Please ID my new pet Spider

[steves106]

Found this in my parents shed earlier today - anyone care to ID what type it is as I haven't come across one like this before..

Thanks.

[phil-sti]

Is that in the UK? Please tell me you used zoom.

[General Price]

Tegenaria Gigantea

[steves106]

phil-sti said:

Is that in the UK? Please tell me you used zoom.

Yes Phil, taken in sunny Surrey about 8 hours ago. Photo is cropped but not zoomed not seen a spider as interesting as this one in the UK before, seems a shame to dispose of it so might just leave it in the shed to live in piece.

[Slink]

dont really know what it is, but can you give a idea of scale? like, the size of a open end of a pint glass, or a 50p? cos to me, it looks the same size as that beam is wide.......

[Drogo]

Looks like a False widow.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-2439...

[RobbieKB]

I know a bloke who got bitten on the forehead by one in his shed and it landed him in hospital!

[AndyT77]

Eurghh! Looks like a nasty fker to me!

[109er]

steves106 said:

Yes Phil, taken in sunny Surrey about 8 hours ago. Photo is cropped but not zoomed not seen a spider as interesting as this one in the UK before, seems a shame to dispose of it so might just leave it in the shed to live in piece.

Area covered:

[109er]

Slink said:

dont really know what it is, but can you give a idea of scale? like, the size of a open end of a pint glass, or a 50p? cos to me, it looks the same size as that beam is wide.......

Size:

[groucho]

That's not the same one. is it? The one above is a common house spider.

[109er]

Your spider:



How I don't know but, check out the markings on the American House spider:



They look identical.

[Doddington]

Looks identical to your one...


http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/343118...

[schumi84]

I would vote for a false widow as well, they seem to be popping up all over the place, unfortunately for me. I believe there was a sighting that made it into the papers in Surrey a couple of weeks back, in Stoneleigh it seems.

http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/epsom/10714975.T...

I love the caption under the picture

[ikarl]

schumi84 said:

I love the caption under the picture

before she stamped it to death

[digger the goat]

It could be one of four..but size is needed.
False widow, pirate, mothercare or invisible.
Check this site.

http://www.uksafari.com/spiders.htm

[HRL]

Had a quick Google and there's even one on the BBC website today:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-2447002...

I hope you killed it before it had its babies...

[Dift]

HRL said:

Had a quick Google and there's even one on the BBC website today:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-2447002...

I hope you killed it before it had its babies...

This!

I watched a documentary 15 years ago on spiders (called arachnophobia I believe), in which they followed a mother spider which was/or had just given birth... Boy it escalated quickly!

This is where the term 'kill it with fire' is appropriate.

[Doddington]

I ripped down an old barn today and the thing was filled with them! Must have seen 20+...

[Halb]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2453833/De...