Strange spider in garage

[D-Parker]

Hi all, i found this huge-ish guy in my garage today while i was looking for something in the chest freezer. Took a couple of snaps (sorry for the blur, my camera isn't all that good) and tried to ID him myself but i just couldn't find anything.

Can anyone ID this guy? I think he's awful cute

Side view:


Top view (for markings):


---David, East Anglia

[John_M]

Looks like Tegenaria sp. and female.

[Jason Green]

Evening David, and welcome to WAB!

It's most likely one of our species of House Spider - a Tegenaria species.

Take care,

Jason

[D-Parker]

Ah thanks people, nice to know

Though between the time i posted and now, i almost caught it. Dad scared it off behind the filing cabinet though by doing his regularly annoying 'bang a tune hard on nearby object' routine, and vibrated the web by accident

When i do manage to catch it safely and put it somewhere else, i'll take a couple of closeup pics for here before i release it.

Thanks everyone

[Geoff F]

I bet it will come back!

One keeps attaching it's web to my bench grinder then running away when I turn it on. But when I leave it for a few days; it's back.

[D-Parker]

Hi all, it's me again.

As promised, I come bearing pics
(dad even helped me catch her as a sorry)




Enjoy

---David

[Jason Green]

Thanks David+Dad! It's an adult female (long thin palps, see them on pic 3?), so it's an epigyne view an expert would need (sexual organ - though a well-lit photograph would need to be at a higher resolution given the size of it).