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"Garden Centre Spiders"
Dunno if anyone's interested in this sort of thing, but this is just about
on-topic... I've just found out about a curious species of spider that has been getting increasingly common in GCs and glasshouses across the UK in the last decade (they don't survive in the outdoors here). I've been seeing loads of them in my local GC where they seem to be well established. They're medium sized, a very distinctive shape, and create orb webs that are usually horizontal (although they're only rather distantly related to our familiar garden orb weavers). It seems they've been getting imported in plants and cut flowers. Some pictures and info he http://www.nicksspiders.com/nicksspi...usplumipes.htm Has anyone else spotted these little fellas? cheers, G.A. |
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"Garden Centre Spiders"
Glen Able wrote in message ... Dunno if anyone's interested in this sort of thing, but this is just about on-topic... I've just found out about a curious species of spider that has been getting increasingly common in GCs and glasshouses across the UK in the last decade (they don't survive in the outdoors here). I've been seeing loads of them in my local GC where they seem to be well established. They're medium sized, a very distinctive shape, and create orb webs that are usually horizontal (although they're only rather distantly related to our familiar garden orb weavers). It seems they've been getting imported in plants and cut flowers. Some pictures and info he http://www.nicksspiders.com/nicksspi...usplumipes.htm Has anyone else spotted these little fellas? cheers, G.A. Hi Glen, Yes, indeed, I'm very interested in this sort of thing. Unfortunately, I've not yet seen Uloboridae in my local GC. I think I'll complain to the manager. Thanks for drawing my attention to Nick's web site - I've added it to my 'favourites' list. Wonderful stuff! Spider |
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"Garden Centre Spiders"
"Spider" wrote in message
... | | Glen Able wrote in message | ... | Dunno if anyone's interested in this sort of thing, but this is just about | on-topic... | | I've just found out about a curious species of spider that has been | getting | increasingly common in GCs and glasshouses across the UK in the last | decade | (they don't survive in the outdoors here). I've been seeing loads of them | in my local GC where they seem to be well established. | | They're medium sized, a very distinctive shape, and create orb webs that | are | usually horizontal (although they're only rather distantly related to our | familiar garden orb weavers). It seems they've been getting imported in | plants and cut flowers. | | Some pictures and info he | http://www.nicksspiders.com/nicksspi...usplumipes.htm | | Has anyone else spotted these little fellas? | | cheers, | G.A. | | | Hi Glen, | | Yes, indeed, I'm very interested in this sort of thing. Unfortunately, I've | not yet seen Uloboridae in my local GC. I think I'll complain to the | manager. Thanks for drawing my attention to Nick's web site - I've added it | to my 'favourites' list. Wonderful stuff! | | Spider | | | And a few pics of it here, that Glen identified ;-) http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=48586342&size=m http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=57468074&size=m Paul. |
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"Garden Centre Spiders"
Banana wrote in message ... "Spider" wrote in message ... | | Glen Able wrote in message | ... | Dunno if anyone's interested in this sort of thing, but this is just about | on-topic... | | I've just found out about a curious species of spider that has been | getting | increasingly common in GCs and glasshouses across the UK in the last | decade | (they don't survive in the outdoors here). I've been seeing loads of them | in my local GC where they seem to be well established. | | They're medium sized, a very distinctive shape, and create orb webs that | are | usually horizontal (although they're only rather distantly related to our | familiar garden orb weavers). It seems they've been getting imported in | plants and cut flowers. | | Some pictures and info he | http://www.nicksspiders.com/nicksspi...usplumipes.htm | | Has anyone else spotted these little fellas? | | cheers, | G.A. | | | Hi Glen, | | Yes, indeed, I'm very interested in this sort of thing. Unfortunately, I've | not yet seen Uloboridae in my local GC. I think I'll complain to the | manager. Thanks for drawing my attention to Nick's web site - I've added it | to my 'favourites' list. Wonderful stuff! | | Spider | | | And a few pics of it here, that Glen identified ;-) http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=48586342&size=m http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=57468074&size=m Paul. Wonderful. Thanks, Paul. I'll be looking out for this spider from now on. Spider |
