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20-08-2008, 06:18 AM
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| | | Re: Size of raft spider
There are some pretty large Tegenaria around this year, but it could be worse - did anyone else see the recent series about the wildlife crew filming in Guyana and Venezuela on BBC1? How on earth could that guy be so calm when there was a spider the size of a dinner plate crawling around in front of him?
I'm quite fond of bugs, but I think I'd have been heading for the hills at a fair rate of knots! |
20-08-2008, 01:13 PM
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| | | Re: Size of raft spider
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Originally Posted by No.9 Spider  I've seen a few preserved male specimens of Tegenaria parietina with leg spans in excess of 5 inches (over 125mm leg span in new money!).
No.9 Spider  | Over five inches?? That is one big spider. If we had those in our house I'd be long gone. The usual Tegenarias set me all of a wuther.
I was in Norfolk a few weeks back and was fortunate to see a Fen Raft Spider (Dolomedes Plantarius) at Redgrave and Lopham Fen. It was a whopper alright and I'd never pick one up, but it was a lot less scary looking than those nasty Tegenarias.
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18-07-2009, 08:57 PM
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| |  Re: Size of raft spider
out walking today saw a raft spider. It was the biggest british spider I have ever seen. Bigger than the house spider in my shed, and it's pretty impressive. I was amazed! |
18-07-2009, 09:15 PM
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| | | Re: Size of raft spider
La, la, la - can't hear you!
Jim |
18-07-2009, 10:37 PM
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| | | Re: Size of raft spider
are we talking native species here?? S. Florentina can get to be big........ i once saw one with a body the length of a match stick and it was a fat thing too....  | | | |
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