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What the fuck made this bastard

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WhatcreaturemaderthishHellWEB · 07/08/2023 10:04

What on earth made this??

What the fuck made this bastard
What the fuck made this bastard
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ArmWrestlingWithChasNDave · 07/08/2023 13:44

It's tiny. Grow up and stop thinking your "OMG SPIDERRRS" rubbish is cute.

tt9 · 07/08/2023 13:44

dalek. obviously

ArmWrestlingWithChasNDave · 07/08/2023 13:52

P.S. I was bitten by a false widow. It itched mildly for about a day.

Museya15 · 07/08/2023 13:52

VegetablesFightingToReclaimTheAubergieneEmoji · 07/08/2023 13:30

the wildlife trusts and field study centres do some incredible courses on them. I truly recommend them.

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Thank you, I will look into this as I love spiders!!!

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 07/08/2023 13:57

I have arachnophobia, and I'd also be consciously 'aware' that that was there and want to know what's in it. I wouldn't hurt it, or move it, or wish it harm, but I'd want to know as that would hopefully be less scary than imagining. I've looked into spiders in the UK quite a lot in an attempt to rationalise the fear away but it hasn't worked.

It definitely looks like the sort that hides in its little (large) hole and jumps out on anything that walks nearby. They tend to make very big webs sometimes I've noticed, I suppose it extends their 'hunting ground'.

We had a really clever one in the garage once who got absolutely massive, as she figured out to make her web around the light bulb and of course the bugs just threw themselves into the web with gay abandonand she'd leap out and grab them. Spider deliveroo. It was fascinating and alarming in equal measure!

Spiders here are removed by DP (as I can't get close enough to do the glass thing) and put outside in summer or into the garage when it's cold as only DP goes in there and he doesn't mind them at all.

I'm designated snake / slow worm / lizard / frog / toad remover. You'd be surprised how often they've found their way into our various houses over the years! In one house we'd get loads of baby toads every year inside the house, never found out in 10 years where they were getting in. Incredibly cute.

Iwantcakeeveryday · 07/08/2023 14:01

RudsyFarmer · 07/08/2023 12:27

I hope you’re right but we’re in the countryside in a wildlife garden and even the countryside we holidayed in this year was devoid of much insect life too. Find it unnerving.

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oh that is unnerving. I am in the countryside too, we have quite a wild crazy property and near to a forest. We are absolutely noticing more insects this year. So many bees! We keep water sources out for the bees, trays and things with stones in them for the bees to perch on as they drink. I always see bees around them. I do know that in general, we have way less variety of bees in England, especially bumble bees, so I am always happy when there are plenty around.

2PintsOfCidernaBagofCrisps · 07/08/2023 14:04

Only on MN are people -hypothetically- happy to have sizeable spiders nests right at their bedroom window 🙄

Phone the exterminator, OP and get an expert opinion on what it is and whether it's a potential problem. Deal with it as instructed by an expert as opposed to a forum of faux eco-warriors.

All creatures have a right to live their life but it doesn't mean you want it on your house. How many people are attacked every day when the seagulls start nesting on their chimneys?! They have a right to live their life and raise offspring but jeezo, I'd really rather it didn't happen on my house and I get divebombed every time I need some milk. Some animals are just a bloody nuisance. You are also entitled to enjoyment of your own home, without worrying about potential spider infestations!

Iwantcakeeveryday · 07/08/2023 14:04

I'm designated snake / slow worm / lizard / frog / toad remover. You'd be surprised how often they've found their way into our various houses over the years! In one house we'd get loads of baby toads every year inside the house, never found out in 10 years where they were getting in. Incredibly cute.

Oh god, that would freak me out! I hate all of those things near me! We have a lot of toads in the garden, the cat got covered in the venom one day!

Stravaig · 07/08/2023 14:22

This seems to be one of those weird visual illusions. I see a tiny wee wasp nest. Yet half the thread see a huge spider web. 🤷‍♀️🤣

SwishSwishBisch · 07/08/2023 14:27

Looks like the beginnings of a wasp nest to me. If there’s no activity it’s been abandoned

Diyextension · 07/08/2023 14:42

tape your phone to long pole /stick and press record and see whats inside it.

if theres no birds going in or wasps then its neither of them ………..if its a spider id knock it off and be done with it ……. It can go and live somewhere else.👍

Largeslice · 07/08/2023 14:51

If it was wasps you'd see loads flying around the hole. We don't have trapdoor or funnel web spiders here so not a spider.

Birds would be my guess

Stressedafff · 07/08/2023 14:52

2PintsOfCidernaBagofCrisps · 07/08/2023 14:04

Only on MN are people -hypothetically- happy to have sizeable spiders nests right at their bedroom window 🙄

Phone the exterminator, OP and get an expert opinion on what it is and whether it's a potential problem. Deal with it as instructed by an expert as opposed to a forum of faux eco-warriors.

