False widows everywhere

Someone tell me when it is over... who needs to air their house anyway ;)

Hard to make out, but they don't look like false widows to me.

"My" false widows are the Cupboard Spider (Steatoda grossa). Very dark, solid, shiny with robust shiny legs. See UK varieties of false widow here: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/identify-nature/spiders-in-your-home/false-widow-spiders.html. I haven't seen them out in the open exposed like in the window photo above, and over ~8 years I only have seen a handful. One sheltering in a wall vent at the moment with web outside, and I found three in a pile of branches in a cardboard box in a wooden shed a few years ago. So they have not taken over in my garden. I understand they enjoy woodlice etc so damp, dark environments perfect.

Maybe other species of false widow are different.

Native biodiversity in enough trouble as it is...pls don't destroy it if you are not sure what it is!!

Never hear of emptying outside away from the house?

See post above yours. 🙄

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member of the Scouts?? 😉

I'm terrified of spiders but I've a pact with those spindly omm, daddy long leg ones that they can stay undisturbed in my house as they eat other spiders .

I squashed about 20 of them last night that i knocked off the top of the windows outside.

They are definitely not rare.

Very common here in the Midlands too, the last couple of years