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Is this a baby false widow spider?

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  • 21-10-2013 4:57pm
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    noodlexas
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭


    Found this spider in my house earlier and was wondering if it was a baby false widow.. It seems to have an unusual marking/colouring on it's body.. It's still there now I'm afraid to move it


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    Lauren3142
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭Lauren3142


    It seems to be a false black widow spider.
    Get rid of it asap or put a glass over it and get someone whos not afraid to get rid of it for you, you really don't want it to go missing.
    There not as dangerous as the real black widows ,but still nasty all the same.

    I had one in my house and i just stared at it for hours until my dad got home.

    Good luck !


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    RiseToMe
    Registered Users Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭RiseToMe


    Found a big one in the apartment today, got it into a vase and didn't fancy taking it back out to kill it but it went completely lifeless, shook the jar, nothing, shook it again and it stayed lifeless, still didn't fancy taking it out so put the jar back on the table and it started running laps of the jar. Apparently a defence mechanism when they get stressed or threatened is to act dead or dying and then escape.


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    Lauren3142
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭Lauren3142


    Yeah there sneaky ! never trust a black widow !


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    kylith
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    I think I came across one of these in my kitchen yesterday. A sharp smack with a rolled up newspaper sorted it out easily enough.


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    Boulevardier
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    I cant open the picture, but I think I read that false widows have not yet reached Ireland.


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    tp25
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    Boulevardier wrote: »
    I cant open the picture, but I think I read that false widows have not yet reached Ireland.

    they did. I had one climbing my external door :(

    I'm 100% sure this one was real one.


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    Boulevardier
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    I saw a spider on the outside wall of my apartment block in Rathmines on Friday.

    It was of the right size and body-type for a false widow, and had a white horozontal band across its abdomen.

    Not good.


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    tp25
    Registered Users Posts: 298 ✭✭tp25


    i removed the one mentioned on the 28th.

    last night I spotted baby spider in the same net.. not good. I agree.


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    Lauren3142
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭Lauren3142


    There definitely in ireland its been all over the radio and everything !


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    wampyrus77
    Registered Users Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭wampyrus77


    it must be very hot sun lately we are getting foreigne creature to our country, isnt native in our country, only found in South Africa and is found in Australia and New Zealandand and uk


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    virminhunter
    Registered Users Posts: 348 ✭✭virminhunter


    This lad is behind the florescent light in my kitchen, I did a google image search and I fairly sure it's the real deal. Placid spider, with a bit no worse than a bee sting seemingly although some of the bites in google images tell a different story:D

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