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  • i hate spiders. idk why im doing this to myself... xD

  • I seen a spider crawling on the side of my bed that looked just like this one but it was alot bigger i think it was a brown recluse good thing i killed that bastard.

  • THATS HUGE!!

  • Adult ones would be too big, I think.

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  • Although the tegenaria domestica is very similar and does occur in england..the tegenaria has a more rounded carapace than the wolf spider. But it is very hard to see from the video, so I guess it could be.. lol i guess i'm not 100% sure after all!

  • @LuvMyBirdies I think it is Tegenaria gigantea. If you use these terms in the YouTube search window - attenborough wolf spider - you should get one of David Attenborough's videos showing a female wolf spider laying eggs and caring for them. That is a marvelous video and thanks for commenting.

  • @andrewburbidge

    Plz scream my name, Leik itz Muthafuckin' Going out of sTyle!!!1

  • I know that this is an old video..but I study spiders, and these comments are wrong. This is NOT a hobo spider. This is NOT a brown recluse. This is a wolf spider, and they are harmless. I am 100% sure about this.

  • EXTERMINATE!

  • That spider is one ugly bastard.

  • That is a hobo spider. I get them all the time....

  • @DarkStar6161 No it's a house spider, we don't get hobo spiders and brown recluse spiders (thank god) here in Britain. They look similar, but they are venomous from what I hear, not enough to kill someone, but it's a nasty venom all the same (look up brown recluse spider bite).

  • That's big! O.O I hate spiders x.x

  • These common house spiders look virtually identical to the hobo spiders we see in the Pacific Northwest. How can you tell the difference without being an expert? Hobo's move very quickly, and make tunnel type webs (hence the name Hobo). Generally they are not aggressive. However if you are bitten it is very serious. It's important not to kill a spider unless you are certain it is dangerous (or bug bomb). This is because you do not want a dangerous kind to become dominant in your home.

  • you should have locked the spider in that cassete box with a shitload of fire ants

  • not a recluse its a hobo

  • Looks like a brown recluse. They're bite is very potent, can cause severe pain, flesh lost even death. BE CAREFUL!

  • ordinary? if i say that thing in my room i would die

  • It's probably just a domestic house spider Tegenaria domestica, people saying it's a hobo spider will be Americans, I see that you are in England. It's also a common mistake to think they are Wolf spiders, which they aren't.

  • how the hell did it get in there

  • Looks like a hobo spider-very nasty necrotic bite. They are in western canada now and the northwest united states and their stings look like Brown recluse stings of the central uS Ohio valley . Very painful and nasty bites.

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  • @BradJC70 Thanks for the valuable comment, which seems to have been removed. I don't know how that happened.

  • spiders are homosexuals

  • @nowisdasick The fuck? 

  • I found one of there in my room but a little smaller I have a video of it on my channel

  • @codkid94 Thanks. It looks like a male of this species or a closely related species.

  • Nasa delivered 2 golden orb spiders to the Space Station on the last flight of the Space Shuttle, Endeavour. See videos of them here on YouTube. Search for - nasa golden orb spider -

  • Wolf Spider. Aggressive. Will bite if given the chance. Not gonna kill you though. You can find them anywhere you wanna look for them. Hell if ya go outside right now, I;ll put money on you finding one in a matter of minutes

  • To say a spider doesn't have venom is ignorant. All spiders have venom, that is how they eat. Perhaps its not dangerous to humans, but still, they have venom.

  • Why I look that  q0.0p

  • Holy Shitt... My Fear (n)

  • Wolf spiders do bite. They are not venomous. The bites do hurt. The most poisonous spider in the world? The daddy long legs. However, their fangs are too small to puncture human skin.

  • @SWAZDUDE When I checked on the daddy long legs spider, Pholcus phalangioides, I found where someone said they have never been known to bite humans so the poison has never been examined, as far as that person, who seemed very knowledgeable, was aware.

  • @andrewburbidge Mythbusters actually did a test to see if daddy long legs are venomous, and can bite humans. Adam was bitten by a daddy long leg about 6 times, it didn't do anything. That is proof, watch the video yourself.

  • @ThatIsGoodOJ He's brave! Sometimes, what is meant by saying something has never been known, is that no one has published research on it in a scientific journal.

