'I was afraid to go to bed at night': Giant spiders invade Cape Breton homes

By Hal Higgins, CBC News
  Posted: Oct 06, 2017 7:00 AM

 A giant house spider is held by Nova Scotia Museum biologist Calum Ewing. (Calum Ewing) 









As Halloween approaches, many people are preparing for creepy, uninvited guests to drop by their home. But for weeks now, Cape Breton resident Dale Capstick has been enduring nightly visits from unwelcome and very large eight-legged creatures.

"Very frightening," says Capstick, as she describes spiders the size of a human palm and that run with lightning speed. "We always see them along the baseboard, occasionally crawling up the door trim."

Since August, she and her husband have seen about three dozen of the spiders at their home in the Nova Scotia community of Coxheath. After searching the internet, she learned they are Eratigena atrica, commonly known as giant house spiders...http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/spiders-scary-infestation-harmless-1.4340086