Hello! So I live in Scotland/UK and every year around September/October it's spider breeding season and all these absolute massive house spiders invade my house. I have severe arachnophobia so this month is absolute hell for me, I can't sleep, mental health in the gutter etc etc. I'm considering just literally leaving the country for a month because it's gotten so bad. So I'm wondering if the giant spider influx season also happens in neighbouring countries?. I.e. France, Spain, Greece, Germany etc? Is there anywhere I'll be safe? I've tried googling this to no avail so I am asking all you spider folk, sorry if not allowed.

Saw a little tiny spider dangling from a thread on my lamp and I took it outside. I might have let it stay there if I had known it would not grow into a huge spider. Is there any way to tell whether a tiny spider is just that size or whether it's a baby spider that will grow into a monster? Also, like everybody else I occasionally have spiders but I'm wondering why I never hear of anybody who has a problem with a spider having babies in its home and then being overrun by whole families of spiders. Do spiders only have babies outside?