Help - Please Identify Spider

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Hello,

We’re currently renovating our house and have had a problem with something biting us in bed whilst we sleep at night. Each bite has become horribly infected and required antibiotics.

I found this dead spider under our bed tonight and wonder if he might have been the culprit...?

The spider is slightly shrivelled, but has amber legs and a brown abdomen (with off-white/grey markings).

Is anyone able to identify it?

Thank you.

Which country do you live in?

A common household teganarea spider like that doesn't bite humans. The UK has no significantly dangerous spiders, there are only three that ever bite people and they cause less damage than mosquitos.

Has your GP not followed up on these antibiotics-requiring insect bites? That's dereliction of duty. You may well have bedbugs of some sort, which are an arse to sort out.

One of my ddogs got the proper agg for a fly that went by at the same time.e it got bitten by a spider like that. It happened twice in quick succession and I could see the ddog had associated a fly with the pain of the spider bite and she went loopy at the fly until she's caught and killed it.

She had two really nasty bites (I killed the spider). One was less so than the other, but lost fur around the bite and it was clearly a nasty bite, it didnt get infected though.

I am no nearer knowing what spider it was though. Be interested to see if anyone can identify it as a biting spider, although your pic needs to be a lot closer and in good light.

Spoon what do you mean by dereliction of duty how is GP supposed to follow up

I've know people need ABs for mozzy bites, and tick bites

Thanks for your replies so far.

We initially saw a doctor in the out-of-hours clinic and, afterwards, I also went to see my GP. They have described the bites as “non-specific spider bites”.

They have a puncture mark in the centre and do not look like bed bug bites.

We’re in the UK (Cambridgeshire).

@Spoon No, no follow up.

I went to see my GP, at a later point, because one of my bites was still furiously itchy and red.

He felt that I was experiencing some sort of allergic reaction to the bite.

@Smother I agree that the pictures need to be closer... but, even though the spider’s dead, it’s the closest I dared to get!

I hoped that someone might be able to recognise the amber legs?

All that can be seen is some legs though. The spider is dead, so go find your big girl knickers

Spider pic warning!!

This is the false window spider,that bites.

www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/september-spider-season-dangerous-widow-15050507

I thought perhaps Lace Web?

Just realised my text auto.changed itself to window for some bizarre reason when widow is a perfectly reasonable word! And the word I actually typed.

Looks like common house spider britishspiders.org.uk/wiki2015/index.php?title=Tegenaria_spp.

They are harmless and very rarely bite

The only time people tend to react to spider bites in UK (as we have no spiders that are dangerous) is if you happen to be allergic. I'd be very surprised though if your bites were from a house spider. Do you have any pets?

Just to reiterate a nasty painful and reactive bite is possible and does happen, but I think repeated biting would not be spiders. It's rare to be bitten by spiders in the UK.