What spider?

sammydavis · Post by **sammydavis** » Wed 05 Nov 2014 8:46 pm

We have a medium/large pale cream spider with intricate brown pattern on its back living in the slats of our bedroom shutters. He only moves out of there when its dark to go hang on his web and feed! Seems harmless enough, but I can't find him on any website and would like to know what he is please.

karmels · Post by **karmels** » Wed 05 Nov 2014 10:28 pm

Remenber All spiders have teeth.

Groucho · Post by **Groucho** » Thu 06 Nov 2014 6:48 am

sammydavis wrote:We have a medium/large pale cream spider with intricate brown pattern on its back living in the slats of our bedroom shutters. He only moves out of there when its dark to go hang on his web and feed! Seems harmless enough, but I can't find him on any website and would like to know what he is please.

If you take a photo we can probably help - Kuskor (the North Cyprus Society for the Protection of Birds and Nature) has books with all the spiders known to be on Cyprus in them and we can check.

If you do get a photo you can post it on here or if want to send it to me let me know and I will PM my email address

MrA · Post by **MrA** » Thu 06 Nov 2014 7:42 am

Have a look here, have had quite a few of these

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_lobata

mrsgee · Post by **mrsgee** » Thu 06 Nov 2014 8:14 am

If you google a brief description of the spider and then look at images, you may find it. I usually do this.

Hedge-fund · Post by **Hedge-fund** » Thu 06 Nov 2014 9:47 am

sammydavis wrote:We have a medium/large pale cream spider with intricate brown pattern on its back living in the slats of our bedroom shutters. He only moves out of there when its dark to go hang on his web and feed! Seems harmless enough, but I can't find him on any website and would like to know what he is please.

No idea what it is but I'd kill it if I was you.

IPMAN · Post by **IPMAN** » Thu 06 Nov 2014 12:10 pm

^^^^why^^^^

Hedge-fund · Post by **Hedge-fund** » Thu 06 Nov 2014 4:12 pm

IPMAN wrote:^^^^why^^^^

Because it's a spider! You never know so better to be careful.

Also, if you leave one alone you will soon be faced with this................

surfmeetseast · Post by **surfmeetseast** » Thu 06 Nov 2014 5:21 pm

No need to kill them at all, just humanely remove them to outside with a fishing net or similar, and then dispose of any eggs or detritus

Owl Lady · Post by **Owl Lady** » Thu 06 Nov 2014 5:39 pm

Spiders eat things, that eat me, like mosquitos so leave them alone and remove them as suggested. An old wives tale, but it is supposed to be unlucky to kill a spider!!

surfmeetseast · Post by **surfmeetseast** » Thu 06 Nov 2014 5:46 pm

Absolutely! Spiders serve a good purpose, I am hoping to be informed by a Jain Buddhist maybe, what purpose mosquitos and tics serve?

sammydavis · Post by **sammydavis** » Thu 06 Nov 2014 7:54 pm

Thank you Ambitious, herewith photo, as best as I could get him.

Groucho · Post by **Groucho** » Fri 07 Nov 2014 7:40 am

It does appear to be an Orb Spider, generally regarded as totally harmless - unless you are an arachnophobe

The photo is not sharp enough for my eye to fully distinguish which one..

sammydavis · Post by **sammydavis** » Fri 07 Nov 2014 8:19 am

Thank you Groucho/ambitious - very helpful even tho' difficult without disturbing him to get better photo.

mrsgee · Post by **mrsgee** » Fri 07 Nov 2014 8:42 am

I had an orb spider in the garden last week. Very pretty, and quite large. I found out what it was by googling on images, as I mentioned above.

Groucho · Post by **Groucho** » Fri 07 Nov 2014 9:34 am

sammydavis wrote:Thank you Groucho/ambitious - very helpful even tho' difficult without disturbing him to get better photo.

I'm not 'ambitious' that's just a moniker the system allocates when your number of posts reaches a certain volume..... I find these 'nicknames' a tad annoying and would if I was choosing prefer to be 'Idiot' or 'Stupid fat Hobbit'

Owl Lady · Post by **Owl Lady** » Fri 07 Nov 2014 10:21 am

Ok which one is it to be then? Idiot or Stupid fat Hobbit?

Hedge-fund · Post by **Hedge-fund** » Fri 07 Nov 2014 10:25 am

That looks like something out of the film Alien.

Kill it...........and quick.

Anything that moves indoors that is not human or pet is killed in my house. I always have a dilemna when the mother-in-law visits as I'm not sure.

Groucho · Post by **Groucho** » Fri 07 Nov 2014 12:09 pm

Owl Lady wrote: Ok which one is it to be then? Idiot or Stupid fat Hobbit?

Idiot I think...

Groucho · Post by **Groucho** » Fri 07 Nov 2014 12:10 pm

Hedge-fund wrote:That looks like something out of the film Alien.

Kill it...........and quick.

Anything that moves indoors that is not human or pet is killed in my house. I always have a dilemna when the mother-in-law visits as I'm not sure.

Looks nothing like Sigourney Weaver... what pills are you taking?

Hedge-fund · Post by **Hedge-fund** » Fri 07 Nov 2014 3:32 pm

Groucho wrote:
Hedge-fund wrote:That looks like something out of the film Alien.

Kill it...........and quick.

Anything that moves indoors that is not human or pet is killed in my house. I always have a dilemna when the mother-in-law visits as I'm not sure.
Looks nothing like Sigourney Weaver... what pills are you taking?

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