time to burn the house down

Spacedeck · 22 Apr 2019 at 09:29

Please upload a higher quality image, can hardly see it.

new boy · 22 Apr 2019 at 10:04

The property is theirs now.

Bring regular offerings and do exactly what they ask of you and you may be able to live as one of their subjects.

BDEE · 22 Apr 2019 at 11:53

I have found two recently in my utility room although I just assumed them to be Falsies - Not sure the real thing are really prevalent in the UK?

Nasty looking things. I just caught them and released them.

Speed · 22 Apr 2019 at 14:34

BDEE said:
I have found two recently in my utility room although I just assumed them to be Falsies - Not sure the real thing are really prevalent in the UK?

Nasty looking things. I just caught them and released them.

Indeed, they will be false Widows in the UK. Completely harmless despite what the sensationalist media BS would have you believe.

Nasher · 22 Apr 2019 at 14:37

Not totally harmless, they can still bite (as well as a few other spiders we have in the UK). They probably won't kill you though.

Speed · 22 Apr 2019 at 14:40

Short of an extremely rare allergic reaction the bite is like a bee sting... i.e harmless.

Minusorange · 22 Apr 2019 at 14:41

slipperydave said:
get your Lynx out and a lighter. have fun.

they will just come back in greater numbers for revenge killings

Hades · 22 Apr 2019 at 14:43

Nope. Negative. Abort mission and lay down suppressing fire while you retreat.

SupraWez · 22 Apr 2019 at 16:48

Don't mind most spiders but wouldn't be happy sharing with a couple of those :eek:

lunar · 22 Apr 2019 at 17:15

If I can recall, weren't some schools closed this year (or in 2018) because of the infestation of spiders. I think they were Black Widows.

Lopéz · 22 Apr 2019 at 17:30

lunar said:
If I can recall, weren't some schools closed this year (or in 2018) because of the infestation of spiders. I think they were Black Widows.

They weren't. The UK doesn't really have the right climate for Latrodectus:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Latrodectus_map.png

SupraWez · 22 Apr 2019 at 18:14

lunar said:
If I can recall, weren't some schools closed this year (or in 2018) because of the infestation of spiders. I think they were Black Widows.

False widows not black widows :-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45745422

Kutter · 22 Apr 2019 at 18:25

Thats the problem with moving south, we now have all the nasty creatures we didnt have in the north east.

IainR · 22 Apr 2019 at 18:26

We brought a colony of the real black widows back to the UK in 2012.
The wee horrors made there homes in our Apache rocket pods whilst being on Ex in California ,and were flown back to Suffolk.
Fun times around camp for a while

StriderX · 22 Apr 2019 at 19:26

Are wasps getting bigger in the uk, I swear they’re chonking atm.

glenimp617 · 23 Apr 2019 at 09:23

StriderX said:
Are wasps getting bigger in the uk, I swear they’re chonking atm.

Yeah, my Executioner fly zapper is starting to struggle.....still, I do my bit for king and country

XeNoN89 · 23 Apr 2019 at 09:40

Kutter said:
Thats the problem with moving south, we now have all the nasty creatures we didnt have in the north east.

Watch out for the nasty brown recluse spiders

Orionaut · 23 Apr 2019 at 09:42

StriderX said:
Are wasps getting bigger in the uk, I swear they’re chonking atm.

We are definitely getting more Hornets. They make Wasps look like fruit flies! :eek:

Terminal_Boy · 23 Apr 2019 at 09:49

IainR said:
We brought a colony of the real black widows back to the UK in 2012.
The wee horrors made there homes in our Apache rocket pods whilst being on Ex in California ,and were flown back to Suffolk.
Fun times around camp for a while

Great, spiders that you can’t kill with an Apache helicopter.

wolfie138 · 23 Apr 2019 at 10:06

Kutter said:
Thats the problem with moving south, we now have all the nasty creatures we didnt have in the north east.

Cockneys, they're called.