False widow spider

[RobinBHM]

Has anybody come across these in their home?

Ive come across 2 in the last 6 months, so was interested to know how common they may be.

Im in Sussex area.

I may have mis identified, but the ones Ive found look very much like google images. I cant find a similar looking spider, but maybe a insect expert could advise.

We also have a really large house spider that lives by the freezer in the garage, I leave it be, but SWIMBO isnt too happy

 

[AJB Temple]

I detest spiders. False or not they are soon history around me.

 

[Racers]

Lovely things close up

Garden Cross Spider by Pete Maddex, on Flickr

They where around before the dinosaurs!

Pete

 

[RobinBHM]

The one I saw last night had a white horseshoe shaped marking

 

[Chris152]

Lovely things close up

Garden Cross Spider by Pete Maddex, on Flickr

They where around before the dinosaurs!

Pete

That's a great photo.

 

[bugbear]

That's a great photo.

Agreed. Arachnophobes may differ!

BugBear

 

[RobinBHM]

Yes thats a great photo, very cute n cuddly

 

[Claymore]

One of my mates emigrated down under and after 6 months they were back in the UK, he loved it there but his wife didn't especially after finding a dirty great critter in the shed......their new neighbour pointed out it was a funnel web and not to be tampered with...........their 13yr old son was loving the sun/surf etc until he saw a swimmer bitten by a snake while paddling and later found out the swimmer died 3hrs later.
The place looked lovely but they couldn't settle there thanks to the critters.
That's a lovely photo Pete.
Cheers
Brian
ps although i also do macro photos of spiders etc I have a real phobia of them, last year we went upto Inverness and stayed in a lovely old cottage that was infested with big black hairy spiders everywhere and the final straw was moving the pillows and finding them there ......we came home early lol

 

[AJB Temple]

We travel quite a bit. In Peru I well remember a BIG spider in the shower. We spent a few days in the Amazon (which is not a warehouse as it turns out) the guide showed us where tarantulas hid in burrows. You could gently wrangle them out with a stick. In the camp you would find big spiders lurking beneath handrails and such like. The beds were surrounded by mosquito nets in the jungle and all night long stuff would be dropping down on the canopy and crawling about, eating each other or whatever it is they do. My wife slept. I did not. At all.

There are few insects at the poles. Perfect.

 

[Claymore]

We travel quite a bit. In Peru I well remember a BIG spider in the shower. We spent a few days in the Amazon (which is not a warehouse as it turns out) the guide showed us where tarantulas hid in burrows. You could gently wrangle them out with a stick. In the camp you would find big spiders lurking beneath handrails and such like. The beds were surrounded by mosquito nets in the jungle and all night long stuff would be dropping down on the canopy and crawling about, eating each other or whatever it is they do. My wife slept. I did not. At all.

There are few insects at the poles. Perfect.

Oh god I would have done a runner lol

 

[woodbrains]

Hello,

A spider isn't an insect :lol:

Mike.

 

[RobinBHM]

Hello,

A spider isn't an insect :lol:

Mike.

Arachnids

 

[AJB Temple]

Absence of insects = absence of spiders. It's a food thing.

 

[merlin]

When working on new roofs cutting into existing I have come across quite a few but only in the last 5 or so years.

I don't remember them before that, they tend to like the area behind the fascia board, I work in the Berkshire / Oxfordshire area.

Merlin

 

[monkeybiter]

Well now you've all got your nice big 'orrible photo to remember him by KILL IT! And it's friends,family acquaintances etc.
In fact if you see four blokes standing a bit close to each other do the same, just to be sure.

 

[sunnybob]

I'm firmly in the see a spider kill a spider camp.

Luckily we dont see many here, but theres one little son of a female dog that is almost skin coloured, and JUMPS about 3 foot at a time.
They are small , but they can walk across you while youre sitting on a chair and you can barely see them. And they BITE. If you miss with the first whacker, youre unlikely to get a second chance.
Remember lads, see a spider, kill a spider.

 

[custard]

if you see four blokes standing a bit close to each other do the same

Could be Beatles rather than spiders.

Ho, ho, ho.

 

[sunnybob]

Hah! another one bites the dust!
But this was a biggish blackish one.
Only another 700 billion to go.

 

[Racers]

Its back!

Garden Cross Spider by Pete Maddex, on Flickr

And a friend

DSC_0181 by pete maddex, on Flickr

Pete

 

[sunnybob]

To go off on a slight tangent, we have lots of lizards, geckos and pink crocodiles. A new batch of geckos has just hatched in the back yard. Watching a lizard that is barely 2 inches nose tip to end of tail chase flies and spiders is so cute.

KILL boy, KILL.