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21-03-2009, 11:13 PM
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| | | nesting spider
 
These photos are of a spider & its grass woven home which contained numerous infants. It was photographed in a glade at Pitmedden Forest in Fife Anyone able to identify it |
22-03-2009, 12:16 AM
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Tried an answer but got an error message when I clicked Submit so I will try again.
How true are those colours and any idea of length, excluding legs?
My first thought, based chiefly on eye position and colour, was Araniella cucurbitina female which has a green abdomen that can be a bit yellowish.
The web does sound a bit like one of the Theridiiae family and Enoplognatha ovata springs to mind but I can't really match up the eye position.
If the colours are correct, we did have a specimen with a yellowish coloured abdomen like that a little while ago but I can't remember what it turned out to be.
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22-03-2009, 01:09 AM
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To me it's a female Araneus quadratrus by the destinctive abdominal markings and habitat... |
22-03-2009, 08:50 AM
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Yes, female Araneus quadratrus .
No.9 Spider 
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22-03-2009, 09:48 AM
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I would agree with A. quadratus, she looks as if she is still full of eggs. You can get a dramatic change of size and colour when the eggs are laid, she may turn bright red as the abdomen shrinks.
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22-03-2009, 07:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Geoff F  Tried an answer but got an error message when I clicked Submit so I will try again.
How true are those colours and any idea of length, excluding legs?
My first thought, based chiefly on eye position and colour, was Araniella cucurbitina female which has a green abdomen that can be a bit yellowish.
The web does sound a bit like one of the Theridiiae family and Enoplognatha ovata springs to mind but I can't really match up the eye position.
If the colours are correct, we did have a specimen with a yellowish coloured abdomen like that a little while ago but I can't remember what it turned out to be.
Perhaps this is one for the experts. | Thanks everyone for the comments & info - Geof, the colous have not been manipulated and are acurate the photos were taken in sunlight |
22-03-2009, 09:24 PM
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Originally Posted by bill kay Thanks everyone for the comments & info - Geof, the colous have not been manipulated and are acurate the photos were taken in sunlight | Those are the colours I expect to see, but they can vary tremendously. I have seen one that was white, red and green, like a plastic spider.
This is pretty well the biggest spider in the country (not individually, more on a species basis).
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22-03-2009, 10:38 PM
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..........and it has a nutty flavour 
According to William Syer Bristowe.
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Originally Posted by No.9 Spider ..........and it has a nutty flavour
According to William Syer Bristowe.
No.9 Spider | Yes, a strange incident that.
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