Comments & ID Thoughts
Found this in kitchen,is a red colour,couldnt get over its fangs what kind is it,looks like normal house spider,same size but red.
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- Submitted: Feb 22, 2020
- Photographed: Feb 22, 2020
- Spider: Dysderidae (Dysderid Spiders)
- Location: Fraserburgh, United Kingdom
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes: Ventral
Just wandered if anyone new what kind of spider it was?
Dysdera aka Woodlouse Hunter. The fangs look scary, but these guys aren’t aggressive. They eat roly-polies and woodlice; the huge fangs allow them to grab their prey & bite the underside since isopods have those hard shells protecting them.