Golden silk orb weaver spiders are even one of the predators ... Read the original article on House Digest.

House spiders may give you a shock when they suddenly ... Another study in Australia found female golden orb-weaving spiders ...

These included: the House Spider family, the Daddy Long Legs spider, several Orb Weaving species such as Araneus Diadematus, the Zebra Jumping spider and the False Widow. We also played host to ...

but I'm afraid to say I'm still a bit scared of really large house spiders! And I'm not that fond of false widows either. My favourite species is definitely the garden spider – the orb-weaver.