    I watched that video and it really showed there seems to be no special reason to fear those spiders. I had to search for - daddy longleg myth - to find the video.

    Thanks for the information.

  • @SWAZDUDE

    It has been scientific tested that the 'Daddy long legs' do not have that sort of venom, its either the Brazilian Wondering Spider that could have the most toxic, neurotoxins,

  • @InvertAndSpiderClub Thats what the people at Mythbusters said - a Brazilian spider is the most dangerous, followed by the Australian funnel web spider. Their video comes up with a search for these terms - daddy longleg myth -

  • @andrewburbidge yeah the myth comes about that the daddy long legs has been known to eat other spiders, a lot of people think that the Funnel Web is actually more dangerous to humans being as the test done was on rats and Brazilian wandering spider venom is more harmful to marsupials whereas the Funnel Web Spider is more dangerous to humans, however we don't see mythbusters putting their arm into a box filled with either spider, so we may never know. Probably best not to get bitten

  • @BroomeBlocker4 That's right. They can't do experiments on people to find out which kind of venom is most dangerous. If they tested venoms on cultures of human cells it still might be that some people could have a much stronger reaction than others for the same venom. Best to avoid them.

  • It's called a wolf spider, they can totally peirce your skin, especially the bigger ones. They are not venomous. They make funnelwebs and patrol the 'alleyways' of your house eating any pest insects which might live there.

  • @WhenTheMusicsOver2 It might be called a wolf spider by some, but is that the correct name for it? A page with this title: USA Spider Identification Chart has pictures of spiders of interest. It doesn't look much like the hobo spider they have pictured - it's abdomen is bigger but the one they show might be a male and males do have smaller abdomens. But I think this one is Tegenaria gigantea.

  • Definitely NOT a hobo. Hobo's are more spindly than that. Check out the seven second post entitled "hobo spider" . In that video there is a hobo spider, and hobo's can be very dangerous.

    I know because this summer I had to kill a hobo in my apartment ( I live in Vancouver they are everywhere here now), and it was a freaky experience.

  • I want a spider.. and I would it for Claude Faustus :3

  • fat n ugly

  • KILL IT!!!!!!!!!!! sorry but that is so gross!

  • kill this and then kill spiderman

  • These spiders are actually quite venomous, however their fangs and punching power is far too weak to get through our tough skill. They can't harm you and are actually doing you a favour in your home by eating all the other bugs that live in your house! If you throw them out, they will eventually find a way back in :)

  • @The40Kwarrior I think they could pierce thinner areas of skin but perhaps not fingertips.

  • I slaughter them whenever I see them and have instigated a population boom amongst the cellar/daddy longleg spiders just to kill/starve them out, some MASSIVE form of spider that was so big I thought each segment was a whole spider until I saw that it was definitely only 8 legs and 2 segments crawled on the wall earlier, it's dead, but I fear what else might be trying to get into the house, or already in

    cellar spiders are okay, they look like craneflies without wings, my personal army

  • For those that don't know, these spiders are called the Rabid Wolf Spider....supposedly harmless to humans. I don't know if I completely believe that or not, but I sure don't stick around to find out!

  • @indianchocolate4 I don't remember hearing that name before.

  • the ordinary house spider is such a boring name, it makes the spider sound so much more mundane. it should have been called the house-shadow-lurker or something...

  • if its a house spider leave it your house its been there all its life and wont bother you too often they just hide away. they only really come out to eat or mate, then go away again. if you put it outside it will die. you should leave them because they will eat all the pesty little insects like midges that bite you and leave itchy bumps on your skin. i like spiders :)

  • DnylF1 left this comment: "My brother and I threw one of these out last week. It was creeping on the wall in the bathroom when I got it down to the faucet. It tried to escape from there but couldn't climb up. Eventually it got tired so then we could just put it into a cooking pan and he threw it out." Somehow it got deleted. Thanks DnylF1. That's the sort of thing I would do also.

  • Should of seen the size of the one we had in our bathroom had to get my friend to stab it to death, usually I run from em. But this one was bloody HUGE! I couldn't run I was petrified.

  • shit i need spiders like these,why do i need em?roaches thats why.

  • @KurikazuTheWarrior Do they eat the baby cockroaches? Adult ones would be too big, I think.

