Name this spider please?

[Cheviot]

This is a camel spider:

http://www.camelspiders.net/large-camel-spider-picture.htm

Enough to give you all the fear!

[Andy Bown]

Great photo Brian ! You need to get a shot of it when it's facing up or down the pipe with legs wrapped all the way round :lol: .

I was babysitting last night and when my friends' son went to put something outside just after it got dark, he found a garden spider in a web wrapping a large fly in silk. I said 'cool' and he went 'eurgh!' !

[grab my graupel]

This is a camel spider:

http://www.camelspiders.net/large-camel-spider-picture.htm

Enough to give you all the fear!

:lol: That is a very nasty looking spider Cheviot.

[Chris Knight]

I think you have hit the nail on the head there Pete.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicranopalpus_ramosus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvestman

Wow! 43 years to get from Bournemouth to Scotland. What have the Scots got up there?

[cyclonic happiness]

Funny you should mention foreign spiders.

I was at work last year when we had a a deivery of hanging baskets from China, on opening them can you imagine our delight at seeeing this little beauty inside!!!!! a Huntsman. (the lady in the photo is irene, the only one brave enough to hold the jar lol!!!). We had to get a kind lady from Twcross Zoo to come and pick it up lol!!!!

I don't unpack the hanging baskets anymore

The second photo is from the internet to show the size. AS IF I'D HAVE TOUCHED THE BLOODY THING!

Edited September 13, 2008 by cyclonic happiness

[0000]

WHO, What do huntsmen eat??!??

[0000]

This is a camel spider:

http://www.camelspiders.net/large-camel-spider-picture.htm

Enough to give you all the fear!

*rolls up very large newspaper*........*decides on using a baseball bat on the critter*.....*has panic attack and flees instead,if it wants to live in the bath it can!!!* :lol:

[Louby]

This is a camel spider:

http://www.camelspiders.net/large-camel-spider-picture.htm

Enough to give you all the fear!

Now I am not scared of spiders but bloody nora! I would run a mile and a bit or until I ran out of puff which ever came first, if I saw that bugger!!

[Gray-Wolf]

The Harvestman group are closer to scorpions than spiders though they are all arachnids.........I must not show Jamie the Camel spider....he'll want one.

[Optimus Prime]

When I was working for Tesco, we had some really unusual things come in with the Bananas on rare occasions, weird coloured frogs (which turned out to be poisonous, a customer came across it while picking for Bananas and screamed the store down!) big poisonous spiders which had spun a web and that's after the pestersides apparently kill them in transport, with the frog we had to get it in a plastic bag and squash it, not very pleasant.

With spiders by law we had to trap it in a plastic bag then put it in the freezer and phone some specialists to see what it was.

Have to say I've never seen a spider like that, which grabmygraupels had in his downstairs loo. Not the best thing to come across while trying to get a few minutes to yourself!

[0000]

Have to say I've never seen a spider like that, which grabmygraupels had in his downstairs loo. Not the best thing to come across while trying to get a few minutes to yourself!

Immagine if you came across a spider with a sense of humour that spun an entire web across the loo?It'd be the cling film prank all over again :lol: Mind,could be worse I shudder to think where the trap door spider would try to scurry off to hide!!!!

[sunny scunny]

This is a camel spider:

http://www.camelspiders.net/large-camel-spider-picture.htm

Enough to give you all the fear!

Im not scared of spiders :lol: impressive pic though

[0000]

Im not scared of spiders impressive pic though :lol:

Pah! if someone dropped that down ya vest it'd put a crimp on your day

[sunny scunny]

Pah! if someone dropped that down ya vest it'd put a crimp on your day :lol:

Would you be brave enough to pick it up though

[0000]

Would you be brave enough to pick it up though

Only after several bevvies and a good ambience on a desperate night with the room lit low,anyway bet you dated worse :lol:

[*AL*]

Years ago i worked for a US firm which had a base in the UK, our parts came from Orange county.Once when we were unpacking we came across a spider that was quite small but so black almost like PVC.Turned out to be a black widow, which me and another guy was poking!!

Unfortunately it fell under someones foot.

Edited September 14, 2008 by *AL*

[Crepuscular Ray]

Years ago i worked for a US firm which had a base in the UK, our parts came from Orange county.Once when we were unpacking we came across a spider that was quite small but so black almost like PVC.Turned out to be a black widow, which me and another guy was poking!!

Unfortunately it fell under someones foot.

The harvestmen 'spiders' in Queensland are pretty scary, at least that's according to the big butch men from the electricity company who were moving the cables underground when I was staying at a friend's house: seven of them, none less than 6'4, were climbing over each other to get away. Guess which 5'1 pommie sheila had to dust the poor wee things off the cables (that's the harvestmen, not the wussy electricians)? If it hadn't meant the electricity not being turned back on for a few months, I'd have shown them the black widow nest in the front yard!

Edited September 14, 2008 by crepuscular ray

[0000]

The harvestmen 'spiders' in Queensland are pretty scary, at least that's according to the big butch men from the electricity company who were moving the cables underground when I was staying at a friend's house: seven of them, none less than 6'4, were climbing over each other to get away. Guess which 5'1 pommie sheila had to dust the poor wee things off the cables (that's the harvestmen, not the wussy electricians)? If it hadn't meant the electricity not being turned back on for a few months, I'd have shown them the black widow nest in the front yard!

Erm......................dare one inquire creppy? do you have a piccy of a black widows nest?..............toes are curling at the thought!