WTF spider - is it dead or “resting”

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… or getting ready to take me out

i realise now I have seen two others like this which I assumed were dead…

this fella was not there yesterday because I hoovered the ceiling!!!!

For context, at a normal distance

or is this how spiders sleep??

I’m not afraid of spiders but I don’t like this one!

He's sleeping

It's having babies. That is their birthing position 😂

Just a spider. Leave him be.

It's just resting. Just leave it and it'll sort itself out.

I had this to contend with the other day. It's a false widow in my gazebo.

Indeed. But cue faux-hysterical cries of “burn the house down!! move!! There’s no other option!” which aren’t funny

He is in the process of metamorphosing into a much, much bigger spider 🕷️

Aw, please done kill spuders. They're good guys. Very ugly but good. They kill all the bad things in your house (not including husbands!) If you must, just put it outside. That way, although it'll come back in, it'll find a better place to hide.

Spuders?! Spiders even! 😅

@BarrowInFurnessRailwayStation

How big was it!

How did you get rid of it?

Don't waste any more time wondering whether he's asleep or not, hoover him up & then nuke the hoover.

A Spider's legs will curl underneath them when they're dead. If they're layed on they're back it means that they're about to moult.

It was a good size. He'd just come out of hibernation, hence his legs looking a bit wonky. I just left him alone and he went somewhere. I don't kill them.

I keep tarantulas so nothing bothers me when it comes to spiders 😄

That's the Prometheus Prone position. This is how they lay before springing out into an unfurled face-hugging attack mode.

It’s resting. IMO they curl inwards when they die with feet tucked in. Reminds me when I was doing field studies at uni and a very large spider who had fallen into my cup of soapy water ( to trap insects) decided that 24 hours in a cup of water wasn’t enough to die and it jumped up and ran off as soon as I had put my head within a foot of it under a microscope to indentify it, wasn’t actually dead. Now I prod before getting my face close and personal.

^ This

@ShirleyPhallus you’re a barrel of laughs 😂

Oh and of course OP there’s no other option but to burn the house down 😜

Really! I’ve come across a bunch of them in daft places lien this - two plopped out on the floor, one in the fold of a curtain, and this boyo

my sliders don’t usually lay about like this???

I knew it!!!!!

I was having a good gawp and then I remembered Alien and I moved away..: carefully… 😂

Oooh! Now what are they exactly? Off to look them up…

😅 this time of year I feel like I’m the tenant in my own home - I’m living in some flourishing animal / insect ecosystem in an old village house. Even this evening looking out my window I said oh look at that squirrel playing at the end of the garden (100ft garden) neighbour goes nope! that’s a rat! Gaaaah