What is this horrible spider?!

[Backtrack]

Saw this crawling around on the floor in Crosby!

It's back was darker than it appears in the picture, but I didn't want to get too close in case it bit me, it looked like a crab!!

[Yarmy]

This?

http://www.uksafari.com/gorbweaver.htm

[Backtrack]

It looks like a tick to me.

  

This?

http://www.uksafari.com/gorbweaver.htm

If ticks were this big I'd be scared haha

It's not that one mate, it was about 6-7cm, but it's back was dark brown and white

[frogesque]

one of these?

 

http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/pictures/showphoto.php/photo/18646

 

Cross on the back is a give away

 

Harmless but probably a female full of eggs! Lot and lots and lots of ickle bibby piders soon.

Edited October 25, 2014 by frogesque

[Crepuscular Ray]

  

If ticks were this big I'd be scared haha

It's not that one mate, it was about 6-7cm, but it's back was dark brown and white

I'm not sure that it is a spider, even though it has eight legs, it seems to go straight from head to abdomen without much of an obvious thorax (that is, there is a thorax there, but it's much reduced, unlike in most spiders). It was nearly 3 inches across? Yikes.

 

You could try looking through this and if you can' t find anything to match, consider contacting the British Arachnological Society to see what they say.

 

http://wiki.britishspiders.org.uk/index.php5?title=Main_Page

Edited October 25, 2014 by Crepuscular Ray

[cheese]

one of these?

 

http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/pictures/showphoto.php/photo/18646

 

Cross on the back is a give away

 

Harmless but probably a female full of eggs! Lot and lots and lots of ickle bibby piders soon.

Yes, looks like your typical garden variety spider. Completely harmless, but they have huge abdomens for such little bodies. I saw them all the time on my way to school years ago, in the middle of webs.

Edited October 25, 2014 by cheese

[Backtrack]

one of these?

 

http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/pictures/showphoto.php/photo/18646

 

Cross on the back is a give away

 

Harmless but probably a female full of eggs! Lot and lots and lots of ickle bibby piders soon.

 

On inspection, yes it looks to be one of those, still very creepy though!

I may of exaggerated slightly on the 6-7cm part haha, but it looks like one of these, thank you!

[alexisj9]

Got loads of these in my garden, mostly in webs above head hight. We just leave them in peace and walk under. Harmless insect eaters.

[Mapantz]

It looks like a green orb spider to me?!

[Don]

Saw this crawling around on the floor in Crosby!

It's back was darker than it appears in the picture, but I didn't want to get too close in case it bit me, it looked like a crab!!

It does indeed look as though it's about to lay lots of eggs. If not, a case of who ate all the flies?!

[James M]

Yes a garden spider. I've seen lots this Autumn, the warm weather has obviously done them wonders!