Sydney woman walks into shower and finds hundreds of spider hatchlings
A Sydney woman had an unwelcome wake up call this morning after walking into her shower and running smack bang into some spider webs.
Nine.com.au news producer Raffaella Ciccarelli said she looked at the bathroom wall of her Inner West home and saw a couple of baby spiders.
It was when she looked up she encountered the truth of the situation.
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Upon looking up Raffaella Ciccarelli saw hundreds of hatchlings on the bathroom wall. Raffaella Ciccarelli
"There were hundreds of them on the roof," Ciccarelli said.
"That woke me up fast.
"A couple started drifting down on webs, so I jumped out of the shower."
While she's unsure of the species she suspects they may be baby huntsman spiders.
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"We saw one by the loo a few weeks ago, which we caught and popped outside.
"Not sure how we will remove these — we may just move," Ciccarelli joked.
Recent wet weather is providing perfect conditions for mosquitoes, spiders, ticks termites, rodents, with populations surging in recent weeks.
The wet weather is being caused by a La Niña event, which the Bureau of Meteorology predicts will last into the southern hemisphere's late summer or early autumn of 2022.
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