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was quite a fast little guy. I have never seen one before.


 
Posted : 14/09/2012 10:04 am
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Woodlouse spider I think


 
Posted : 14/09/2012 10:07 am
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Let it bite you. If it hurts like hell its a wood louse spider.


 
Posted : 14/09/2012 10:10 am
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I wouldn't worry what it is, unless that's a palm tree it's next to 😯


 
Posted : 14/09/2012 10:10 am
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Thanks guys 🙂


 
Posted : 14/09/2012 10:11 am
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Woodlouse spider

Good god that's like the missing link between spider and tick... #eewwwwww#


 
Posted : 14/09/2012 10:13 am
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I thought that type are a variant of the swamp spider - [i]Dysdera crocata[/i] according to a book in front of me at present. Says they're found wherever there's a large quantity of woodlice so definitely its 'street name'.

Can bite but not as painful as a large house spider IME...


 
Posted : 14/09/2012 10:14 am
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We do seem to have a lot of woodlice in the garden. I hope he/she has a few friends.


 
Posted : 14/09/2012 10:18 am
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we get a crazy amount of spiders.
some of them are monsters (by UK standards), I'm always concerned that they've escaped from a crate of bananas.
I sent this first one packing because I was worried it might steal my baby. The second one crawled out when I was fumigating the shed to get rid of the millions of spiders that had congregated there.

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Posted : 14/09/2012 10:23 am
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I get quite a few false widdows in my shed. The amount of dead things they have in their silk is unreal.

When resurfacing my shed roof recently I must have found 10 different spiders all big and mean.


 
Posted : 14/09/2012 10:28 am
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Brakes, if I saw that first one in my house I would have to kill it with fire, then maybe burn down the rest of the house to make sure there were no others.


 
Posted : 14/09/2012 10:29 am
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I wear it's severed head on a chain round my neck as a warning to other baby-eating spiders.


 
Posted : 14/09/2012 10:31 am
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WCA got bitten by one of those IIRC.

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Posted : 14/09/2012 10:35 am