Identifying A Spider
#1
Posted 20 July 2020 - 03:52 PM
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?
#2
Posted 20 July 2020 - 04:16 PM
Heavy_Soul, on 20 July 2020 - 03:52 PM, said:
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
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#3
Posted 20 July 2020 - 05:27 PM
Heavy_Soul, on 20 July 2020 - 03:52 PM, said:
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.
#4
Posted 20 July 2020 - 05:29 PM
Heavy_Soul, on 20 July 2020 - 03:52 PM, said:
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
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#5
Posted 20 July 2020 - 07:10 PM
fishini, on 20 July 2020 - 05:29 PM, said:
They are black, with a “gold coloured skull shaped” marking on its back.
Very distinctive and most definitely not blue.
#6
Posted 20 July 2020 - 07:41 PM
DEATH, on 20 July 2020 - 07:10 PM, said:
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
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#7
Posted 20 July 2020 - 07:56 PM
#8
Posted 20 July 2020 - 08:44 PM
fishini, on 20 July 2020 - 07:41 PM, said:
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.
#9
Posted 21 July 2020 - 05:54 AM
Mr Mercury, on 20 July 2020 - 07:56 PM, said:
Have you had any inexplicable urges to climb tall buildings or go crime fighting, 'M'?
#10
Posted 21 July 2020 - 07:11 AM
fishini 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
Your right, 4 different species of false widow
http://britishspider...e_Widow_Spiders
#11
Posted 21 July 2020 - 07:19 AM
The Earl of Chesterfield, on 21 July 2020 - 05:54 AM, said:
Tbh no, but for some strange reason i can now beat the missus at arm wrestling...
#12
Posted 21 July 2020 - 10:51 AM
DEATH, on 20 July 2020 - 07:10 PM, said:
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
#14
Posted 21 July 2020 - 01:36 PM
ronpowellsbutler, on 21 July 2020 - 11:35 AM, said:
This post has been edited by clarevoyant.: 21 July 2020 - 01:41 PM
Yorkshire is Yorkshire
Never the twain shall meet.
Again