Thread about spiders (not for the arachnophobic!)

[gentlegreen]

This year's bathroom ceiling hatch appears imminent



Not sure if this is mum - she was several feet away.

 

[gentlegreen]

Not sure if the babies emerged from that particular coccoon, but there are babies everywhere.
I assume that's mum in the bottom right hand corner because she's been around for a while, but I don't trust the interloper in the top right hand corner.
last year I very quickly had very few babies, but several happy-looking daddy longlegs.

 

[Mumbles274]

Urban spider fans. Got this little bad boy. ID of what it is would be welcome. gentlegreen ?

Sitting on a leaf of one of my aqautic plants!

 

[Mumbles274]

Hopefully a better quality pic

 

[farmerbarleymow]

No idea - handsome spider though. But I've got a big daddy long legs beast lurking in the bathroom at the moment, munching on the silverfish that scuttle out at night. I keep getting silk on my head walking through the flat so it must have set traps everywhere.

 

[iona]

Roughly how big is it Mumbles274? Difficult to get a sense of scale from that pic.

 

[Calamity1971]

I've tried to zoom in but it just blurs. The buzzing spider and labyrinth spider on this site have similar colourings. Another shout out to gentlegreen!

Spiders Section - UK Safari

 

[gentlegreen]

Those front legs are quite distinctive - I suggest maybe some species of crab spider ?

I was familiar with the weird white ones that hide behind flowers and pounce on nectar-seeking insects ...

crab spider uk - Google Search

 

[Mumbles274]

Roughly how big is it Mumbles274? Difficult to get a sense of scale from that pic.

20mm approx leg span

 

[petee]

 

[iona]

I'm happy, my back door spider* is back. It disappeared for a bit and I was worried something might have eated it but apparently not It's hard to tell when I can usually only see its front legs but I think it might be a segestria florentina.

*That sounds a bit rude doesn't it It's just a spider that lives in a little hole in the wall by the back door.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I've got a tremendously shit b-movie called Tarantula - starring a giant spider similar to that. It's so bad it's good.

 

[Biddlybee]

Going to try and get a photo tonight of the one living on the sash window, no idea what it is... not a hairy house spider

 

[Biddlybee]

This is it...

 

[Biddlybee]

Is it a false widow?

 

[Biddlybee]

I think I might try and move it in case it has loads of babies

 

[gentlegreen]

yes - looks like one

 

[Biddlybee]

*looks up best way to move a false widow*

I feel mean, but I don't want lots of bitey babies

 

[Leafster]

*looks up best way to move a false widow*

I feel mean, but I don't want lots of bitey babies

I used to get a lot in my old place. Just used the old "card & glass" method and put them outside. I'm sure some of them found their way back inside but if I didn't see them, I wasn't worried.

 

[gentlegreen]

I think there's so much predation of baby spiders by other spiders, you never end up with that many.
My house is spider heaven, but I'm not actually having to fight them off

 

[Leafster]

I'd never heard of peacock spiders but some of these are beautiful.

Gorgeous New Species Of Peacock Spiders Described

 

[Calamity1971]

I'd never heard of peacock spiders but some of these are beautiful.

Gorgeous New Species Of Peacock Spiders Described

That's beautiful but I wouldn't want it on my ceiling.
Reminds me of the urbs catchphrase....
*shakes fists at sky*

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Mirror spider. The shiny bits are guanine crystals.

 

[gentlegreen]

Amazing - one of the four DNA bases and makes shiny things in animals.

Guanine - Wikipedia

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Amazing - one of the four DNA bases and makes shiny things in animals.

Guanine - Wikipedia

Strangely, the scales can change size according to how threatened the spider is, at least according to wikipedia.

It also has very long front legs given the size of its body.

 

[blossie33]

Wow!! Nature is so amazing.

 

[gentlegreen]

Not spiders, but in the absense of a creepy-crawlie thread ...

 

[gentlegreen]

 

[blossie33]

Not spiders, but in the absense of a creepy-crawlie thread ...

Ooooo my goodness!

 

[petee]