Help I keep finding big spiders in my room!

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In the last 4 weeks I have had 3 big spiders appear in my room, either on the floor or on the wall - at night when I'm about to go to bed.

I've never had this many in a short period of time before. I have got rid of some clutter and I do dust and vacuum my room regularly but it doesn't make a lot of difference. The whole house is cluttered, but I still only keep finding them in MY room.

Saying "spiders are good, they eat other insects" does not make me feel any better about them, I'd rather sleep in a room of 50 flies than 1 spider.

Moths are welcome in my room, they are pretty little creatures, but spiders scare the s**t out of me and I hate them.

I try not to have my window open but I have to during the day if it gets too hot outside, to let fresh air in. Does anyone know how I can prevent them from coming into my bedroom? I've tried conkers, especially around my bed, but this year they seem to not be minding the conkers because there they are appearing in my room.

I'm terrified of them. What can I do????

I'm more worried about moths, to be honest, not for scary reasons but because I worry they'll get in my clothes closet and ruin my clothes!

The spiders are something you'll see around this time of year, as the nights get cooler and they want to come inside a cosy house. It's also probably that if you have a lot of stuff, there are more good nooks and crannies for them to take up residence.

Commonly suggested repellents to discourage spiders are peppermint oil, lavender, citronella, eucalyptus -- if you can get these in liquid form, mix with water, put in a spray bottle like the ones you can get at garden centres and spray your room with it, particularly around doors and windows, it might help repel them. There may be a product online ready made for this.

If spiders scare you than I can see why you don't want them in your room.On the other hand you won't ever get bedbugs so it's a plus.I found a huge wolf spider bedding down for the night on my pillows,I was ok with it in terms of not being scared,but I moved him becuse I don't want to squash the spider on my sleep.Plus if it crawled on me I couldn't sleep.Go with above poster's suggestions.I would use cedar oil,I have a cedar closet and I never have seen a single bug of any kind in there.It also smells good,sort of a holiday smell.Not sure where you live,but Osage oranges also keep spiders away.If they grow on your area you'll know what I'm talking about.Otherwise forget it,I don't think you can buy them anywhere.Small spiders are more likely to cause harm,brown recluse and black widows.Be thankful you don't have those,the big spiders eat them.

Get some conkers from the park and put them in the corners of the room, every year i collect a load whilst out running in fact they are dropping now, spiders don't bother me but my mother uses them and says they work well.

I get quite a few of these gigantic fellows creeping around my room over the year, they seem to love the river cause I encounter some in the grass when I'm close to it and being overtly curious at what my feet squish and plow through. I'm talking about the tegenarias, some of them are obscenely oversized, I've had two apparate onto my damn PILLOW when I turn over, once I had them two nights in a row, scared the absolute stuffing out of me, I realized that it's their fangs that are on those stalks, not their eyes like I had hoped lol. I try to catch them but when I can't they get crushed, I always try to catch them first. My success rate is around 3-1 on catching vs killing so I try to do my bit, they're very misunderstood and abused creatures spiders, I really think they're eerie but they can't help it.

It could be worse.The other night I saw something scuttling on the floor near my foot and it was a friggin scorpion!
I caught it and tossed it out into the yard.Two nights later I open the front door and a small snake pops in.It was a little ring neck,not harmful in anyway but it sure gave me a start.It was also returned to the yard to join the scorpion and spiders.

Where I used to live, little geckos used to come into the apartment. They were cute and harmless; my cat always alerted me to them, and I put them outside to save them from a horrible death in the jaws of my cat, lol. I once saw a beautiful green anole lizard outside the door jamb. A friend used to have scorpions get in the light fixture, and you could see it filled up with dead bodies of them. He also once watched a great big centipede walk across his living room floor.

I'd love to wake up one morning and find a gigantic huntsman spider on my wall. All I ever get are piddly little daddy longlegs and the occasional white-tail.

Try spreading boric acid or diatomaceous earth at the potential entry points, the latter is natural and safe with pets.

One of my friends has a spider-catcher pole, which puts a good couple of feet between you and the spider when you remove it. It works by gripping the spider with long plastic bristles, and she swears by it. (I think this is the one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spider-Catcher ... er+catcher )

They really ARE that big- this year in Britain we've had a bumper crop of Eratigena atrica, the accurately-named Giant House Spider. I'm getting better with normal house spiders, but these ones still scare me. If they're out in the open, they're probably males searching for mates. The huge "fangs" are actually their pedipalps, touch sensors which are enlarged in adult males. Happily, the /actual/ fangs are too small to do any damage.

If you can get hold of any tranquillizers (eg Valium or Zopiclone) they will make your phobia temporarily vanish and you'll be able to approach spiders and put them outside. And yes, I'm also a lifelong arachnophobe and I 'm talking from experience. Discovered this by serendipity when I came across one in my room years ago and couldn't have slept with it crawling around the place.

Me too, the weather is getting cooler, especially at night, so they come inside.

I used to keep one spider, the one who had taken the spot in a corner next to window. Then I vacuumed walls and even swept the ceiling to get rid of "strings" from other spiders. My room stayed absolutely bug-free so long as Spider stayed - she spun and went hunting but returned to the corner by bedtime.

Now I have a cat and haven't seen any bugs since I got her.

That's the time of year. They are looking for mates and escaping the cold.
I recently got one on my wall too.
I usually just put a glass over them, put a CD in paper under the trap and open it outside. No big deal.
Mosquito are way worse. Last night I couldn't sleep till 7AM because a damn mosquito was flying over my head but hiding every time I turned the lights on. Do you have any suggestion for them? Recently there is 1-3 mosquitos in my room every night. Usually I can kill them with my shoe because they are stupid enough to sit on walls but some are smart and hide.

There's also a giant house spider invasion in France right now
You can spread diatomaceous earth on the ground and textiles. It kills spiders and bugs walking on it. Other than that, I keep my cat in my bedroom for part of the night. She's my guardian angel.