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Originally Posted by Chris

Further pedantic point - the false widow is now well established in the southernmost parts of England. A false widow very much can bite you, and deliver an uncomfortably venomous gift along with it. We caught and removed one from our summer holiday accommodation in Penzance last July.

Oops, I forgot about them. To be fair, they're not native as I recall. Well, I suppose they can count as native if they're established...

And re the daddy-long-legs: I do tend to leave the lights off; my night vision's quite good. In fact since my cataract surgery, which mostly removed my need for glasses (just reading glasses now), my vision seems these days to be the one thing that isn't wrong with me.