To love house because of this fucker in my garden (pic)

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I know it’s outside but it could come in couldn’t it?

"ertrand I can assure you that spider phobia affects men as well as women"
I agree.
So this is a threadful of phobics?

Perhaps you could let it hoover the caterpillars off your ocado broccoli?

That’s a chunky one. I am a biologist and can pick them up in the garden but if they come inside I’m afraid not. I don’t like the way the pop up unexpectedly then disappear leaving me wondering where they went. On a plant outside, no problem. In my bath, ok, on my bed no thanks they get evicted ASAP.
I always take them so they are nearer to my neighbours house as I one we put at the end of the garden overtook me running back to house.
As a aside my son with asd has zero fear of spiders. I pointed one out all excitedly and he picked it up. He’s very handy if there is no glass and cardboard to hand

I dont like spiders. I'm not feared I wouldnt say, just don't like them but fuck me. That looks like a bloody tarantula!

Good on your DP for being brave enough to move Incy along.

We live 4 floors up in an apartment. Before this year, we've had 4 spiders in our home in 9 years. This year we've had probably 6 already. It's good in a way because it means I can show DS(3) not to be scared of them. We put one in a plastic tub, he took it off to nursery and let it out in their garden. We now regularly pop them in a tub for him to look at then let them out somewhere but I'm talking smallish things.

That thing you could saddle and ride!!!!!!!!!

Gallopy fuckers!!!
I don't kill them though I DO run when they are big enough I can hear them galloping across the wooden flooring... Ugh!!!

My friend is an insect expert, and he reckons about 98% of "false widow" ids made by the general public are totally wrong. They're really rare, but there are a couple of other spiders that look really similar. I am always when someone says they have one. Unless they can then explain, in detail, how the false widow differs from those other types, I'm gonna assume they're a hysterical drama queen [grin.

Oh, he is totally beautiful! Please put him somewhere warm, in a shed or something or he'll freeze to death. The number of ours is getting less and less every year because my feline arseholes hunt them for fun.

Galloping

Now dying to get a photo of mine to see if anyone here can identify them! Overinvested

I live in the range of one of the black widow spiders species but bites are really rare. I take a martial arts class and one of the boys in the group suddenly leaped up and grabbed something to kill a claimed black widow once. I was really pleased that the adults response was to tell him off. I really don't understand the spider antipathy.