Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
If we do not hit our goal we will be forced to close the site.

Current status: https://keepboardsalive.com/

Annual subs are best for most impact. If you are still undecided on going Ad Free - you can also donate using the Paypal Donate option. All contribution helps. Thank you.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.

Spider Identification Please?

Comments

  • #2
    Zapperzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,524 ✭✭✭Zapperzy


    I haven't a clue but ahhhh those pics need a warning on them! :eek: Scary stuff! There used to be a spider mega-thread for all things spider related on here, Im sure if it's a native it's been featured on that thread before.


  • #3
    Fattes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    Looks allot like a False Widow?

    http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/false-widow-spiders-in-britain-beware


  • #4
    Rancid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭Rancid


    Humans eh! wrote: »
    Can anybody identify this spider for me please?
    It moved really slowly and seemed to have a hard shiny body, I certainly haven't seen one like it and tried searching online but to no avail. I thought I'd post it on boards.ie before any other nature board if it is a native spider.
    A link to somewhere that might know or be interested in would be good also

    http://img861.imageshack.us/i/ia082338.jpg/

    http://img31.imageshack.us/i/ia082349.jpg/

    http://img862.imageshack.us/i/ia082341.jpg/


    Thanks in advance
    Definitely one of the false widows, Steatoda.
    I've found them in garden sheds and have never known them to move *slowly*, ever!

    http://www.uksafari.com/falsewidows.htm

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

    A search here should turn up some info and pictures that will help you.


  • #5
    Humans eh!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 403 ✭✭Humans eh!


    Fattes wrote: »
    Looks allot like a False Widow?

    http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/false-widow-spiders-in-britain-beware

    Thanks Fattes I think you have nailed it, it certainly is similar, it was a nasty looking bugger alright, wasn't going to handle it in any case. Thanks for the link, "I'm off a googling now!" :)


  • #6
    shinikins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,842 ✭✭✭shinikins


    Have a look in the Big big spider megathread, I couldn't go past looking a your first picture Op because it the little feckers freak me out!!






    Eww I still have the shivers :(:(:(:(:(:(:(


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    Humans eh!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 403 ✭✭Humans eh!


    Rancid wrote: »
    Definitely one of the false widows, Steatoda.
    I've found them in garden sheds and have never known them to move *slowly*, ever!

    http://www.uksafari.com/falsewidows.htm

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

    A search here should turn up some info and pictures that will help you.

    Thanks Rancid, It was outside and fell out of an old rug that I had left on top of my dogs kennel overnight. It moved surprisingly slowly which kinda creeped me out a bit. As I have said I had never seen one before.
    And hope never to see one again!


  • #8
    Humans eh!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 403 ✭✭Humans eh!


    shinikins wrote: »
    Have a look in the Big big spider megathread, I couldn't go past looking a your first picture Op because it the little feckers freak me out!!






    Eww I still have the shivers :(:(:(:(:(:(:(

    Thanks shinikins, mad thread couldn't stay on it long.
    now I have the feckin shivers!!!:eek:


  • #9
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,972 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    Oh, I remember I found 3 of these inside an old wooded chest of drawers, I took the same kind of photo you did against a 1 cent to try and identify it. I havent seen any since.


  • #10
    homerhop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,958 ✭✭✭homerhop


    I hate spiders, they give me the heebie jeebies. Nasty looking thing in them pics


  • #11
    yellowlabrador
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭yellowlabrador


    be careful, I ''ve been bitten 3 times now by one of those and I'm allergic to the bite. I was last bitten 3 weeks ago and I'm still suffering and have a scar on my back. I now need to carry an epipen. They don't make webs and every time i've been bitten is putting clothes on fresh from drying in a shed. I hope I've learned my lesson now.


  • Advertisement
  • #12
    ashblag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 376 ✭✭ashblag


    oh holy jebus..i knew i shouldn't have looked at the pics but couldn't help myself....***shivers***:eek:


  • #13
    Rancid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭Rancid


    Humans eh! wrote: »
    Thanks Rancid, It was outside and fell out of an old rug that I had left on top of my dogs kennel overnight. It moved surprisingly slowly which kinda creeped me out a bit. As I have said I had never seen one before.
    And hope never to see one again!
    That's exactly the kind of place they seem to like.
    Sometime after my first find, I disturbed a few when pulling out a very old kitchen press, they were behind the remains of the almost disintegrated skirting board.
    I rehomed them to the garden shed. :)
    Those two occasions were my only sightings of the false widows and I was pretty chuffed, they're not that common, I think.

    And yes, they do bite, and it's nasty, but not fatal!


  • #14
    TaraR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭TaraR


    Please say you live in some forgein country, not Ireland! LOL i think if i ever seen anything like that i would curl up and die LOL :o


  • #15
    taram
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭taram


    Wah!! Seen these twice in the last week in my house in Lincolnshire, but now my mother in Cork has seen one today :( I killed mine, scared they'd go near my guinea pigs.


  • #16
    mobby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭mobby


    Dont think I would like to have been around when these lads where on the go :eek:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13134505


  • #17
    hdowney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,921 ✭✭✭✭hdowney


    i think, although i may be mistaken - don't plan on getting close enough for complete confirmation! - that i have two of these living around my bathroom window, and one even bred there before i realised. urgh *shivers*


  • #18
    hdowney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,921 ✭✭✭✭hdowney


    mobby wrote: »
    Dont think I would like to have been around when these lads where on the go :eek:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13134505

    dear lord you have sent my body into spasm with that link - because of course stupid old me had to click!


Advertisement