Overview

• A Sept. 29 inFranken.de piece revives a 2018 University of Gloucestershire analysis and advises keeping doors and windows closed around the evening surge.
• The citizen‑science project used the 'Spider in da House' app to log more than 10,000 sightings from over 250 UK locations.
• Reports showed most encounters in homes occurred between 18:00 and 21:00, with a smaller rise in the early morning between 06:00 and 08:00.
• About 80% of recorded spiders were males, most often observed on walls or on the floor.
• The findings, published in the journal Arachnology, were based on participants recording time, room and location of each sighting, and the spider’s sex when possible.