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Big Red Spider

  • 11-09-2014 7:23pm
    #1
    CaptainInsano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 457 ✭✭


    Hi guys,
    I'm looking for information on a spider I came across today in the garden at work. I didn't have my phone so I couldn't get a pic, hopefully the description will be enough.
    Basically he was about the size of a Euro coin, reddish/brown, very fat and appeared to have trouble walking because of his size. He was also eating a wasp at the time! I've never seen anything like him in Ireland before. He had a pattern on his back that was black or dark grey, can't remember the design really.
    His web got attached to me when I brushed off a hedge and I looked at my arm and there he was, wasp and all! I got startled and he fell on the lawn and trundled off with great difficulty. I waited until he was out of danger in case anyone stepped on him.
    Any ideas?


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  • #2
    DBB
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,770 Mod ✭✭✭✭DBB


    Was it a garden spider?
    http://www.arkive.org/garden-spider/araneus-diadematus/

    I have one out in the side passage of the house, her web at head level and HUGE, spanning across the passage. I keep forgetting she's there and almost walking into the web, like something out of an Indiana Jones movie :eek:
    Much as I admire spiders, I prefer to do so from a distance :o


  • #3
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    Hate spiders so much lol.

    When I see one I try to bring the outside, if not out comes the hoover :pac:


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