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In my garden in Vienna.
That'll be a Viennese wasp spider..
They might be in Vienna now but the buggers are coming over here, as my newspaper reported a while back :
[url= http://www.****/news/article-479750/Exotic-wasp-spider-bites-swarming-England.html ]Exotic wasp spider that bites swarming across England[/url]
It's an incredibly cool spider, is what it is.
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What's this, then? For scale, it's sitting in a pint glass. Body is about the size of my little fingernail, and its legs were a good 4" long (it was reaching up to get out and was past the bulge in the glass).
Martian war machine
is that not a harvester, Cougar?
A pissed one.
How can you tell just from the glass? He could be in his local.
Top one is argiope bruennichi I think. It's the only spider whose scientific name I know!
I saw one in the south of England 20 years ago but haven't seen one since. I think they are rather beautiful.
Body is about the size of my little fingernail, and its legs were a good 4" long
What you've got there is a specimen of [i]Shortarsus Longlegii[/i]
What a beauty, never seen one either. Cougar's is a Harvestman (Opiliones)