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What is this pretty but horrifying creature? With the legs it's about the size of my palm.
Looks to me like a wolf spider, but it's in Europe, possibly brought in on furniture or something?
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- Submitted: Jul 29, 2021
- Photographed: Jul 29, 2021
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Winnweiler, Germany
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
This is most likely a Giant House Spider (Eratigena atrica), a strongly synanthropic species, as the vulgar name implies. It is s very common, actually. However intimidating its size may be, it’s totally harmless to humans 🙂
Thank you! This is probably the biggest spider I’ve seen yet and I was pretty concerned
Gern geschehen 😉 !