Couldn’t get that link to work, but I presume it’s referring to the Noble False Widow…Steatoda nobilis?

We are plagued with them!! Living in a bungalow means all the windows have to be watched. They are actually largely nocturnal. One of the reasons they are so successful…. the birds are asleep when they are most active, plus they also have 3 broods of spiderlings a year!

My wife had a nasty encounter a couple of years ago. Whilst pruning in the garden she needed to pop to the loo. One of the disturbed spiders was on her jumper. On the loo, she suddenly saw it crawling about and frantically whacked it off her. She thought she had brushed it away…she had down….. her trousers!!! 

This is what it did to her ankle as it “fought for its life” getting out of the entrapment of her jeans….



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Took weeks to heal and you can still see slight scarring.


Sorry….I make no excuse. I kill the buggers (they are immigrants after all!) when ever I see them.

I positively rejoice at seeing good old English spiders inside and outside the house.

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