Large Red Spider??

jd_1984 | 08:32 Fri 04th Oct 2013 | ChatterBank

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Wasnt sure where to post this?

I found a large red spider on the porch yesterday, never seen a spider like it in the UK. It had a large orange/red body and red legs. The body was perhaps the diameter of a £2 coin (ok I know it isnt that big but with the legs it looked big compared to a general garden spider).

Any ideas what it is??

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gness

For god's sake don't smash it! Look what happened when to Mrs Johnstone when the spider was killed.... :-(

mallyh

whose mrs johnson?

gness

MrsJ is the Ma in Blood Brothers....shoes on the table..... spider's been killed ...someone broke the looking glass......
Very unlucky to kill a spider....

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Quoi

it is one of those cheap Lidl lobsters I bet....... I heard they were quite small.

ChillDoubt

Not the same colouring, but odd that it appeared on the BBC site only today:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24397065

Any chance of a pic jd? Did you capture it?

jd_1984

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UPDATE!!
My mrs took a picture of the spider and we beleive it is a False Widow spider.
After googling this spider I now wont sleep for a week.
It is 90% a false widow as we have compared pictures

mallyh

oh i thought false widow spiders were all black