I get loads of these in my house here in England-varying colours from blood red and pinky-pearl to purple and mauve to brown and grey.
I've currently got a large brown/grey specimen crawling around a glass where I trapped it-its got nasty big black fangs :s
They can be agressive but most of the time they are eager to run away when they encounter people.
They are very agile and be a pain to catch.
But the thing about them that really freaks me out is the way they wait outside my window until I eventually open it and then they jump inside as soon as it does!
They are too clever.....
I had a bit of an odd encounter with a blood-red female the other day when I went into the downstairs bathroom and suddenly felt a small weight on my hand-I turn on the light to see it hunched up between my knuckles!
It soon realised that perhaps its choice of hiding place was unwise and so it squirted some browny-white stuff (spider poo lol?) on my hand before I flicked it away.
I don't like these spiders which is why I'm glad I've got a nice population of daddy-long-legs spiders that occasionally snare one or two of these for their supper!
Woodlous Spider
I've currently got a large brown/grey specimen crawling around a glass where I trapped it-its got nasty big black fangs :s
They can be agressive but most of the time they are eager to run away when they encounter people.
They are very agile and be a pain to catch.
But the thing about them that really freaks me out is the way they wait outside my window until I eventually open it and then they jump inside as soon as it does!
They are too clever.....
I had a bit of an odd encounter with a blood-red female the other day when I went into the downstairs bathroom and suddenly felt a small weight on my hand-I turn on the light to see it hunched up between my knuckles!
It soon realised that perhaps its choice of hiding place was unwise and so it squirted some browny-white stuff (spider poo lol?) on my hand before I flicked it away.
I don't like these spiders which is why I'm glad I've got a nice population of daddy-long-legs spiders that occasionally snare one or two of these for their supper!