[Heavy_Soul]

Could anyone help me? I’ve tried looking online but no joy.

Outside in the garden shed we’ve just seen a spider I’ve never seen before- it was deep blue in colour - sort of the same colour of a blueberry. A fairly small but fat bodied spider.

Anyone know what they’re called?

[clarevoyant.]

Heavy_Soul, on 20 July 2020 - 03:52 PM, said:

Could anyone help me? I’ve tried looking online but no joy.

Outside in the garden shed we’ve just seen a spider I’ve never seen before- it was deep blue in colour - sort of the same colour of a blueberry. A fairly small but fat bodied spider.

Anyone know what they’re called?

According to WHO it'll be a Boris

Sorry

[Town_Fan]

Heavy_Soul, on 20 July 2020 - 03:52 PM, said:

Could anyone help me? I’ve tried looking online but no joy.

Outside in the garden shed we’ve just seen a spider I’ve never seen before- it was deep blue in colour - sort of the same colour of a blueberry. A fairly small but fat bodied spider.

Anyone know what they’re called?

Was it blueberry shaped? Could have been carrying an egg sac maybe? Cant think of any blue spiders off the top of my head.

[fishini]

Heavy_Soul, on 20 July 2020 - 03:52 PM, said:

Could anyone help me? I’ve tried looking online but no joy.

Outside in the garden shed we’ve just seen a spider I’ve never seen before- it was deep blue in colour - sort of the same colour of a blueberry. A fairly small but fat bodied spider.

Anyone know what they’re called?

Hard without seeing it but from your sketchy discription it could well be a female False Black Widow

[Wooden Spoon]

fishini, on 20 July 2020 - 05:29 PM, said:

Hard without seeing it but from your sketchy discription it could well be a female False Black Widow

They are black, with a “gold coloured skull shaped” marking on its back.



Very distinctive and most definitely not blue.

[fishini]

DEATH, on 20 July 2020 - 07:10 PM, said:

They are black, with a “gold coloured skull shaped” marking on its back.



Very distinctive and most definitely not blue.

False widow spiders are black but in certain light can look dark blue what's more it's very rare the female has the distinct markings. It's the male that carries the markings. There are many different false widow spiders

[Mr Mercury]

The other week when it was red hot I was cutting my parents hedge when I kept feeling a tickling sensation on the back of my neck followed by a "effing hell that stung" moment which resulted in me smacking the same space, when I looked at my hand there was a dead spider in it, nothing massive but a spider all the same, next day I had a pea sized blister/spot there that scabbed over and took days to go. Thankgod we don't live in Australia!

[Heavy_Soul]

fishini, on 20 July 2020 - 07:41 PM, said:

False widow spiders are black but in certain light can look dark blue what's more it's very rare the female has the distinct markings. It's the male that carries the markings. There are many different false widow spiders

Looking them up online the body shape fits - the legs Similar to photos of them but maybe not exactly the same. I put the spider outside of the shed and this is when I saw it’s colour in the outside light - definitely like a ripe blueberry colour and not black. It’s whole size maybe slightly bigger than a 5 pence piece.

[The Earl of Chesterfield]

Mr Mercury, on 20 July 2020 - 07:56 PM, said:

The other week when it was red hot I was cutting my parents hedge when I kept feeling a tickling sensation on the back of my neck followed by a "effing hell that stung" moment which resulted in me smacking the same space, when I looked at my hand there was a dead spider in it, nothing massive but a spider all the same, next day I had a pea sized blister/spot there that scabbed over and took days to go. Thankgod we don't live in Australia!

Have you had any inexplicable urges to climb tall buildings or go crime fighting, 'M'?

[Wooden Spoon]

fishini said:

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False widow spiders are black but in certain light can look dark blue what's more it's very rare the female has the distinct markings. It's the male that carries the markings. There are many different false widow spiders

Your right, 4 different species of false widow



http://britishspider...e_Widow_Spiders

[Mr Mercury]

The Earl of Chesterfield, on 21 July 2020 - 05:54 AM, said:

Have you had any inexplicable urges to climb tall buildings or go crime fighting, 'M'?

Tbh no, but for some strange reason i can now beat the missus at arm wrestling...

[Denny]

DEATH, on 20 July 2020 - 07:10 PM, said:

They are black, with a “gold coloured skull shaped” marking on its back.



Very distinctive and most definitely not blue.

I found something very like that a few years ago in a hedge near the front door, to panic me more it was sat in what looked like a funnel shaped web!
I took a photo and asked on the natural history museum forum and someone way too over qualified identified it as a labyrinth spider. They make a web with a front porch,decorate it with bits of leaves and wait for a fly to land and rush it!
Completely harmless to us though!

one of these

[ronpowellsbutler]

Town_Fan, on 20 July 2020 - 05:27 PM, said:

Was it blueberry shaped? Could have been carrying an egg sac maybe? Cant think of any blue spiders off the top of my head.

You don't want a spider on the top of your head ...

[clarevoyant.]

ronpowellsbutler, on 21 July 2020 - 11:35 AM, said:

You don't want a spider on the top of your head ...

This post has been edited by clarevoyant.: 21 July 2020 - 01:41 PM