Nasty *******!

Top it off found another one in my house tonight...

 

Jeeps they look nasty do they bite ?

 

I've had a bite off one, put my bare foot into my trainer and the f*cker had me on the top of my foot.

Took my trainer off to see what had "spiked me" and that fell out. Anyway he met a swift end as of course I had my trainer in my hand and he was on the floor in front of me

 

How big was it? (I'm assuming that pic is blown up)

 

Just Google it! Taking over the UK

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatoda_nobilis
Looks like a boy

 

My Brother-in-law's new house is infested with them.

 

That would make me jump a mile!
No issue with small spiders but they can bite. I was a bit if a nervous wreck in Oz when we camped there. One night a huge huntsman spider crawled towards the door; we grabbed our kit and ran! Stayed in cabins after that!

 

Hope it was a boy so the ****** hasn't laid any eggs anywhere! How you tell?

 

I read this as "false window" I was thinking hidden compartment for drugs ..

 

Looks like pretty much total anecdotal evidence that anybody at all has seriously suffered from an encounter

 

Haha glad I wasn't the only that read it as "false window"!!

 

Apparently the bite is only as painful as a wasp or bee sting.

 

Never came across one while in Oz.
altough its totally benign (to humans) the huntsman has been associated with several deaths on the road due to climbing in and hiding behind sunvisors........... you can guess the rest.

 

We had our first False Widow about 3 years ago. Lived under our window sill at the back of the house all year. Now we have quite a few, I can find 3 or 4 at any one time if I look around the garden.

The main snag is they can live for 3 or even 4 years with the right conditions....

 

Had one in the shed a while back, freaked me right out

 

That looks more like a black widow!

 

Does doesn't it, i didn't go near the thing just got me a can of lynx and torched the thing.

But i had it confirmed that it is a false widow.

Seems to be a spate of them all of a sudden, least down this way.

 

I dare say the heat we've experienced this summer has played its role in some of the creepy crawlies we've seen lately, a couple of decent frosts will sort a lot of them out.

 

I found this ****** in my garden a couple of weeks back, mrs hates spiders, lol

 

Garden cross spider, that won't hurt you, but there are alot of them about this year

 

We knew it wasn't deadly but they still have a nasty bite and it was huge!

We also saw two red backs, a funnel web and two deadly snakes in our two months there - a bit unlucky!

 

Only! He says. 😳

 

whilst we are on the subject of spiders, i have one that lives in my drivers side wing mirror. normally it would not bother me but this little swine builds a huge web between my mirror and the door/window/roof every damned day. tried pressure washing the sod out but hes still there. how can i get rid of him once and for all? until the next one comes along that is....

 

LOL, my missus has the same on the passenger wing mirror of her Ka, even twatting the wing mirror off and replacing it has not got rid! I'm not sure if it even lives behind the glass..

 

No, I thought it was going to be about a woman pretending to be single that he locked in the boot.

 

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/late...der-ATE-my-leg

FOOOOOKKK ME !!!!!!!!
You's lot on The Mainland can keep them, thank you very much

 

My bite didn't hurt that much, did come up as a lump on my foot though and left a mark that was there for about 12 months after.

Just took antihistamine tablets for a week until the lump went down.

Not scared of spiders but I always check my trainers / boots now before I put them on.

 

Here's a few i have had the displeasure of meeting over the last couple of years first one was a monster i don't have a clue what make and model they are

 

I read it as that too, image that came to mind was that the spare wheel well has been cut away and some perspex put in its place!!

But spiders. Im one of those that has a phobia, hate the bloody things!