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What kind of spider is this?

  • 04-09-2014 05:37PM
    #1
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi all!

    I was doing some work on my car earlier when I discovered this fellow lurking. I've never seen one like it before, does anyone here know what kind of spider this is?
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    I can get better pictures if needed! The phone was playing up :o

    Thank you!


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  • #2
    salamanca22
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    Looks like a false widow?


  • #3
    Hal1
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    The false widows usually have marks .
    Wikipedia wrote:
    The spider genus Steatoda, in the family Theridiidae, includes over 120 recognized species, distributed around the world. These usually dark spiders have in most species a white line around the anterior back, in addition to other lines or spots.


  • #4
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    I was thinking a widow of some sort myself, but still not overly sure. I got much better detailed photos of it anyway
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  • #5
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Result!
    salamanca22 wrote: »
    Looks like a false widow?

    I've done more looking and searching about, it is indeed a false widow spider :)

    Seems they are pretty harmless anyway, unless provoked (it did bite the stick I was trying to get it to sit on) so that would explain it's calm and relaxed walk.

    I generally like spiders yet was weary about this one. I have been bitten a few times by other spiders, just a mild irritation for a bit.

    I let this fellow go where there are plenty of flies and away from people :)

    I am in county Meath so there's another place to add to the map for these spiders!

    Cheers for the input :)


  • #6
    Noccy_Mondy
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    I was going to ask did you stand on the fecker, but I suppose that's frowned upon in this forum.... :P


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  • #7
    Stheno
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    That's a horrid looking creature!


  • #8
    surferrosa13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭surferrosa13


    I have three good photos but can't post an image, as I have too few posts on the forum - but hopefully my description will be good enough - or maybe I can post a link...

    I found a spider in my back garden, sitting in the middle of a 2 foot wide web. It's body is about he size of a malteser and it has a really bulbous egg-shaped abdomen with light and dark striped markings across it. It has quite stocky legs, with dark and light brown sections, and the underside also has dark and light sections, but with a thick dark d=brown strip down the middle and a light spot on either side.
    It sits right in the middle of the web until it catches something, and doesn't seem nervous or aggressive. when I tried to get in close to take a photo it ran off to the side of the web and hid behind some ivy, but came straight back out when I moved away a little. It was able to make very short work of a blue bottle that got caught in the web and dispensed with it totally in under 3 minutes.


  • #9
    Mr. RED
    Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭Mr. RED


    Ah yes! Of course! Your description sounds to me like the "Common, big horrible b*st*rd".


  • #10
    nicolaboo
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    Didn't know false widows looked like this too!! 🙈


  • #11
    Desmo
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    surferrosa13 wrote: »
    I have three good photos but can't post an image, as I have too few posts on the forum - but hopefully my description will be good enough - or maybe I can post a link...

    I found a spider in my back garden, sitting in the middle of a 2 foot wide web. It's body is about he size of a malteser and it has a really bulbous egg-shaped abdomen with light and dark striped markings across it. It has quite stocky legs, with dark and light brown sections, and the underside also has dark and light sections, but with a thick dark d=brown strip down the middle and a light spot on either side.
    It sits right in the middle of the web until it catches something, and doesn't seem nervous or aggressive. when I tried to get in close to take a photo it ran off to the side of the web and hid behind some ivy, but came straight back out when I moved away a little. It was able to make very short work of a blue bottle that got caught in the web and dispensed with it totally in under 3 minutes.

    That is a common garden spider (Araneus diadematus).


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  • #12
    surferrosa13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭surferrosa13


    LOL @ Mr Red, yep that's one description alright.
    Desmo, I checked out a few images and and she does look very like this one on the bugnet site - / node / view / 338400 / bgpage
    Thanks a mill!! :)


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