the year and never saw spiders so big and fast. I caught them and released them in the garden. I was nervous, i didn't know if they bite. They were big, i could here one of them running on the wooden floors. I thought it was a mouse. The other i found in the bathroom

Blackbearpause: sorry I got your name wrong. I never said I was the smartest spy at M15.

To Blackbearpaws: I live in the West Village. Hope you're not a guy. I saw the one where the guy was supposed to be a woman. Coming from where I do, I knew immediately, and didn't buy Stephen Fry's ultimate reaction.

Portia777@ Never met a Capitalist Wikkan ? (Feminist) (Arachnid)

Same, I would never kill a spider as they kill those bastards of flies. But if you're afraid of them , just get a piece of paper and a cup and gently tip him into the cup with the paper very very gently and bring him out and let him off in your garden. You'll feel good after that!

Grandmother Spider weaving a new Eire?

One good way to catch them is to use shaving foam. Just put some at the tip of a stick or whatever, and apply to spider. The spider is stuck--upside down--on the foam. You can take him/her outside or flush down the commode or whatever. Round where I live spiders aren't a problem. Red ants and palmetto bugs are.

Hey handsome68, where do you live?

Addendum to my Comment (now below). I forgot to mention that for many of those more than 50 years, I was looking for the female equivalent of Amy Adams. I've learned many a lesson since then.

Central NJ is suffering the same fate right now...the huge spiders are all over the place. I love taking pictures of them and am grateful for my powerful zoom lens, LOL. When possible, I put them outside, if one happens to find its way into my cottage, as I dislike killing them...they are the good guys in the garden kingdom!