IrishGrimReaper wrote:
Right so what the fuck species Spider is this?
Looks like a Tegenaria species to me.
Most likely Tegenaria domestica (domestic house spider), maybe Tegenaria atrica (dustbunny spider).
Also, a male, as the abdomen is smaller and more elongated than the females' more spherical one.
They're nice hunter-killers, getting rid of mosquitoes and other annoying insects at night.
E.g. earwigs and centipedes, who slip into your ears at night, crawl through ear wax, bite through your ear drums and then feast on your brain.
You should really keep a spider around as a sentinel!
We had one for several months in a light shaft on our terrace beneath a rubber mat.
I regularly fed her flies that I smack with the flyswatter. She grew really huge (~100mm leg diameter) until recently.
Now the summer is gone and she's gone too.
The pattern on her abdomen had a nice cobalt blue gloss. I should have made pictures.
Hope she found a warm spot in our cellar or garage for the winter.