  • @andrewburbidge cant say i know about these spiders.all i got in my house are daddy long legs and all they do is eat ants and go in peoples shoes,they are useless as always.

  • I keep seeing these mean looking brown spiders in our house they are brown and are very fast are these spiders poisonous

  • @Theroguesunit6 I think you mean some sort of spider but if you mean the sort in this video, probably not poisonous. I did read that often when a bite turns nasty it is because of infection that got in rather than venom. Anyway, best to leave them alone or catch them in something to remove them.

  • I have a video of the spider maybe you can tell what it is people say it's a house spider but it doesn't look like one

  • when I was filming the spider myself the second time to get a better view when i searched the internet think it might be a tegenaria domestica but I'm not exactly sure if it is one

  • @Theroguesunit6 Your spider looks like an ordinary house spider to me, smaller than the one in this video.

  • @KurikazuTheWarrior after the rain or if u wet ur graet 1 and see it crawling i have tons of em in my bak yard

  • @TheAirsoftknight lucky,im in homestead,florida the only thing a wet backyard gets me is lizards on the windows looking inside begging for a dry place.but i dont have a roach problem anymore,my dad sprayed the downstairs of my house and ever since i havent seen them at all,not even upstairs

  • does any1 know what kind of spider we get here in the uk ?

  • @asdop We get ones like this because that's where I'm from. If you search for my username and - spider - here on YouTube you can see other spiders I videoed. A very common garden spider is the sort with the cross on its abdomen. Maybe the cross is camouflage, looking something like strands of the web with dew on them.

  • @asdop this spider is known as tegenaria (but i cant figure out which specimen exatly)

  • @asdop you guys are lucky i suppose you dont have very dangerous spiders like the US.. but if you get dangerous spiders in an import car.... your dead no anti venon is available...

  • CUTE CUTE CUTE

  • I was just bit by one!!! In four places!!! Ten minutes ago!!!! 

  • @mollgrav Did you provoke it, accidentally?

  • @mollgrav I was bit 4 hours ago nothing to really be worried about

  • Awww it's cute and alsoo. Needs a bigger box.  Ok?!

  • @Jellochicka I put it out in the garden. It had lots of space then.

  • you get those in england? i had one try to attack me in my house... youve probably seen the one with the guy and the vacume killin one.. i prefer airsoft guns, its very funny when the splat everywhere

  • @Jonathan16309 I wish I had a good one.

    I take my sling and practise on the ones in the garden.

    You know the ones that make a big fucking web and slack all day waiting for a catch?

    Sit smack dab in the center so it's bulls eye if you get them.

  • whatever you do, dont kill it!! IT WILL START TO RAIN IF YOU DO :O

  • i have goosebumps on my legs from watching this i hate spiders

  • hahaha i just imagine going to pick out a movie for a night to watch, and when you open the case your like, AHHHHHH!!! (backround)

  • Spiders need to be extinct! Ehhh.....Spiders really give me the creep yah!

  • @justcoolkool Other little creatures would replace them.

  • @justcoolkool TRUE DAT!

  • @justcoolkool ummm with out spiders our gardens will be destroyed and mosquitoes will be more frequent so they shouldnt be extinct

  • @justcoolkool No. They don't need to be. Only WASPS need to be extinct!

  • @PokePackOpener14 wasps and mosquitoes! >:0 too many mosquitoes... :\

  • @justcoolkool Yeah. If spiders went extinct then the dinosaurs would come back. But in spider form. Do you really want a spidersaurus rex running around?

  • @justcoolkool but spiders kill those annoying flies.

  • @justcoolkool

    noooooo! they dont otherwise there's be so many other nice little insects that spiders normally eat EVERYWHERE! theyre worse than spiders too they spread disease etc.

  • we have those in the netherlands too, they called house spiders: in the netherlands

    huis spinnen

  • @svenXDsven Thanks. So is that why Amsterdam has been called 'de grote spinneweb'? Maybe it was only rarely said but I did read it somewhere. It would be because of the shape made by all the canals, on a map.

  • @andrewburbidge I know Amsterdam has lots of canals but i don't know if it is called "de grote spinnenweb"

  • @svenXDsven It's a poetic sort of name someone thought up then, probably not used much.

  • nice

  • in Florida, we call that a common wolf spider

  • @shizmit11 I've seen the name. But isn't that a different species? Perhaps it just looks similar.

