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Gavin Hannah

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  • Location: High Wycombe
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and Cold.
  • Location: High Wycombe
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Hey guys, hoping someone on here is a spider fan. Long story short, need help identifying a spider.

After reading about the False Widow Spider in Britain, I think I found a small colony on my west facing skylight.

This is the closest image on google I could find to what I found. My own images where on a phone camera and not very clear. It's the same shape, almost identical markings (Perhaps a little darker in color) and had a single dark stripe on the underside of its abdomen. It also had orange/brown banded legs. Was appx. 1. - 1.5 cm (excluding legs) Abdomen was larger compared to rest of body than in this photograph (Suggesting female).

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I found at least 8 - 10 egg sacks which I've tried to remove as much of.

Thanks guys.

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  • Location: Barnehurst nr Bexleyheath, Kent
  • Location: Barnehurst nr Bexleyheath, Kent
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Moved from serious discussion to the nature area of NW :)

Posted
  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.
  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.
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Good idea SR, more people with an interest might spot it here.

Hi IBHT - even if you're not happy with your own photos, could you post the clearest of them, please. It's difficult to i/d your spider from a picture of something similar from the web. Ta.

Posted
  • Location: High Wycombe
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and Cold.
  • Location: High Wycombe
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Sure, they are not great, the camera is pants. You can really only get a sense of the size and shape of it.

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Posted
  • Location: Cheddar Valley, 20mtrs asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and lots of it or warm and sunny, no mediocre dross
  • Location: Cheddar Valley, 20mtrs asl
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Hard to determine patterns from those pics but what does stand out are the proportions of the Spider. The web shots of the False Widow and your pics have a marked difference in the size/proportion of the head to abdomen, judging from that I'd say they were two completely different spiders.

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  • Location: Near Newton Abbot or east Dartmoor, Devon
  • Location: Near Newton Abbot or east Dartmoor, Devon
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Sure, they are not great, the camera is pants. You can really only get a sense of the size and shape of it.

Might help.

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  • Location: High Wycombe
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and Cold.
  • Location: High Wycombe
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Thanks, still wasnt able to positively identify it as lots of those spiders look similair. I would say if it's not of the widow species then it looks damn close to it.

I read about how the false widow bites are like wasp stings and though rarely fatal, can put some people in A&E. There is also the possibility that the black widow may one day get a foot hold in the UK. There are plenty of news articles about Black Widows being imported in on goods/vehicles etc. So how many make it over and go undetected?

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