could it be lurking in your shed?

[jimtheworzel]

   A dangerous spider related to the Black Widow is spreading across Britain because of climate change, experts have warned   

[jimtheworzel]

[daileg]

is this what your referring too http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7573530.stm

[jimtheworzel]

yep  thats the one!!have you seen one?


jtw

[daileg]

ive seen a black widow but that was when i lived in south africa it was under the canopy of my pool pump was sprayed heavily with DOOM a insecticide spray as to teach my two kids never to touch them
from what i red matter of time

[tonybloke]

I had a false black widow in my greenhouse earlier this year
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,51368.0.html

[pippy]

Perhaps we could introduce a few to keep the mice down! ;D ;D ;D

[cornykev]

Do they eat slugs.   ???   :-\      ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[chriscross1966]

We had a tarantula under our shed at home for a couple of years a while back... I did my degree thesis on spider locomotion and once you've seen a tarantula run you can't really mistake it for anything else.... If we have a hot summer expect to find camel spiders (strictly a solifuge not a spider but it's another arachnid) around aldershot and brize norton etc, they'll be in soldiers/army baggage coming back from the middle east..... Some of them get pretty big and their teeth (actually chelicerae) are huge for the body size.... they suffer from internet consipiracy wierdos of the tin-foil-hat variety making them out to be bigger/nastier than they are but they're still unpleasant.... nasty enough that I couldn't licence them to use for my degree anyway.....

[Robert_Brenchley]

Are they an official dangerous wild animal?

[posie]

Anyone know what the tiny yellow ones are that seem to haunt me in my garden, they're smaller or as small as a money spider and band together into clusters, sometimes the size of a golf ball, then they throw out a string of web and all go marching across it.  Freaks me out!  Shed was infested with them last year.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Baby web spiders.