well I am phobic about these creatures, the bigger they are, the worse I am!! Of course OH is telling me there will be *largish* spiders in Spain probably due to the climate and I have told him he's talking rubbish....

He is isn't he?

KITTYX

There was a thread about spiders so it may be a good idea to search the forum. I have never seen anything bigger than a money spider in my house but I do not have a garden or a pool and I think that this has an effect.

Rosemary

The one thing I like about living here is no spiders, but, inland there are big ones

I see plenty here and have seen a few big ones but no bigger than the odd one in the UK.

I haven't seen anything bigger than 2in across

yeah i think on the coast youre ok. My friend who lived in Coin (in land) was telling me about the size of the things he was fishing out of his pool. Nasty
Ive yet to see anything particularly bad. Other than an oversized well nurished fly in the office and a cockroach skuttling around in my old apartment (thankfully the day i was leaving!)

There are tarantulas in the Valencia region aren't there.

We had a rather looking nasty spider, like a mini tarantula, only a few weeks ago

Tarantulas? mini tarantulas? surely not!

I really hate spiders

Fraid so, have a look in the free beer thread
The one we saw had orangy red striped legs and was big enough to be seriously scary. But thats one in 14 months ... dont be phased by it.

When I first came to live in Spain we moved into a villa my parents owned but hadnt used for 11 years - Campo Mijas just above Fuengirola. There was one large one thet came out at night in the bathroom to scare you when you went to the loo, but the worst was this massive thing on the back door.

Of course I did the woman thing and called the brave hubby, who screamed and ran in the opposite direction!

I used a pint beer glass to cover it over, and it was just that bit too small! (did eventually encourage it into the glass which was bagged and taken at arms length a long long way away and never came back)

Then we got a cat!

Spiders there are in all places, and if you think that in Spain there are spiders by the climate...what climate do you refer?

The spiders in Spain, I don't know any deadly specie. If you want to see truly monstrous, poisonous and deadly spiders you have to go to countries as Australia. The Europe spiders are very good people. Don´t worry

Don't worry about spiders!

To take your mind off it there are bigger, more venomous creatures called IVA, SUMA, CATASTRAL, Patrimonio, IRNR, IBI, all of which might give you a larger bite on the arse!

Spiders, No Pasa Nada!!

Hi thanks for all your replies..guess what i was dreaming about last night?
I just can't get the words "tarantula" "mini tarantulas" and "beer glass didn't fit over it" out of my head now

Sarahchirles I have only heard of IVA and am afraid to ask what the others are!
Are they as bad as £173.00 per month council tax, £50 per week for gas & electric, fuel £1.09 per litre (that's just for starters)

KITTYX

No not as bad! Just seem to creep up on ya when you are least expecting them, and are all a bit confusing. Budget well or put it off till next week is the name of the game. (well in my house it is!! ) It is a huge learning curve but worth it!

£50 a week for Gas and Electric?? What are you doing? Do you leave every light switched on and use your cooker to heat the kitchen!?