False Widow Spider - HELP!



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Just found this little (huge) fucker abseiling from my newly opened skylight in the lounge.

A quick google tells me (s)he looks like a false widow, about 1.5cm big and could give either of my two 14 month olds who are sitting right underneath where it came in, a nasty bite.

No one tells me what to do with the crawly shitbag who is now sitting on my kitchen counter in a glass.

Any ideas?

(BTW LOOK THE FUCK AT ME CATCHING A HUGE FALSE WIDOW I AM SO f***ing PROUD OF MYSELF).
False widows are routinely touted as giving a bite not too bad. But anyone can have an allergic reaction to anything. Be careful fella. Oh and kill it.
 
He’s - can I just have some f***ing kudos for catching, intimidating and then beating the brains out of a f***ing VENOMOUS SPIDER in my own house, thank you.

I’m rather proud, given I’m rather terrified of most spiders.

It's basically the equivalent of killing a wasp. And, unless you karate chop the wasp in half, killing a wasp is nothing much to shout about.
 
Your only course of action is to burn it with a magnifying glass.

If you release it and it gets away or attscks you before you squash it, then all you'v done is made it angry.

Chances are you've taken it away from it's babies so it'll be full of hell.

It's the thousands of hungry babies in the loft I'd be worried about.
 
He’s - can I just have some f***ing kudos for catching, intimidating and then beating the brains out of a f***ing VENOMOUS SPIDER in my own house, thank you.

I’m rather proud, given I’m rather terrified of most spiders.


Well done you.........git brave and protected your mini adults. Kudos given and have a like as well.

False Black Widow Spiders are less harmful to humans than Black Widows, however, their bite can still be extremely painful.

Note only the females bite....... have their young May
onward, so should be no babies about.
 
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Just found this little (huge) fucker abseiling from my newly opened skylight in the lounge.

A quick google tells me (s)he looks like a false widow, about 1.5cm big and could give either of my two 14 month olds who are sitting right underneath where it came in, a nasty bite.

No one tells me what to do with the crawly shitbag who is now sitting on my kitchen counter in a glass.

Any ideas?

(BTW LOOK THE FUCK AT ME CATCHING A HUGE FALSE WIDOW I AM SO f***ing PROUD OF MYSELF).
2 kids in the house with a rather nasty arachnid and Mrs Intelligentsia decides to ask a football forum what to do ;)
 
Wikipedia said:
Steatoda nobilis
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Steatoda
Species: S. nobilis
Binomial name
Steatoda nobilis

(Thorell, 1875)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Distribution.steatoda.nobilis.1.png
Steatoda nobilis usually live in family groups of between six to twelve, led by a matriarch.

They have a period of around seventeen days before hatching, and the hatchlings are hunting within week.

Good luck. Personally, I would burn the house down.
 

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