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- Submitted: Sep 22, 2022
- Photographed: Sep 22, 2022
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Ipswich in Suffolk UK, United Kingdom
- Spotted Outdoors: Forest
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Unidentified
Picture ID 164595
Hi. A best guess is a very young Steatoda nobilis.
Maybe 3 or 4 instar, This young makes spiders hard to ID.
Species Steatoda nobilis – BugGuide.Net
Wow. So just looked this up and it’s a false widow and just happens to be the most venomous which was crawling on my trouser leg. Omg
Hi. For the UK, I believe ‘most venomous’ is over exaggeration. All but a couple species of spiders are venomous but bites are not considered of medical significance.
These spiders are very unlikely to bite anyway unless mashed against the skin and then not likely to be worse than just another bug bite or bee/ant sting in a worst case.
I have handled a good number of false widows and simply never bitten.