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Spider advice

Post by joey13 » Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:28 pm

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Anyone any ideas what sort of spider this is ?

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Re: Spider advice

Post by Wellsy1882 » Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:29 pm

A dead one
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Re: Spider advice

Post by claretonthecoast1882 » Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:29 pm

Black lace weaver ?

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Re: Spider advice

Post by joey13 » Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:30 pm

Wellsy1882 wrote:
Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:29 pm
A dead one
You had to go there :roll:

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Re: Spider advice

Post by joey13 » Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:32 pm

claretonthecoast1882 wrote:
Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:29 pm
Black lace weaver ?
Possibly, biggest I’ve seen

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Re: Spider advice

Post by Cheshireclaret » Fri Sep 18, 2020 3:31 pm

claretonthecoast1882 wrote:
Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:29 pm
Black lace weaver ?
We had one in our garden a few weeks ago. It pushed a pineapple, shook a tree and ground some coffee. Extraordinary.
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Re: Spider advice

Post by claretonthecoast1882 » Fri Sep 18, 2020 3:33 pm

Cheshireclaret wrote:
Fri Sep 18, 2020 3:31 pm
We had one in our garden a few weeks ago. It pushed a pineapple, shook a tree and ground some coffee. Extraordinary.

I am just glad I have no idea what you are on about, you won't find me admitting I know that s**t song :D

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Re: Spider advice

Post by Bosscat » Fri Sep 18, 2020 3:36 pm

claretonthecoast1882 wrote:
Fri Sep 18, 2020 3:33 pm
I am just glad I have no idea what you are on about, you won't find me admitting I know that s**t song :D
Too late 😂😂😂 we now know you do remember that s**t song.
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Re: Spider advice

Post by Bosscat » Fri Sep 18, 2020 3:38 pm

Edit double post
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Re: Spider advice

Post by Bosscat » Fri Sep 18, 2020 3:39 pm

claretonthecoast1882 wrote:
Fri Sep 18, 2020 3:33 pm
I am just glad I have no idea what you are on about, you won't find me admitting I know that s**t song :D
Too late 😂😂😂 we now know you do remember that s**t song.

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Re: Spider advice

Post by Bosscat » Fri Sep 18, 2020 3:39 pm

joey13 wrote:
Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:28 pm
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Anyone any ideas what sort of spider this is ?
Serious looking beastie ... how big is it ?


Or should I say was it.... as it looks a tad squished

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Re: Spider advice

Post by joey13 » Fri Sep 18, 2020 4:22 pm

Bosscat wrote:
Fri Sep 18, 2020 3:39 pm
Serious looking beastie ... how big is it ?


Or should I say was it.... as it looks a tad squished
I’d say about the size of my hand

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Re: Spider advice

Post by Bosscat » Fri Sep 18, 2020 4:23 pm

joey13 wrote:
Fri Sep 18, 2020 4:22 pm
I’d say about the size of my hand
Ooooer 🙄🙄🙄

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Re: Spider advice

Post by RMutt » Fri Sep 18, 2020 4:26 pm

Tube Web Spider perhaps?

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Re: Spider advice

Post by kentonclaret » Fri Sep 18, 2020 5:44 pm

Sitting on the loo in the bathroom at around 11pm a couple of weeks ago glanced down at the bath mat to see an enormous black spider looking back at me. Trapped him in a plastic beaker and deposited him out of bedroom window. Because he was in a plastic beaker he was able to climb the sides and almost escaped twice.

"If you want to live and thrive let the spider run alive" was a saying I remember from childhood so never kill them intentionally.
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Re: Spider advice

Post by tim_noone » Fri Sep 18, 2020 6:02 pm

joey13 wrote:
Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:28 pm
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Anyone any ideas what sort of spider this is ?
Its actually a crab!! Commonly found in the channel Islands abundant in Jersey for whatever reason....where are you Located Joey?

