Three spiders for id

Lesinlondon · #1 (**permalink**) 11-10-2008, 08:12 PM

Hi, Can someone please id these three spiders. First two pics are the same species. Thanks, Les.

Venger · #2 (**permalink**) 11-10-2008, 08:46 PM

1 & 2:Pisaura mirabilis, a nursery web spider.
2: Clubiona sp
3: Lycosidae, a wolf spider, possibly a Pardosa sp.

Don't forget to give size and location please.

Phoebe · #3 (**permalink**) 11-10-2008, 09:09 PM

Hi Venger I hear you are the spider enthusiast on here. I had what I called a Wolf Spider in an old house once. I called it that because of it's habits. It used to leap out from hiding on it's web and catch a wasp or bee that was close by. Is that likely to be a real Wolf Spider?

Meta menardi · #4 (**permalink**) 11-10-2008, 09:16 PM

Wolf spiders are not going to use a web for prey capture, they do act like (solitary) wolves. Your spider must be something else. Can you give any more information? Size, description, habitat, nocturnal or not would all help. As would a photo.

Venger · #5 (**permalink**) 11-10-2008, 09:21 PM

There are quite a few spider enthusiasts on here (Meta's one of them :P)

As for your spider, more info is needed (was the web vertical, like the ones you see on a misty morning, or horizontal, a fuzzy triangle in a corner?)

If you can describe the spider that may help (though I have a feeling it's a Tegenaria sp)
Let us know.

Phoebe · #6 (**permalink**) 11-10-2008, 09:25 PM

Hi

Sorry I don't have a photo as this was many years ago but it was solitary and lived in the roof part of a verandah behind some boarding in the corner. It was always there and I left it alone because I like spiders they fascinate me. In size it was like a Rafter Spider which is what i thought it was but called it a Wolf Spider after watching it come out and grab anything that flew passed. Just a thought. No more info on it just 'fond memories' lol

Hi Venger, just read your post.

The web was horizontal going long and thin between glass slope and side wall.