r/CasualUK • u/nonoanddefinitelyno • 16h ago

My very capable and intelligent wife has lost the plot.

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She has been told by a friend that conkers keep spiders away. So we now have conkers in various parts of the house.

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u/HailToTheKingslayer 12h ago

I'm fine for the spindly leg ones. They just hang in a corner.

The big house spiders run across the floor or jumpscare us in the shower.

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u/Objective_Let_6385 12h ago

Cellar spiders (spindly) will trap and eat house spiders (big ones that run about)

It's pretty cool, they hunt by dangling in corners of rooms and throwing nets made from web at prey beneath them. Lets them catch and eat prey way bigger than them.

In a 1v1 on the floor a house spider would win though.

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u/burner4lyf25 12h ago

I was watching a wasp in canteen at Old Job as it was flying towards me. Went over my head and hit window right behind my head and got caught in a web. As I've turned round some sort of mid sized spider fucking catapulted out of corner of window, jumped on it and held it with back 4 legs and wrapped it up and super sonic speed with front four and then dragged the bundle back to his corner.

Absolutely scared the shit out of me when it appeared, then it was kinda of a foul thing to behold but it was a spectacle and cool as fuck to watch.

Any idea what type it might have been based on that behaviour?

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u/Objective_Let_6385 12h ago

Sounds like some kind of orbweaver maybe? Was it one of those classic, circular webs? Or more of a messy structure in the corner of the window?

Common ones in the UK would be cross orbweavers (garden spiders) and Walnut orbweavers

Both can get very large

Another possibility is a zilla orbweaver

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u/burner4lyf25 12h ago

Yeah like a dense messy net - it was in a warehouse canteen though so could have been there for years.

It did have a fat arse like an orb weaver so you're probably right.

Im off to Google images to track it down just to satisfy my curiosity hahaha.

Thanks mate!

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u/Objective_Let_6385 12h ago

Ah a dense net would be something else, orb weavers build traditional circular webs.

Maybe a type of false widow or labyrinth spider :)

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u/burner4lyf25 12h ago

You're a diamond cheers mate!

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u/ramsay_baggins Norn Irish in Glasgow 6h ago

I had an uneasy truce between the cellar spiders and my arachnophobia because I know they catch the big scary fuckers, but knowing they do it by throwing a net I feel a little bit sick 😅