To show you a picture of a spider

[NewDaddie]

Spider season is here and I saw this beauty when I was grabbing a cheeky after work burger. I think it's a cardinal spider but I'm not sure as this one was about 10cm across and the poor thing was terrified so it ran under a door before I could get closer.

I linked the Wikipedia image below too

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/TegenariaparietinaaMHNT.jpg/1200px-TegenariaparietinaaMHNT.jpg

Harmless they may be but I'm phobic. I have tried to cure it but it hasn't worked. Phobias are illogical.

Why oh why did I open this thread. I live in a state of perpetual fear from now until November

Did you try London zoo again poppingoff? They might give you some more help with it.

Nice

I've done the course 3 times!! I've also had hypnosis and CBT.

Keep finding these beauties. Am scared they're false widow spiders. Our house is always full of spiders, I'd say 5 per room easily.

@SpottedGingham @BroomHandledMouser @fancysquillium @Pamplemousse17

I think those are all cardinals too? The Wikipedia image has those dark and light brown segments but I'm not an expert at all. Also wiki says they're 15-17cm but the one I saw was a bit smaller than that unless 15cm is with its legs unnaturally pulled/stretched out.

Yes fekko those tiles are 50cm wide

I used to hate spiders but they're benign little things really.

I have this one living on the wall right outside my back door, I haven't been into the garden for a week!

That is a false widow @DaenerysismyQueen. I have loads in my garden; some come inside

These spider catchers work a treat and don't harm the hairy bastards

I have this and it's friends currently squatting in my house.

I'm terrified of them. DH has to deal with them. If I'm on my own they get hoovered.

@troodiedoo
I missed the notification on your post so this may no longer be relevant but he set up home in the far corner of my living room and was pretty much stationary so didn't cause enough discomfort to my DP for me to remove him. Personally I have no issues with spiders of any size, probably owing to the fact that my mother had a very blasé attitude to spiders in and around the house growing up - "If you have spiders then you don't have flies" "They are more scared of you than you are of them" etc. He has since vacated of his own accord, perhaps the prospect of paying rent scared him off.

@newdaddie
I really wouldn't know enough about the species to say, but it was nowhere near 15cm! I would guess at a 6cm diameter between the furthest extended legs, although it did suit the other characteristics of a cardinal

Fuck me pamplemousse, I think I'd move out.