HUGE spider outside my window!?!?! (Venomous?)

I know a lot of people are scared of spiders, perhaps because some adults made a big fuss about them being around us when we were little, but they really are harmless to us and they have positive benefits, for example, they consume a lot of other insects in buildings that can be annoying. They are no threat in the UK.

I'm not being horrid about it, but I really would ask people not to be so cruel to them as sucking them up in vacuum cleaners. One harmless way to exclude them from your room or building (if you really can't bear them) is to put a jar or glass over them, carefully slide a piece of card under the jar and spider (do this gently so as not to break their legs or hurt them), then get a friend who can stand spiders to place them outside the door or window on to grass and release the card.

Please be nice to spiders - they are a valuable part of our wildlife.

I know a lot of people are scared of spiders, perhaps because some adults made a big fuss about them being around us when we were little, but they really are harmless to us and they have positive benefits, for example, they consume a lot of other insects in buildings that can be annoying. They are no threat in the UK.

I'm not being horrid about it, but I really would ask people not to be so cruel to them as sucking them up in vacuum cleaners. One harmless way to exclude them from your room or building (if you really can't bear them) is to put a jar or glass over them, carefully slide a piece of card under the jar and spider (do this gently so as not to break their legs or hurt them), then get a friend who can stand spiders to place them outside the door or window on to grass and release the card.

Please be nice to spiders - they are a valuable part of our wildlife.

I know it's cruel, but it's still an option, I was just suggesting it.

Just discovered a hug spider hiding in the crack of my hall window - it's been there a long time as it has a strong funnel-like web which it crawls into.
It's really big and also meaty - making us suspect it's venomous!
I can post a picture later..
Anyway what should I do? I can't really just kill it/throw it outside. Would it be weird to inform maintenance/hall person of it?

if you put conkers in your house the spiders will not trouble you

OH DON'T!!! My skin is crawling!!

I hate you for this.

Does that work?

I know people, including my GF sort of, who don't really like house spiders, but are okay with Tarantulas as they're not so leggy/fast and look fuzzy. I mean how can you dislike A. versicolor, best Avic I think.... if I attached it right its even small till you click on it, so kind of me of you really can't bare spiders (though human nature would make you want to click on it anyway)

yes... they hate conkers. it is like if someone put Adele in my house

If you're right, I might try this as I can't bear spiders.

That guy is nice, he's jazzy, colourful and fluffy - more like a nice animal.

Gangly ones are the worse because they look so...alien. And their movements are really jerky which lends itself to being able to give me a small fright.

i can come round and show you where to put the conkers

i can come round and show you where to put the conkers

Yeah my friends often think that, GF is kind of indifferent to them but she likes the ones which have pretty colours, and the fluffyness and their bulk sort of makes you forgot their a spider I think. Also out of the spiders I have, my Avic (not that species) is the only one I can hold, some tarantulas can be fast, though not like house spiders, but these guys move in slow motion, it puts up with me taking 5 minutes of tapping its legs to herd it out of its enclosure (lives in a tube with a lot of web) onto my hand without attacking me lol.

yes... they hate conkers. it is like if someone put Adele in my house

Sounds kind of adorable () what's it's name?

If you're right, I might try this as I can't bear spiders.

I call her Velvey because she sort of feels like velvet when you stroke her. All my tarantulas are female cos y'know males are only good for one thing and they spend the last 6 months of their comparatively short life's so focused on it they forget to eat basically. Where as the ladies can live for 10-40+ years (depends on the species).

Here be a photo...makes her look kinda small, think because my hand is closer to the tens than she is..

I know a lot of people are scared of spiders, perhaps because some adults made a big fuss about them being around us when we were little, but they really are harmless to us and they have positive benefits, for example, they consume a lot of other insects in buildings that can be annoying. They are no threat in the UK.

I'm not being horrid about it, but I really would ask people not to be so cruel to them as sucking them up in vacuum cleaners. One harmless way to exclude them from your room or building (if you really can't bear them) is to put a jar or glass over them, carefully slide a piece of card under the jar and spider (do this gently so as not to break their legs or hurt them), then get a friend who can stand spiders to place them outside the door or window on to grass and release the card.

Please be nice to spiders - they are a valuable part of our wildlife.