Unless you live in Australia, you haven’t had a huge one.
Yeah, we had one of these in our lounge, when we lived there, scared the bejesus out of me.
In the Nevada we hababy black widows in our garage, they are no longer with us. I have no remorse.
I thought it was going to be the clock spider.
I have come across huge huntsman spiders in Asia, and they are terrifying.
When I see a spider, I grab my camera and photograph it mercilessly. Saw this huntsman a couple of weeks ago. It rates more or less as a “medium” for the biggest I’ve ever seen here in SC. (A scale object helpfully assisted me with my photos.)
I’m pretty sure I hate you for forcing me to click that.
I accept that. I actually took those photos just after I had cleaned the deck. I just shot a few webs that I had missed, in case identifying the type of spider would help. I’ll get better shots of the festooning in a few days. And I’m not really phobic about spiders, nor do I wish them any ill-will. I just wish they’d take their webbery somewhere else. It’s annoying and messy.
Of course sometimes what’s more unnerving round these parts is rather than the one massive and harmless spider you get a massive number of harmless spiders
I couldn’t see your pics on the tablet I’m currently using, but are you sure the webs are from spiders? Any chance spider mites are the culprit?
Spiders are our friends so long as they keep their distance. None in my hair, please. Mantids, the only holy insects (they walk on all fours - all other bugs are satanic) are our friends, too. We can have pet spiders and mantids. Try a pet cockroach. Go ahead, try.
Just be glad it isn’t a bunch ofthese.
Click it. I dare ya. 
I had a dream this morning. Mrs. L.A. said, ‘There’s a big, ugly, gross spider in my jacket with Harry Potter on it!’ It sounded like the spider had a picture of Harry Potter on it. I knew she meant her Harry Potter jacket. Only two things: She doesn’t have a Harry Potter jacket, and right after I dreamt I was getting up to capture the spider, my alarm went off.
Just as well. Was probably an acromantula
About 20 years ago, just out of college I was living in a rented house with 3 other friends. The house had a deck and one day we noticed a web across the deck railings. Just for fun we found some other insects in the yard and threw them into the web, then watched the spider run over and wrap them up it was quite fascinating.
Anyways, after a month or so feeding this thing it grew pretty large and had spun a humongous web across almost half of the back of the deck. It was large enough we noticed there were no other spiders around anywhere back there, where there were before.
So my advice is to pick one spider, and make it a king. 
No, no, no, no not clicking any more pix!!!:eek::
I enjoy speculating as follows: her next step is to swallow a bird to catch the spider – except, I like to think, in the South American version of the song; where it will be fly, bird, spider…
Yes, they’re cannibals all right, among their other attractive traits; still, we love 'em :eek: …
I’ve had minor success with a commercial product called Miss Muffett’s Revenge.
It otherwise takes vigilance to sweep away webs regularly.
So there are what I like to think of as “day shift” spiders and “night shift” spiders–ones that build their web in the morning and take it down at night and ones that do the opposite. There is an especially spiky species of “night shift” orb weaver around here that builds nice symmetrical webs and is pretty big (for a local spider) by this time of year. I’ve always tried to get good photos of one but the flash is needed and they have always come out as a washed-out white silhouette, even when center-metered on a prosumer stand-alone camera. Ran into one a couple of weeks ago and tried to photograph it with my phone in “torch” mode–same problem. But I experimented more, locking the ISO at 100 and the EV at -1, and finally got some pretty good shots for a cheap cell phone.
I’m not gonna call you a chicken but it’s Friday! Live a little and sleep knowing these things are far, far away from you.
Replace your current succulents with cobweb house-leek and embrace the webbiness?
Replace your current spiders with something like pirate spiders that hunt and eat other spiders but aren’t able to make any webs of their own?
But honestly, my balcony is full of spiderwebs too, especially around the potted plants. I never remove them, and somehow things just seem to settle on a certain amount of webbiness eventually. They don’t make more webs on top of the webs that are already there. I think removing all the webs might actually encourage the spiders to just build new ones.
Maybe you could sprinkle them with THC.