Any arachnid experts out there

[Snatcher]

The wife has just been spooked by a massive "Tiger Spider" in the back garden. Thats what she said it looked like. I went out for a look and it was a biggun. Light fawn in colouur covered in black symetrical stripes.

 

Any ideas to the species? Is it native to our country or an accidental import!!!

[jimpy0]

this is a tiger spider usually from sri lanka

[DavyR]

Perhaps it was a wasp spider:

 

 

Perhaps it was a wasp spider:

 

 

More usually found down south, but with the weather we've been having...

[*Ant*]

Whatever it is you must destroy it immediately, they be the devils creation put on this earth to instill horror, revulsion and chaos. Squish it now to save humanity for they be the prelude to a thousand years of darkness and evil!

[DavyR]

Or, alternatively, invoke the old country saying: "If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive."

[Snatcher]

Actually just got a photo of it on my sons digital camera. Will get him to post up a picture of it. I have not learnt how to do it yet

 

But I will once I get my own next month

[Snatcher]

Take 41

 

Actually just got a photo of it on my sons digital camera. Will get him to post up a picture of it. I have not learnt how to do it yet

 

But I will once I get my own next month

[*Ant*]

See what I mean, count the sections of web and you'll find that there are 666 !!!!!!

[Guest Ferret1959]

European garden spider.

Very common and harmless.(unless you are a male garden spider.)

 

 

See if you can tie a spider like that.

Edited August 24, 2006 by Ferret1959

[DavyR]

Reckon it could be an Araneus quadratus - there's a lot of colour variation in the species, but they always have banded legs: