Just caught a false widow spider

[Teaandcrisps]

FREAkING OUT
What shall I do with it

I call them inkies as in inky spinky

Put it outside 🙄

Knitted - there had to be one 'won't someone think of the children ...!'

Why would anyone facilitate them breeding and take it to Woods! Where child climbing tree or something could get bitten it's a no brainer kill the bloody thing.

Because the likelihood of it biting a child is very remote and the likelihood of that child having an allergic reaction, is even more remote.

Do you also kill bees, wasps and anything else that stings and bites 'just in case'?

Non hysterical, factual link from the Natural History Museum Here

We don’t have these here but it doesn’t sound deadly, just a potential nuisance. Stick it outside.

The people I who ended up very ill didn't have allergic reaction they had v nasty bites..
One very fit, gym pumping actor nealry lost his whole arm.
Another lady ended up on iv drip. Another lady doused in anti biotic and on crutches.
. Apparently docs said they don't can't say which spider but they see lots of these bites and that UK has nasty spiders now

They are non native, we don't need them.

Yes! Because I cannot fathom why anyone would let it go, but then I do have many people around me who have been hospitalised with nasty bites.

That doesn’t look like a false widow to me...

Unless you want to look like this just stand on it 🤣

My house is full of them, and the long legged ones and those big house spiders.

Normally they hide in drawers and always run the fuck away from me if I get near them and I used to HATE spiders as a youth.

Very handy for keeping down the moth problem I had (where even fumigation didn't work!)

Not been bitten by a spider yet touches wood but Mozzies on the other hand lead to infected bites with me as I have a horrible reaction to them.

How did they get ill then if they weren't allergic to the venom? Unless they didn't keep the bite clean perhaps.

Either way, it's still very unusual and yes we do need them, native or not.

Loads in my house too. Generally live in peaceful harmony

What's all this Russia nonsense? Don't dump your insects there.
I visited family there last year and there was a plague of midges. Seriously A PLAGUE. Don't google it.

Are people talking about NORMAL house spiders that they have or False widows! In their home?

I'd love to see some hospital staff comment because the different people I know who have been bitten, docs seem very matter of fact that spider bites can be very nasty now.

The bite itself.

Worra. No, we don't need them at all.

I also think the people who went through actual medical procedures would know if they had been told its allergic.

Schools are shut down if they suspect they have them. Are schools shutdown over finding wasps nest!

False widows are normal household spiders! They are really no big deal. Stop being so catastrophic.

@CodenameVillanelle have you been bit by one?

I've just had to pick two out of my poppy seed bag, I did get a little stick to them. I would try and NOT handle them but beyond that I wouldn't worry about the blighters

Also ANY spider bite can cause serious issues if you are allergic to them.

Mr BC once got stung on the arse by a scorpion in Arizona whilst on holiday, didn't faze him at all, he just had what looked like a bite mark on his bum. (it crawled up his cargo pants when there were walking in the desert!!!!)

His mates however (from there) thought his whole arsecheek should have fallen off as the scorpion that committed the deed was a nasty fucker.

Knittedjimmychoos

Do you really know "many" people who have been hospitalised from bites? Spider bites? In the UK?

How many?

Its anon native invasive species its threatened to our species you should kill it and protect our native spiders

(And I'm aracnaphobic)

We had an outbreak in our local village shop and 12 people were hospitalised. Two will never talk again and not one of them will now leave their houses. The shop was fumigated with formaldehyde, but the spiders survived, so the military came and blew it up. The owners now live beside the rubble and refuse to believe the spiders were killed in the explosions. They're regularly seen searching for traces of the aforementioned arachnids and cannot be reasoned with.

These things destroy lives, communities and the economy.

Knittedjimmychoos seriously, just do a bit of proper research or you could try reading the link upthread from the NHM.

It might put things into perspective for you.

ineedaknittedhat - blown up by the military?? That all sounds so incredibly unlikely. That must have been big news story. Do you have a link?