  • @andrewburbidge....... very similar. Even the violin shaped marks on the back of its head. But this looks a little smaller, Using your finger to reference its size.

  • Fuck man... I turned around to look around my room cause I was scared and turned back and saw that on the screen and FREAKED out! Whew!

  • @madytaylor93

    That's probably a healthy instinct.

    As I was moving home in the last couple of days, I saw a black widow from the garden shed - a false black widow, with grey markings rather than the red of the dangerous sort. I also saw one like this only much smaller. I got it to crawl onto my hand and threw it somewhere safe.

  • can u really find spiders the size of your hand in engalnd

  • HÄMÄHÄKKI

  • we also have this spider in Germany

  • it should be against the law to kill harmless spiders..

  • Fail.

  • WIN.

  • Then i would just kill even more.

  • Tegenaria atrica...the house spider

  • I can see what you mean - it looks like T. atrica. But from the Wikipedia article, they are darker and the abdomen is smaller. Although they might be found in England, it seems, they aren't common here. So, the one in this video is almost certainly T. gigantea.

  • Aight....

  • omgggggg id faint if i came face to face with that

  • that's what she said

  • that is not a house i think its a recluse

  • lol typical people thinking all brown spiders are brown recluses.

  • @mans3838 It is in the UK. We don't have recluse spiders here.

  • I commented on this about a year ago, and will do so again for more recent viewers. It is Tegenaria gigantea, which, despite its large size, is a very common and ordinary house spider! It is closely related to what people call 'the hobo spider'. But the hobo spider (T. agrestis) is almost always found outside.

    None of this UK family of spiders can hurt you. They can bite, but very rarely do. The bite would be no more than a pinprick, with no after-effects. So, relax!

  • ok so it meant tht in europe we have any deadli s[piders too?

  • There is the black widow, which is black with red markings. It is thought to be native to all temperate zones of the northern hemisphere but some seem to think that we don't have them in Britain but that they might invade because of global warming.

    I've seen a black spider with white markings in the UK, which must have been a false black widow , and harmless - unless there is such a thing as an albino black widow spider of the dangerous sort!

  • ok i life in Poland both i dnt see here any of them once i saw spider whu looks bit similar bth im not sure wth it was both i think the can travel wth imported foods too tht bit dangerouse huh .... i saw video like brazil wandering spider cames here wth bananas huh

  • that's some big ass spider you got there ^^

    i hate those things, it creeps me out :(

  • I thought it was a Hobo Spider when I looked at it, but they do get confused with other species. BTW According to Wikipedia (which isn't to be taken as gospel in every instance), AGRESTIS translates as 'of the fields'. If so, it could well be the root of the words 'agricultural' and 'agrarian'. There again, it could also be one of those dead language words with more than one conceivable meaning. Ancient Greek and Hebrew are full of them.

  • Thanks. I think that's essentially right about the origin of the name. It's interesting how words sometimes perhaps have more than one origin and it can seem difficult to exclude possiblitities regarding origins completely.

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  • thank god i dont have them in cali

  • lmao, cali has more dangerous spiders than this, these house spiders are found in generally UK,Ireland and northern europe, theyre the biggest type of spider u will find here, and theyre completley harmless

  • -screams like a little girl- i hate spiders

  • it looks like a wolf spider

  • meh

  • True! But I just can't imagine it as these little buddies seem to hide pretty good... ;-)

  • There were woodlice where I found this one and it had been eating them. Most spiders can't eat woodlice, apparently, because of the tough exoskeleton. Also, it was in a conservatory next to a garden and I think these spiders are usually garden spiders. The woodlice attracted it in from the garden.

  • you do have spiders like THAT in england? good god, I will never come to your country... ;-)

    Greetings from hamburg, germany

  • You probably have these in Germany also - it's basically the same flora and fauna throughout our part of northwest Europe.

  • Germany has many more bigger types.

  • The way we build houses (with lots of little gaps and unfinished bits) encourages them.

    They're harmless but a bit annoying.

  • Yes, it appears to be Tegenaria gigantea, or the giant house spider.

  • but im no expert by any means

  • it seems to be a common garden orb weaver

  • omg u touched it

  • All these spider vids are givin me nervous itches! lol, like watchin Arachnophobia all over again!

