Is this a false widow? *image warning*

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Mitzik your story is so sad! I have "pet" spiders in my house too.

False widows are quite safe for most people, a small number of people are allergic (like wasp stings). But they aren't going to pounce on you as you walk past. I too have been bitten when i accidentally picked something up with one on in the garden, it was like a pin prick (not painful, just an ow) and i saw it scuttle off. If my history is right, they've been around since victorian times so nothing to worry about.

ive just been into the attic to check on ours, after posting this....the one spider (only see one) was there when I shone a torch on it, but a moment later had gone....so definitely tends to hide (should also clarify when I said they'd been around for decades I meant in general and he's been coming across them while working over the past few decades, not that they've been living in our attic for decades!)

I get quite a few false widows in my house and loads of babies none of us have been bitten. I just chuck then outside when I see one. Never find any upstairs though

I’ve got a couple of false widows who live in my conservatory. I just hoover up their “leftovers” regularly and leave them to it.

@MitziK

Not a spider but I had Willy the Woodlouse who lived in the bathroom. Used to see him wandering about occasionally, never bothered me, DP never saw him. Mentioned it on NYE and lo and behold, Willy ventures out of the bathroom and DP let the cats get him. Poor Willy was murdered in cold blood and didn't even get to see in the New Year.

@Pushingdaisies, that's worse! At least my DP had the balls to do the murdering himself, rather than hiring small, furry assassins to do his dirty work although my TwatCats are fucking useless and only react to Bumblebees, large moths and house spiders as they can be used in a game of Cat Ping-Pong.