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Re: Spider advice

Post by Jakubclaret » Fri Sep 18, 2020 6:18 pm

It's actually spider season when the big b*ggers come into the house to mate, the fast wick 1s that catch the corner of your eye scuttling across the carpet, I haven't seen any yet I think the warmer weather is delaying them.

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Re: Spider advice

Post by welsbyswife » Fri Sep 18, 2020 8:30 pm

Cheshireclaret wrote:
Fri Sep 18, 2020 3:31 pm
We had one in our garden a few weeks ago. It pushed a pineapple, shook a tree and ground some coffee. Extraordinary.
Best post I have seen on here for a long time!!

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Re: Spider advice

Post by joey13 » Fri Sep 18, 2020 9:55 pm

tim_noone wrote:
Fri Sep 18, 2020 6:02 pm
Its actually a crab!! Commonly found in the channel Islands abundant in Jersey for whatever reason....where are you Located Joey?
:lol: :lol: ,it was definitely a spider Tim
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Re: Spider advice

Post by Funkydrummer » Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:43 am

Cheshireclaret wrote:
Fri Sep 18, 2020 3:31 pm
We had one in our garden a few weeks ago. It pushed a pineapple, shook a tree and ground some coffee. Extraordinary.
You'll be telling us next that we've signed Agadoo to replace Lennon !!!

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Re: Spider advice

Post by Leisure » Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:39 am

kentonclaret wrote:
Fri Sep 18, 2020 5:44 pm

"If you want to live and thrive let the spider run alive" was a saying I remember from childhood so never kill them intentionally.
Like.

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Re: Spider advice

Post by Leisure » Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:41 am

joey13 wrote:
Fri Sep 18, 2020 4:22 pm
I’d say about the size of my hand
As we don't know the size of your hands that's not much help! ;)
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Re: Spider advice

Post by huw.Y.WattfromWare » Sat Sep 19, 2020 11:21 am

I always leave spiders to thrive. They live on the pests that wreck your house.

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Re: Spider advice

Post by Bosscat » Sat Sep 19, 2020 11:53 am

kentonclaret wrote:
Fri Sep 18, 2020 5:44 pm
Sitting on the loo in the bathroom at around 11pm a couple of weeks ago glanced down at the bath mat to see an enormous black spider looking back at me. Trapped him in a plastic beaker and deposited him out of bedroom window. Because he was in a plastic beaker he was able to climb the sides and almost escaped twice.

"If you want to live and thrive let the spider run alive" was a saying I remember from childhood so never kill them intentionally.
Always got a bit of whit card and a glass in the bathroom to catch the b*ggers ... then out the window they go....
Spiders like that are our friends...

But... there are some nasty lttle biting spiders about

Taken from a bbc website....

There are three common spiders in the UK that are capable of biting you:
the cellar spider,
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the woodlouse spider
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the false widow spider.
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Their bites are painful and have been known to cause swelling for a few hours.

In 2014 a 60-year-old woman died after being bitten by a false widow spider. However, the cause of death was due to a bacterial infection from the puncture wound, rather than the spider venom itself.

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Re: Spider advice

Post by JarrowClaret » Sat Sep 19, 2020 1:06 pm

I read one of them links on Facebook recently which listed 15 reasonably common Spiders in UK that are capable of biting humans. The most toxic is the daddy long legs but is not able to bite properly if at all.

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Re: Spider advice

Post by joey13 » Sat Sep 19, 2020 1:12 pm

Leisure wrote:
Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:41 am
As we don't know the size of your hands that's not much help! ;)
Slightly bigger than yours :)

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Re: Spider advice

Post by Leisure » Sat Sep 19, 2020 2:23 pm

joey13 wrote:
Sat Sep 19, 2020 1:12 pm
Slightly bigger than yours :)
Bloody hell, that's huge! :)
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Re: Spider advice

Post by Redbeard » Sun Sep 20, 2020 11:32 am

Strange that the 'false widow' has number 15 on its back.

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Re: Spider advice

Post by LordBob » Sun Sep 20, 2020 12:13 pm

Interesting thread!

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