Calling all spider experts

31-05-2013 3:48pm

Does very much look like a false widow. Only ever saw the one, it only stood out to me cause of it's size. They're not as dangerous as some British newspaper articles will have you believe.

frank reynolds · 31-05-2013 4:02pm

just gonna pop this down here:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NyeNHR1i09s/S_lqibs_AsI/AAAAAAAAAU0/YzuxfL3Zg90/s1600/wolf+spider+with+babies.jpg

yep, that's a wolf spider, carrying around her young. :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

fvck sake. :mad:

wexfordman2 · 31-05-2013 4:05pm

frank reynolds wrote: »

just gonna pop this down here:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NyeNHR1i09s/S_lqibs_AsI/AAAAAAAAAU0/YzuxfL3Zg90/s1600/wolf+spider+with+babies.jpg

yep, that's a wolf spider, carrying around her young. :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

fvck sake. :mad:

Thanks,

I don think im gonna stop shivering for a month after that one!

Pat Mustard · 31-05-2013 4:06pm

frank reynolds wrote: »

just gonna pop this down here:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NyeNHR1i09s/S_lqibs_AsI/AAAAAAAAAU0/YzuxfL3Zg90/s1600/wolf+spider+with+babies.jpg

yep, that's a wolf spider, carrying around her young. :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

fvck sake. :mad:

Amazing photo.

Fratton Fred · 31-05-2013 4:20pm

A friend was bitten by a spider last year and her foot and lower leg swelled up. The doctor gave some advice, but essentially she just had to put a kind of poultice on it and wait.

The doc claimed it was a spider that is fairly unique to south Dublin/north Wicklow. Sounds like bull to me, do any of you experts know of this chap?

DoesNotCompute · 31-05-2013 4:35pm

jester77 wrote: »

Vacuum cleaner is your friend here, have had to do this a few times with mosquitos and fruit flies. Just don't forget to empty the bag, had a a vacuum cleaner full of maggots one summer when I didn't!

My dog loves to eat daddy long legs. She chases them and tries to jump and catch them in mid air. Yum.

mayobumblebee · 31-05-2013 7:04pm

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRP2GFyA47ciP6Dw0FyXYtCXW89jAFBaIH0rxz0ybUqIaT7SJW9IA
could be a garden spider i have LOADS of them where i am and they get bigger than that. but i like spiders so i dont mind them. they also can be lighter or darker than the pic i put up

Richard Hillman · 31-05-2013 7:44pm

namloc1980 wrote: »

Can anyone tell me what kind of spider this fella is?? Looks freaky. He's out my back garden right now!!!! That's a 5c coin next to him:

LINKY

It looks like a Spider I found in my room a few years ago. If it is the same spider then that is just a baby. The one I found had a sack the size of a euro coin. Lets just say there was a massive splat when he got introduced to the Argos book. You could actually hear the rest of its body fall on my carpet floor, he was that big.

Tar.Aldarion · 31-05-2013 8:21pm

I think it's this:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/-dR7SxtFtpO4/TfDKSpX6sPI/AAAAAAAAG8Q/mOpDP4QMbWw/camelspider_thumb%2525255B1%2525255D.jpg

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/6181009664/hA92E8F38/

CrazyRabbit · 31-05-2013 10:07pm

Wilberto wrote: »

Just imagine trying to step on that.......it'll bite your legs off!!!

Most are harmless. And they are the ones that get eaten in many parts of the world.

dan1895 · 01-06-2013 1:11am

So many pansies on this thread. They're harmless creature who do nothing but make our live better by killing the really horrible things.

Wilberto · 01-06-2013 1:15am

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Most are harmless. And they are the ones that get eaten in many parts of the world.

I was wondering when someone was going to say that, although frankly, I thought it would have come sooner!!

Ya, I've heard that most (if not all) tarantulas are pretty harmless? I wouldn't be too sure if I'd ever eat one though, and besides, there can't be that much meat on them!! You'd need about 10 of the feckers to get you any bit full!!

CrazyRabbit · 01-06-2013 12:36pm

Wilberto wrote: »

I was wondering when someone was going to say that, although frankly, I thought it would have come sooner!!

Ya, I've heard that most (if not all) tarantulas are pretty harmless? I wouldn't be too sure if I'd ever eat one though, and besides, there can't be that much meat on them!! You'd need about 10 of the feckers to get you any bit full!!

Oh...they grow to the size of a dinner plate. Plenty to eat, and tons of protein in them.
Children in the native Amazon tribes hunt them, roast them and eat them. Actually, here's a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra4WmE-joMQ

tony 2 tone · 01-06-2013 1:28pm

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I think it's this:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/-dR7SxtFtpO4/TfDKSpX6sPI/AAAAAAAAG8Q/mOpDP4QMbWw/camelspider_thumb%2525255B1%2525255D.jpg

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/6181009664/hA92E8F38/

I hate you so much right now

Pat Mustard · 03-06-2013 4:29am

dan1895 wrote: »

So many pansies on this thread. They're harmless creature who do nothing but make our live better by killing the really horrible things.

I'm not sure that it's as simple as people being pansies, as such.

To many people, there is a very real instinctive negative response to our arachnid friends, which is normal in many people, I think. I don't think that it's a choice; I think that it's a genuine fear, ranging from disgust in some people, towards something verging on panic in other people.

The fact that most spiders, including Irish spiders, are completely harmless to people, does not seem to enter into the reckoning. I suppose that one could argue that this fear is irrational in most cases.

But I agree with your point about the practical benefits that spiders provide.

--Kaiser-- · 03-06-2013 12:43pm

Fearing spiders is an evolutionary defence mechanism, same as a fear of snakes. All spiders and one quarter of snake species are venomous, and we don't know how dangerous they are going to be based on size etc...

Hownowcow · 03-06-2013 1:09pm

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Fearing spiders is an evolutionary defence mechanism, same as a fear of snakes. All spiders and one quarter of snake species are venomous, and we don't know how dangerous they are going to be based on size etc...

Thank you. I did not know that.

--Kaiser-- · 03-06-2013 1:16pm

Hownowcow wrote: »

Thank you. I did not know that.

Well, actually not all, but something like 99.99% of all spiders. In most cases it's not dangerous to humans

ottostreet · 03-06-2013 1:19pm

I'm not really afraid of them based on them being venomous, because I didn't know that (apart from the obvious ones)!

I just think they're absolutely horrible looking things and they freak me out, and now that I think about it...I don't know what it is exactly that I hate about them.

gw80 · 03-06-2013 1:26pm

false widow, their an invasive speicies

TheChizler · 08-06-2013 2:07pm

Wonder if I can hijack this and see what you think, is this a False Widow as well? There's no obvious markings bar a paler section on its back.

Compost Spider

Ghost Buster · 08-06-2013 3:06pm

Who cares so long as it fits up the hoover:eek:

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