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was quite a fast little guy. I have never seen one before.

Woodlouse spider?

Woodlouse spider I think

Let it bite you. If it hurts like hell its a wood louse spider.

I wouldn’t worry what it is, unless that’s a palm tree it’s next to 😯

Thanks guys 🙂

Woodlouse spider

Good god that’s like the missing link between spider and tick… #eewwwwww#

I thought that type are a variant of the swamp spider – Dysdera crocata according to a book in front of me at present. Says they’re found wherever there’s a large quantity of woodlice so definitely its ‘street name’.

Can bite but not as painful as a large house spider IME…

We do seem to have a lot of woodlice in the garden. I hope he/she has a few friends.

we get a crazy amount of spiders.
some of them are monsters (by UK standards), I’m always concerned that they’ve escaped from a crate of bananas.
I sent this first one packing because I was worried it might steal my baby. The second one crawled out when I was fumigating the shed to get rid of the millions of spiders that had congregated there.

I get quite a few false widdows in my shed. The amount of dead things they have in their silk is unreal.

When resurfacing my shed roof recently I must have found 10 different spiders all big and mean.

Brakes, if I saw that first one in my house I would have to kill it with fire, then maybe burn down the rest of the house to make sure there were no others.

I wear it’s severed head on a chain round my neck as a warning to other baby-eating spiders.

WCA got bitten by one of those IIRC.