hi, i got a small vivarium at the mo and was wondering weither my spidy is a raft or nursery web spider, i'm thinking its a nersery web as shortly after these pics were taken its carrying a white silk egg sac about
spidy is abour 2.5 cms
pic of spidy >> Vivarium Forums

aby chance putting them on here as you have to be a member to see th,m on there?

send them to m if you want and ill put them up for ya

joe_green123@hotmail.co.uk

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my inverts too many

my massive list of reps 0.0.1 corn snake

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hi, i e-mailed a couple of pics
thanks

here ya go

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my inverts too many

my massive list of reps 0.0.1 corn snake

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I think that is a nursary web spider. It's hard for me to tell, as I don't get them up by me so i'm not that familiar with them. I've had a couple in with crickets however.

If it was a raft spider, you are not really supposed to own them as they are very endangered (unless of course, you have suddenly found a new breeding population, in which case you would be very popular with arachnologists).

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Typopeltis sp. (Seigfried, Roy)
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thanks
and no it isn't eating the woodlice, that one just happened to be there
it mostly eats the mealworm

i dont think its a raft spider as it was found in a house that hasn't any water features nearby

I think its a nusery web spider. Dolomedes or raft spiders are limited to a few locations in this country.Glad someone else finds our Brtish sp as interesting as those abroad! Send your pic to the British Arachnological Society they wii I.D it 100%. Always found them most helpfull.

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that is a Pisaura mirabilis

funny thing is i've never liked spiders, i used to be petrified of them, the garden spiders were the worst, maybe its something deep down in the ancestrial subconscious that they are a preditor, yadda yadda yadda
the big furry ones i'm fine with, they are just like fluffy kittens with eight legs

for my vivs i ony really want spiders that don't use a web for catching prey, one cos its a bit of a cheat lol and it makes a mess around the viv

thanks for the ident guys

i cant wait till it stops being so frigging cold so i can go out and find some more , i think thats part of the fun of having a insect viv, you get to go and catch stuff rather than buy it in
with the big one i probably will buy more intreasting stuff

till recently i never took much notice of different uk spiders they were just something to avoid (big wuss)
now i want to find a Micrommata virescens a green fecker thats also a non web hunter

Try a fishing spider then, always on show, no web to speak of (mine was male) got him from Martin Goss.

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