What spider is this?

TK Lemon

With all the news stories about the false widow spiders, I noticed this one on my shed wall.

Is it a false widow?

TK Lemon

Pic here

Ulmus

Black lace-weaver spider. http://abugblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/black-lace-weaver.html

Notmything

Anyone able to id this lil guy/gal for me?

Ulmus

Common House Spider. https://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/common-house-spider. I'm not an arachnid anorak BTW.

Notmything

Ulmus wrote: »

Common House Spider. https://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/common-house-spider. I'm not an arachnid anorak BTW.

Thanks. The plain abdomen had me wondering.

Ulmus

It could be this one, a stone spider. https://www.uksafari.com/stonespiders.htm. It's not a false widow.

Garzorico

Found these two monsters in the shed. I left them alone in the hope that they take out a few false widows as there are a couple in there also but there is currently a family debate on whether they are actually false widows and the pitchforks are being sharpened for a visit to the shed.

Anyone know what they are?

Ulmus

They're lovely with mascara-legs, giant house spider. They're no match for the false widow. I'd leave false widows alone unless they come into your bed.

HoteiMarkii

Ulmus wrote: »

They're lovely with mascara-legs, giant house spider. They're no match for the false widow. I'd leave false widows alone unless they come into your bed.

That's it in a nutshell. Leave them be. With the recent NUIG studies and the subsequent hysteria afterwards, I suspect anything with eight legs is doomed.

TheValeyard

Ulmus wrote: »

They're lovely with mascara-legs, giant house spider. They're no match for the false widow. I'd leave false widows alone unless they come into your bed.

Yeah, I've mentioned before I'd a Lovely giant house spider living in the garage nicknamed Ted, the False Widow made short work of him.


Poor Ted.