*Warning- contains picture of spider* To be frozen in fear and awe all at the same time!!

[BecauseICan22]

I was folding laundry in my bedroom and this chap fell out, across my wrist and onto the floor.

I'm thinking of ways to catch it safely without hurting its legs. Normally I'd put it in my hands and out the window. Not happening this time!

Does anyone know what type of spider this is?

And did I say, HELP!!!!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Best advice ever

My fear started when being a stupid 11 year old and watched the film arachnophobia 😭 I don't have cereal boxes and all my shoes are in plastic shoe boxes off ebay 🤣 something just triggered me from that film and that was 30 years ago

Oh please I need this

If Im on my own I would vacuum them and leave vacuum outside for my partner to empty on arrival 🤣

@BBecauseICan22 shaq O'Neil 🤣

London Zoo's house spiders are all Simon

@CCaptainFlubby ammmm nope mine was developed after I watch a film

This ^

I have cellar spiders everywhere on my ceilings keeping the big ones away, don't know how it works as house spiders are usually on the floor or low down in my experience! But I haven't seen a massive house spider in years and years.
Cats and a dog probably help too 😆
I don't know why these cellars are so much less terrifying, I happily have them on me. Must be a combo of their more see through look, thin non hairy legs, movement etc. They don't go wandering either.

My cellar spiders are becoming unruly. We have an unspoken agreement that the actual cellar is theirs (house's previous owner literally intrduced it as 'the spider cellar' when she was showing me around, so I considered them sitting tenants.) but the cellar doorway and above is out of bounds. Noticed more and more making a bid for the rest of the house recently though. What with those, and the garden spiders that keep building face-height webs across my back door, I'm almost missing the normal house spiders 😅

I will just leave this as a parting thought:

Spiders do many good deeds for us squeamish humans, one of their main contributions is their appetite for insects. One spider eats 2,000 other insects a year, insects that would be otherwise eating our food crops.

“If spiders disappeared, we would face famine,” says Norman Platnick, who studies arachnids at New York’s American Museum of Natural History. “Spiders are primary controllers of insects. Without spiders, all of our crops would be consumed by those pests.”

We've had Sid, Sophia, Vanestra. Usually the first one we see is called Sid - this year's Sid is bloody huge.

We have a clothes moths problem so spiders are welcome.

No idea where the name Sid came from, but Sophia was initially So Fear the Spider and Vanestra is the enemy in the board game Mice & Mystics whose true form is a spider.

Wow, she's impressive!
I'd be alright but my girls would be screaming the house down.

A bit late to the thread but this is brilliant and I feel exactly the same!

It's a rubbish phobia to have. People are scared of things like snakes, mice and/or rats but not spiders, then start on the old "it's only a spider, it's more scared of you..."

I always say well chances are you aren't going to pop upstairs and randomly find a ruddy great snake in the bath are you? I had fucking Aragog just plop into the empty bathtub last week, thankfully before I got in. Spider repellent spray bought that very evening! We also have cats, although I don't think they really care about catching them.

The only spiders I tolerate are money ones, and Steves. A Steve is a cellar spider, because if you squint you can pretend they are like daddy long legs, they are slow and they catch said Aragogs. They can stay.