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Big hairy beauty in the back garden, canny really get a pic if his back due to his web position, only his undercarriage.

Any ideas what he is? He certainly enjoys a wasp or 2 for dinner!...

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Posted : 07/09/2017 9:29 pm
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Guatemalan Deathwrangler.

Run.


 
Posted : 07/09/2017 9:32 pm
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Harry it's his coming out party.


 
Posted : 07/09/2017 9:34 pm
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Wolf spider maybe?


 
Posted : 07/09/2017 9:34 pm
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Looks like Louise to me, run away........


 
Posted : 07/09/2017 9:34 pm
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Looks like a wolf spider to me.


 
Posted : 07/09/2017 9:39 pm
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(Araneus diadematus) Common garden spider? This time of year the females are getting big ready for the role is Charlote's web.


 
Posted : 07/09/2017 9:43 pm
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Looks like a garden spider - nice colouring.


 
Posted : 07/09/2017 9:54 pm
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Common Garden Spider - a big female. Wolf spiders don't build webs as such; they run down their prey on the ground, hence the name.


 
Posted : 08/09/2017 6:29 am
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Another vote for common garden.
Incredible creatures and stunning to look at.


 
Posted : 08/09/2017 6:37 am
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Eating the aforementioned wasp.

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Posted : 08/09/2017 6:40 am
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Your lawn is badly out of focus.


 
Posted : 08/09/2017 7:11 am
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Get close to her and give her a gentle blow and see what she does?

😉


 
Posted : 08/09/2017 8:13 am
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Any idea what this? Don't think I've seen one like it, looks like it doesn't have a separate abdomen.
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Posted : 16/09/2017 11:14 am
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Order opiliones, not actually a member of the Araneae(spider) family. They have little mandibles to consume their prey or foodstuffs, rather than sucking them up like spiders.

Also, they are quite interesting, behaviourally. I remember watching a large one take on the cat and win in a stand off over the food bowl. It looked like it knew exactly what it was doing..

Yours looks like a male [i]Odiellus spinosus[/i]


 
Posted : 16/09/2017 11:34 am
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Interesting, thanks!


 
Posted : 16/09/2017 11:54 am
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Nobeer's is a Garden Orb Weaver, there's lots of them in the family, around 2300 or so, and they can and do bite, one bit me years ago while I was playing with it! Ungrateful beast, I used to catch flies to feed it as well. Fantastic web weavers, especially when there's mist around to settle on the web.
http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/species/garden-spider
And it's almost certainly a female, they're much bigger than the males.


 
Posted : 16/09/2017 6:31 pm
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There's another one in the front garden CZ, Even bigger than 'martin' out the back.

I watched him devour a wasp again last night, but surprised they can bite the way he went about it.

Edit - defo, both have that white dotted cross on their backs.


 
Posted : 16/09/2017 6:34 pm
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Any ideas what he is

You sexist pig. 😉
Girly spiders are just as scarey as blokey spiders you know.


 
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Girly spiders are just as scarey as blokey spiders you know

and bigger generally.


 
Posted : 17/09/2017 7:57 am