6 legged spider???

[Dogghound]

Originally Posted by dampsock

I've just joined because I've found a strange insect too. Can't work out how to post a new thread though so I'm quite interested in your 6 legged spider.

When you click on a forum, insects for example there is a button in the top left that says "new thread",

[Cotham Marble]

Originally Posted by 6LeggedSpider

My son has found a spider with 6 legs, is this a spider?? It is about 5cms in length including his legs and body etc and has brown and yellowy speckley legs and body!! I thought that all spiders have 8 legs...global warming maybe????

Something like this perhaps:

http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/ga...searchid=64985

[6LeggedSpider]

I can't get a pic up of the spider at the moment but I will try again in a bit hopefully then you will see a six legged spider.

[Paul mabbott]

Originally Posted by 6LeggedSpider

2 sections, one fat and one small head section.

Who needs a picture? This is a harvester (Opiliones) - they are arachnids starting off with eight legs but they regularly lose legs and manage to survive until the winter, by which time they have reproduced.

Yes, a picture, however poor, would rapidly solve this problem!

[Paul mabbott]

Just reply to this thread. In my humble opinion () it's a good thing to piggyback related topics. Much better than having dozens of repetitive but isolated threads ...

Originally Posted by dampsock

I've just joined because I've found a strange insect too. Can't work out how to post a new thread though so I'm quite interested in your 6 legged spider.

[6LeggedSpider]

Its definately not a harvester because its legs are small but thick and its head and body are 2 seperate things.

[6LeggedSpider]

It's body and legs are nothing like the harvester, it is much chubier!

[Cazzie]

Catch it in a jam jar or glass and take a piccy!!!

[GRH]

Spider's are quite 'plastic' in their walking behaviour - if they lose a leg (or legs), rather than keep the same pattern of movement with a stump waving about, they will alter the sequence of leg movements to make up for it. So although a spider with two legs missing is slower than it was when it had all it's legs, it's not as slow as you might expect! Spiders that live on or near water also move their legs in different ways depending on whether they're on water or land.

Greg

[Melanie xx]

hello,
im new to all of this and i have just found a 5 legged spider it doesnt look like its missing any legs because there is no more room for them it has 3 on its left and 2 on its right.its a light brown with a black patch on its head, ive got it in a glass at the mo but i really wanna know what it is. its definatly a spider i just wanna know which type.