Beware .....The spiders are getting bigger !

My wife just said to me "Have you seen that spider on the car's front wheel ?"

I had one look and then went back in the house for my camera.

He was a big bugger.... I reckon about 2" in length overall (I can't do metric !) and he had just bundled up his latest victim.

I managed to get about about ten shots of him before I detached the web from the offside front wheel and he scurried back to the nearby rosebush from where he had slung a line and started his web.

Just enlarge the pic & have look at his bloody great eyes !

 

That IS a biggun that Ron. Thanks for making the hairs on the back of my neck stand up! :mellow:

 

Hi Ron,
Nice photo but I think 'he' could be a 'she'! If I am not mistaken it is a 'garden spider' the females of which are larger than the males which they tend to devour if they get too close!

European garden spider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Best regards,
Tom.

 

Tom
Hi Ron,
Nice photo but I think 'he' could be a 'she'!


I can see my education has been sadly neglected

No one ever taught me how to determine the sex of a spider

I'm sure you are quite right however and the picture from Wiki certainly looked like "her" !

Regards

Ron

 

You should see my house. Its like a scene from bloody starship troopers.

Actually its funny you should post this, I've just done ten rounds with one of the buggers about five seconds ago. Can't stand the things....

 

This was taken ten minutes ago as the missus tackles the hedge in the garden.

 

No one ever taught me how to determine the sex of a spider



Usually only important if you're a spider, in particular a male.

Once had a big bugger in the house, I could hear it walk on the wall. I usually escort them outside, but they probably come back in. Fascinating things, they have blood based on copper rather than iron and hydraulic legs.

 

there is the woodlouse spider that can give a bite
Google Image Result for http://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources-rx/images/woodlouse-spider_16006_1.jpg


plus a few exotics we get like the false widow and wasp spider

UK spider bites | Natural History Museum

 

He was a big bugger.... I reckon about 2" in length overall (I can't do metric !) and he had just bundled up his latest victim.

Just enlarge the pic & have look at his bloody great eyes !

a) say about 5cm

b) what eyes, you're showing us the beast's backside

 

what eyes, you're showing us the beast's backside

Actually on the photo is spider's underside (but still without eyes)

 

This was taken ten minutes ago as the missus tackles the hedge in the garden.


Craig,

I wouln't like that one to get in our house. If the children saw that they would freek out as it is bad enough with smaller ones.

I am the spider removal person in our house as all four females in our house are scared stiff of them.

I just have to get on with it and give them the all clear

Regards
Tom

 

Underside yes, but from behind

 

One I found in 2008, which was humanely removed using the glass and card method.
When the photo was shown to the female of the house, the response was the same as seeing it live!!!

Jack.

 

Craig,

I wouln't like that one to get in our house. If the children saw that they would freek out as it is bad enough with smaller ones.

I am the spider removal person in our house as all four females in our house are scared stiff of them.

I just have to get on with it and give them the all clear

Regards
Tom

There was two of them Tom and they are the biggest I've seen for a while.
It's the time of the year when they start coming into the house.

 

I have a intense hatred for all kinds of insects, spiders and locusts in particular! I get physically sick at the sight of them!

What puzzles me is that I am mad about seafood, especially crustaceans which include shrimp, lobster, crab, etc. As a shrimp is not much more than a watery grasshopper I can't understand the contradiction. Must be an atavism.

 

Women, my wife included, often talk about having that kind, caring sensitive man.

Except, this is, when a spider, centipede, rodent, bat or other such vermin enter the house. At that point they simply want a natural born killer!
:smash:

It seem that 50% of the population are deathly afraid of spiders. For the other half, it's snakes.

:Nessie:

 

It,s easy to sex a spider .
The females have their mouth,s open .

 

I quite like spiders

but there again perhaps im quite strange