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Spider species?

Rs50matt

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I've had a few of these recently in the heat decide to crawl on me while I'm in bed.

I'm guessing a false widow species? But that's a wild stab in the dark. I don't actually know :D
 

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Never heard of a sector spider in all honesty.
Which does make me think .. I don't actually know anything about our native species :eek:
I only know a few we have hundreds apparently:) sector spider should have a shape similar to an oak leaf on their backs?
then we've got the false widows(not native- immigrants from the canary islands:p) orb weavers ,jumping spiders ,giant house spiders to name a few:eek:
 

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I knew we had quite a few but the names always seemed like they were uneducated ones :p. Oh that's a house spider. And there's like 8 different looking species that get called that lol.
My nan used to get a lot of orb weevers in her garden. We're quite cool looking if I remember rightly
 

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I knew we had quite a few but the names always seemed like they were uneducated ones :p. Oh that's a house spider. And there's like 8 different looking species that get called that lol.
My nan used to get a lot of orb weevers in her garden. We're quite cool looking if I remember rightly
yes I know what you mean there is a species actually just called Giant house spider:p but the orbs get catergorised like cross orb weaver,four spot orb weaver and common orb weaver lol:D
if you wanna get latin in the mix the sector spider is Zygiella x-notata:p don't know the rest lol
 

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I’m good at identifying spiders still though, and I can tell you it is in fact a sector spider, but I’m not sure that it is the species @ilovebrachys said, no offense to you ilovebrachys.
no offence taken @Kaden Alexander :D I thought it is a sector spider but its a guess probably lots of them out there I'm sure I'm wrong lol-you know far more about true spiders than me!:D
 

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