How to get rid of spiders in my garden!!

[Dave123456789]

hi all

wondering if you can help please

it may not look so evident in the picture - but in the side of my garden i had a little roof built to help house some extra stuff for us -and there are so so many spider webs

i get rid of with a broom every week but they come back

i bought this too = was rubbish
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garden-household-s-More-Spiders-500ml/dp/B002EISUUS

is there anything you can recommend?
anything i can do better to stop them forming?

im quite tall and sometimes it grazes my head.

as i say you cant see many in the pics but trust me there are so many!!

 

[Deleted2797112]

Spiders are your friends. Leave them be.

 

[JBR]

I agree. They do no harm, and they can't harm you.

Unless, of course, they are some of those evil imports from the antipodean colonies!

 

[Dave123456789]

Please guys any suggestion to get rid I just don't want webs please would really appreciate

Why do they even come ? Is it cos there is clutter? Something else?

 

[big-all]

really really sorry but there is little you can do
clutter or living conditions have nothing to do with it they just need to build a home/web
not what you want to hear but i am sure with warmer weather some may move outside
we have had a very mild winter so lots off creatures have not been killed off perhaps spiders are some ??

 

[honda]

My shed is full of spiders but no flies etc, that tells me something.

 

[blightymam]

You'll never get rid of them completely and they're an excellent insect to have around.
You could hang bird feeders nearby, as birds like a tasty spider or two, but then you'll have bird muck and probably mice or rats (who are attracted to spilled seed) to contend with instead.

 

[Dave123456789]

really really sorry but there is little you can do
clutter or living conditions have nothing to do with it they just need to build a home/web
not what you want to hear but i am sure with warmer weather some may move outside
we have had a very mild winter so lots off creatures have not been killed off perhaps spiders are some ??

what do you mean by outside? as this is outside - no? its my garden....

 

[honda]

I think the spiders think it's theirs as well

 

[JBR]

I'll swap you. You take my wasps and I'll take your spiders.

 

[Ouch77]

As others have said, spiders are useful critters to have around, they'll keep pests and flies at bay, and are (mostly) harmless. It can be a nuisance walking into a spidersweb now and again, but that's the price we pay of sharing our world with other critters.

If you're desperate to reduce the number of spiders then you could look into a natural solution:

A quick google search for "what eats spiders?" yields the following sort of results:
Bigger spiders - not necessarily the solution you want
Birds, blackbirds, wrens and robins mostly - try encouraging more birds into your garden
Wasps, there's a certain variety of wasp that will lay it's eggs on a spider, but I'm not sure you want to encourage wasps
Centipedes
Frogs
Shrews
The household cat (sometimes)

 

[geraldthehamster]

Why do they even come ? Is it cos there is clutter? Something else?

They come because they hate you

 

[Dave123456789]

haha right so basically nothing then

and that stupid spray was rubbish too!!!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garden-household-s-More-Spiders-500ml/dp/B002EISUUS

i shall just have to get the broom out every other day and get rid of all the webs.
thats the main annoyance tbh

 

[r896neo]

They like living in my van but they are not so keen on the monthly back-pack leaf blower attack to send them to spider heaven. Some of the trim in the van doesnt like the blower treatment either though.

 

[pidgeon1]

I use Flea spray around my CCTV cameras . And it works.

i tried no more spider spray, within 4 hours they were back spinning webs