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Can you please help identify this spider

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  • 09-09-2019 9:40pm
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    haminka
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    A little beauty in my garden today.


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    New Home
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    A nursery-web spider, perhaps?


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    haminka
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    New Home wrote: »
    A nursery-web spider, perhaps?

    Could be, this one was black though (or dark grey).


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    Stigura
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    Haminka; Having forgotten that New Home had suggested Nursery Web, and So fascinated by that distinctly coffin shaped abdomen, I'd set out on a quest to satisfy my own curiosity .....

    Lo and behold! New Home had nailed it in one! (Could have saved myself a Lot of trouble there. If I'd paid attention! :o )

    Not a fan of wiki anything, myself. But, I ended up checking what is actually a pretty decent piece, from Germany. Here.

    Superb shot from New Home there! Well played, sir :)


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    New Home
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    1. I'm not a Sir.
    2. I have google image to thank for that. :D

    But thanks. :)


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    fryup
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    while we're at it.....i found several of these guys under old garden decking ??

    spider.jpg


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    fryup
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    ^^^^^^^^^

    anyone?


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    New Home
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    According to Google, it could be a wolf spider.


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    fryup
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    body looks too smooth to be a wolf spider ?


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    New Home
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    fryup wrote: »
    body looks too smooth to be a wolf spider ?

    You may very well be right, I only did a reverse picture search. Wikipedia says that there are more than 150 species of wolf spider, I'm not sure how many are in Ireland.


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