ali south

I have a spider the size of a 50p outside my front door. It has a thick white stripe head to tail ( I know spiders don't have tails!), I can't find it on any of the charts,

should I kill it, I don't like to kill spiders?
Thanks
Tara

Wendy

Have you got a picture :scared:

DunRoaminTheUK

This might help...

http://britishexpats.com/forum/attac...chmentid=26854

ali south

thanks, I have checked all the charts on the net and I cannot find it

ANYWAY, the spider started making a web across the front door so I just screamed and sprayed at the same time, can't bear to check if it has gone or is dead!
Tara

wanderingwombat

Hmmm.
Sounds like the rare and endangered albino red-back to me.

Oh well, no longer rare or endangered.....

WW

rossifumi

Murderer!

Sass73

After having spent the day at a farm sitting at a table that hasn't been dusted or had the cobwebs removed for years, I am over my sensitivity to spiders.
I must have brushed about 10 off my jeans within 15 minutes. I looked under the table and moved back. I then slept in a cabin and just before turning the light out looked up at the ceiling and spotted a few spiders and couldn't be bothered to put my glasses on to see what type they were. I had some more booze and slept peacefully (till my phone started screaming at me at 4.30 this morning cause it had run out of juice)

Teliko21

Was it just a stripe or a cross? It sounds like one of those completely harmless spiders that build a new web each evening to catch insects and the web gets destroyed over the course of the night, hence the re-webbing Forgotten the name of them but pretty sure it has 'Cross' in the name :P

mr mover

ST Andrews cross spider, one sent my wifes mate into labour ,and she wasn,t even pregnanant , walked into the web on a dark night :scared: i can still hear the screams 10 yr s later................... mm

Mrs Jackaroo

Sounds like it could be a wolf spider but that was on the pics posted a bit higher up so I'm not sure?? I had one a few weeks ago and posted a pic of it - here it is:-

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=367618

If its not that one then sorry I cant help you! :scared:

Good luck

Rach

ali south

no not like that at all

no CROSS (see postings above), just a stripe!
Tara

katsmajic

i dont like the look of any of them...

DunRoaminTheUK

I once saw a programme where a chap was allowing tarantulas to crawl inside his mouth.....up to the point that he could close his mouth......

He obviously failed to take the joke one step further by going to his local dentists to have a checkup, whilst leaving the spider in there.

DollyDaydream

Yes woman.......RUN

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loz

If in doubt ........................stamp it out

Don't give it chance to tell it's mates :scared: :scared:

Loz x