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Originally Posted by Entorien_Scriber  My Mother handed me a copy of the Guardian today with a bit of a wince. She hates spiders and there was a huge picture of a False Widow on one page! What interested me was the list of 14 spiders in the UK said to bite.
Tube web spider
False widow spider
Woodlouse spider
Walnut orb-weaver spider
False widow or cellar spider
Lace weaver spider
Black lace weaver spider
Mouse spider
Rustic wolf spider
Bark sac spider
Stone spider
Cross or garden spider
Bruennichi's Argiope
Money spider
Some of these I already knew about, but I've never heard of a Money Spider being able to bite someone! Anyone know if this is true? What classifies as a biting spider? I mean, does it need to be venomous, or just be able to go through human skin?
Plus there are two on here that definately are not native, the False Widow and the Argiope. My Mother's response was to state that now she would squash any spider she sees, which she does already no matter how many times I ask her not to.  I just hope this doesn't lead to even more people being far too paranoid about spiders. |
I have placed an image of a spider`s web,(identification not known) in the insect gellery. I was told it was a Funnel Web??? I thought ,the species came from Australia, and its web is woven over a hole on the ground? This was over a hole in a slate arch... any ideas?