found this spider in bananas......

[krista]

Could someone please identify this spider for me. It was sitting in the bunch of bananas i brought yesterday. Is it a local or from somewhere else?? If not a local spider then what do i do with it??

Thanks

[Jason Green]

Morning Krista, and welcome to WAB!

Thanks for the photo. I'd say it's an Amaurobius sp. (that's the scientific name, with Sp. meaning 'A species of' - you'd need a close-up image of her underside to see the 'epigyne' to get to a fully-resolved identification), to which we have a few in the UK.

As far as I can see it's a native (assuming you're in the UK!)

Take care,

Jason

[krista]

Hi, thanks for getting back to me so fast

This is the underside.

I live on the Isle of Lewis, and while i have seen many spiders similar to this it was the fact it was in the bananas that had me wondering....
I'm stupidly afraid of spiders myself and so i don't really get up close to others i've seen to compare them, even being so close to this through the jar is hard pathetic i know!!

Should i just release this out in the garden?

[Action_Man]

Originally Posted by krista

Should i just release this out in the garden?

Not in the actual garden, but on a wall, window frame or door jam, something like that, they dont live in vegitation ...

[John_M]

Looks like A. fenestralis.

[krista]

Thanks for the advice. I released it onto the back step in the end so it's probably made it's way somewhere cosy now i hope.

Krista