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 !
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....
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
Why are people scared of spiders? I never get it; if we lived in the lands of the Camel-spider I could maybe understand it, but every British Spider I ever met was either smaller than my boot or easily picked up and moved elsewhere if persistently annoying. I used to know an RAF EOD chap that would spend his working day cheerfully removing 90 year old Mustard gas shells, or driving landrovers full of cooking off ammunition, but would scream like a small girl if a Spider scuttled near him. All most peculiar. Inherited fear? As everyone I know that's scared of 'em also has parents that freak out at the sight of eight legs.
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:
'Sea Bugs' I call 'em. So you wouldn't fancy a Locust Taco then? I don't think I buy the atavastic thing, unless it's perhaps related to some time when there were more genuinely poisonous Spiders. Makes me wonder if it's a more modern fear based on horrific depictions of 'things under the bed' in films, books etc. Perhaps Bosch & his paintings have much to answer for... Unless of course, the scared used to be a Fly, but that might mean you have to be Buddhist too in order to feel the fear.