Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Never encountered spider (Before now!), 0 by burtj

burtj wrote:
Hi!

I was sat on my couch and noticed this little guy (girl?) walking across the seat next to me. I was curious because it had thread trailing from it's abdomen a short way behind it. When I turned to look, it stopped walking, and jumped approx 8-10 inches onto my leg.

I was pretty startled and swiped it away causing it to swing, because of the thread, back to the couch seat. Seemingly (hopefully) unharmed.

Can anyone please tell me what this spider is, as I've never seen one around here (Central UK) that doesn't mind leaping towards people!


Kind regards,

J