What the fuck made this bastard

[WhatcreaturemaderthishHellWEB]

What on earth made this??

You're still talking nonsense. It's statistically impossible that you know several people who've been badly "effected" by false widow bites. You're making stuff up.

@NeverDropYourMooncup

I take it the name is the reason you're feeling so unpleasant today? Nothing worse than a cold soggy moon cup.

I'm from Australia. Not lived there since I was 8 but spider caution is inbuilt 😂 and stranger things have happened. Plus the op did not actually say what country she was in until several posts in.

Occasionally you do get random exotic animals that you wonder how the hell did that end up here. I did point out that it would be vanishingly rare if it was a funnel web.

Absolutely this. Everything has the right to live.

What in the fresh heck is this. I'm sure we had one on our garage wall a year ago and it was about the size of my partners size 10s. Not seen another one since butbit scared the jeebers out of me in the dim light of our fire pit!!!!

The title to this thread made me burst out laughing, thank you 😂

Best thread title ever and I would also want that alien spawning motherfucker gone from my wall.

Yikes! Like you, I've never really been bothered by spiders, but a friend's daughter was recently hospitalised after a bite which became infected. She then got sepsis and had to have a lot of flesh removed from her hand. I'm not squeamish, but the photographs her Mum showed me were really awful. Even though the worst damage was not necessarily from the initial bite, the whole episode has made me far more wary of them both in and out of the house.

As for this potentially very large foreigner, I cannot imagine that it will survive the Winter out there. I'd definitely want to know what it was and until I did, I would find it hard to leave any windows open. Perhaps you can borrow a trail camera from someone, hang it close to the opening, or raise it on a pole depending on the location/access, and see what it shows. Most of them have a frame that you could attach string to, and are triggered by movement. If it's something 'exotic' you may be able to re-home it with an enthusiast, so everyone's a winner.

I think it's a spider's web. I've seen bigger.

Omggg the best gives me the creeps. Did you find out what it was?

😂 I worked in Fifes when I was at college. We did get a couple but they were promptly evicted. Don't think they'd have made it out of the factory alive.

Why did I open this thread?! Argh!

Yep. I've just googled funnel web spiders as well. Bad life choice

Completely agree with you.
OP it looks like a funnel web spiders nest.

It's a Segestria florentina, or Tube-web spider. Totally sensationalised in some of the tabloids, but actually nearly no threat to people at all.

Everyone needs to fuck off with their "stop being pathetic, I'm too cool to be afraid of anything, you are personally responsible for the destruction of our planet" shit.

Ye would swear some of you never had an illogical fear or stepped on a slug before 🙃

When flying ants came into my house in their thousands, I can promise you those cunts were killed promptly and I make no apology to mother earth for it.

It wouldn’t be staying on my house. You can use insecticides designed for houses. My last house I saw what looked like a false widow shape, but bigger and completely shiny black with a bright red spot on its back/abdomen. I didn’t get a photo, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a nice native U.K. one and under no illusion we don’t get non native U.K. ones. I’ve had bananas with spiders nests/eggs on.

@Teaismymiddlename it is a tube web spider.

OP hasn’t replied since 1736, probably killed by the dweller of the nest.

So give some perspective then, how big do is said web/nest? And how big do you expect a tube web spider web to be?

It looks like a reasonable size for one and is pretty much a textbook tube web?

Oh lord.

What I saw on the wall months ago was absolutely massive think large tarantula.

Apparently it's the Uk biggest spider.

Im thinking of the spiders that sit in the wall...

😂

@ImtheFlag

The webs of what I would call the normal spiders are in wall and maybe 5p piece slightly larger so 20p piece.
. You can set this bastard from low down and it'd huge! Absolutely huge

Omg the devil!!!

As a proud arachnophile, I can confidently say that if that's a spider web, it won't hurt you and you should leave it alone.
Saddens me that people are still trotting out the old "Ewwww a spider kill it with fire" bollocks.
There are no medically significant spiders in the UK.
We need spiders. You don't need to love them, just leave.them.alone.

Any arachnophobes who are interested in facing their fears, head over to Reddit r/spiders and r/spiderbro.

@MadameOvary

But you didn't know or care where the Web is or what spider made it... It's extremely large and this is why I've been shocked to post to see if anyone can identify it.

It's right by my bedroom window and i like my window is open all year around.

I saw something crawling near that a few months ago and it was so so large from a distance I thought it was a bloody bat

This literally could be a dangerous spider!