Spider identification

CaptainRAVE · 5 Sep 2021 at 12:45

False widow, loads of them round my gym and hot tub. Hate the things.

timmy222 · 5 Sep 2021 at 16:46

I usually have loads of these under the back door plinth over hang.
Every three months I blast the area with fly spray - this seems to make them come out of hiding and drop to the floor.
Thence they perish - wife hates them.

Gilbert89 · 5 Sep 2021 at 21:59

Is it dead yet? Dealt with two today (Hard to determine the kind of spider as currently flattened)

Genuinely the older I get the more terrified I am of the things :confused:

Rroff · 8 Sep 2021 at 20:15

Went to close some curtains and came face to face with this - about double the size of any of this type I've seen in the past (orb-weaver?) - do not want! photo doesn't really show the scale very well the body was getting on for an inch long.

Couldn't get a good photo with the light, etc.

Puzzled · 9 Sep 2021 at 00:38

Rroff said:
Went to close some curtains and came face to face with this - about double the size of any of this type I've seen in the past (orb-weaver?) - do not want! photo doesn't really show the scale very well the body was getting on for an inch long.

Couldn't get a good photo with the light, etc.

Headcrab?

Rroff · 9 Sep 2021 at 00:53

I've removed 3 good size spiders tonight from the house - must be the season :s

BananaDunka · 9 Sep 2021 at 01:56

On the flipside, jumping spiders are genuinely the best things ever. Intelligent, curious and pretty neat.

Rroff · 9 Sep 2021 at 06:09

Just removed the 4th large one tonight! wish I had a video of me trying to catch it LOL it was smart, fast and knew the chase was on but I outsmarted it after some acrobatics.

Hate this time of year - I'm not scared of them but I can't knowingly share a room with one of any size. I'm also annoyingly tuned to the noise of them moving - slightest out of place rustle in the room and I know they are there.

GR63 · 9 Sep 2021 at 08:50

Liquid_Entity said:
Nuke from orbit its the only way to be sure

Game over man, game over!!!

nine_tails · 9 Sep 2021 at 10:16

Rroff said:
Just removed the 4th large one tonight! wish I had a video of me trying to catch it LOL it was smart, fast and knew the chase was on but I outsmarted it after some acrobatics.

Hate this time of year - I'm not scared of them but I can't knowingly share a room with one of any size. I'm also annoyingly tuned to the noise of them moving - slightest out of place rustle in the room and I know they are there.

hah , this is pretty much me. I do not mind a spider bro now and again , until my flat mate starts to get all angsty about it

MrRockliffe · 9 Sep 2021 at 10:24

It’s definitely a spider. I’d know, because my dad is a spider exterminator by trade.

nine_tails · 9 Sep 2021 at 12:42

MrRockliffe said:
It’s definitely a spider. I’d know, because my dad is a spider exterminator by trade.

Give us some spider stories.

Junglist · 9 Sep 2021 at 12:48

dacads said:
Just moved house recently, seems to be a different breed of visitors here

luckily was a friendly fella not in a rush.

Should I be looking to move already though?

I can safely identify that as a spider that likes a firm stamp on its back. In all seriousness it does look like a young false widow though.

UberTiger said:
There had to be some kind of poison in the bite to get such severe inflammation though?

Spiders are poisonous so you would've been safe to eat it. Probably wouldn't have been very filling though!

Scrutinize said:
Here's one of our false widows that frequently dispatches competing spiders in the locality.

32mm bolster chisel for scale

That's just a horrible old fashioned house spider.

MrRockliffe · 9 Sep 2021 at 13:20

nine_tails said:
Give us some spider stories.

This one time, at band camp, my father saw a spider.

The end

Rroff · 10 Sep 2021 at 04:37

Junglist said:
That's just a horrible old fashioned house spider.

I've been removing them from the house like it's a full time job the last couple of days

one of the downsides of living rurally.

Scrutinize · 12 Sep 2021 at 18:39

Spiders are back on it today. Innocent butterfly minding its own business in my garden this avo landed on the wrong web.

FoxEye · 13 Sep 2021 at 02:30

Rroff said:
I've removed 3 good size spiders tonight from the house - must be the season :s

I currently operate a taxi service from the bath to the porch, where I place them on my struggling chili plants. Struggling because greenfly are hell bent on swarming over every sodding plant in the entire neighbourhood.

I'm hoping the spiders will at least munch a few of them.. although now some of my chilis just have spider webs on them as well as greenfly.