Spider Identification Please?

Humans eh!

Can anybody identify this spider for me please?
It moved really slowly and seemed to have a hard shiny body, I certainly haven't seen one like it and tried searching online but to no avail. I thought I'd post it on boards.ie before any other nature board if it is a native spider.
A link to somewhere that might know or be interested in would be good also

http://img861.imageshack.us/i/ia082338.jpg/

http://img31.imageshack.us/i/ia082349.jpg/

http://img862.imageshack.us/i/ia082341.jpg/


Thanks in advance

Zapperzy

I haven't a clue but ahhhh those pics need a warning on them! :eek: Scary stuff! There used to be a spider mega-thread for all things spider related on here, Im sure if it's a native it's been featured on that thread before.

Fattes

Looks allot like a False Widow?

http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/false-widow-spiders-in-britain-beware

Rancid

Humans eh! wrote: »

Can anybody identify this spider for me please?
It moved really slowly and seemed to have a hard shiny body, I certainly haven't seen one like it and tried searching online but to no avail. I thought I'd post it on boards.ie before any other nature board if it is a native spider.
A link to somewhere that might know or be interested in would be good also

http://img861.imageshack.us/i/ia082338.jpg/

http://img31.imageshack.us/i/ia082349.jpg/

http://img862.imageshack.us/i/ia082341.jpg/


Thanks in advance

Definitely one of the false widows, Steatoda.
I've found them in garden sheds and have never known them to move *slowly*, ever!

http://www.uksafari.com/falsewidows.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatoda_nobilis

A search here should turn up some info and pictures that will help you.

Humans eh!

Fattes wrote: »

Looks allot like a False Widow?

http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/false-widow-spiders-in-britain-beware

Thanks Fattes I think you have nailed it, it certainly is similar, it was a nasty looking bugger alright, wasn't going to handle it in any case. Thanks for the link, "I'm off a googling now!"

shinikins

Have a look in the Big big spider megathread, I couldn't go past looking a your first picture Op because it the little feckers freak me out!!






Eww I still have the shivers :(:(:(:(:(:(

Humans eh!

Rancid wrote: »

Definitely one of the false widows, Steatoda.
I've found them in garden sheds and have never known them to move *slowly*, ever!

http://www.uksafari.com/falsewidows.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatoda_nobilis

A search here should turn up some info and pictures that will help you.

Thanks Rancid, It was outside and fell out of an old rug that I had left on top of my dogs kennel overnight. It moved surprisingly slowly which kinda creeped me out a bit. As I have said I had never seen one before.
And hope never to see one again!

Humans eh!

shinikins wrote: »

Have a look in the Big big spider megathread, I couldn't go past looking a your first picture Op because it the little feckers freak me out!!






Eww I still have the shivers :(:(:(:(:(:(

Thanks shinikins, mad thread couldn't stay on it long.
now I have the feckin shivers!!!:eek:

Chris_Heilong

Oh, I remember I found 3 of these inside an old wooded chest of drawers, I took the same kind of photo you did against a 1 cent to try and identify it. I havent seen any since.

homerhop

I hate spiders, they give me the heebie jeebies. Nasty looking thing in them pics

yellowlabrador

be careful, I ''ve been bitten 3 times now by one of those and I'm allergic to the bite. I was last bitten 3 weeks ago and I'm still suffering and have a scar on my back. I now need to carry an epipen. They don't make webs and every time i've been bitten is putting clothes on fresh from drying in a shed. I hope I've learned my lesson now.

ashblag

oh holy jebus..i knew i shouldn't have looked at the pics but couldn't help myself....***shivers***:eek:

Rancid

Humans eh! wrote: »

Thanks Rancid, It was outside and fell out of an old rug that I had left on top of my dogs kennel overnight. It moved surprisingly slowly which kinda creeped me out a bit. As I have said I had never seen one before.
And hope never to see one again!

That's exactly the kind of place they seem to like.
Sometime after my first find, I disturbed a few when pulling out a very old kitchen press, they were behind the remains of the almost disintegrated skirting board.
I rehomed them to the garden shed.
Those two occasions were my only sightings of the false widows and I was pretty chuffed, they're not that common, I think.

And yes, they do bite, and it's nasty, but not fatal!

TaraR

Please say you live in some forgein country, not Ireland! LOL i think if i ever seen anything like that i would curl up and die LOL

taram

Wah!! Seen these twice in the last week in my house in Lincolnshire, but now my mother in Cork has seen one today I killed mine, scared they'd go near my guinea pigs.

mobby

Dont think I would like to have been around when these lads where on the go :eek:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13134505

hdowney

i think, although i may be mistaken - don't plan on getting close enough for complete confirmation! - that i have two of these living around my bathroom window, and one even bred there before i realised. urgh *shivers*

hdowney

mobby wrote: »

Dont think I would like to have been around when these lads where on the go :eek:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13134505

dear lord you have sent my body into spasm with that link - because of course stupid old me had to click!