Sorry for poor picture quality. Found in France. Never seen anything like it.

    • hangry@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      51·
      3 months ago

      Thanks! It isvery likely a Eratigena Atrica. The pattern on its back is identical. I safely released it in the garden.

      • WoahWoah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        37·
        3 months ago

        Moving an indoor spider outside typically leads to their death. What you did here is basically throw a spider to the wolves. If you can’t deal with a spider indoors and you feel obligated to do something about it but have ethical feelings or whatever, the better thing to do is simply and quickly squish it.

        But, it’s a spider, so whatever.

  • BalinaresEnglish
    18·
    3 months ago

    Yup, that’s a giant house spider. No kidding, that’s the vernacular name of the species, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_house_spider. Formerly filed under the tegenaria genus, now its own genus.

    They’re comically large and terror-inducing, but not aggressive. And they keep out more aggressive species too.

    • hangry@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Thank for your answer.
      ITT I read that it could also be a radiated wolf spider. In any case it was big, bigger than other big a** spiders I found at this place. But what do I know, I’m definitely not a country person.

  • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    God the memories. Lived in a house surrounded by banks of ivy and for whatever reason it attracted those things like none other (Giant House Spider).

    The house at the time was also poorly insulated or sealed from outside. I’d find 1-2 every 2-3 days inside. They’d teleport across the house using the vent system too. One snuck inside my bath towel. I’d find them in the sink just chilling, they’d crawl across the bed sometimes, ugh.

    Look, I know they’re harmless (to humans) and I know I’m being dumb, but spiders for some reason immediately cause a fight or flight response in me. Like, there were nights I’d see one and then I’d be unable to sleep the rest of the night and I’d have to keep the lights on just in case. My brain just absolutely breaks down when spiders are involved, it’s dumb, I know it, but I can’t seem to stop it and those particular spiders are just so unbelievably large that it scared the shit out of me.

    Roaches? Snakes? Ants? Beetles? Scorpions? Literally anything else? I don’t care at all. Only spiders. No clue why.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      3 months ago

      Nah. Wolf’s are stockier

      They’re named wolf spiders because they physically hunt and chase down their food. Like a tarantula their size/strength is how they get food, so their builds are similar. It also makes them almost impossible to catch with a glass like this, fuckers can move.

      It looks to me like it could be a brown recluse, but if OP doesn’t live where they do, it’s likely just a random ass house spider that’s no big deal.

  • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    3 months ago

    Hard to tell from the photo but maybe:

    • Nursery Web Spider
    • Giant House Spider
    • Radiated Wolf Spider

    My bet is on a giant house spider. They’re massive, fast, but harmless (and are actually great with dealing with pests - I leave them be in the home).

  • felykiosa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Putain on a des truc comme ça en France . si je vois ça chez moi je vrille, quelle taille elle faisait? (les photos sont parfois trompeuse)

  • Synapse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    A big one. Once, I got surprised by a big one like that on my way to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I freaked out and let it escape… under my bed… couldn’t find it. I couldn’t go back to sleep.

    • Catt@programming.devEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      To those downvoting this comment. Why? Arachnophobic people do exist (and for some, even a picture of a spider can make them feel deeply uncomfortable)

      • EndlessApollo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        3 months ago

        Idk I could’ve worded it better, I prob came off more entitled or something than I meant to. It doesn’t freak me out seeing pics of spiders most of the time, and I’m certainly not entitled to that stuff being hidden, I just think it’s nice for pics with common phobias like that to be nested in the post or nsfw’d if it’s not in a community that’s for those things

      • nevemsenki@lemmy.worldEnglish
        35·
        3 months ago

        By that logic we should nsfw all images as there is a phobia for virtually everything and you never know who’s looking at your post.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    3 months ago

    Where do you live?

    Very few spiders cover the whole world, but that looks close enough to a brown recluse that you should’ve killed it immediately if you’re anywhere that could even potentially have them.

    They’re not normal spiders, if you get bit by one it will fuck you up bad. A bite could result in dead tissue almost a foot wide within days, and take months to heal even with medical treatment. They’re not going to run at you and attack you, but you don’t want these roaming around you house.

    If the body has that light brown with dark brown in it, they get squashed. And not with a paper towel or tissue, take the time to go get a shoe or a hardcover book. It ain’t worth the risk.

    But again, they’re pretty much only in a chunk of America that isn’t really densely populated, so it really matters where you’re at.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider

    • hangry@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Thanks for the answer. Living in France. I didn’t hear of dangerous species of spiders here. But this one had me look twice.

      • merde alors@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        if you’re in France, than it’s probably this one ☞ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tégénaire_géante

        En dépit de sa taille impressionnante, la tégénaire géante est totalement inoffensive pour l’Homme.

        Il n’existe pas d’article scientifique ni de publication médicale faisant état d’un cas direct de morsure d’une araignée du genre Tegenaria sur l’Homme. Les accusations sont portées a posteriori, à la suite de la découverte d’une tégénaire dans la maison d’un patient souffrant de lésions de la peau. On trouve pourtant d’autres explications médicales bien plus plausibles (virus, champignons, eczéma, maladie de Lyme…),.

        Particulièrement craintive et docile comme sa cousine Tegenaria domestica, Eratigena duellica cherchera toujours à fuir en cas de dérangement. Eratigena agrestis ne partage pas la même réputation pacifique, mais semble tout aussi inoffensive.

        please be more careful with their legs next time. Looks like 3 are crushed

        it may as well be this one too ☞ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegenaria_domestica

        • hangry@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Thank you for your reply. I think this is it. It was indeed not aggressive. Now that I know it’s inoffensive, I will be more careful in the future

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        3 months ago

        Yeah. I have no idea what spiders are in France.

        A good way to figure it out is find a website with a list of dangerous spiders for your area, and ideally the most common spiders confused for them.

        Chances are you’ll see something like yours on the list.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        74·
        3 months ago

        But again, they’re pretty much only in a chunk of America that isn’t really densely populated, so it really matters where you’re at.

        Have fun acting like that tho

      • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        3 months ago

        Have you been banned for a month and only came back today?. Or simply been inactive and this pissed you up so hard that you just had to react?