Need help with spider identification please. WARNING: CONTAINS PHOTO

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Can anyone please help me identify this spider? It has taken up residence in our bathroom today - it's alive but not moving much at all (hardly surprising as the bathroom is like a furnace so I want to rescue it if poss). DP keeps telling me it looks dangerous and to squish it but I absolutely don't want to hurt it (unless indeed it does prove to be a nasty little blighter).

I've never had a problem with spiders until I was bitten on the hand by an absolute BEAST of a house spider a few years ago and needed IV antibiotics in hospital so I'm erring on the side of caution.

Anyway, spider (including legs) would be slightly bigger than a 50p coin. It is brown with patterned markings. We are in the UK.

You don’t need to identify, burn your house down and move away.

assuming Your in the U.K. it’s not dangerous. We don’t have dangerous spiders.
even the false widow is only dangerous if your allergic - like bees.

thats not a false widow, I’m not entirely sure what it is as the picture is a bit fuzzy on my phone. But it’s fine. Move it outside. Or leave it to capture any rogue flies enjoying this weather

Sorry just re read and managed to completely miss the bit about your reaction before!
i wouldn’t have been quite so blunt!
can you remember what you were bitten by? Was it black?

Get your self one of those spider grabbers for home.

Yes I would only go near that with my spider catcher

It’s just a garden spider.

Araneus diadematus

My DS 25 looked ar tour photo. He is a spider expert. He says its just a normal house spider. Not dangerous at all. Just get a cup over itand slide a piece of card under the edge of the cup, take outside and let it go. I had one similar on the wall above my bed recently. Picture attached. I ignored it. Didnt see it again.

Number 1 or number 19?

metro.co.uk/2016/09/06/uk-spider-identification-17-common-british-spiders-you-might-find-this-autumn-6110982/

Yes just a garden spider. Harmless.

@Bluebellbike it was above your bed and you ignored it? Omg I would have to remove it before it landed on my face

My garden is full of those at the moment.
They like making webs attached to my washing line or right across the back door at face level!

It’s a garden spider. Put it back outside.

No. It was one of those brown house spiders you tend to find in the house over the cooler months with a very chunky body and thick legs. Except this particular one (which bit me a few years ago) was hiding in a shed I was clearing out. I had gardening gloves on. It was the biggest fucking spider I've ever seen in the UK and I do not EVER wish to encounter another one. And to add insult to injury, the bugger got away unscathed.

I really don't understand why people say we don't have venomous spiders here in the UK. Native ones, no, but some come in from tropical countries in crates of bananas etc and it's not inconceivable to believe some will get into the wild here.

Many years ago, I lived alone with a rabbit and a dog. We were all in the living room one afternoon and some TANK of an insect flew in through the open window. My instinct told me it was dangerous so I got the animals out of the room then went back to kill this creature. I actually took a photo of it before I dispatched it and sent the pic to the Natural History Museum and asked if they could ID it. They were as baffled as I was and they concluded it was definitely not a British insect. It was about an inch long, beetle-like shell body, brown in colour, I think 4 wings, a stinger on the back AND a huge proboscis. I've never seen anything like it before or since and don't want to either. I'll try and find the pic later and will share it on this thread. It's a blurry pic due to the age and the digital camera it was taken on but you can clearly see its different features.

It isn't a house spider, they are bigger, darker and hairier.

We don't see them much as we have a load of those spindly house ones that look like peas with legs that apparently eat the big ones.

Please don't squish it! It could do with going outside though to cool down. Can you pick it up with a cup? I agree with Eatthecake - those stripy legs say garden spider to me. They're completely harmless.

Following - hoping to see flying tank insect photo 😁

Sorry, but I disagree. The spider in your photo and the one in my bathroom are completely different! I'll try and take a better photo of it.

Me too

Thank you. I just Googled that. The Araneus diadematus has a very rounded, chunky body whereas the one in my bathroom has quite a slim body. Do you think that's relevant?

Let me help DP get my hot, grumpy toddler to bed and I'll be right on it. I'm posting on my phone but the tank photo is on my laptop. Laptops and toddlers don't mix...

And me, tank flying insect is just up my street.

I love spiders (and agree that one is harmless) but I an very careful when I look in the banana boxes at Aldi after pulling out a bunch with Aragog's child on it. In fairness Aldi staff were great, popped it in a box and called the spider expert, however the fact they were so competent and knew who call unnerved me further as it evidently wasn't an unusual experience.

I think your one is skinny as it is dehydrated. Have you named it?

Its a European Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus) that has unfortunately - for it - made its way into your house. The body-builder front legs are a bit of an identifier and it'll just want to be back outside, somewhere shady and cool (good luck with that!)

It's not dangerous. If you can gently scoop it into a glass or cup and pop it outside under a hedge or something, it'd appreciate it.

Put it this way, if you don't like spiders then now is your time to earn a few spider karma points. We had a very mild winter, just gone, and are having a warm summer. The house spiders that are going to be coming into your home this autumn will be enormous . . . . . maybe it'll have a word on your behalf if you're kind to it.

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It’s not a false widow. My house was infested with them last year and I now spot them from a mile off. They have very particular long front legs as well as the light coloured marking. I wasn’t an arachniphobe until last year when I had so many and my DSS found one in his bed, but now I have declared chemical warfare against them and spray all entrances/windows/doors every 6 weeks to kill/keep them at bay. I do feel bad but also have seen that they have completely displaced our indigenous species. Of the couple of hundred spiders my spraying killed last summer around my house/shed/garage, only 3 weren’t false widows, there were no other species left.