An indication that it might be time for you to relocate.

that’s why I like cold areas

Every winter when I inhale and my nose hairs freeze together I think of this video and everything is OK

Cwispy

well.. what about the times right before? they come in looking for mates. saw one like this and I know it was a female looking. saw it crawling on the hamper and I jumped and it stopped. I’m telling you they are a lot smarter than you think.

Maybe that’s why it’s inside.

That’s why it’s in the corner. Because it’s 90 degrees.

Sigh

Losing its religion

God damnit. Take your upvote. That’s fantastic.

If you’re cold, they’re cold. Bring your spiders inside!

I have a couple jumping spiders who occasionally show up crawling on my room walls to say hi and then go on their merry way. Definitely, not this Goliath class spider tho!

No

well, that was one great way to uno card my fears back to me. thanks

This makes sense logically, but in practice it just isn’t what happens. I put up bug traps because I live in a pretty active area for them, and they catch stuff all year long. But during the winter here, i get literally nothing on those traps the entire season. They may want to be warm, but they don’t *know* your apartment is warm from where they come from.

The big one that lived in my ceiling corner looked like he had a monocle and mustache. He would only come out at night, but I could hear him strumming his body on the wall. Had to use my phone camera to get a picture to see how big he was. About 10″ in diameter, and large enough where there eyes reflected the flash. [Still cute though.](https://i.imgur.com/LtoCN86.jpg) We moved, and now we are surrounded by spiders that [look like cats](https://imgur.com/99vT4hJ), and a bite that [injects you with dopamine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araneus_gemma).

I liked the cute little jumpy bois I had in my house when I lived in Japan. Those guys were fast, and I mean *fast*. They didn’t do much ‘jump’ as they did teleport short distances. They were small, cute little fuzzballs. Very polite too, they kept my house free of all insects, and if I happened to encounter one as I walked down the hall or something, they’d always quickly jump out of my way. I swear if they could talk you’d hear them squeak out a tiny, high pitched little “^Ah! ^Sumimasen!”

need a flamethrower?

A few years ago, spiders were so bad, [I did use a flames to help clean up everything](https://i.imgur.com/n13DQUS.png). I would usually run out of fuel before spider season was finished. A lot of spiders are migrating North through our area, which gave us very unique [wildlife crossing](https://imgur.com/5Gf1a3g) signs. My house was also in a unique position where a lot of the black widows that were migrating funneled through my property in California. I couldn’t walk 5′ without seeing one at night. Just walking around [in open fields](https://youtube.com/shorts/EO7hvXo2O2g?si=ks1BGGlOGwMAZZrB).

oh, gods… and here I am, still not recovering from the time I grabbed a black widow from the back of my neck and threw it away when I was 13… also, nice art!

Uh…where do you think all the spiders go when it gets cold?

They don’t buy a plane ticket and move north to a place with significantly less spider species

Everytime I see videos like this I always think “I’m glad we have cold winters where I live, but I need to move further north”

Looks closer to a bird eating spider, Goliath or something. Probably in Brazil, rather than a Australian huntsman.

Yeah looks to be a Goliath. I held one once. She was only a few months old and a juvenile compared to this one by the looks of it though.

And then you burnt your hand off right? Jk, I think spiders are spooky but wonderful. I held a tarantula once and she was surprisingly cute. I still don’t particularly want the meaty ones in my personal space but I kinda like speeiders these days. Especially pholcidae. Don’t get me started on pholcidae.

Yeah I don’t mind tarantulas, especially those bred in captivity. They are generally docile, chill little dudes as long as they have been fed recently. Even one like this is just as scared of you as you are of it. He wandered into the wrong place and he probably just wants to get out.

I was less afraid of spiders once I got this. Every instance (except one that spider was Rambo and wanted blood) they are usually besides themselves with fear or freeze completely hoping you either didn’t notice them or will let it go. It’s almost kind of humorous. I usually relocate them which drives my boyfriend nuts bc he is very much kill them with fire and has a phobia.

Start on pholcidae

Thank you for this opportunity. I’m just about to start a very busy day so I cannot wax lyrical on pholcidae right now, however I can link to a previous thread I was involved in where I did indeed get started on pholcidae. It’s my weird special subject I know a lot about so the minute they crop up I’m like an excited toddler showing people a rock. https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/s/q9plm35AiP TLDR; Pholcidae are amazing spiders we should all appreciate and they cured my fear of spiders. EDIT: I’m editing to add a link to the second comment on the same thread that is information heavy about pholcidae, in case you don’t want to wade through the pholcidae conversation and just want the info https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/s/K9yI8aA7KG

Looks like a large Avicularia sp. to me, and hungry with it.