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Can UK house spiders bite humans?

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P.S. They're also called Tegenaria gigantea/domestica.

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  1. i bet they could


  2. all spiders bite, and all are spiders poisonus even money spiders.

  3. no, it's very unlikely  

  4.   All spiders can bite and some are venomous.

  5. Don't know if it's any help but this is copied and pasted from another website I been looking at:

    All spiders bite and nearly all inject venom into their prey, but the fangs of the vaste majority of species are too small to penetrate human skin and very few will bite man, even when severely provoked. Of the 35,000 or so species throughout the world, about 500 are known to cause painful bites in humans, but only about a dozen of these spiders are highly venomous. The species which are particularly dangerous to man are largely confined to warmer parts of the world, although their common names will be familiar to most people. For example, the venomous bites of the black widows or red-back spiders (Latrodectus) and the Australian funnel-web spiders (Atrax) are well known, since both can be fatal in some circumstances. Likewise, the Brazilian wandering spider (Phoneutria) has a dangerous reputation as a very aggressive species with an extremely painful bite. Few, if any, of the spiders found in temperate regions are particularly venomous or likely to bite. Among the native spiders of Britain and northern Europe, for example, there are only one or two species that require some caution if handled. The water spider (Argyroneta) can give a fairly painful bite, but usually this is much less severe than the bites and stings of many common insects. Somewhat unpleasant bite wounds can also be inflicted by the larger species of Cheiracanthium and Steatoda. The latter species is often found in and around house and other buildings. You can find more about the recognition and biology of these and other spiders from the books listed below.

  6. They can bite but it doesn't do serious harm. You'll just feel a pin prick and might get an irritation afterwards.

  7. Doubtful. They are large, but their mandibles are too small to penetrate the skin of a human.

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