Widow Spider in my back garden ?

[Morph]

Just found this in my garden - glad I didnt let my 2 year old pick it up. Apparanty (if it is a brown widow) they can bite, and dont suppose a 2 year old would appreciate it :-/

If anyone knows for definate what it is please let me know, but I have never seen one like this before and cant find anything more similar than a Brown widow for a spider that is resident in the UK??

this is not actual size btw

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...LTH&ICL=TOPART

[biggy7]

bloody hell mate, looks mean what ever is it!

according to google, this is a brown widow:

[marcode]

jesus...

[kizroll]

OMFG!

[BertRoot]

Fry in a little olive oil sir and serve on a bed of brown rice. Jobs a good un!

[superchelseafc]

what container is that in? if its a large one then that is some scary shit. But if its an icecube container, just pick up and give it a good stamping

[willp2003]

looks fookin nasty! horrible things

[Ganty]

Fry in a little olive oil sir and serve on a bed of brown rice. Jobs a good un!

Hehehehe my senments exactly!

Pussies, twat it with a rolled up newspaper something

[flumperino]

I am scared.

Had this massive spider the other week, bold as brass, blocking the door to my bathroom. I swear he was looking right at me.

Sprayed him with some ant killer....that made him stfu

[Morph]

yeah you are all talking the talk but can you walk the walk

[Welsh Pete]

its looks like the thing Moody was torturing in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire...freak!

[Mobileman]

I am scared.

Had this massive spider the other week, bold as brass, blocking the door to my bathroom. I swear he was looking right at me.

Sprayed him with some ant killer....that made him stfu

If you run out of ant killer I use the tried & tested way of the flame thrower
kit needed
1 x can of lynx or similar flammable canister
1 x cheap no frills lighter

Did find a huge green spider in south of France once survived a ten second blast

[BertRoot]

yeah you are all talking the talk but can you walk the walk

Don't mind spiders so much but they do look like beasts. I had a mate with tarantulas once that worried me slighlty but they were friendly enough beasts. Once stood on a slug with bare feet and burst the fucker. I don't like slugs so much these days.

[Andy Poobar]

Did say that it wasn't actual size!

Probably 5mm between leg tips and just got a really good macro camera!

[muttleymacclad]

Hi morph

You'll be fine. As far as I'm aware there's only or two UK native spiders that have the fangs to puncture human skin the most common is the woodlouse spider http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfact...iles/353.shtml, which yours isn't.

There are so many different species of spider it'd hard to id them without seeing them for real.

I've seen similar spiders to yours and handled them without a problem.

MML

[ffrr]

you should have frozen it in the tray, waited until you had a bbq or friends round, and then dished it out to someone.... ;)

[Welsh Pete]

Hi morph

the most common is the woodlouse spider http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfact...iles/353.shtml

MML

Thanks, you cunt

I found quite a few of these when I recently built a boundary wall in the garden...I`ll remember to milk them and bottle their venom next time. It will be useful for my askew plans of world domination...

[Morph]

It was about max 2" across the longest part of the leg span. I cant find anything on google that looks like it, so have quizzed whatsthatbug.com see what they come back with - they seem to know what they are talking about.

As regards seeing it in the flesh - the picture does it justice other than size wise of course, and as far as a top quality camera is concerned I took it with my phone for gods sake !

(It is a 5 meg N95 by the way with Makro lol )

[evilsatan]

Jesus tharts a nasty looking spider. I can't stand them and the above posts reflect some of my favourite ways to create their demise.

[apllrd]

looks like a Larinioides sclopetarius, a type of orb web spider. not sure if it's native though but is harmless ***.