6 legged spider???

[Cmeyvin]

Hey people

I noticed this spider for the past few days. It's really drawing my attention. First time i saw it, it had 6 legs, and it appears exactly after 2am to 2.15am. After two days, i saw it with 5 legs. What's weird about it is always looking hide in shadows. and for its 5 legs, it moves amazingly fast, i could guess faster than any other 8 legged spider. I could see this thing aint any normal spider. When it wasn't moving i kept looking at it from my bed, it clearly had only 5 legs and looks just like an spider. The moment i move forward to it, it would move away therefore not being able to take a photo of it. It's body it small and it's legs are like 3-5cm long. It's legs bend like 100 degrees. Have this thing ever been seen before. By the way it has a greyish dark brown colour.

[No.9 Spider]

Description sounds like a battle worn Tegenaria species (House spider) innit.


No.9 Spider

[JustCurious]

I've noticed what appears to be a 6 legged spider too (which is what brought me to this forum, hopefully someone knows what this is).. I've tried taking photos but the camera isn't that good..

The creature is resting, facing south-east in these pictures

[LRM]

In the Autumn I saw a 4 legged orb web spider sitting in its web. I gave it a fly which it caught easily enough. (If I remember correctly it had 3 legs on one side and one on the other). A few days later after a windy couple of days, its web had gone and it was sitting on the wall with only 2 legs. (I assume it was the same spider). Then it disappeared. Eaten or gone into hibernation? I don't fancy its chances of having survived long with only 2 legs.

[Julian C]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

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!

[quote=Julian C;] I would be inclined to agree with the assessment as being a spider who got in some trouble,lack of a separate articulate head means definitely not an insect. Does it have hairy legs? definitely not a harvest mite as these guys have everything in one body section.

[TheJayMan13]

i just found a six legged spider (if it is a spider) in my bathroom and i got pics.

http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/r...r/PICT4187.jpg

http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/r...r/PICT4188.jpg

http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/r...r/PICT4189.jpg

http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/r...r/PICT4190.jpg

http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/r...r/PICT4193.jpg

[frits_b]

That poor Gnaphosid lost two legs and is generally in bad shape, or so it seems.

[Ripco]

I just saw one of these six legged spiders and took a picture on my iphone and chased the fecker all around the room and eventually caught it and turfed it out the window. Fast for a spider with two less legs. This site wont let me upload a picture in either Safari or Firefox. PS I'm on a mac.

[LauraHowe]

um me too with 6 legged spider and its was no harvestman!! found one in the cottage this week and another by the wires when i played my gig at the jakes last week definately 6 legs but looked like a normal house spider and had not had an accident just what are they

[wilippa]

They're still spiders and they HAVE had an accident. They are able to survive pretty well without one or even two or three legs. The legs may have been "snapped off" right at the join with the body so you can't see any evidence of the loss but the spider adjusts its way of walking so you can't really tell that it's disabled. If it's a juvenile and still has some growing to do it can regenerate the lost limbs when it next sheds its skin, albeit sometimes with a shorter leg than normal.
Either that or you are seeing an insect and confusing it with a spider or a harvestman which lose legs even more regularly than spiders.