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"Garden Centre Spiders"
"Spider" wrote in message
... snip | And a few pics of it here, that Glen identified ;-) | http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=48586342&size=m | http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=57468074&size=m | | Paul. | | | | Wonderful. Thanks, Paul. I'll be looking out for this spider from now on. | Spider | | My pleasure ) BTW they are only about 5mm long, slim and brown so look a bit like bits of bark and can, at first, be difficult to spot. Paul. |
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"Garden Centre Spiders"
"Banana" wrote in message ... "Spider" wrote in message ... | | Glen Able wrote in message | ... | Dunno if anyone's interested in this sort of thing, but this is just about | on-topic... | | I've just found out about a curious species of spider that has been | getting | increasingly common in GCs and glasshouses across the UK in the last | decade | (they don't survive in the outdoors here). I've been seeing loads of them | in my local GC where they seem to be well established. | | They're medium sized, a very distinctive shape, and create orb webs that | are | usually horizontal (although they're only rather distantly related to our | familiar garden orb weavers). It seems they've been getting imported in | plants and cut flowers. | | Some pictures and info he | http://www.nicksspiders.com/nicksspi...usplumipes.htm | | Has anyone else spotted these little fellas? | | cheers, | G.A. | | | Hi Glen, | | Yes, indeed, I'm very interested in this sort of thing. Unfortunately, I've | not yet seen Uloboridae in my local GC. I think I'll complain to the | manager. Thanks for drawing my attention to Nick's web site - I've added it | to my 'favourites' list. Wonderful stuff! | | Spider | | | And a few pics of it here, that Glen identified ;-) http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=48586342&size=m http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=57468074&size=m Paul. Haven't seen that one. I have seen a pure white spider with the unusual habit of grasping the top of a flower stalk with its four hind legs, then extending the other four in two pairs, left and right horizontally, with them held together. It looks for all the world like it's waiting for something to fly into its arms, whereupon it will clobber it. Andy. |
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"Garden Centre Spiders"
Andy wrote in message ... "Banana" wrote in message ... "Spider" wrote in message ... | | Glen Able wrote in message | ... | Dunno if anyone's interested in this sort of thing, but this is just about | on-topic... | | I've just found out about a curious species of spider that has been | getting | increasingly common in GCs and glasshouses across the UK in the last | decade | (they don't survive in the outdoors here). I've been seeing loads of them | in my local GC where they seem to be well established. | | They're medium sized, a very distinctive shape, and create orb webs that | are | usually horizontal (although they're only rather distantly related to our | familiar garden orb weavers). It seems they've been getting imported in | plants and cut flowers. | | Some pictures and info he | http://www.nicksspiders.com/nicksspi...usplumipes.htm | | Has anyone else spotted these little fellas? | | cheers, | G.A. | | | Hi Glen, | | Yes, indeed, I'm very interested in this sort of thing. Unfortunately, I've | not yet seen Uloboridae in my local GC. I think I'll complain to the | manager. Thanks for drawing my attention to Nick's web site - I've added it | to my 'favourites' list. Wonderful stuff! | | Spider | | | And a few pics of it here, that Glen identified ;-) http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=48586342&size=m http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=57468074&size=m Paul. Haven't seen that one. I have seen a pure white spider with the unusual habit of grasping the top of a flower stalk with its four hind legs, then extending the other four in two pairs, left and right horizontally, with them held together. It looks for all the world like it's waiting for something to fly into its arms, whereupon it will clobber it. Andy. Hi Andy, It sounds like you've seen Misumena vatia. Click on the website in the OP's message .. click on 'spiders by family', then scroll down for the familiy Thomisidae (Crab Spiders). You will see misumena vatia pictured, and this should give you your ID. Spider |
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