Little spider.

[Gerbutt]

Quite like a Walnut Orb weaver?

[Eddy_t]

These really arent all that, honestly every house, shed, garage has a steotoda living in it somewhere, there's a damn site worse than these lil chaps lurking in your shed! when you compare a bite from one of these to a wasp sting.... No ones died and out of the millions of Unrecorded spider bites 2 people every year have a reaction! It's just hysteria most uk spiders can give a nip and cause a reaction but it's just because some media doughnut coined the term "false widow" the world goes mad their not in the same genus as a latrodectrus "black widow" which in all honesty isn't even that dangerous people need to be more concerned about the volume of phonutria and cuppienus sp coming in from Brazil the Brazilian wanderer will seriously screw your world up and I've collected 25+ in the last 12 months from supermarkets most of which were gravid girls

 

 

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1, when you say 25+ I assume these were live?

2, what's a Gravid girl?

3, what do you do with them? Squash em I hope! Bloody hate spiders! Although I don't mind the orb web type, such as the one pictured, or the really big buggers, it's really interesting watching them build their webs

 

 

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[WeeDee]

1, when you say 25+ I assume these were live?

2, what's a Gravid girl?

3, what do you do with them? Squash em I hope! Bloody hate spiders! Although I don't mind the orb web type, such as the one pictured, or the really big buggers, it's really interesting watching them build their webs

 

 

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Oh - stop with all that David Bellamy technical talk, will you!

[Adam Bourne]

Is it me or does the pattern on the back look like a skull???

 

Oh and garden spider by the way.

 

I see it to Rich

 

Thanks for the insight python, very interesting

[sloth]

Good bits of info, ta...

[WeeDee]

Is it me or does the pattern on the back look like a skull???

 

Oh and garden spider by the way.

 

Or someone lying like a starfish?

 

Maybe it's a bit like those ink-blot tests - you see what you think.

[Gerbutt]

Heck those Brazilian ones look a tad nasty!

[Python]

1, when you say 25+ I assume these were live?

2, what's a Gravid girl?

3, what do you do with them? Squash em I hope! Bloody hate spiders! Although I don't mind the orb web type, such as the one pictured, or the really big buggers, it's really interesting watching them build their webs

 

 

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Untill the arrival of kiddies I used to keep them, between me and my oh we kept over a 1000 species of tarantula and true spiders, and gravid means their pregnant and 9/10 times produce at least 1 egg sack

 

 

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[Python]

Quite like a Walnut Orb weaver?

 

My absolute favourite uk species nuctina umbratica the walnut orb weaver always look like they've been squashed

 

 

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[Taupotreeman]

Anyone know what this is? NZ native I presume.

 

 

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