possible tube spider

kayleigh93 · #1 (**permalink**) 30-09-2011, 12:08 AM

I live in tyne and wear in the north east of england and i'm sure there was a tube web spider on the wall outside my front door.
it was very large its legs spread over the size of the brick and from what pictures ive looked at i'm almost certain it is a tube spider the only thing i'm not sure of is it having green bits at the front. i have pictures but need upload them still.

can someone please tell me if it is possible for them to be this far north because everything ive read says they are just in the south of the country.

thanks..

tcvarlh · #2 (**permalink**) 30-09-2011, 01:56 AM

Photos much needed

Welcome to WAB K Hope you enjoy it!

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kayleigh93 · #3 (**permalink**) 30-09-2011, 02:05 PM

sorry theyre slightly blurry but i hope you can tell me if it is possible for it to be a tube web spider from these.. thank youu..

faz · #4 (**permalink**) 30-09-2011, 02:18 PM

hi welcome to WAB it looks like one of the Tegenaria sp i would say duellica a common house spider

kayleigh93 · #5 (**permalink**) 30-09-2011, 02:48 PM

oohh right so its possibly not a tube web ?.. do they look similar just because it realy looked like one .. thanks

No.9 Spider · #6 (**permalink**) 30-09-2011, 05:53 PM

Tegenaria are a 'sheet web' spider, though their retreat is often in the form of a tube at one end of the web.

wildherbalian85 · #7 (**permalink**) 09-10-2011, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by kayleigh93

sorry theyre slightly blurry but i hope you can tell me if it is possible for it to be a tube web spider from these.. thank youu..

This is a male Tube Web, Segestria Florentina.

Tube Web Spider - Segestria Florentina - Wildlife Photography

Took this in my back garden. They are black unlike the one in your photo, that said i can see how it is easy to mistake them. The female S.Florentina is not so easily mistaken.

Meta menardi · #8 (**permalink**) 09-10-2011, 09:54 PM

Segestria sp have the first two pairs of legs orientated forwards (makes sense if you have to back down a tube). It is quite possible to see Segestria senoculata in your area, they are like a Segestria florentina Light, smaller, more brown coloured and less agressive. Quite nice, really. I had to take down a dry stone wall some time ago, near Settle. It had so many Segestridae senoculata, it made you want to have something to tell them that the home wall was being destroyed, run, run little spider. There was another wall at right angles to the one I took down, so it had very different sun exposure, you could grub around in that and find nothing.