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Giant spiders the size of rats making a comeback in UK
(www.independent.co.uk)
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I'm sorry what? We have a native spider the size of a rat? Why did I not know this. This is important information.
I am never leaving the house again.
Plot twist: they're already in your house.
(I'm hacking around with Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead at the moment) Noooooo!!!!!
I saw one on the wall when I was staying just outside Guildford. I was in disbelief that I would see such a thing in Europe.
I thought they looked like the dock spiders we have in Minnesota, turns out they're the same thing. Utterly terrifying but completely harmless.
Noooo reading this I thought I was safe being all the way over here :( whyyyy
I don't think you're likely to ever come across one if you don't live in a lake, they have only been identified in a handful of places.
They usually are found around the shore or river banks only walking onto the water for hunting. The only spider you will mostly find in a lake are diving bell spiders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_bell_spider
That sounds neat.
That sounds less agreeable than the giant raft spider.
Sentence after that:
It's really hard to get bitten by any spider. I can't imagine how hard it must be to get bitten by spider that lives underwater. I have to check those wiki sources ...
Ah I misunderstood that a fen is actually a thing (non-native speaker here). So I correct my original post to "if you don't live in a fen"
As a native speaker, I've never heard the word "fen" in my life. So, that's probably why they didn't say that.
Who didn't say that?
Oh, I guess it was you who didn't say fen. But it's probably more correct to leave "fen" out, at least if you want to be understood. It is not s common word. I had to look it up.
they're apparently 7cm wide including the legs, so more like the size of a mouse and even then it's being a bit generous.
Maybe it's a baby rat. I'm going to believe it's a baby rat.
They hunt fish. There's no need to worry if you aren't fish.
If only arachnophobia were so logical