these mahoosive red spiders

[Nom de ploom]

anyone else had one?

we had one yesterday to say it was large was an understatement - easily the largest in the uk i have ever seen comfortably outspanned the skirting board and could have carried plates to tables.....

notice they made the front page of the sun today as well...when the missus described it to me i thought at first it was an unusually large male garden spider as they are usually dark red and out at this time of year but when i saw it i knew it wasn't....

[dudleybloke]

This is my new pet called Dave.

[Nom de ploom]

harness or lead?

[Mr GrimNasty]

The Express says "Swarms of sex-crazed spiders - some as big as MICE - are set to invade living rooms in the UK."

Probably about as accurate and 'unsensationalist' as their long range Siberian winter and Sahara summer forecasts!

Have you considered getting Dave a leg wax?

[SPRocco]

dudleybloke said:

This is my new pet called Dave.

Is that a picture you've taken yourself?

I have one that looks very much like this that has taken great offence to me trying to move it's home (the gap between the wheelie bin and nearby wall) the last two weeks in a row.

[dudleybloke]

Dave is indeed a Dudley spider. Not seen him the last couple of days so he might have popped over to the zoo to hunt a lion or giraffe.

[dci]

Had this guy in the garage a few nights back. I'm not normally fussed by spiders but after feeling around in the dark for the light switch and finding this guy hiding a few inches below the light switch gave a weird shiver feeling.

[littlebasher]

My lad came running out of his bedroom yesterday complaining about a daddy long legs. In i go, telling him not to be daft etc looking around the ceiling for this bug of doom.

Anyway, eventually i give up looking at the ceiling and see that what he was actually referring to was the mother of all spiders on the carpet. Wow, must have been the size of a saucer - god knows how i missed it going in his room.

I did try to evict it humanely, but unfortunately it put up a bit of a fight.....It lost

[Einion Yrth]

These are all just Teganaria, quite charming and utterly harmless, leave the poor buggers alone.

[Oakey]

Don't they get their ass handed to them by these guys?

[dci]

Einion Yrth said:

These are all just Teganaria, quite charming and utterly harmless, leave the poor buggers alone.

He came to no harm, I got the tool I wanted and left. He wasn't there when I went back so I'm guessing he carried on his journey after the light went out.

[dci]

Oakey said:

Don't they get their ass handed to them by these guys?

Daddy long legs..

I once released a daddy long legs onto the web of house spider. The house spider legged back into his hiding hole followed by the daddy long legs. I'm assuming it didn't end well for the house spider.