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18th September 2015
12:21pm BST

Trevor Hayden, boss of Complete Pest Control, told the publication: “In the past two to three years there has absolutely been an increase in numbers. There are a lot of them around at the moment especially at this time of the year.
“The amount of spider calls we’ve received has increased by at least 30%. Most of those calls are for either a false widow or wolf spiders.
“We are a general pest control company and wouldn’t normally get calls for spiders but now we’re doing 10 to 15 jobs a week just for spiders and mostly they are false widows.”
He also said that hoovering regularly and thoroughly is a good way to tackle the problem.
Over recent months there have been a number of spider attacks, most notably the woman in Co Down who almost lost her leg after being bitten.Explore more on these topics: