False Black Widow Spider

ciaran67

Found a FBW along the top of one of the two small widows either side of the back door. I flipped into the garden, but didnt see it land... then spent 5 mins running around thinking it had landed on me somewhere. Neighbours, sorry if you were alarmed by this sight, i can report i havent lost it, badly.

neets

oh dear god. my worst nightmare. how big was it? what did it look like? what do you reckon the crunch factor was if you had squished it?

foxy06

Oh God just googled it like an idiot to see what it looked like....I won't sleep tonight now.........

DK32

We have one nesting behind the outside light, it's been there all winter. Kept me company when I was smoking

Took this ages ago, but I had a very close encounter with this one, walked out of the front door to empty the bin and nearly walked straight into this fella having his breakfast...



@Neets, if you like spiders you should get a composter for the back garden, I swear mine is making them grow into BIG black horrid looking spiders. They scare me.

ciaran67

Thats the thing, they're not that big. The spider above is a wolf spider, i think, much bigger - they live outside anyway. I also can never bring myself to kill spiders. I will remove them if need be. When i was in Canada there was a report on the news showing this fellas house. He had blocks of old bricks around his house. In every brick there was a nesting black widow. Oooh it was 'orrible.

neets

just googled it myself and now feel physically sick. have a pathological fear of spiders after i woke up one morning to find a large hairy specimen having a nap in my eye socket...

foxy06

just googled it myself and now feel physically sick. have a pathological fear of spiders after i woke up one morning to find a large hairy specimen having a nap in my eye socket...

oh how i wish i could unread that:eek:

Matt Le Tissue

foxy06 wrote: »

oh how i wish i could unread that:eek:

+1!!!

neets

.....then there was the time when i came back from a three week holiday only to peel back the duvet and find a fairly hefty dead spider attached to an egg sac and about 100 little dead baby spiders who had hatched, made a break for freedom, only to suffocate under a 13 togs...am scarred for life after that one...

recedite

Why is it all the people who don't like spiders googled it?

Rasmus

neets wrote: »

.....then there was the time when i came back from a three week holiday only to peel back the duvet and find a fairly hefty dead spider attached to an egg sac and about 100 little dead baby spiders who had hatched, made a break for freedom, only to suffocate under a 13 togs...am scarred for life after that one...

You seem to have horrible luck with spiders! Seriously, how do you sleep at night?

neets

Rasmus wrote: »

You seem to have horrible luck with spiders! Seriously, how do you sleep at night?

Gin

temana

Found two of these (false widow) in my house in burnaby lawns in the past 6 months. They are pretty small... same size as black widow, maybe an inch long? They're pretty common now I think... their colouring varies though (with region?) The ones I found in my house was hairless shiny black like the one above but with greyish brown marks on its back. They look pretty mean but are very reclusive... the last one we found was in a shoe under the stairs so I always check my shoes before putting them on now! Apparently bite is just like a bee sting?

Rasmus

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the last one we found was in a shoe under the stairs so I always check my shoes before putting them on now! Apparently bite is just like a bee sting?[/QUOTE]


That is HORRIFIC

temana

I know I HATE spiders but these ones r so shy... the first one I saw in the house was trying in vain to scratch its way across the shiny floor one night and when I approached it, it rolled up into a ball... I think they like to avoid people! Thank god.

ciaran67

Also discovered one scratching across the kitchen floor yesterday. Theyz 'orrible!

jaffa20

If you think that is horrible. I dare you to google Camel Spider. :eek:

ciaran67

jaffa20 wrote: »

If you think that is horrible. I dare you to google Camel Spider. :eek:

It will just give me the hump.




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