This behemoth was crawling towards me in the shed later today. Are these venomous?

https://i.redd.it/631y2hcm5hxc1.jpeg

Posted by Bright_Progress674

26 Comments

  1. Infinite_Rate on

    Female giant house spider. Totally harmless.  Anecdotally, most people who have claimed to have been bitten by them have had a misdiagnosed staph infection IIRC.

  2. Definitely giant house spider: genus Eratigena. Harmless and reclusive.

    May I ask what phone or camera you took this with? Amazing picture! The quality is astonishing, and I have a few little adorable jumping spiders hanging around my polytunnel that I would love to get good close ups of!

  3. hot_space_pizza on

    Why would you take such a high quality pic and that close?! Jesus that is horrifying

  4. I don’t know about you dawg but it’s a Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Spider for me.

  5. Tell it that it has to start paying rent. That should have it move out pretty fast.