'Big' Spider - Any ideas what it might be?
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Anyone any idea what kind of spider I have here? I'm sure it may be a more common species, however, I've never seen a common spider as large as this. Found the little critter in a wall cavity while carrying out some home demolition.
She is now safely housed in a nearby hedge to live out the rest of her days.
She is now safely housed in a nearby hedge to live out the rest of her days.
kING HATE SPIDERS!
Wolf spider most likely, anything else and you'd probably be on your back. Especially if it were something of the recluse family. Unhappily, an idiot over the road managed to circumvent import regulations, and got himself a small family of brown recluse spiders to go alongside his Goliath Bird eaters, even more unhappily they got out shortly after multiplying into a rather large collection of recluses, so anything that is similar to brown recluse' in size i no longer take the chance with, then tend to get brushed or pushed aside.
This coming from a man who had a collection of tarantula whilst based in Germany;
1. Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula
2. Mexican Fire Leg Bird Eating Tarantula
3. Mexican Red Knee Tarantula
4. Skeleton Tarantula
5. Baby Goliath Bird Eater.
I saw sense and resold the Goliath before it got too massive and ate me in my sleep!
ETA: They're all getting bigger because of the radiation from Japan....
This coming from a man who had a collection of tarantula whilst based in Germany;
1. Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula
2. Mexican Fire Leg Bird Eating Tarantula
3. Mexican Red Knee Tarantula
4. Skeleton Tarantula
5. Baby Goliath Bird Eater.
I saw sense and resold the Goliath before it got too massive and ate me in my sleep!
ETA: They're all getting bigger because of the radiation from Japan....
It looks like Tegenaria but I get a bit muddled with species. T. domestica perhaps?
They do bite and you will know about it, I have met a couple of people who have been bitten, not as bad as a wasp or anything like that but more like a nettle.
T. agrestis is the one you really don't want to mess with but is restricted to US I believe.
As a side note I found T. duellica in my room as a kid. I caught it and killed it, it was 5 ½ inches from tip to tip, now that was a spider!
They do bite and you will know about it, I have met a couple of people who have been bitten, not as bad as a wasp or anything like that but more like a nettle.
T. agrestis is the one you really don't want to mess with but is restricted to US I believe.
As a side note I found T. duellica in my room as a kid. I caught it and killed it, it was 5 ½ inches from tip to tip, now that was a spider!
...BEHIND YOUWe have just started work on a building site and had our normal site induction, well normal til the guy got out a picture of 'fake' black widow spiders which the site is infested with and the effects of their bite! Everytime you move a piece of kit or poke around in a dark hole, these critters scuttle off, I swear they are staring at me from the walls, waiting to pouce! Not good for someone who had a heart attack after a suspected spider bite, I hasten to add I had a huge reaction to the bite, it wasn't a mega toxic spider, just a common shed residing one!
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