Spider ID

Half-cocked

Does anyone know what species of spider this is? Legs have about a 20mm span at the longest point (rear of abdomen to tips of front legs).

Desmo

I think it is Steatoda nobilis (male); if not it is a Steatoda

tayto lover

Looks like this little bugger -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2476374/What-truth-Steatoda-nobilis-A-guide-Britains-dangerous-biting-spider.html

Desmo

tayto lover wrote: »

Looks like this little bugger -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2476374/What-truth-Steatoda-nobilis-A-guide-Britains-dangerous-biting-spider.html

Probably but it has been here for ages and the Daily Mail is kind of well known for sensationalism. How many people do you know who have been injured from them. I have them in my house and so do lots of people.
Do not panic. Des

Half-cocked

Thanks, I have the big female Steatoda nobilis in my shed, hadn't seen a male before.

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Desmo wrote: »

Probably but it has been here for ages and the Daily Mail is kind of well known for sensationalism. How many people do you know who have been injured from them. I have them in my house and so do lots of people.
Do not panic. Des

Absolutely! If, and a big if, one bites it is the same as a bee sting.
4 or 5 people die after bee or wasp stings in the UK every year but the Mail doesn't write sensationalist pieces about that. Nobody has died in the UK from a spider bite.

mr.wiggle

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/poisonous-false-widow-spiders-spread-across-ireland-29668336.html

Look at the last clip, tells us not to be worried really.

Desmo

I actually don't know them very well in such good light as yer photo. I just know them from their size and shape and from having identified them when I was a kid (microscope and matching pictures of genitalia). I never knew they were so famous until reading threads here about a year ago. Good on ya for knowing you have one in your shed.

Half-cocked

Desmo wrote: »

I actually don't know them very well in such good light as yer photo. I just know them from their size and shape and from having identified them when I was a kid (microscope and matching pictures of genitalia). I never knew they were so famous until reading threads here about a year ago. Good on ya for knowing you have one in your shed.

The photograph is in my house - a smallish male. I have lot's of big females in the shed, different markings to the male and way bigger (why I didn't know it was a Steodata). I'm always a bit careful rummaging around in the shed, just in case!