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Can anyone help with this Spidey ID please? Little Miss Kryton Jnr spotted it on the shed door and is now having a trauma.
It’s most like he bottommost pic in this article: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how-dangerous-are-false-widow-spiders.html yet with luminous yellow dashes down its back rather like road markings.
Likely a false widow?
I went back to the garden and it was still a couple of feet away from where I relocated it:
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Just a garden orb weaver isn't it? But a fat one!
I love the well thought out names of two of the variants in that link. Cupboard and Rabbit Hutch. Therefore due to the location I think you have a Shed Door Widow.
😀
But a fat one
Who ate all the "flies"...?
Hmm yes I think it is a garden spider of the Orb variety, female and distinguished by the "Cross" which you can see clearer here:
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/spiders/garden-spider
...and in my pic here:
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looks a bit like a Transylvanian Deathbastard. Unusual to see one out at this time of year. Must be hungry, I suppose
I found a huge spider recently. I was working near a stone wall and must have disturbed the wee fella as it popped out briefly to see what all the fuss was. It was like those big standard house spiders you see wandering around the ceiling this time of year, but significantly bigger and with lighter marks on its body.
must’ve been 3/4 inches legspan?
Cardinal Spider?
She’s big cos she’s gravid . They mate in the autumn and the female gets ‘kin huge.
I’ve got one of those in my kitchen, it obviously came in through the kitchen window that looks out onto the garden when it was a spiderling. Not so many large flies coming into the house now, but it’s still there every day, sitting in the middle of its web in the window.
I love these spiders, really amazing to watch them web building ... Right up to the day you miss the web they've built halfway across the back door one morning and get it in the face. Just try and silk wrap me you little swine 😂
I am not a spider expert but the stripy socks and non-round fat arse say football spider, some sort of orb weaver and totally harmless.
They make beautiful webs and are fascinating to watch.
We get these around here (if photo works), so amazing I can't bring myself to hurt them. My lad got bitten by one last summer and is terrified - I think he would like them vaporised.
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