{"id":1750,"date":"2009-09-02T22:33:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T22:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/2009\/09\/house-bath-spider-tegenaria-duellica-aka-tegenaria-gigantea\/"},"modified":"2009-09-02T22:33:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T22:33:30","slug":"house-bath-spider-tegenaria-duellica-aka-tegenaria-gigantea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1750","title":{"rendered":"House \/ Bath Spider: Tegenaria Duellica (AKA Tegenaria Gigantea)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s starting to get wet and wild outside as autumn replaces summer and that means it&#39;s time for big brown spiders in the bath. Here&#39;s one that Mrs C was delighted to find last night. Click for scarier, larger version!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e015888340120a598dd40970c\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BathSpider (1)\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e5550e015888340120a598dd40970c \" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e015888340120a598dd40970c-400wi\" style=\"width: 400px; \" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A bit of research suggests this is an example of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giant_house_spider\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tegenaria Duellica &#8211; i.e. Common House Spider<\/a> in UK parlance. There seems to be a bit of confusion out there on the web (ho ho) as to the many close varieties of Tegenaria, but I think consensus is that Duellica and Gigantea are in fact the same thing, with Gigantea being the deprecated nomenclature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This example is about 6cm across the legs, with perhaps a 16mm body. The long legs and slender body suggest it&#39;s a male, which makes sense as it&#39;s the males out roaming for a mate at this time of year, which is why we see so many of them all of a sudden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s starting to get wet and wild outside as autumn replaces summer and that means it&#39;s time for big brown spiders in the bath. Here&#39;s one that Mrs C was delighted to find last night. Click for scarier, larger version! A bit of research suggests this is an example of Tegenaria Duellica &#8211; i.e. Common [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}