What spider is this

[WPA]

Replacing the gate handle and this dropped onto my hand, flicked it onto the gravel but nasty looking thing.

[dudleybloke]

Google says its Segestria florentina.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segestria_florenti...

[Boosted LS1]

I think those have quite large fangs because they eat woodlice iirc.

[UTH]

What the actual fk?!! Those live in England????
My life will forever be worse from this moment. Fml.

[rallye101]

Horrible things....had my 2nd suspected fase widow bite last weekend, think it got me in bed, blood running off....felt rough for 24hr

[Crook]

Boosted LS1 said:

I think those have quite large fangs because they eat woodlice iirc.

I think they're the red ones, the black ones are likely to be one of these I think:
Black Lace Weaver



Woodlouse spiders are quite distinctive because of their fangs https://spideridentifications.com/woodlouse-spider...

[Silvanus]

dudleybloke said:

Google says its Segestria florentina.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segestria_florenti...

Certainly looks like green fanged tube web, would love to see one. Don't seem to have seen as many spiders around this year, although saw a fantastic raft spider on a local mire.

[Boosted LS1]

Crook said:

Boosted LS1 said:

I think those have quite large fangs because they eat woodlice iirc.

I think they're the red ones, the black ones are likely to be one of these I think:
Black Lace Weaver



Woodlouse spiders are quite distinctive because of their fangs https://spideridentifications.com/woodlouse-spider...

Yes, those are the ones. I remember seeing one a few years ago and making a point never to pick one up :-) just look at those fangs! Thanks.

[Simpo Two]

I found one like that yesterday on the kitchen floor; it was partly tangled up in some cobweb and quite stuck. I got two pairs of tweezers, pulled the stuff off its legs, then put it outside to start a new life.

[nute]

I stayed in a hotel near Hereford a couple of weeks ago, as I was about to climb into bed a spider the size of a Shetland pony trotted across the floor and disappeared under the bed. I debated pulling out the bed to evict it, but couldn’t find a chair and lion tamers whip to wrangle it out into the corridor and hopefully under someone else’s door, and the bed turned out to be not easily movable and the gap under it was only 30 - 40mm or so.

Thought briefly about going outside to sleep in my car, but then just went to bed and had a st nights sleep. Half expected to wake up to find a dirty cup and saucer by the kettle in the morning and the pack of hotel biccies eaten, but it evidently didn’t get peckish in the night and stayed under the bed.