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Rūta Zumbrickaitė

Tennis Ball-Sized Spiders Are About To Invade UK Homes And Here Is How To Keep Them Out

Now we cannot confirm this, but someone really needs to look into whether the marketing team behind Spider-Man: A New Day has struck some kind of unholy deal with Mother Nature, because the timing of the UK’s annual spider invasion is frankly suspicious. And if not the timing, at least about the magnitude of it this year.

Every September, right on cue, thousands of tennis ball-sized spiders abandon whatever they were doing outside and march directly into British homes in search of a mate. Ten centimeters across the leg span. The size of a tennis ball. In your house. Looking for love. And according to experts, this year is no different, so here is everything you need to know to survive the next six weeks with your sanity intact.

Tennis ball-sized spiders are looking for love inside UK households in September

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