Do you like my spider?

Needs some scale.

As long as it stays in your garden, and not mine, I think it's great.

Needs some scale.

See that stuff that looks like grass - it's actually logs and branches.

Apparently it is more likely to be the giant house spider than the hobo spider:

"It is a resident of fields, avoiding human habitations occupied by major competitors, particularly the giant house spider (Eratigena atrica), which is a common resident of houses and other man-made structures in Europe. As a result, human contacts with the hobo spider are uncommon in Europe"

And to be fair its markings do look like those of the giant house spider.

Very impressive whatever though.

The one living in my garage has some tasty fangs

Got a few of those house spiders (I call them wolf spiders) running around my house, occasionally see them scurrying about but I generally leave them alone unless I wake up and find they’ve been running over the bed and attempting to cocoon me, that’s when I remove them and place them in the back kitchen.

removed a false widow with many babies attached to it from my daughters bedroom last night.

Well, my wife removed it. Cos F going near it, it would probably eat me.

I follow a page on FB which is a spider identification group. Pretty amazing some of the critters we have in this country that get posted on there. I think this one in the pic is a GHS as ernie said

Got a few of those floaty, almost made of nothing but big spiders in the loo at work. They just sit there in the same place, week on week, never doing anything.
Must be well boring.

Must be well boring.

Why do you think they knit?

My house is full of those leggy ones, they don't bother me so I leave them. It's the chubby ones I don't like.

Must be well boring.

Why do you think they knit?

😂

Apparently it is more likely to be the giant house spider than the hobo spider:

I Google lensed it & Hobo came up straight away. The markings are similar to a Giant House spider but after further research it seems like Hobo’s live in basements & the like, whereas this one’s a shed dweller, so it probably is a GHS. Except, there’s also what I call a Cardinal Spider in the shed, lurking & ready to pounce, but I’m not sure if it’s also called a Giant House Spider, & it’s bigger than ^^ with longer legs.
Maybe ^^ is just a yoof?

Love a good house spider fast little buggers.
My spider is still chilling by the bleach bottle in the shed.

Got a few of those floaty, almost made of nothing but big spiders in the loo at work. They just sit there in the same place, week on week, never doing anything.
Must be well boring.

These'll be cellar spiders probably, they make the raggy cobwebs in the corners of the ceiling. I believe they eat other spiders.

I like the big beautiful garden spiders that make proper webs. Amazing to watch one building it.

Also the zebra jumping spiders are awesome.

Dunno why they give me the creeps a bit. Love watching spiders, fascinating things, but would never let one walk on me! Aargh
(except the jumping ones. They're fun)

Rather large type went scooting across the room about a week ago.

Lets just say he didn't make it to the other side.. I have a fear of spiders, I feel totally justified in my actions.

Not like its a squirrel.

If a grey squirrel ran across my floor I’d squish it

There's a big house spider in my bathroom. All it does is sit on the floor beside the sink. It's always there, has been for weeks. I thought it must be dead, so I poked it and it ran away, but next time I went in it was there again. What's it doing? How is it not dead? What does it eat?

It's a scout,waiting and gathering data for the Spider Wars 😉

What does it eat?

Much smaller things that also live in your bathroom.

Clean your bathroom!

That will remove the spider buffet and eventually the spider will leave.

Call that a spider?

Heard screams and pleading for assistance coming from the annex at the weekend where Mrs S had apparently disturbed a spider when moving a dust sheet. I swaggered over'Stand back, sweetheart, I'll deal with this". My nonchalence was short lived. Sweet baby jesus, it was like someone had glued two whippets together. Needed a cereal bowl to cover it*.

*may contain exaggeration

This was a proper spider from our hols a few weeks ago! Complete beast

Got a few of those floaty, almost made of nothing but big spiders in the loo at work

Cellar Spiders - our house is full of them and their invisible webs. Their young are almost impossibly slender - you can hardly see them. Really like them - they’re so elegant. Although they don’t look remotely capable of it the kill and eat house spiders.