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They are definitely living in my right wing mirror but seem to shelter BB behind it when I start the engine!

difference!

Cherrytree59 if you visit Australia be very very afraid .....

Actually, knowing the different between poisonous and non-poisonous is very helpful. However, even non-poisonous ones can pack a powerful bite!

One in the UK once bit someone I know and it was quite painful (just an ordinary house spider!).

My DGS calls them Mr Skinny legs and gets quite upset when they move out!
We had a whole nursery one year in our porch
They were there one minute and gone the next.

I think I'm going to set up RSPCS!
People hosing spiders and then laughing!!
Would they do that to say butterflies?

Thank goodness for this post. I never knew others had the same problem. Thought they were out to get me.

Love your description of the webs in the field grandMattie. I think the lived-in webs are spiders' webs and the abandoned ones cobwebs. My little grandson found a couple of the latter in my hall and asked what they were! I explained that they used to belong to a little spider, and thst it had spun another one somewhere else. I hoped that talking about spiders in a friendly way would help him not to be afraid of them. Later I removed the dusty remains from the ceiling and vowed to look upwards more often.

Love these cobwebs. When little, DD called the spider "Marjorie"; it was well beloved...

Once drove past a field of cut corn, when the sun was low, the cobwebs shimmered like silk over the entire field. It was magic. Also love cobwebs with frost on them. Just like cobwebs - you can imagine the state of my house!

Getting the milk in in the morning can be sticky. When the DGC are here it's their job. They are small enough to creep under them.

I've had the same "problem" but I don't remember it happening in previous years.

Do others think it's just this year?

I thought it was just my car!!! Every day the wing mirrors covered in webs. Glad I read this thread. Thank you

Yes I have cobwebs on both my wing mirrors. Brush them off every time I go out and next day the little critters are back again. They have even managed to still be there after I have been through the car wash. It always amazes me how they manage to hold on even doing 70 down the motorway, must like the wind in their hair . Lovely seeing the webs with dewdrops on them on an autumn mornings, we used to tell the children spiders webs were the material for fariry skirts.

Try using a spider repellent spray - it doesn't hurt them, they don't like the smell.

These webs could cover your car and your house!

news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/spiders-ballooning-tasmania-floods-animals/

I got a new car with a reversing camera recently & believe me spiders also love making webs over those too. The first time it happened I wondered what on earth was behind my car & got out several times to check before I realised what it was. The damn thing does it most nights- I do hate having to break it but I'm hoping it will get the message soon.

Spiders eat the weight of the UK human population in bugs (various) every year. Just sayin'.

One autumn morning stays in my memory: we were with a friend and her children, looking for late blackberries on the common. The sun was at exactly the right angle to illuminate the thousands of dew-drop spangled spiders' webs. It was a magic sight.

We also have this happen a lot and I always worry that they will come to harm when driving. A spiders web covered in dew is such a beautiful thing to see and I hate breaking one up when they have worked so hard! I go around them whenever possible.
I always remember the saying ' if you want to live and thrive let the spider go alive'.

I went to the car wash and the man with the high power hose was laughing as he washed out a whole family of spiders!
I hate spider season.

Agree Kitspur I love to watch them make a web , the only creatures I really dislike are flies , yuk .

Don't know if it is the reason but my "new to me" car has electric wing mirrors and I put them in every time I put the car in the garage and when I park in public car parks. And I don't have spiders! ?

It's a beautiful thing. I love seeing spiders popping out of my wing mirrors, but I'm always worried that driving will damage them. The garden is full of spiders webbs glistening in the sun - lovely.

Yes me too - webs on both of my wing mirrors. Also spiders love my place . I have a light outside - a round flat flueroscent and they hide under there \(or rather live under there)because at night the insects are attracted to it. I now and then see the spiders poking out, if they are right out I get a broom and brush them off. But it is a constant battle. Although now I have got clever and have noticed nests up there so I brush them off and I think I have stopped the worst of the population!! If indoors and able to reach i pick them up with a kitchen towel and put them outside, if not able to reach I hoover them, although dont really like doing this. Or the glass and cardboard thing. I have just seen in one of the catalogues a spider stayaway spray - it has chestnut oil extract in it, I am ordering it tomorrow!! I tried the conker thing, had them all round doors, windows etc but didnt work - although seeing a post on here apparently you have to prick the conker, which is obvious I suppose.

How do they hang on at 70MPH? One of the mysteries of nature...

I have resident spiders in my wing mirrors. They are the adventurous ones who yearn to travel

I think they're just there for the ride Indinana