Just snapped a picture of this huge fella down my cellar (😉)… Does anyone know if it's just big or if it is also somehow poisonous?
For reference, it's Zürich city.
For a size reference that screw is a T13 size, or the "thing" is slightly bigger than a 5 Fr. 😨

by aviscido

24 comments

  1. Spiders get rid of mosquitoes, I like them – cause I fucking hat mosquitoes!

  3. Looks like a domestic house spider. They are pretty chill.

  4. Pretty sure it’s a nosferatu spider, venomous but rarely bite, mildly painful like a wasp sting.

  5. Looks like a normal “Winkelspinne” (Giant House Spider) which is harmless or a Nosfetaru spider, which is venomous. Their bite is supposed to be similar to a wasp sting, so nothing bad.

    That being said: those spiders are disgusting and I hate them 🙁 (slight arachnophobe here though)

  6. Looks like a “Hauswinkelspinne”. They’re pretty big.

  7. Oh I have few of them outside on the balcony, I love to give them some freshly killed flying shit which avoided their webs and got into my apartment. Never heard about poisonous spiders in Switzerland. Leave him alone or at best, ask someone to move him outside, cause I assume there is not a lot to eat. Totally worth to save him.

  8. Tegenaria domestica most likely
    Hate those and I’d rather have them outside, but they aren’t going to eat or bit you

  10. I am pretty surprised no one called the “flammenwerfer” joke already.

  12. If I am ever going to live in Zürich then only in the tallest building on the highest floor haha

  13. Saw another one in my basement in Baden. Scary as f**k

  14. Winkelspinne. They get pretty big.

    I dont think theres a spider in Switzerland that is able to pierce human skin.

    There was big news about one that looks similar to the Winkelspinne that was dragged into Switzerland from outside the country that is able to. But even then comparable to a bee sting if I remember correctly.

  15. I’m very happy i have a cat who its all of the spiders in my flat D:

  17. From the pictures on internet and another high Res that I took, I would confirm is a winkelspinne, or giant house spider.
    Very interesting! Thanks all!

  19. Put a damn spoiler filter on it. The arachnophopia tw is worthless otherwise.

    Dummy…

  20. „The spider you just killed on the wall, considered you as a roommate“

    – Dostoyewski or so idk

  22. I live on the ground floor and have a small garden, these spiders walk in and out like they own the place. First few times I nearly 💩myself.

  23. Nosferatu-Spinne. Ist nicht agressiv. Hat mehr Angst vor dir als du vor ihr.

  24. These guys also come into house. It was right in front of my nose when i was cuddling my dog. I didn’t hesitate to scream my loudest level.

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