All creatures have a right to live their life but it doesn't mean you want it on your house. How many people are attacked every day when the seagulls start nesting on their chimneys?! They have a right to live their life and raise offspring but jeezo, I'd really rather it didn't happen on my house and I get divebombed every time I need some milk. Some animals are just a bloody nuisance. You are also entitled to enjoyment of your own home, without worrying about potential spider infestations!

And no one can dare have arachnophobia!

YetAnotherSpartacus · 07/08/2023 14:52

tape your phone to long pole /stick and press record and see whats inside it

Get ready in case it runs down your arm!

Willmafrockfit · 07/08/2023 14:57

get someone with a drone to have look inside?

Hollyppp · 07/08/2023 14:57

Just leave it alone

Emotionalsupportviper · 07/08/2023 15:16

It's not wasps.

Wasp nests are like those paper lampshades you used to be able to get.

Ovoconfused · 07/08/2023 15:19

Just showed roofer, he said spider

Agapornis · 07/08/2023 15:21

The annual false widow madness has begun, then Hmm do you write for the Daily Mail? Usually they wait with these reports until the summer holidays are over.
Pray do tell where you've seen this research that says scientists are looking at the fact speculation they are more venomous than previously. And how would you define dangerously venomous? Would you say mosquitoes are venomous? Because they can cause bumps that get infected, itch for several days, etc. Yet would you post on MN that you've seen a mosquito outside?

(can I recommend that people seek medical advice if a bump goes green...)

Also, it's not a breed, it's multiple species. I'm glad so many others are also quoting Natural History Museum articles. Y'know, data. Facts.

We've not even established whether it's a spider.

VegetablesFightingToReclaimTheAubergieneEmoji · 07/08/2023 15:45

2PintsOfCidernaBagofCrisps · 07/08/2023 14:04

Only on MN are people -hypothetically- happy to have sizeable spiders nests right at their bedroom window 🙄

Phone the exterminator, OP and get an expert opinion on what it is and whether it's a potential problem. Deal with it as instructed by an expert as opposed to a forum of faux eco-warriors.

All creatures have a right to live their life but it doesn't mean you want it on your house. How many people are attacked every day when the seagulls start nesting on their chimneys?! They have a right to live their life and raise offspring but jeezo, I'd really rather it didn't happen on my house and I get divebombed every time I need some milk. Some animals are just a bloody nuisance. You are also entitled to enjoyment of your own home, without worrying about potential spider infestations!

ive got a wasps nest at the front of my house and one at the back of my house. They are doing no harm so I’ve left them, they will be gone soon.

my garden is my garden, but it’s their home. DH is allergic so I just deal with anything near the nests.

JusthereforXmas · 07/08/2023 16:02

Largeslice · 07/08/2023 14:51

If it was wasps you'd see loads flying around the hole. We don't have trapdoor or funnel web spiders here so not a spider.

Birds would be my guess

Funnel webs are a common British spider lol.

JusthereforXmas · 07/08/2023 16:02

JusthereforXmas · 07/08/2023 16:02

Funnel webs are a common British spider lol.

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In fact common throughout the world.

StagnantBogOfDespair · 07/08/2023 16:02

WhatcreaturemaderthishHellWEB · 07/08/2023 13:17

@Tabitha005 @StagnantBogOfDespair

I can assure you both that my garden is a wonderful habitat for an enormous amount of insects and wild life. It has a very wide variety of plants and flowers and shrubs, Far more space than my neighbors gardens. My garden is an oasis die them

The two see not mutually exclusive.
I have an extremely large unusual spiders web right by my window and i am nervous.

Get some adhesive velcro tape, hook side only, it can be purchased in different amounts, and some fine mesh or a fine mesh net curtain. Put the velcro round the window frame/s, cut the mesh or net curtain to fit. You will be able to open the windows with no fear of any creature getting in. Nothing needs to be destroyed.

I spent a season with a wasp nest above my bedroom window. Once I realised where they were coming from I did what I described above. No more came in and I still use the velcro and netting as it also stops flies, moths etc. and reduces the amount of creatures I need to catch carefully and release.

I won't kill any creature, they all have a right to life. I will prevent them for coming into my home though, they don't have a right to that.

AlmostTotallyFake · 07/08/2023 16:57

We have spiders the size of small mice running around our house! Even the cats don't go near them 😆
So far the plan to leave them alone to live their life hasn't resulted in any fatalities in my family so we will continue to live alongside them quite happily.
I agree with another poster...a lot of (women) screeching over a harmless creature isn't cute, it's sad. Most of them have learned it from their mothers and so it continues.
Shockingly enough, my children didn't see me flapping every time I saw a spider so they don't even register them either.

GoldenKiwi · 07/08/2023 17:39

Yep we have funnel web spiders living in the brick wall that goes round our garden. I see the webs but rarely see the spiders. But my god they are huge.

I think they're fine as long as you leave them alone, they are venomous I think - comparable to a wasps sting if I remember correctly