Fancy a Halloween Scare? Our Spider Population is Out of Control

Spiders? They’re creepy little buggers, aren’t there? Here at Her.ie towers we’ll admit that we’re not exactly massive fans of creatures that have more than four legs and if you’re an arachnaphobic, we’d advise you against reading the following, mainly because it’s likely to give you a few nightmares…

We’ve already reported about the fact that it is spider season and that Ireland is currently dealing with a huge influx of the eight-legged beasts. However, it seems like we could be in for a big scare this Halloween as the Irish spider population reaches an all-time peak. Shudder.

For the past three months, spiders have been busy getting down and dirty with each other and producing thousands of baby spiders (disgusting, we know) and this week it may seem like the number of spiders around the place has gotten out of control.

Have you noticed more spiders than usual around your house?

However, if it helps to calm your nerves, that monster in your bathtub isn’t likely to do you any harm. In fact, he’s just simply looking for love.

“The reason why there seems to be an explosion in the population is because males are running around looking for females,” said animal behaviour expert, Professor Robert Elwood from Queens University in Belfast speaking to the Irish Daily Mirror.

Hmm…whether they’re looking for love or not, we’d still prefer it if they did it elsewhere and didn’t start trying to mate with each other in the corner of our bedroom (or in the kitchen sink!).

Have you noticed a disturbingly large amount of spiders so far this autumn?