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What type of spider is this?

  • 19-09-2017 10:38PM
    #1
    Tilikum
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    Outside my house. He's HUGE & his web is incredible.


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  • #2
    New Home
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    I could easily be wrong, but I think we had some of those before and they were identified as garden spiders.


  • #3
    Disgruntled Badger
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    Wolf spider


  • #4
    gammygils
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    Had one like that outside my shed last year. He actually caught and killed a wasp! Fair play to him.
    But he looked scary


  • #5
    cd07
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    It is indeed a garden spider


  • #6
    Tilikum
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    gammygils wrote: »
    Had one like that outside my shed last year. He actually caught and killed a wasp! Fair play to him.
    But he looked scary

    This guy has a ton of flies and another spider wrap up in his web.


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  • #7
    magicbastarder
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    probably a female if it's that size.


  • #8
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    Tilikum wrote: »
    This guy has a ton of flies and another spider wrap up in his web.

    You know there's a housing crisis when even spiders have to share a web. :D


  • #9
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Tilikum wrote: »
    Outside my house. He's HUGE & his web is incredible.

    huge? what are we saying here the size of a ha-penny coin ? :p

    you'd never been to australia i take it OP?


  • #10
    Half-cocked
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    I've been sharing my shed with a number of big female Steodata nobilis (the infamous False Widows) for the last few years. I've finally been bitten by one on my forearm. I was cleaning out some shelves and must have spooked her. Anyway, I just don't now what all the fuss is about. Yes it hurt a little bit and I have a big itchy hive but if what the media have been saying about them is true, I should be in an ICU by now!


  • #11
    cd07
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    My only issue with the infamous false widow is its increasing numbers. We have far more widows here than any other species at the moment whereas years ago there was an abundance of the more usual species about and certainly no widows. I wonder what effect their presence is having on our native spiders


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  • #12
    Half-cocked
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    cd07 wrote: »
    My only issue with the infamous false widow is its increasing numbers. We have far more widows here than any other species at the moment whereas years ago there was an abundance of the more usual species about and certainly no widows. I wonder what effect their presence is having on our native spiders

    I've watched them killing smaller native species of spider in my shed. However, they seem to prefer being indoors so maybe not too much of a problem outside?


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