(Spider picture) heard a scream from upstairs, daughter saw a spider on her way to the bathroom. Anyone know what type of spider this is?

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  1. I tagged this as NSFW to save people who don’t want to see a picture of a large spider. My wife wants nothing to do with it!

  7. Pretty normal lad for this time of year, completely harmless but of course to Arachnophobe’s like my own missuses, the house needs to be burned down….

    They make a pitter patter sound whilst running across wooden floors too lol

  15. Giant house spider, mating season is coming up you will see them scurrying everywhere. Nasty buggers I think, they will run away from you but can apparently bite, no worse than a bee sting think one of those plug in pest things work for spiders

  18. Yup have had a lot of those cunts so far. Giant House Spiders. They don’t pose a risk to people or pets, in fact my cat has killed a few so far before I can.

  20. Wolf spider! I have one of those in my room, it comes back every year to the same place above the wardrobe and stays there not doing anything for weeks before heading off again. It’s looking for a mate but it’s apparently not very good at flirting because it’s still alone, touching itself when it thinks I’m not looking.

  24. Looks like a giant house spider. Had an encounter with one of these myself last night. I was stroking my dog in the pitch black and see walked out of the room, so I sat texting and then I heard it walking on the floor in front of me.

    They’re not dangerous to humans or pets. They can sometimes bite although I believe this is quite rare, and there should be no serious reaction to this (unless you are rarely highly allergic) but it can be painful and sometimes cause a bit of inflammation.

  26. I’ve had a few of these since moving into my little timber frame cabin a few years ago. Some absolute monsters too….

    The largest was one on the skirting board, touching the floor and wall at the same time…. around 5 inch leg span.

    Invest in one of those bristle spider catchers, so easy to get rid of them without squishing them on the walls or whatever

  28. On a side note, the iNaturalist app is pretty useful for identifying species! Take a pic and it makes suggestions, and other people can pitch on what they reckon it is too!

  33. Giant house spider. The thing I hate most about these fuckers, and I hate everything about them, is how fast they are. They’ll cross a room in seconds. Wiki says 1.7 feet a second. They also seem to enjoy travelling on floors and near to floor surfaces more than most spiders do, there was one running around my bedroom floor the other night, went off out into the hallway and haven’t seen it since. Hoping my dog got it. The other thing I really hate about them is that they don’t seem to mind humans nearly enough – a stationary human counts as a valid surface for traversing. I fucking loathe these motherfuckers.

  35. We found two living underneath the mattress another day.

    My wife and I have been inspecting the whole bedroom every night before going to sleep to prevent any additional unwanted encounter.

  39. honestly i don’t care about them as long as they don’t have those huge arses

    saw a ginormous false widow on my mail box, i SHAT myself

  40. Thanks for the warning and the nsfw blur. I’ve been hating all the spider pics this summer. This is the right way to do it.

  41. This time last year I saw one when moving some old boxes in the store room. I ran away and it chased after me through the corridor and into the lunch room. They can get aggressive but they don’t have a dangerous bite.

  45. I had an encounter with the same-looking spider a week ago! I was playing a game when I thought I heard a tapping kind of sound. I paused, didn’t seem to hear it anymore, and went back to my game. A moment later, I pause again, but this time, I hear it and locate the sound coming from my Flight of the Conchords poster.

    For whatever reason, the big bastard was tapping its legs against my poster and shooketh. I’d seen some decent sized ones before, but this monstrosity was on another level. I had an empty CD container for trapping stuff, but I was worried it would jump or move if I approached it. So I got the Hoover and pulled him in

  46. In Australia we have a spider called a huntsman, looks fairly similar.

    Now in Australia, huntsmans are like giant puppies which are literally everywhere, as common as a dog or cat. You can pick them up, pet them, absolutely harmless, they eat cockroaches, spiders, rats and birds.

    Best roommates ever.

    [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvG1S3_SN5E&ab_channel=TarantulaDanMedia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvG1S3_SN5E&ab_channel=TarantulaDanMedia)

    [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvIBOugOFuw&ab_channel=Rowlph77](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvIBOugOFuw&ab_channel=Rowlph77)

    [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-j5UcJC_Pw&ab_channel=StoryfulViral](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-j5UcJC_Pw&ab_channel=StoryfulViral)

    Got one in my room atm. I think huntsmans could cure anyones arachnophobia, chill spiders.

    [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRQucp31n0c&ab_channel=NationalGeographic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRQucp31n0c&ab_channel=NationalGeographic)

    move over dogs, mans best friend coming through.

    [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HXdrBkokCc&ab_channel=TonvanderLinden](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HXdrBkokCc&ab_channel=TonvanderLinden)

    if you really, really need convincing they are harmless.

    [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhgtLLzOqqo&ab_channel=durianrider](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhgtLLzOqqo&ab_channel=durianrider) (watch that until the end)

  48. Felt a tickle on my belly as i was dozing off one night … haha thats kind of nice. WAIT.EXE WTF IS THAT. ??? lift blanket to see a giant housespider scurrying up my belly towards my face. I lept out of bed at the speed of sound lol.

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