Can anybody identify this critter?

OP seen that before – very familiar to me! It’s my mate Graham. He’s a good lad but sometimes a bit easily led – which can cause a bit of bother.

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Very thoughtful of God to put a skull emblem on the abdomen.

And most people here scoff at the ‘rightness’ and truth of Intelligent Design. I rest my case!

The one in the white bowl is Bruennichi’s Argiope.

Linky

List of biting spiders from Natural History Museum Website

I red backs in my garage during the summer, luckily they hang around by the garage doors and nowhere else.

OP….you need to send that critter back to Klendathu!!

judging by the irrational fear and panic in some replies it must be a 29er…

I found another one tonight, this one was only a baby…

OH MY GOD IT’S HAVING BABIES!!!??

Leave, now – don’t look back.

OP, it looks like a really, really filthy carpet.
Your bedroom you say? Makes me shudder.

It’s the space between the bedroom and the landing – but fear not jkomo, the reason it looks scruffy is because I’ve taken the carpet up to fix the floorboards underneath in preparation for NEW carpet (we’ve just moved in you see). But thanks for your professional flooring appraisal!

Phew, thanks for the update.

We have loads of False widows here in Worthing on the south coast.

They can bite and my Mrs has been twice but she hardly reacted at all, a tiny bit pf swelling but nothing major, I have gently handled them but normally move the ones that are inside with some paper, they are not overly aggressive and don’t want to waste their venom.

A work colleague’s father was bittern and he reacted badly and had to go to hospital but that is no really any different to the fact some people react badly to wasp stings etc.

Leave them be and you will be fine, wasps on the other hand need torturing before death as are evil sadistic sting happy monster !!!

Fresian?

No on one – it looks quite warm actually

Another critter identification request please.
Came home just now to this whopper of a moth (it looks bigger in real life, I promise 😳 ) on the wall.

When it flew off there was a flash of red on the covered wing parts.

Any ideas?

After extensive research (30 seconds running it through UK Moths database) I’m going to go for a Mottled Beauty
http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=48

You can try your luck here: http://ukmoths.org.uk/keywordsearch.php

Oh. Em. Gee.

Found a regular house spider in the bathroom last night – large brute. Went to get something in a girly attempt to kill it, came back, it had gone. I have a proper fear of spiders and didn’t sleep much last night.

Kill them. Kill them with fire.

it had gone

Not gone, lurking.

hth.

http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?bf=2452

It’s attracted to dirty fingernails. 😉

Actually, I had a Looper Moth lay it’s eggs in my bathroom last week – came in to fine 1000 hair-fine caterpillars – I was reluctant to use Henry on them, but I had no idea what they’d eat anyway so up they went.