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Any ideas what type of Spider this bad boy is? (SPIDER WARNING!)

Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 9:55am
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UKHandyMan4Hire

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I stumbled across this spider when doing garden work yesterday. I say stumbled, it caught my eye as it moved out of the grass because of its sheer size! (For the purpose of scale, the mortar between the block is about an inch wide!)

I didn't bother to ask if it was poisonous and I had a strimmer in my hand (not a euphemism!) so I figured I outgunned it!

I let it scurry off rather than kill it, I prefer not to kill things (apart from the occasional song in the shower!)

Any ideas what species, tribe, planet it came from?!!!

Thanks in advance

Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 9:59am

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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 9:59am

UKHandyMan4Hire wrote on Sat Sep 21, 2019 9:55am:

I stumbled across this spider when doing garden work yesterday. I say stumbled, it caught my eye as it moved out of the grass because of its sheer size! (For the purpose of scale, the mortar between the block is about an inch wide!)

I didn't bother to ask if it was poisonous and I had a strimmer in my hand (not a euphemism!) so I figured I outgunned it!...

 

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I let it scurry off rather than kill it, I prefer not to kill things (apart from the occasional song in the shower!)

Any ideas what species, tribe, planet it came from?!!!

Thanks in advance

Yes. That's a "biggy". Can't help much, except. 1. Planet Earth & 2. Your garden. You can keep him!👍

Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:02am

UKHandyMan4Hire

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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:02am

Villas wrote on Sat Sep 21, 2019 9:59am:

Yes. That's a "biggy". Can't help much, except. 1. Planet Earth & 2. Your garden. You can keep him!👍

Not my garden thank goodness! 

Although, that said, I could always buy a saddle and charge 1€ per ride !!!

Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:18am

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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:18am

I think it may be a Mediterranean Tarantula carrying her eggs on her back. 

Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:25am

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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:25am

Cheryl wrote on Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:18am:

I think it may be a Mediterranean Tarantula carrying her eggs on her back. 

Thank you Cheryl. I am so pleased I stayed away form her then!!

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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 1:40pm

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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 1:40pm

So they make quite good pets then?!,

Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 9:33pm

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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 9:33pm

UKHandyMan4Hire,

You should have had no fear of it

You only had to tell it to move along.

How would you do that you may ask ?

The answer is simple, grab your smart phone and communicate with it over the world wide Web 😄

LeckyLes.

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2019 8:27pm

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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2019 8:27pm

Take a look at this then - 

OMG - Not sure it beats our Med Scorpion hidding in the sink!

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2019 8:33pm

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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2019 8:33pm

Jif wrote on Sun Sep 29, 2019 8:27pm:

Take a look at this then - 

It´s a sink plug.....No? with a small insect nearby?

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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2019 8:37pm

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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2019 8:37pm

LOL - I should have called you round to pick it out then …. they have a really nasty sting !

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