WTAF?! Trigger warning: spider pic

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DH just found this in our bathtub It's seriously huge! Sudocrem tub for scale - small tub, but the spider is huge nonetheless!

Hate to inform you we are in the Midlands, not Australia...

Any idea what type of spider this is???

Aranea enormica gigantica teribleroso runawayfastio scorchio bathroomia con flammo.

I think.

Giant house spider. It’s that time of the year again. Currently have my 12yr old ds cowering in my room as one is in his.

One way to get him off his computer

That's your average house spider, nothing to worry about. Pop a glass over the top of him and a piece of paper underneath, open the back door and let him go.

We get loads of these. They're not harmful, just pop it outside.

A massive one just ran under my bed about 10 mins ago and seems to have disappeared. Do house spiders bite???

I have killed a few today (not that big). How do we get spiders to leave (and never come back)? I really really hate them and they seem to be everywhere. I hear they don’t like lavender and all sorts of essential oils...

Horrible to kill them, why do that?

gonnabreak I'm not usually a colossal knobhead I assure you but was killing them absolutely necessary?? Did they threaten you with violence or robbery? Poor spiders :(

It was released into the garden before the cat spotted it.
It's not an average house spider - or at least not in our house! Its legs were about a mm thick and it had an 'articulated' body if that makes sense. Never seen one this big in the UK before - even the ones in Oz were generally smaller!

It's a house spider, nothing more nothing less, they are harmless. gonnabreakmyrustycage you are an arse hole, why would you kill a Spider?

So unnecessary to kill them. Ffs.

Conkers! Put them around the perimeter of a room, spiders hate them for some reason

That is what a normal house spider looks like, have you not seen them before? They are around aug/sept for mating.

Putting them outside is a slow death for them just whack them and get it over with

Killing spiders is really horrid. I leave them be to eat all the flies that I DO want dead.

You need spider homes. As pp said, outside is a death sentence for them. I have a couple of cupboards or nooks where all spiders get rehomed out of the way.

Putting them outside is a slow death for them just whack them and get it over with

Why would you do that though? What is the point or need to killing a spider?

Tegenaria domestica

DH has this one run across his face the other day, it was the size of my palm!

Can't believe you've never seen a house spider op. It's not even a particularly huge one if that's only a small tub of sudocrem!

And as to killing them

House spider is the breed name. We’ve had a couple of absolute belters, and I am fucking terrified.

Yes I’m aware it’s irrational, yes I’m aware I’m a massive pussy, and no, I can’t control a physical reaction as part of a phobia.

TitsalinaBumSquash holy shit! His face? Nope. Nope, nope. I’d have been in bits.

You best get a cat. My cats are indoors so spiders are the biggest catch they'll ever get. They usually spot them before us and pounce.

I used to be terrified of spiders and I'm still little scared, but I started learning about them. I think the BBC had a doc on them that was really interesting. They're quite amazing creatures. I leave them be because they're fantastic pest controllers. No need to kill them, they're not interested in harming humans, just trying to live their best spider lives.

They might not be pretty but who am I to kill based on looks.