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There's a Moth thread and one for Insects, so I thought maybe one for our Arachnid friends. If there's already a live thread out there, my apologies...
I have plenty of these spiders in the garden, mainly in the hedges. Cross Spider I believe. It wasn't too happy with the camera!
I wonder if your "spindleys" are the same as our "shakey leg spiders" Gaynor. They always have a good wobble when you get close! Ours are left in the faint hope that they keep the mozzies down, fat chance! LOL
I posted this a while back and I think it's probably the work of some sort of Spider. The fold in the leaf is perhaps an inch across and there does look to be a Spider lurking inside the webby(?) area. Anyone have any ideas of which type of Spider would fold a Reed leaf in this manner?
Don't recognize your reed spider Paul, clever little thing.
Here's a photo of what I call "spindley" Hazel
Just went out to the shed to get this photo, he/she is a little too big to keep in the house!!
Paul A said: which type of Spider would fold a Reed leaf in this manner?
gaynorsl said:Here's a photo of what I call "spindley" Hazel
Yup, that's our shakey leg spider!
Great, it's probably called all sorts of names in different areasI think I called it spindley because of the long thin legs as opposed to the garden spider with its black thick ones, that I have to put out in a paper carton after being told that it has quite a nip when disturbed. I always used to pick them up no bother, but not now!!!
I got bitten by this one when I acidentally disturbed it. The computer says it's not dangerous but it was like a wasp sting & very painful for a while
It's called Zoropsis spininmana (I think) & may be known as a Mediterranean Spider. They used to live in our garage at the old house!
Wow Hazel, that is a very handsome spider, not sure I'd like to be bitten by one though. I had to move a garden spider from one of the many (sigh) rubbish boxes we have these days. It was about to get squashed by my red wine bottle! Didn't get a photo but will if it reappears.
We've been demolishing a building in our new garden next door recently & found a lot of spiders, these are 2 from yesterday,
a type of jumping spider Phlegra bresnieri
& a bigger one with a nasty bite (so I read) which I think is Segestria bavarica
Enjoy!
O'h Hazel, I don't usually mind spiders but that last photo is really scary!!!!, and I'm not keen on jumping spiders either, having had one jump off the wall a few years ago which gave me a fright. Crazy when they are so small:-).