And then brag to all your mates about how you managed to deal with this amazing threat, in a much more dramatised story
Found a large spider when i got home.
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And then brag to all your mates about how you managed to deal with this amazing threat, in a much more dramatised story
I once stuck a mug over one (bigger than that, its legs barely fitted under) and left it there for what I think was 3 days, just totally forgot about it. Eventually got round to picking it up and out he came as if nothing had happened.
Poor bugger.
Poor bugger.
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It's a nasty evil creature and against God's will. It must be destroyed, preferably via nuke from orbit.
Along with wasps!!!
What are the actual point of wasps? They don't do anything beneficial, they're just annoying!!!
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Oh that's called a Shotgun-and-leg-iteus
Or a wolf spider maybe
Or a wolf spider maybe
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Black widows are not particularly big. Possibly even smaller then the one in your pic.
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Oh yeah, I forgot the males are much bigger (twice the size of the females).
A large female black widow spider can grow to about 1.5 inches (37 mm), counting leg-span. The body is about 0.5-0.6 inches (12-15 mm). Male black widow spiders are half the size of the female or smaller.
Other way around (according to Wiki)
Other way around (according to Wiki)
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Well, wikipedia also backs up my original point...
wikipedia said:
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The picture looks like what I have always heard referred to as a "Cardinal Spider". They do grow big - up to about six inches across. Related to the first guess, but a cousin.
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It's a Tegenaria of some description. A house spider. And yes they get pretty large.
Other points:
Black widows are not very big spiders
Black widow females are substantially larger than males, not the other way around.
Other points:
Black widows are not very big spiders
Black widow females are substantially larger than males, not the other way around.
ffs stop witht the pictures ! we know what spiders look like . arghhh
honestly if i walked into my room and seen any of the spiders in this thread there would be nothing anyone could do to stop me running out into the street and running about screaming!
its the suprise of spiders that terrifies me. if someone said "theres a spider the size of my face in the corner of your room so look when you go in" id be fine. but if i wasnt expecting it then god help me
honestly if i walked into my room and seen any of the spiders in this thread there would be nothing anyone could do to stop me running out into the street and running about screaming!
its the suprise of spiders that terrifies me. if someone said "theres a spider the size of my face in the corner of your room so look when you go in" id be fine. but if i wasnt expecting it then god help me
For what it's worth, at my aunt's in Cali, she's got an automatic gate behind the garage. The sensors wern't picking up the car and i saw loads of gunk inside the sensor box. Upon grabbing a stick and giving it a good old poke in the hole (fnarr) to clear the mess, a black widow jumped on to the end of the stick.
It wasnt particularly large but i touched cloth anyway. About the size of a garden spider.