[Closed] arachnidtrackworld - what's this frightful beastie?

That's a shame. Was there anything in the shed of value?

Black Cobweb Spider.

Cupboard spiders are a type of false widow

they chased you out?

they chased you out?

Yes. They assembled in an attack formation and ran at me waving baseball bats.*

*No, not really.

Yes. They assembled in an attack formation and ran at me waving baseball bats.*

*No, not really.

Eight baseball bats per spider would have been pretty intimidating...

Eight baseball bats per spider would have been pretty intimidating…

I thought the largest number of baseball bats a spider could weild whilst running was 6?

If they had eight baseball bats each, I'd feel safer. They wouldn't be able to chase you without dropping at least some of them.

Damn! Beaten by seconds

They don’t look very false to me. Can you get them to roll over? So you can see the red hourglass on their belly?

That second to last looks like it has a gorilla's face on its back. Kong Spider?

@dangeourbrian brilliant 🙂

One is more realistic though. Otherwise it wouldn't be able to scuttle.

Can you get them to roll over?

Yes, tickle them.

Wasn't that in Lord of the Rings!?!

Shelob?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatoda_capensis

Don't worry though op.

I give you a wandering spider (which rather than wandering very far was hiding behind the light switch.) Fortunately of course you don't grope round blindly in the dark for the light switch in such a way that it's likely to upset the antisocial and markedly unpleasant to be bitten by local fauna that's taken up residence.

I think esselgruntfuttock has it.

Now, should I burn them with fire or nuke the entire garage from orbit?

You joke, but spiders can wield baseball bats. There's even a song about it...

Do you actually live in S Africa, NZ or Australia?

esselgruntfuttock - Free Member https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatoda_capensis/blockquote >

what esselgruntfuttock said if you're in South Africa, NZ or Australasia.

If you're in the UK, more likely to be its little brothers and sisters - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatoda_grossa - maybe?

 

See if you can get bitten - you might wake up with spidey powers?*

*results not guaranteed

We get shed loads (literally) of these in Bristol. Scary buggers.

Bodkins rabid eye-gouger

How much petrol have you got?

Please tell me those little horrors are somewhere other than in the UK?
Bad enough with S.Nobilis, we don’t want any more toxic spiders, especially ones that look exactly like a Black Widow! 😱

Please tell me those little horrors are somewhere other than in the UK?

Nope. And when they sense fear they tend to swarm. And grow. And get more toxic and cross.

It looks like you left an old jar of olives in the garage and over time they’ve evolved.

I'm in the UK (S. Wales) and so are the spiders.
So more likely to be Steatoda grossa then, as Pyro suggests.

Whatever they are they are 'orrible.

Yer can keep em.

Oh, crap.
Still, could be worse, could be Brown Recluse Spiders...

Just big common house spiders in my garage. No shiny black deaths.

I haven't seen any common house spiders in my garage for ages. Maybe the Shiny Black Olive Death Kong Spiders have eaten them?

I mean I get massive spiders that swear i can hear running across the hall i use the old pint glass trick as i

A. Really don't like spiders

B. Don't mind them existing.

But those black things. They're getting the shoe from across the room.

don't kill spiders - they eat all sorts of really nasty beasts. I had one living in the corner of my living room as a pet.

Spiders get a bad press.

I don't kill spiders. I have to save them from my other half.

But i'm killing any of those mother****ers if they come at me.

Tjagain +1

Beautiful creatures spiders. We haven't had a good "here's some beautiful but insanely venomous creature I deliberately help live in a box in my house" thread for ages.

@garage-dweller are you knitting, tying a fly and changing channel on the TV at the the same time as posting by any chance?

Crap, I've not seen any recently too..... (house spiders)....

Wait until you see a proper spider if those bother you... 🙂

(ex resident Africa and Australia)

I dove between my partner and a spider this summer, just saving it from a shoe. He (my partner, I don’t know if it was a boy spider) thought I was completely mad and couldn’t understand why I wasn’t taking every step to kill it. Disbelief turned to horror as I scooped it up with glass and paper. Apparently when I live in Utah I will have to learn to kill spiders because you can’t tell the really deadly ones from the harmless ones. I’m still not convinced I can learn to deal with the crunching, but those ones you have make me think maybe I could learn. But please don’t send me any to practice on.

You sure it was a garage and not a dressing room?

spider in my Dressing room

joshvegas
Free Member

Was there anything in the shed of value?

At least 40p worth of spiders

So whilst the hive spider expertise is assembled...
Are there specific breeds of spiders that like wing mirrors?
Can I humanely transplant one I think of as my pet when I change car? (I assume its a series of spiders but I'm quite attached to the thing)

Oh, crap.
Still, could be worse, could be Brown Recluse Spiders…

I got bitten by one of those* buggers in CO on a camping trip. I was actually worried I'd lose my arm. I ended up with a big scab covered ulcerative hole full of puss that when you drained it was big enough for your thumb** and went clear down to the bone. Took about 10 years for the scar to vanish.

*like most spider bites I had no idea what it was at the time so it may have been something completely different. First I knew was just two tiny red dots that then went really manky over the course of a few weeks.
**i didn't fill it with my thumb, it was about half a tube of Iirc fluclox several times a day.

@joshvegas -

...i use the old pint glass trick..

What about those that don't fit under the glass?

I agree with your points A and B but with all that ceiling space available why do they have to stand directly above my face when i'm trying to go to sleep?

Just big common house spiders in my garage.

I had one I called Shelob (I know, imaginative eh?) guarding the garage door for me, but I literally only see her once or twice a year, are they nocturnal or do they just hibernate a lot?

@13thfloormonk - Gavin gaurds the electricty meter with a web set in front of the LCD display. When I go to get a reading I have to move him/ her out of the way due to a thorax and abdomen each big enough to block a digit.

@bsims be careful how long you let this go on for incase gavin gets a bit big.

Send them to Singletrack Towers for a full, informed review

I thought the largest number of baseball bats a spider could weild whilst running was 6?

I've been owned there!

👏

Apparently when I live in Utah I will have to learn to kill spiders because you can’t tell the really deadly ones from the harmless ones.

According to popular perception, that's what the Americans think about their neighbours as well.

@dangeourbrain - if Gavin gets that big I will have to leave Octopus and let the smart meter guy worry about it!