Spiders are known to invade UK homes in September - but why, and how can you keep the eight-legged creatures at bay?
There are 650 species of spiders in the UK, according to PEST UK, but most of the spiders we see in our homes in autumn are house spiders. They are descendants of species from Africa and the Mediterranean, so they prefer to live indoors where it’s warm.
The average house is likely to have 40 spiders hidden away in cracks and crevices, but in older houses - sorry - there can be hundreds.Most of the spiders we get in the UK couldn’t even bite us if they wanted to as their fangs aren’t powerful enough to penetrate our skin and their jaws don’t open wide enough. There is a species of spider in the UK which is known to bite humans however, which is the “noble false widow” spider.
These arachnids originated in the Mediterranean and were first reported in the UK in the 1870s. They have since become one of the most common urban spiders in the UK, growing to around half an inch long.
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