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Picture for Tonight: Spidey of the Day
This was in the upstairs toilet. As pictured, however, it's in an empty cotton-tip container I found to capture it in. I took photos of it in the box before I evicted it to the back garden. Having a spider running around in a clear plastic box gave me a sudden urge to keep it as a pet... but since it's not one with which I'm familiar, I wouldn't know what to feed it, and I have a sneaking suspicion that my two mildly arachnophobic housemates will disapprove of my keeping a pet spider I know nothing about.
*googles around a bit*
Ah-ha. This would appear to be Scytodidae, or spitting spider. From what I can see, not dangerous at all to humans; nocturnal, fond of warmth (hence coming inside, though I'm not sure how it got in), preys on insects (of which I don't think we have any upstairs, so it might have found itself a bit hungry).
Anyway, the photo!
My policy on spiders is: outdoors, hooray! Indoors, dangerous spiders are killed, spiders that aren't whitetails (sometimes redbacks) are evicted. In return for my kindness, I expect them to KILL FLIES.
This one is clearly cool. It has six eyes and venomous webs.
*googles around a bit*
Ah-ha. This would appear to be Scytodidae, or spitting spider. From what I can see, not dangerous at all to humans; nocturnal, fond of warmth (hence coming inside, though I'm not sure how it got in), preys on insects (of which I don't think we have any upstairs, so it might have found itself a bit hungry).
Anyway, the photo!
My policy on spiders is: outdoors, hooray! Indoors, dangerous spiders are killed, spiders that aren't whitetails (sometimes redbacks) are evicted. In return for my kindness, I expect them to KILL FLIES.
This one is clearly cool. It has six eyes and venomous webs.
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