What is this spider?
Found this at home in England. I moved to England from Hong Kong not long ago, so I'm not familiar with local spiders at all. Maybe it's very common?
Found this at home in England. I moved to England from Hong Kong not long ago, so I'm not familiar with local spiders at all. Maybe it's very common?
Looks like a giant house spider, Eratigena atrica.
They're completely harmless, the males do wander around looking for female, so it's not unusual to see them during the day.
On a side note, they're fast as all hell, fastest spider on land, so they can make you freak out when they zoom across a room at full speed.
Yeah, we get them in Canada on the west coast. Always August or there abouts. I remember hearing that they came from europe when people started exploring North America. They travel as eggs in construction materials or furniture.
Holy shit are they fast. When I lived in a basement, every year was one battle after another come summer. Later on I found out like you mentioned that they're just out cruisin for special arachnid buddies. Wish they weren't so scary looking. I feel like this is the type of spider I could take out for a beer and tell him there's nothing wrong with him, he's just going through a rough patch.
I caught it in a container while it stayed still. Released it outside in some green area. I'm now kind of interested in seeing how fast it can run. Not sure I'm looking forward to it...
When I was living in the UK (moved from the Czech Republic) I was shocked how big the spiders get. I believe it's cause of the humidity. It was common to see spiders like this in the size of my hand. They are harmless, but it took me some getting used to. Later on we "befriended" some of them and kept trowing them flies. I miss Matylda. 😅
Didn't know big spiders is a thing here. I thought only Australia has these... But I guess this one is still tiny in Australia standard.