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FallAbell Spinning: The ten-centimeter spiders are now in our homes

Iiiiiiih! AAAAAHHHH! NEEEEIIIIIIINNNNN! It can become palm-sized and add: The basement spider! There are a lot of them at the moment and they are coming to our apartments now!

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The basement spider is now looking for warm winter accommodations

I have goose bumps as I write these lines ... When I imagine how they crawl over my things with their eight long black legs ... or worse, crawl over me . Touch me ... And then they should be able to bite!

The last weeks were unusually mild due to the weather. Partly we had about 20 degrees Celsius in November! That we will have a particularly wasp-rich summer in 2016, we were already prophesied. But already now we get the first consequences of the warm weather: more spiders than usual!

As reported by the "Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" (WAZ), residents in Oberhausen were currently watching extremely many spiders, including the HUGE Kellerspinne, also called Hauswinkelspinne. Now the spiders are increasingly looking for shelter in our warm apartments.

The basement spider is one of the largest domestic spiders, can grow up to ten inches and bite!

Do you have goose bumps?

To reassure you (and me): Even if the spider bites you , which is rarely done, you do not have to expect evil consequences. "[They] rarely penetrate the firm human skin." The poisonous effect is hardly worth mentioning: A slight burning sensation, a slight reddening, which disappear after a few hours, "said biologist Dr. med. Marcus Schmitt from the University of Duisburg-Essen opposite the WAZ.

How do I prevent the spiders from coming to my apartment?

Even when the summer is over, leave your fly screens a bit on the windows. Even brushing on the underside of doors can make sure that the eight-legged monsters do not squeeze under the door (oh God, I think I'll faint at the show !!!).

But we can breathe a sigh of relief: as temperatures continue to drop, as they do now, and we soon have frost, the spiders will hibernate soon anyway.

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