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13-11-2009, 12:21 AM
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| |  Spiders Meeting Circle!?
A year or so ago myself and a few others were walking home at night and encountered a group of maybe 6-8 spiders stood completely still in an almost perfect circle, facing eachother, in the middle of the pavement. They were dark in colour, just ordinary house spiders I think but quite large, perhaps 2-3 inches long.
We were all completely puzzled as to what they were doing. Just yesterday I remembered the inncident and searched it on google to see if I could find an answer but after 30min have had no such luck.
Could anyone here shed any light on the topic as we still completely baffled! 
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13-11-2009, 12:39 AM
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| | | Re: Spiders Meeting Circle!?
Was it a full moon? (Still, not quite enough there for a coven  )
lol....no idea really, but as a spider fan, I am interested as to what our resident spider experts have to say about this 
Welcome to WAB by the way.
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13-11-2009, 11:08 AM
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| | | Re: Spiders Meeting Circle!?
Are you sure they were Spiders ?, could they have been Opiliones ? ... |
13-11-2009, 01:36 PM
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| | | Re: Spiders Meeting Circle!?
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Originally Posted by Action_Man  Are you sure they were Spiders ?, could they have been Opiliones ? ... | My initial thoughts also. Opiliones often gather in groups, often quite large. I've never personally witnessed , nor read about spiders grouping like this and couldn't for one moment imagine why (not even accounting for pheromones of a female spider). Being outdoors and in the open it's unlikely to be Tegenaria sp. anyway, and I can't imagine any other species being around in any number as they are, for the most part, all solitary creatures.
So Opiliones get my vote.
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13-11-2009, 02:02 PM
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Mebbe a Harvest moon
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13-11-2009, 02:33 PM
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| | | Re: Spiders Meeting Circle!?
Just a thought Dap. Could anything have been spilled on the pavement and the spiders were kind of having a slurp? Well...never said I was a spider expert  Oh by the way, welcome to WAB - Wizzo |
13-11-2009, 03:15 PM
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Please what is an OPILIONE, is there an image we could have please |
13-11-2009, 03:19 PM
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Opiliones are Harvestmen Posie  |
13-11-2009, 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Jason Claxton Opiliones are Harvestmen Posie | And Harvest-women
Those things with the very long legs posie, the example posted by Jason has shorter legs than many. Daddy Longlegs! Or mummy Longlegs? 
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13-11-2009, 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by JRsbugs And Harvest-women
Those things with the very long legs posie, the example posted by Jason has shorter legs than many. Daddy Longlegs! Or mummy Longlegs?
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