Biggest house spider I have seen

The Dread Pirate · 9 Jul 2010 at 11:52

Mr. Web

Relentless81 · 9 Jul 2010 at 11:53

DAnDan said:
Used to get a lot of this type of spider in the garage when I was working on the bikes. I'd taken to testing them a little. I'd draw a circle around the spider using rubber solution (highly flammable), and set it alight. The spider can either try and wait it out, having to survive the heat, or it can try and jump/run through the fire.

Most tried to run through it, but the fun bit is that they'd just get stuck in the rubber solution and burn to death.

Riggggghhhht....

beachBOYken · 9 Jul 2010 at 11:54

ive seen spiders like that but down the drainage hatch outside my house , only they are very dark looking because they have not seen daylight

4Play · 9 Jul 2010 at 12:05

I live in the country with my parents. We had central heating installed which meant the 2 loft doors where open all day. Later on that night a spider was in the loft room which was as big as the palm of my hand. It was a monster. Safe to say we killed it with fire !

sigma · 9 Jul 2010 at 12:25

Nuke the ****.

Ali195 · 9 Jul 2010 at 12:27

-Tauren- said:
i was asleep the other night. and awoke to something scurrying up my back. man i have never jumped out of bed so quick. i thought it was a mouse at first, turned out as i rolled over to jump out of bed i squashed a huge spider about that big with my back. im lucky he didn't bite me as i rolled on him! made a mess on the sheets too.

That would scar me for life. Other night i was going to sleep when i saw a spider hanging on the ceiling directly above my pillow. Did the usual "its more scared of you blah blah man-up talk", turned off the light but realised i forgot to set the alarm. When i turned the light on a minute later, it had moved down the wall (think Ninja Cat from Youtube). So i forgot about sleeping, walked over to my Volcano for smoke only to find another spider hanging above that :eek:

! Denied both sleep & smoke by these truly evil insects/future overlords

Cosimo · 9 Jul 2010 at 12:28

^TANK^ said:
Will it blend?

It will fry nicely.

Marky · 9 Jul 2010 at 12:31

^TANK^ said:
Will it blend?

I hope so

burtie · 9 Jul 2010 at 12:40

Ewwww flush down the bog. Dirty flea infested hairy spider.

Edrof · 9 Jul 2010 at 12:47

See, this is why I always carry an MG42 with me at all times.

DirtyJester · 9 Jul 2010 at 13:05

simulatorman said:
It will fry nicely.

...or break the world tap dancing record

Jumblejug · 9 Jul 2010 at 13:09

Keep feeding it until it gets big enough to ride like a horse

Edrof · 9 Jul 2010 at 13:27

Did anyone else used to make elastic band rifles out of their old white plastic He-Man tent tubes, some wood nicked out of Dad's shed and a couple of pegs, use the guns to shoot flies and wasps and then feed them to the spiders in the garden?

...or was that just me?

ac1d1ty · 9 Jul 2010 at 13:48

DAnDan said:
Used to get a lot of this type of spider in the garage when I was working on the bikes. I'd taken to testing them a little. I'd draw a circle around the spider using rubber solution (highly flammable), and set it alight. The spider can either try and wait it out, having to survive the heat, or it can try and jump/run through the fire.

Most tried to run through it, but the fun bit is that they'd just get stuck in the rubber solution and burn to death.

0_o

Oh its a spider, fine by me, filthy creatures.

Ivan Drago · 10 Jul 2010 at 00:51

Is this really a house spider? It look too exotic to be a British species.

I am have never seen one like this and hope never to do so. That is about 3 times the size of a very big house spider - it's the body and legs.

Please kill it and all of its offspring.

Angilion · 10 Jul 2010 at 01:51

I'm not convinced that is a house spider. It's too big - the largest of the genuine house spiders in Britain gets up to maybe 20mm body size. That's a fair bit less than the size of a 50p and the spider you have is bigger than a 50p.

snowdog · 10 Jul 2010 at 01:54

I had one that looks nearly the same in my bathroom on the ceiling yesterday.
Needless to say I manned the air refresher to weaken him, then grabbing him with toilet paper, and flushed/drowned him.

/hates big spiders, small ones are cute but big ones scare the **** out of me. ''kill it with fire'' is my first thought.

Angilion · 10 Jul 2010 at 01:57

I have a fair few spiders downstairs in my house, but for some reason they don't come upstairs. I'm not fond of them, but they're harmless and they eat bugs, so they can stay.

A tip if you find one in your bath and don't want to try fishing it out - rip off some toilet roll and drape it over the side of the bath, dangling down to the bottom of the bath, then leave. It won't be long before the spider finds the toilet roll and uses it as a ladder to climb out.

Robbo · 10 Jul 2010 at 02:02

Plenty of these in our garage, just about as big as you will see in England I think.

Evilsod · 10 Jul 2010 at 02:37

Moses99p said:
House spiders **** me up. Normal small ones are fine, but house spiders which scuttle around really fast scare me . I blame my mother, who used to SCREAM LOADS whenever she saw a spider, when I was a kid... that must have instilled some good old arachnophobia in me!

Tell me about it, was watching Supernatural yesterday when i noticed a pretty big spider crawling across the blind (a bit smaller than the OP i think), pointed it out to my gf and she freaked out ><

Didn't help when i tried to put it on an envelope and it fell on the floor...

Nor did it help when i noticed it hanging casually upside down above the monitor an hour later...

Took me 5 minutes to finally catch it and take it outside with the gf panicked the whole time...