Spiders in my garden 2024

Actually, I was careful to leave it be. The chest of drawers is outside, under the veranda, so it can live there.
If it had been indoors, I endeavour to trap them using a glass jar and a piece of card. I then remove them to a suitable place in the garden.
Killing them is always a last resort. I don't like the mess!!
My wife would kill them without hesitation.

 

The males usually die in the autumn after mating so it might be in your drawer for ever!

Hubby always removes them here - I don't kill them either. I do notice that if you scream they flinch. They must have good hearing.

 

'they shave their legs'
Nice one @cactus_girl - could you tell my older daughter that then?
I thought my legs were hairy....

I disturbed a large spider recently when sorting my bigger birdcage. I apologised to him.
I used to rescue spiders at work to prevent people overreacting and killing them. Used to drive me nuts. I had no option but to put them outside, but there were plenty of places for them to hide rather then the workshop. The workshop was in an equestrian centre - you'd think folk would have more sense because they'd all worked in the centre itself !

 

Another one, in the Garden Room, behind the garage.
I assume the live one is female, despite the hairy legs, while the male is the dead one.

 

The Dead one maybe just a shed skin, they do that as they grow I believe.

 

Thank you for the enlightenment.

 

I try to keep them in the greenhouse as they eat pests although I did see one wrapping up a bee. We get those white flower spiders in the garden too.
I thing fear of spiders goes way back in our makeup but you can get over it. When I was a school technician I regularly removed spiders from labs though I did hesitate at the tarantula! I wore rubber gloves with that one. We used to feed it with cockroaches. Lovely!