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Spider (uneaten)
2010-09-25, 11:28 AM #1
Can anyone help identify this spider for me? I barely dare ask since it's a very ****ty photo taken on my ****ty phone... But any general ideas?

I've never seen one this big around these parts (Western Europe, end of a pretty hot Summer). No web seen, didn't see it walking (vacuumed it :psyduck:)

The yellow border which it is sitting on is exactly 6 centimetres (=2.4 inches). Meaning its body is about 2.25cm (=0.9 in).

I know this isn't much to go on, but help is appreciated.
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2010-09-25, 11:49 AM #2
LOCK AND LOAD
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2010-09-25, 11:49 AM #3
EAT IT
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2010-09-25, 11:51 AM #4
At least it wasn't in your computer.
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2010-09-25, 11:55 AM #5
Originally posted by Wolfy:
At least it wasn't in your computer.


You had one in your computer?
He said to them: "You examine the face of heaven and earth, but you have not come to know the one who is in your presence, and you do not know how to examine the present moment." - Gospel of Thomas
2010-09-25, 11:58 AM #6
No.

(I seem to post this link on every spider-related thread. Hoo-haw!)
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2010-09-25, 12:07 PM #7
take ya pic

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/spidhome.htm

I'd randomly guess at the most obvious, the House Spider or

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/Pholcidae/Pholcidae.htm
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2010-09-25, 1:28 PM #8
Originally posted by FastGamerr:
No.

(I seem to post this link on every spider-related thread. Hoo-haw!)


And everytime you post it, I reread the whole thing...
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2010-09-25, 2:07 PM #9
EXTERMINATE
2010-09-25, 4:16 PM #10
Call John Goodman.
nope.
2010-09-25, 4:34 PM #11
Is the spider really a pest ... or we, as humans, the pests in the world of nature?
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2010-09-25, 8:15 PM #12
Kill it. WITH FIRE.
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2010-09-25, 10:16 PM #13
I vote Loxosceles reclusa.

I'm being at least semi-serious.
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2010-09-25, 11:24 PM #14
I'd say a vibrating spider or house spider. Its body seems to small to be a wolf, which is my next guess.
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2010-09-26, 1:08 AM #15
Originally posted by Commander 598:
I vote Loxosceles reclusa.

I'm being at least semi-serious.


I'm hoping it's not this one, but I'll be treating the next big one I see like it is Loxosceles. (ie vacuum-superpower activated)

Originally posted by Outlaw Torn:
I'd say a vibrating spider or house spider. Its body seems to small to be a wolf, which is my next guess.


Thanks :) Looking through some photos right now.

Originally posted by ECHOMAN:
Is the spider really a pest ... or we, as humans, the pests in the world of nature?


Deep!

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He said to them: "You examine the face of heaven and earth, but you have not come to know the one who is in your presence, and you do not know how to examine the present moment." - Gospel of Thomas
2010-09-26, 4:16 AM #16
AN ITCHY B ITCHY SPIDER

(why the hell is b itch censored?)
Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.
2010-09-26, 5:19 AM #17
Spider's aren't pests, they eat the pests.
(Also I completely agree with Kroko)
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2010-09-26, 6:43 AM #18
remember that spider from Dark Messiah of Might and Magic?
2010-09-26, 8:27 AM #19
I'd say Shelob was a pest.
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2010-09-26, 9:13 AM #20
The large spiders you most often find running around your house (in the UK anyway) tend to be from the Tegenaria genus. I'm thinking of Tegenaria domestica and Tegenaria gigantea in particular. It looks too substantial to be the cellar spider.

They've been causing the most squealing amongst the housemates in my flat lately as the males are wandering around looking for the ladies. If you do catch it; you can tell if its male if it has swollen pedipalps (like a short 5th pair of legs at the front), they'll look like mini boxing gloves.
2010-09-26, 9:32 AM #21
Hey Recusant, are you also into the Spider Man comics and movies?
Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.

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