Any help identifying this spider?

[machineman9]

Well I went outside for my dinner to return to find the following on my wall! Being someone who is terrified of spiders, I thought only of capturing it and trying to get rid of it. Upon getting it in my glass, I then had to ask my mum to come help me - I sent her a message on MSN and yeah she thought it was quite funny. But I just couldn't open my blinds to grab the spider to put it down off the wall. The blind opening was on the other side of my room.


Anyway, this spider was very jumpy and was sprinting all around the glass and it just doesn't look very much like a 'common spider' so I am wondering if anyone recognises it. For now, it is staying in the glass because it looks quite vicious.











Any ideas? He/she/it is 2cm long and seriously hates his glass being tapped.


Wretched thing

[skoker]

An icky one?

[machineman9]

An icky one?

Ickidus Arachnidus


Google doesn't provide many useful pictures for that, lol.

[a1]

i am not much of a spider person (more of insects) but it looks like a type of trapdoor. I am sure it is not harmful at all.

[beaky]

Sorta looks like a wolf spider, but it doesn't have the usual dark markings. A wolf spider bite can be irritating, but they're not dangerous (except some South American varieties, I think).

LOL, imagine if some enormous creature trapped you inside a huge glass enclosure... no escape, and you're entirely at its mercy. Never in a million years would you think this giant was afraid of you!!


I believe spiders are valuable allies for humans, because they love to eat the bugs that do bother us, like flies, mosquitoes, and cockroaches. They're usually very, very shy, and mind their own business. They're not known to hunt and eat humans.


Don't believe the hype! Forget all the stupid movies you've seen with spiders on the rampage or whatever... just look at it. Spiders are amazing! One of Nature's most successful designs, with enough instinctive "common sense" to never intentionally bother a creature that's about 100,000 times bigger than it is.

They've been around a lot longer than we have... show a little respect!


That spider will die quickly without food. If you're scared of it, just release it a ways from the house, and you'll probably never see it again.  Or just drop it on the floor and step on it... I hate to see a spider tortured like that.  :(

[tcco94]

...omg...
[smiley=door.gif]

[expat]

(It) seriously hates his glass being tapped.

I can identify it as ............being seriously pissed off

Matt

[machineman9]

(It) seriously hates his glass being tapped.

I can identify it as ............being seriously pissed off

Matt

It's only in the glass so I didn't lose it. I let it go about half an hour to an hour after I made the first post, I just wanted to make sure what it was I was releasing.

I still hate them though. If they stayed outside of the house I would have no problem with them!

[firemonte007]

it looks like a wolf spider but it also might be a brown recluse

[patchz]

it looks like a wolf spider but it also might be a brown recluse

It's not a recluse. I know them well. It doesn't have the fiddle on the back. I'm not famililar with the spiders in England, but it I'd say either a trapdoor or wolf.
Here's a brown recluse.

[expat]

If your curiosity is still getting the best of you then try this website You could email them a picture.

Matt

[a1]

I'll post something up on my entomological group's forum about this. I need to know where roughly you live and where it was.

not a wolf or a recluse.

[machineman9]

I'll post something up on my entomological group's forum about this. I need to know where roughly you live and where it was.

not a wolf or a recluse.

Crewe, England. For exact locations, 6ft up my wall and 1ft from the window. First floor. Little bugger was waiting for me after I came back to the computer after dinner.

A second one was there today too, but not the same kind... A bit more like the common house spider and didn't seem as un-friendly.

[Craig.]

could be a stone spider..
http://greatbritishspiders.tripod.com/id70.html

[machineman9]

could be a stone spider..
http://greatbritishspiders.tripod.com/id70.html

That seems the closest match so far. 20mm in length, same colour, pretty much the same back end and everything.