Never seen a spider like this before!

[AceOfHearts]

Yuk!

[Oakey]

Wolf spider (I think). We've had one living in our garden the last two months

[EliseNick]

Not an expert, but isn't she pregnant?

[Shaw Tarse]

EliseNick said:

Not an expert, but isn't she pregnant?

She was...

[Mr GrimNasty]

Just orb spiders, incredibly common and always visible this time of year because they build such large and prominent webs and sit in the middle.

[Nightmare]

Yeah - garden spider or orb spider. Wolf spiders are very different - make sheet type webs and charge about catching stuff.

We have one (orb) in the conservatory which Ive been feeding mealworms to - it's massive now!

[Prof Prolapse]

I'd say it was an Orb spider. They come in a variety of colours and markings. We have fluorescent green ones on occasion, but I can't imagine that's very helpful from an evolutionary perspective.

They're well behaved industrious little things which never grow to the offensive size of the of the house spiders which like to rest in my overalls then run across my face when I'm working on something. bds.

[marcusgrant]

Saw this a few months back, false widow apparently. Found one in my garage as well, seems like they're common to the area

[mrtwisty]

At the risk of turning this into the 'Show us your spiders' thread - I found this big lad lurking in my woodstore in January. Gave me a bit of a fright!

[url]

|http://thumbsnap.com/fEOl2vDa[/url]

To give an idea of scale, those are oversized Victorian bricks he is hanging on to.

Can anyone tel me what kind of spider it is/how deadly/should I move house?

Edited by mrtwisty on Wednesday 26th October 12:21

[Prof Prolapse]

Looks like a normal house spider. "Tegenaria domestica", but it's a general term.

That is the same variety that have infested my workshop. Can be as big as the top of a drinks can. Completely harmless. GSOH, enjoy long walks, and movies with Adam Sandler.

[mrtwisty]

Normal!? It's legs were as thick as my little finger!






(Possibly a slight exaggeration there)

[MOBB]

marcusgrant said:

Saw this a few months back, false widow apparently. Found one in my garage as well, seems like they're common to the area

My OCD needs to know what the button underneath the spider says

[Sheetmaself]

Its blank, and if you could see it all it would be oh so slightly wonky and a different shade of black than the others more a dark grey if you will

[AlexC1981]

marcusgrant said:

Saw this a few months back, false widow apparently. Found one in my garage as well, seems like they're common to the area

If you have a strong stomach do a google image search for false widow bite.

False widows are an invading species that was thought to have been brought in from the Canary Islands on banana shipments. I have no guilt about killing them.

[Einion Yrth]

AlexC1981 said:

marcusgrant said:

Saw this a few months back, false widow apparently. Found one in my garage as well, seems like they're common to the area

If you have a strong stomach do a google image search for false widow bite.

False widows are an invading species that was originally thought to have been brought in from the Canary Islands on banana shipments. I have no guilt about killing them.

Mostly hysteria: I'd avoid being bitten if possible, but it's very rarely any kind of issue.

[Nom de ploom]

Nightmare said:

Yeah - garden spider or orb spider. Wolf spiders are very different - make sheet type webs and charge about catching stuff.

We have one (orb) in the conservatory which Ive been feeding mealworms to - it's massive now!

lol.

high protein diet.

As a kid I used to don the thickest gardening gloves I could find and take wasps off rotting fruit and drop them into spider webs - it was perfectly NORMAL.

Garden spiders are great when they catch prey because they have multi strand spinnerettes which is usually enough to disarm any prey and then they bite. the males are redder and smaller and tread very carefully....

[MOBB]

Sheetmaself said:

Its blank, and if you could see it all it would be oh so slightly wonky and a different shade of black than the others more a dark grey if you will

<faints>

[Boosted LS1]

On Autumnwatch the other night they showed a Ladybird spider from Arne in Dorset. Very rare but what an impressive creature.

http://cdn2.arkive.org/media/DF/DF12E344-6FDB-4174...

Edited by Boosted LS1 on Friday 28th October 20:58

[AceOfHearts]

Boosted LS1 said:

On Autumnwatch the other night they showed a Ladybird spider from Arne in Dorset. Very rare but what an impressive creature.

http://cdn2.arkive.org/media/DF/DF12E344-6FDB-4174...

Edited by Boosted LS1 on Friday 28th October 20:58

Beautiful!

Wish my spiders looked like that haha

[Oakey]

mrtwisty said:

At the risk of turning this into the 'Show us your spiders' thread - I found this big lad lurking in my woodstore in January. Gave me a bit of a fright!

[url]

|http://thumbsnap.com/fEOl2vDa[/url]

To give an idea of scale, those are oversized Victorian bricks he is hanging on to.

Can anyone tel me what kind of spider it is/how deadly/should I move house?

Edited by mrtwisty on Wednesday 26th October 12:21

I hate to break this to you but that black 'blob' to the top right of your mate there, in its web... I think that's its babies. Congratulations!

edit

Nope, wait, it's people

Edited by Oakey on Saturday 29th October 22:00