  • Spiders are cute! They clean your house by eating flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, and other bugs that cause diseases.

  • So does a hoover

    There not cute

  • how does that make em cute? spiders are public enemy #1 to me, i see one i scream like a sissy, look for somthing to kill it, stare at it for like 4 mins in fear and awe, then finnly kill them

  • lol el00023, your reaction is EXACTLY LIKE MINE. "stare at it for like 4 mins in fear and awe," that made me lol so much. then as soon as you see it viciously run towards you it's like OMG! *sound of catalogue hitting floor*

  • do you like posting this on every spider vid youtube has to offer?

  • It's similar to a grass spider or a wolf spider in the USA. Neither one harmful. I don't know about spiders in the UK

  • They look fierce and ARE noticeable when big, One just crawled undermy door and i got him in a bottle, I might put it on youtube or something, shits huge! prob harmless though

  • Thats the spiderI used to own when i was younger. anyone know what its called....been told many times it was a daddy long leg but i can clearly see its not.

  • There has been a lot of discussion in the comments about which species this is. Probably it is Tegenaria gigantea although others have said it is T. agrestis - the hobo spider.

    There are many regional names for little creatures of one kind or another.

  • cool cool =) thanx

  • i think its a wolf spider. ive been bitten 3 times and nothing happens, just two little red bumps :P

  • From some reading about spider bites I found that sometimes the necrotising wound that can result might be due to infection rather than venom. That might mean that any spider bite could cause a sore and even leave a scar, depending on the likelihood of such an infection.

  • Holy -beeep- thats the same spider i found in my room the other night.. i killed it im really scared of spiders can this type hurt u??? i found one b4 on my bed and now im scared to sleep coz it got away when i tryed to kill it D: i dunno what to do about them im so scared if it trys to bite mee D:

  • I put a glass over a spider then slide a card under the glass and drop the spider outside the house. Spider's don't know what's happening with glass near them.

  • That spider was no ordinary house spider it was a brenisian spider they are bad spiders.

  • I couldn't remember hearing about that sort of spider so I did a search and found it seems to be something to do with Spider Man.

  • it only  looks like a wolf spider if they do bite you it only usually cause's swelling, mild pain and itching, but thats only sometimes other times it won't do anything but sting a bit

  • Oh my god... if that was in my house I would FREAK out! Ugh!!!

  • dus it hurt if they bite?

  • I've never been bitten by one, as far as I can remember. It might depend on whether it is a dry bite or one with venom in it - the spider can choose whether or not to release venom as it bites, apparently.

    It's thought that, either way, this type of spider wouldn't cause much pain for most people but some could have a stronger reaction and then it might hurt more. But also there is a chance that an area of flesh around the wound could be killed, leaving a scar - but maybe not from this type.

  • can they bite?

  • They can and they might bite a person if they are seriously disturbed and frightened. If you have a very small lens or a microscope you can examine their fangs. They do look quite frightening close up.

  • kill it man

  • The thing that makse these not as scary is that they don't bite. I woke up with one on my arm, had a complete freakout, and it was still there. A normal spider would have bitten me, but it just went down to my hand as if nothing happened. Then I just let it get off.

    They LOOK creepy though.

  • I think it's extremely rare that this sort of spider would climb on a person, because of fear for their own safety.

    If you would like to see a swarm of baby spiders, I've just uploaded two videos of a swarm I saw yesterday. I don't remember ever seeing such a thing before.

  • well, hobo spiders are normally identified by the two lines on the carapace(which that has) although the common/ giant house spider has a "mean looking face" on its carapace...if it is in a cassette box, it isnt too big to be a hobo spider. hobo spiders grow to 1 1/2" while giant house spiders grow up to 4" hope this helps ;)

  • i hit a nearly hatched group of spiders with the hose by accident when watering i felt well guilty afterwards they looked just like tiny versions of the one's in the jars

  • ya i try to catch and keep all spiders i find in my house...i own three tarantulas...one 4" female and two slings...one just molted out of a sling on wednesday...waiting for this wednesday to feed it.

  • Disgusting.

  • As with wasps, I think you can get used to them. Looking at one with a very strong lens makes them appear more interesting - maybe more dangerous also, though.

  • Wasps have never bothered me, but spiders scare the crap out of me.

  • same here