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Spider identity

  • 08-04-2015 4:21pm
    #1
    Hannibal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,819 ✭✭✭


    Can anyone identify this spider I found in my shed earlier, it is sitting on a piece of timber that is 2 inches across.


Comments

  • #2
    beyondbelief67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 550 ✭✭✭beyondbelief67


    I maybe wrong but that looks like a false widow ?


  • #3
    AdamB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭AdamB


    I would have said house spider.


  • #4
    Hannibal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,819 ✭✭✭Hannibal


    I thought False widow from Google images has a bigger sack and some red on it.

    I don't know about house spider, I've had spiders in my house and this is easily twice the size of anything I've ever seen in Ireland.


  • #5
    Lumi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭Lumi


    It's definitely a House Spider


  • #6
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    It's just a house spider.


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  • #7
    Hannibal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,819 ✭✭✭Hannibal


    Cheers. Big oul house spider never seen one that size before.


  • #8
    Vorenus400
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭Vorenus400


    Its a giant house spider

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_house_spider

    expect a lot more of them in the warm weather. Very fast little feckers too


  • #9
    doubter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭doubter


    :eek::eek::eek:


  • #10
    jorgolyte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭jorgolyte


    Massive house spiders everywhere. A nuisance but harmless.

    Ever have that feeling something is crawling on your neck only to realize it's your shirt collar? Happened to me yesterday as I was snoozing with my young boy. Brushed my collar away and resettled. Couple minutes later my 'collar' was tickling my shoulder blade. Oh my. That 2 seconds it took to roll, reach, grab and fling this monster will stay with me a great long while. I'm not even that queasy about them but it was pretty awful. Shake out your blankets folks.


  • #11
    Ziycon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,987 ✭✭✭Ziycon


    Definitely a giant house spider, false widows have a very distinctive white pattern on their abdomen.


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  • #12
    DBB
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,790 Mod ✭✭✭✭DBB


    Folks,
    This thread is 5 months old.
    No need to resurrect it.
    Thanks,
    DBB


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