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About 3 inches across, greyish brown in color with sections that looked almost yelow. Yery dull yelow though. browney iodine colored legs (not hairy) body in 2 sections, 2 very visable eyes almost like spheres on the end of feelers.
Never seen one like this before. Location scotland, any ideas.
Dont think it has anything to do with google. :)
Mack.
Sounds like the brown spider (can't remember it's full name)and it's deadly, at least 6 people every year in Europe die from this little blighter.
Lives in warm continually dry areas (e.g. PC towers, base units...) gives you a small peck and bingo anything from a mild swelling to the big bye bye.
So run, move house, give all your IT equipment away and enjoy life whilst you can!
Rich
Thats the one I found that was closest looking to it on google images.
Guess it's time to call in the A-team. :)
Scary part is I was too bussy finding my digi cam that the thing got away, no idea where it is.
Rich, you aint after my IT equiptment are you? ;-)
Mack.
Brown recluse?
I thought you only got these in the deep south in the US.
Now a Screeching Camel Spider, that could be a problem: http:**//www.af.mil/news/Jul2002/n20020726_1187.shtml
I got through the first sentence ok... heck, first para for that matter (given there was only one sentence to it.. duh)
sipping red wine on a Saturday night.. life is good.. then I read "3 inches across, greyish brown in color"
... stop mid-sip..lip to glass rim...
eyes bounce back to "3 inches across"...
dammit, I have now read ""3 inches across, greyish brown in color" a good half dozen times and cannot even get to the end of the post *SHUDDER*
mack, I don't know what it is, I don't care what it is.
Fumigate.
Vacate.
to hell with it...
Emigrate.
Do it now. I've got a spare bed here, and we don't have spiders bigger than an inch.
....you have no idea where it is?
*faints dead away*
Vacate.
to hell with it...
Emigrate."
I like that...lol
To be honest we have very litttle in the way of poisonous or vemenous beasties in scotland but lately there have baan a lot of cases of spiders finding their way to houses in bags of fruit from supermarkets. One look at this monster was enough to let me know it wasnt a local.
Im trying to contact environmental health to see what they can do for me. If it is a brown recluse then that aint to good. There are a few reports of them in scotland and a few records of bites. I was doing a Google for info on the bite and found enough to make me not want to be the one that catches it.
Mack.
http:*//www.ilhawaii.net/~tkpowell/photos/hawaii99/spider521.jpg
Here it is with an egg sack (the size of a US quarter dollar)
http:*//the.honoluluadvertiser.com/2001/Jan/28/image2/natsquadB.jpg
At least these guys smile [biology.swau.edu] at you.
Hawaii Cane Spider
Most people who have them live happily with them
might help...
