Col1874 Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 I reckon I know what it is, but I'd like a 2nd opinion... https://flic.kr/p/nD1d1E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee_Tam Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 looks like a false widow... where was that taken? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GhostHunter Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Yep - looks like a False Widow.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col1874 Posted May 20, 2014 Author Share Posted May 20, 2014 Exactly what I thought! It was in West Linton, 16 miles down the A702. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Brown Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 http://www.edinburgh...north-1-3186553 The false widow spider spotted in Broomhouse. Picture: contributed by David O?Leary [email protected] Published on the 13 November 2013 12:00 Published 13/11/2013 12:00 3 comments [/url] Print this </body> Sponsored by A SPATE of false widow sightings have been reported around the Capital as a spider expert revealed they ?must have hitched a lift? to make it this far north. Alarmed city residents have contacted the News in recent days after we reported how the eight-legged arachnids had been confirmed in Edinburgh. Keith Spence, 29, came across one of the venomous creatures when it reared its head in his Clermiston flat. Now the cousin of the deadly black widow has been spotted in other city locations. After reading Keith?s story, Alison McMorrin came forward to say she had reported a false widow sighting in Silverknowes. She said: ?I had a false widow a few weeks ago but people just laughed and said it was only down south. It was just outside my window. I?m glad I wasn?t going mad and they are in fact in Edinburgh.? And Lisa Shannon, from Broomhouse, said: ?I had one in my kitchen. I climbed up on a chair as it was on the ceiling ? to my horror the white widow has landed in Broomhouse, he now lives in a sandwich box.? In recent weeks false widows have hit the headlines after a Kent grandad was left with horrific lesions on his leg after being bitten. It had been previously stated that the spider?s journey north would stall due to colder temperatures but sightings continue to increase. Last week, a Glasgow dad-of-two told how he made a startling discovery in his living room in Castlemilk, while in East Kilbride between ten to 15 of the creatures were found in ducts at the town?s Envirogas plant. Lawrence Bee, education and publicity officer for the British Arachnological Society, said: ?We knew that there were large numbers of false widow?s in the south-east but for so many sightings to occur in Scotland in such a short space of time, it must have been transported by vehicle. ?It?s hard to believe that it could travel to Scotland by its own means.? He also urged people not to panic if they spotted one of the spiders. ?False widows are not aggressive; they won?t chase or attack you, it is best to just leave them alone,? he said. ?If they do threaten or bite, it is because of a web being disturbed or by someone getting too close.? There are fears that with temperatures outside plummeting as the winter months approach, more of the spiders could make their way into homes to escape the cold. The most horrific injury so far is that suffered by decorator Ricki Whitmore, 39, who almost lost his leg when he disturbed a nest while working at a school in Essex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swavkav Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 False widow spiders are every where now,,, people say they are venomus , it's true, but they are not as venomus as the Daddy Long Legs, which is thought to be the deadliest of all arichnids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swanny17 Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 False widow spiders are every where now,,, people say they are venomus , it's true, but they are not as venomus as the Daddy Long Legs, which is thought to be the deadliest of all arichnids. That's a myth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swavkav Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 People only say it's a myth because it's fangs are not powerful enough to break our skin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cade Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 FFS not the false widow pish again. They have been in the UK for hundreds of years. The only people that have been seriously harmed are those that suffered anaphylactic shock when bitten. There are many native species of spider that look similar to false widows but are totally harmless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GhostHunter Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 FFS not the false widow pish again. They have been in the UK for hundreds of years. The only people that have been seriously harmed are those that suffered anaphylactic shock when bitten. There are many native species of spider that look similar to false widows but are totally harmless. But in this case however, the OP posted a picture of a false widow spider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col1874 Posted May 20, 2014 Author Share Posted May 20, 2014 FFS not the false widow pish again. They have been in the UK for hundreds of years. The only people that have been seriously harmed are those that suffered anaphylactic shock when bitten. I hope you get bit by one now that you've said that . Thanks all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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