What kind of spider is this?

Brock Turnpike

Anyone able to identify what type of spider this is please?

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Stephen_Maturin

Looks like a common garden spider

Entirely harmless. Leave her be and she’ll do some good pest control work for you

DarkJager21

Some type of orb weaver

Quandary

Looks like a Garden Spider also known as Cross Spider, according a quick google. Very common here!

Brock Turnpike

Thanks, all. She had made a web on an old blind I'm throwing out, so I've moved her into the back garden.

Igotadose

Just saw this in the shed. Might be a juvenile form? Usually the shed spiders are large and brown, this one was smallish and 1/2 red. Very cool. Plenty for them to eat in the shed, too, so I leave them alone and the flies regret it.

magicbastarder

i'd not heard of them before, but that's a woodlouse spider.

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wexford/lifestyle/woodlouse-spider-breaks-all-the-rules/29714578.html

Igotadose

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122785540#Comment_122785540

Thanks for this! I routinely gently grab the big spiders and let them go outside. Not going to touch these! And I've warned the locals about them, too.

We drown in woodlice around here, so no surprise something that eats them has shown up. As long as the spider doesn't bite anyone I'm cool with them being around, there's plenty to eat and the woodlice get into all sorts of things I wish they wouldn't - one got into a courgette early on and when we cut it open it was the 'juvenile woodlouse community centre' if you can imagine. Plus they're always getting into the house. Very damp here.

ducklooker

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I've had a good long Google and can't find anything about this beastie.

She is curled up now, but no larger standing than my thumbnail, leg to leg (her's).

And looks very full of eggs?

magicbastarder

either a noble false widow (steatoda nobilis) or a cupboard spider (steatoda grossa - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatoda_grossa), i reckon. i'm not sure if there's a way to easily tell them apart.