Is the the most horrid spider picture or AIBU

[Therunecaster]

My sister is staying at a holiday cottage in the NE of England and found this beastie next to her bed. So many questions...

What questions? It’s a spider.

That seems to have captured another spider.

More what is under its leg. What type is it and does it bite!

WTF did I look - eurgh hate hate things like this

That ATE another spider and is carrying round its carcass for FUN

Or a spider which has just moulted.

The downside to having an exoskeleton is that if you grow, you have to shed the old skeleton and grow a new one.

Why did I even open this thread

Poor things just trying to have a nap with it's teddy bear spider
(It is a monster tho)

I wondered about it being a moulted skin. It may explain the unusual colour and smoothness of the spiders body. Apparently it was about an inch long and scuttled off under a chest of drawers.

Woodlouse spider

We have loads in our garden. Had obe in the house once.
They are a bit vicious

We have no wood lice though 🤣

It looks like a woodlouse spider, I had one in my garden years ago. Apparently they tend to be found in old brick work and can give a nasty bite but aren't poisonous. Horrible looking things!

We’ve had the brownish ones as above but also yellow/red ones. They are quite stunning (from a distance)

But how big is it?

About an inch long with a large body and front legs..

Fuck me why did I look, am already in a living hell as it is with massive ones constantly appearing around the place

Has she burnt the holiday cottage down yet? Surely the insurance will cover it?

Oh that photo makes it look big - but only an inch?! That's hilarious. Any spider/insect is going to look scary that close up. Actually, no, get even closer and some look like little bears.

Unlike me she's not afraid of them at all. She just took a photo and then watched it scuttle away next to her bed. There's no way I could sleep knowing it would be prowling around at night!!!

I need one of those , we have lots of woodlice

They have a very nasty, painful bite these things!

This was one of ours. Most are brown but we sometimes get these ones too!

If that’s a dead spider accompanying it, it is likely that’s a female that’s killed a male after mating. They do this if the male doesn’t make a quick escape. It is spider breeding season.

It's a spider with its shed exoskeleton, which is why its legs are a little wonky - it hasn't hardened up or stretched out properly yet.

I collect the exoskeletons of my tarantulas and stuff them, then mount them in resin and turn them into paperweights
I'm yet to get a good one from my Goliath Bird-Eater though...she always trashes them on the way out.
I (heart) spiders, they are fascinating creatures.

I don't get many visitors...

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