AIBU to ask if you know what spider this is? ***warning-spider photo***

[Snoopysimaginaryfriend]

As per the title.

Is it a false widow?

It’s in the bathroom. I’m not overly keen on spiders but I’ll try and put it outside rather than kill it.

Or maybe I’ll go have a cheese and pickle sandwich and hope it’s not there when I go back.

Helps if I attach photos

Looks like a ~fucking massive~ house spider to me.

Female taganeria gigantea
(not a male because no pedipalps / boxing gloves)

Let her live
she eats LOTs of midges and mossies

One that's far too big to be in your bathroom

I'm terrified of them but if you are not too bad, can you get a glass and piece of paper to catch it and put it outside?

There was a huge one in our living room one morning last week -it's not spider season yet!!

Don't hope it disappears-you never know where it might hide in your house

How big is it, false widows are smaller than house spiders. I think it's a house spider, they are paler when they've just shed.

Burn your house down

It doesn’t seem very big. Not like some of the other giant ones. I was trying to figure out how to get some perspective ... but that would involve getting near it

That's a false widow not a tegenaria
Different shaped bodies

I think that photo is massively zoomed in and actually it’s a fairly small spider, not a house spider.

Does that help?

Look how brave I am! Haha haha

I think house spider too. I had one just like that in dds bedroom last night. I'm afraid to say it got the hoover treatment!

Oh it looks only small. But get rid one way or the other!

Would hoovering work with one of those dyson cordless hoovers? Bad enough having to use a kebab skewer to get all the dirt out without knowing there’s a spider in there as well!

please don't kill/hoover spiders, would you rather have all the flies they kill in you house instead?

Yes it's a false widow. Easy to evict to the garden with a glass and piece of card. My house is full of them!

They aren't a very fast breed so should be easy to catch under a glass if you can manage it

Don’t worry, I won’t hoover it. I’ll get it out with a glass

Just a female Steatoda nobilis spider.

Glass and a piece of card, pop it outside, job done.

Would hoovering work with one of those dyson cordless hoovers? Bad enough having to use a kebab skewer to get all the dirt out without knowing there’s a spider in there as well

Omg, I use a kebab skewer too! Definite design fault!

İt's a false widow. Been bitten by one. Quite common in the SE. But the bite hurts like hell!

We have loads but they mostly live ihn the garden

I did evict one that had taken up residence on the beer fridge

There are no dangerous spiders in the UK. She’ll keep the flies away for you.

please don't kill/hoover spiders, would you rather have all the flies they kill in you house instead?

Yes I would absolutely take flies over spiders any day of the week.

@nonetcurtains

please don't kill/hoover spiders, would you rather have all the flies they kill in you house instead?

Yes, without a shadow of a doubt.