Moving an indoor spider outside typically leads to their death. What you did here is basically throw a spider to the wolves. If you can't deal with a spider indoors and you feel obligated to do something about it but have ethical feelings or whatever, the better thing to do is simply and quickly squish it.
Yup, that's a giant house spider. No kidding, that's the vernacular name of the species, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_house_spider. Formerly filed under the tegenaria genus, now its own genus.
They're comically large and terror-inducing, but not aggressive. And they keep out more aggressive species too.
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.
God the memories. Lived in a house surrounded by banks of ivy and for whatever reason it attracted those things like none other (Giant House Spider).
The house at the time was also poorly insulated or sealed from outside. I'd find 1-2 every 2-3 days inside. They'd teleport across the house using the vent system too. One snuck inside my bath towel. I'd find them in the sink just chilling, they'd crawl across the bed sometimes, ugh.
Look, I know they're harmless (to humans) and I know I'm being dumb, but spiders for some reason immediately cause a fight or flight response in me. Like, there were nights I'd see one and then I'd be unable to sleep the rest of the night and I'd have to keep the lights on just in case. My brain just absolutely breaks down when spiders are involved, it's dumb, I know it, but I can't seem to stop it and those particular spiders are just so unbelievably large that it scared the shit out of me.
Roaches? Snakes? Ants? Beetles? Scorpions? Literally anything else? I don't care at all. Only spiders. No clue why.
They're named wolf spiders because they physically hunt and chase down their food. Like a tarantula their size/strength is how they get food, so their builds are similar. It also makes them almost impossible to catch with a glass like this, fuckers can move.
It looks to me like it could be a brown recluse, but if OP doesn't live where they do, it's likely just a random ass house spider that's no big deal.
Looks like a giant house spider. Another lemming suggested a brown recluse. One is harmless, and the other can kill you. Squach it or leave it, hard to tell.
To those downvoting this comment. Why? Arachnophobic people do exist (and for some, even a picture of a spider can make them feel deeply uncomfortable)
Idk I could've worded it better, I prob came off more entitled or something than I meant to. It doesn't freak me out seeing pics of spiders most of the time, and I'm certainly not entitled to that stuff being hidden, I just think it's nice for pics with common phobias like that to be nested in the post or nsfw'd if it's not in a community that's for those things
A big one. Once, I got surprised by a big one like that on my way to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I freaked out and let it escape... under my bed... couldn't find it. I couldn't go back to sleep.
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.
En dépit de sa taille impressionnante, la tégénaire géante est totalement inoffensive pour l'Homme.
Il n'existe pas d'article scientifique ni de publication médicale faisant état d'un cas direct de morsure d'une araignée du genre Tegenaria sur l'Homme. Les accusations sont portées a posteriori, à la suite de la découverte d'une tégénaire dans la maison d'un patient souffrant de lésions de la peau. On trouve pourtant d'autres explications médicales bien plus plausibles (virus, champignons, eczéma, maladie de Lyme...),.
Particulièrement craintive et docile comme sa cousine Tegenaria domestica, Eratigena duellica cherchera toujours à fuir en cas de dérangement. Eratigena agrestis ne partage pas la même réputation pacifique, mais semble tout aussi inoffensive.
please be more careful with their legs next time. Looks like 3 are crushed