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By *riskynrisky OP   Couple
over a year ago

Essex.

We've just found two false widow spiders in our conservatory. Google the little buggers...

Frisky hates spiders so she's not happy to find we've got the UKs most venomous spider in our house....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'd have moved out by now

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By *riskynrisky OP   Couple
over a year ago

Essex.

It was a close thing. Normally I'd pick a spider up and put it out side.... Not a false widow, trapped it in a glass and tipped it out and killed it... One down one to go....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

if I found one I'd be freaked....two and I'd assume they were breeding ....I'd be packed and off before you could say arachnophobia!

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By *radleyandRavenCouple
over a year ago

Herts

I've gone cold... Just googled it and I'm sure that's what I saw in the kitchen earlier. :/

Gonna get Vincent to move the washing machine now and have a look, lol.

- Amy. x

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By *eeking Maid MarianMan
over a year ago

Sherwood Forest N Notts


"We've just found two false widow spiders in our conservatory. Google the little buggers...

Frisky hates spiders so she's not happy to find we've got the UKs most venomous spider in our house.... "

That's what James Dyson invented the "DYSON" for!!!

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By *atcherofmyballsMan
over a year ago

hereford

It's only the female that bites.

Nothing new there then.

Runs away and hides

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thaaaanks ...I'm scared to google.. and now scared to go to bed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We've just found two false widow spiders in our conservatory. Google the little buggers...

Frisky hates spiders so she's not happy to find we've got the UKs most venomous spider in our house.... "

Spray them with bug spray and job done

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We've just found two false widow spiders in our conservatory. Google the little buggers...

Frisky hates spiders so she's not happy to find we've got the UKs most venomous spider in our house....

Spray them with bug spray and job done "

Spray them with hairspray that way the little blighters can't leg it

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By *riskynrisky OP   Couple
over a year ago

Essex.


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Spray them with bug spray and job done

Spray them with hairspray that way the little blighters can't leg it "

I like the hairspray idea....

Their webs are fairly distinctive, a mass a very sticky tangles.... A proper horror movie web, well apart from the other horror movie web that looks like a web but 6 feet across..lol

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By *odareyouMan
over a year ago

not far from iceland,,,,,, tescos is nearer though :-) (near leeds)

I think thats s a valid reason for not being able to accomodate...

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

How venomous? Could it kill me? I didn't think we had any venomous spiders in this country?

I thought the most venomous thing we had was a daddy longlegs but that was ok because it's got no way of delivering its venom

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By *he Original TTMan
over a year ago

Brackley, Northants


"How venomous? Could it kill me? I didn't think we had any venomous spiders in this country?

I thought the most venomous thing we had was a daddy longlegs but that was ok because it's got no way of delivering its venom "

Yes, quite venomous...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2130975/Woman-loses-hand-bitten-false-widow-spider.html

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

From the BBC website:

Experts say they have seen an increase in their numbers, but should we be worried?

Stuart Hine, an insect specialist from the Natural History Museum, told BBC Breakfast there are very few instances of these spiders biting people and only do so when antagonised

I suspect that getting sprayed with hairspray might antagonise one...

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By *he Original TTMan
over a year ago

Brackley, Northants


"From the BBC website:

Experts say they have seen an increase in their numbers, but should we be worried?

Stuart Hine, an insect specialist from the Natural History Museum, told BBC Breakfast there are very few instances of these spiders biting people and only do so when antagonised

I suspect that getting sprayed with hairspray might antagonise one... "

Spray any widow with something sticky and you'll get some sort of reaction!!

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By *riskynrisky OP   Couple
over a year ago

Essex.

From what I've read, they came over on bananas in the late 1800s. They survived on the south coast but are now spreading due to the mild winters. Their bite is likened to a bee sting. The affects can be chest pains, swelling of the fingers and tingling. In rare cases the affects can be more serious as we've seen in the papers in the last couple of weeks. There are 640 types of spider in the UK, and 12 are venomous, the False Widow accounting for 2 of them. There are currently only a few reported bites each year but this will increase as these F/widows spread. Frisky is off to the north pole.....

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

Cripes

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

King's Crustacean

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-19950353

No worse than wasp stings

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


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I suspect that getting sprayed with hairspray might antagonise one... "

Not if it's got a meet later

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