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Large Spider

  • 20-05-2019 11:00AM
    #1
    10pennymixup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 517 ✭✭✭


    Apologies for another spider identification thread, but I've never seen something as large and chunky as this one in the wild.

    Any ideas?


Comments

  • #2
    Blackhorse Slim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Blackhorse Slim


    Looks like a wolf spider. Don't let it bite you!


  • #3
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,253 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Blackhorse Slim wrote: »
    Looks like a wolf spider. Don't let it bite you!

    A tiddler.
    Saw them in Hong Kong the size of your hand :D


  • #4
    jim o doom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭jim o doom


    Blackhorse Slim wrote: »
    Looks like a wolf spider. Don't let it bite you!

    I reckon it's a wolf spider too, fast and aggressive little fellers.


  • #5
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    Just a thought...are these relatively new in Ireland.?

    Always associated them with the tropics.


  • #6
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,654 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Braydon Millions Pentagon wrote: »
    Just a thought...are these relatively new in Ireland.?

    Always associated them with the tropics.

    If the dispersal map on wiki is to be believed you get them everywhere outside of polar regions.


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  • #7
    Irishphotodesk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,892 ✭✭✭Irishphotodesk


    Had similar in my house yesterday, I say had because all spiders when spotted are either removed or crushed, they are welcome to stay outside the house just not inside.


  • #8
    vintagecosmos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 849 ✭✭✭vintagecosmos


    Any idea on this chap?


  • #9
    Wheety
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,495 ✭✭✭Wheety


    I don't think offering it money is going to help.


  • #10
    10pennymixup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 517 ✭✭✭10pennymixup


    Wheety wrote: »
    I don't think offering it money is going to help.

    Not for a lap dance anyway:eek:

    I have seen wolfies before but they looked a lighter colour, skinnier and more hair on the body. This one had a much larger abdomen and shinier "skin" and the two orangish stripes on the thorax were striking.

    So I googled it, 2300 species of wolf spider in the world.

    And to any arachnaphobes, I let him go................... to appear in a garden near you soon:)


  • #11
    jim o doom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭jim o doom


    Irishphotodesk wrote: »
    Had similar in my house yesterday, I say had because all spiders when spotted are either removed or crushed, they are welcome to stay outside the house just not inside.

    Removing them is the same as crushing them in a lot of cases as the ones in the house aren't suited to life outdoors.

    But they the same treatment in mine. Unless it's a false widow, in which case it is dead every time as they are an invastive species.


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