Sorry for poor picture quality. Found in France. Never seen anything like it.
Where do you live?
Very few spiders cover the whole world, but that looks close enough to a brown recluse that you should’ve killed it immediately if you’re anywhere that could even potentially have them.
They’re not normal spiders, if you get bit by one it will fuck you up bad. A bite could result in dead tissue almost a foot wide within days, and take months to heal even with medical treatment. They’re not going to run at you and attack you, but you don’t want these roaming around you house.
If the body has that light brown with dark brown in it, they get squashed. And not with a paper towel or tissue, take the time to go get a shoe or a hardcover book. It ain’t worth the risk.
But again, they’re pretty much only in a chunk of America that isn’t really densely populated, so it really matters where you’re at.
Thanks for the answer. Living in France. I didn’t hear of dangerous species of spiders here. But this one had me look twice.
Yeah. I have no idea what spiders are in France.
A good way to figure it out is find a website with a list of dangerous spiders for your area, and ideally the most common spiders confused for them.
Chances are you’ll see something like yours on the list.
we don’t have dangerous spiders here 😅
If it’s big and in a rural French house, it’s very likely a Tégénaire : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegenaria_domestica
We don’t have many dangerous or even biting species of spiders.
Thank for your answer.
ITT I read that it could also be a radiated wolf spider. In any case it was big, bigger than other big a** spiders I found at this place. But what do I know, I’m definitely not a country person.Did it show any signs of super powers?
…maybe let it bite you…?
Big nasty spiders that bite you usually give you necrosis. Does that count?
Is you existence your arch nemisis?