steatoda nobilis spider

[barbarella]

Hi all, I was clearing a room in work as we are going to have some building work done and I came across a spider and 100's babies in a large tangled web underneath the web was littered with the dried remains of woodlice and other spiders.

When I did some research (whilst fending off a colleague who suggested hoovering them up) and it had all the characteristic's of a steatoda nobilis and was Identical to the pic's

However I live in Newport South Wales and they are reportedly in the far south of England??

Was 'charlotte' on holiday???????

thanks

[Venger]

Do you have any photos?
If it's confirmed you may want to contact
Mr Peter R. Harvey, For the Spider Recording Scheme:
E-mail srsATbritishspidersDOTorgDOTuk (to e-mail please change 'AT' to '@' and 'DOT' to '.')

[barbarella]

I have some very blurry ones on my blackberry and you cant really see the pale markings on the abdomen I am a rubbish photographer!

[barbarella]

the only thing I can put forward as evidence is that it had a dark brown body with a white/cream line around the front of the abdoman and a white/cream fine complex pattern that resembled a messed up 'skull' on the lower abdoman.....when I work out how to get the rubbish photo's on here I will post them! xx

[Venger]

Upload your photos to either the unidentified or forum images gallerys.
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looking forward to seeing them, oh and welcome to WAB.

[Venger]

did it look similar to this:


Photo by Hereward (mislabelled)

[barbarella]

hiya thanks for that, yes it did look very simular! eek!


we are not allowed back in the building until a week from monday (asbestos removal) but as soon as I get through the door I will be going on a spider hunt!


Thanks
L xx