Sorry for poor picture quality. Found in France. Never seen anything like it.
this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2024
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What is this thing?
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Yup, that's a giant house spider. No kidding, that's the vernacular name of the species, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_house_spider. Formerly filed under the tegenaria genus, now its own genus.
They're comically large and terror-inducing, but not aggressive. And they keep out more aggressive species too.