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Anyone know what spider this is?

  • 02-08-2020 12:07am
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    Registered Users Posts: 11,215 ✭✭✭✭


    I heard a bee struggling today, and saw this spider had caught it, was wondering if anyone could identify what type of spider it is.
    https://imgur.com/a/g9utknZ


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ilostmyheart


    That looks like a false widow


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,215 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    How can you tell? I thought they were much larger, but couldn't find a definite size, only a range - and a few other spiders that it could also be.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ilostmyheart


    It looks pretty much like one to me but I could be wrong of course. Its the shape and colour. I also wish I didn't click on it coz I don't think I will sleep ever again 😂


  • Registered Users Posts: 299 ✭✭Vittu


    I saw the same thing only it was a beetle caught by a spider. The attached photo was the culprit.
    522418.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 299 ✭✭Vittu


    Another shot, I went around the house at night and counted 15 of them along the eaves and gutters. Are they false widows and if so should the be exterminated.
    522419.jpg


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  • Registered Users Posts: 990 ✭✭✭cubatahavana


    Vittu wrote: »
    Another shot, I went around the house at night and counted 15 of them along the eaves and gutters. Are they false widows and if so should the be exterminated.
    522419.jpg

    Easy solution
    Burn the house down


  • Registered Users Posts: 299 ✭✭Vittu


    Easy solution
    Burn the house down

    I think the missus tends to agree with you


  • Registered Users Posts: 797 ✭✭✭Tiercel Dave


    I think it is a False Widow, the Skull on the abdomen is a giveaway!.....

    50200541931_114c817fd1_c.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,215 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Similar looking to the on I posted, but the one in my pictures has no skull.
    Unless yours is a real widow!! :eek: :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 299 ✭✭Vittu


    Suckit wrote: »
    Similar looking to the on I posted, but the one in my pictures has no skull.
    Unless yours is a real widow!! :eek: :pac:

    Could be, there was a small rabbit in its web this morning. Genocide begins Sunday night...


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,243 ✭✭✭donnacha


    Rather than start a new thread, what do folks think of the attached? Potential false widow?


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,006 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    some of those could be steatoda grossa, which is native (i think) and often mistaken for steatoda nobilis.


  • Registered Users Posts: 299 ✭✭Vittu


    What's this???
    525419.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 127 ✭✭HoteiMarkii


    Vittu wrote: »
    What's this???
    525419.jpg

    Looks like Nuctenea umbratica.


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,418 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    False widows are harmless. No need to panic. It's the reason they are called false widows. If it was a real one tes that would be dangerous but they are not in Ireland unless you to to the Zoo or someone imported one.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Registered Users Posts: 299 ✭✭Vittu


    Looks like Nuctenea umbratica.

    Thank you


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