Help identifying spider

[marine1]

Finally some rain in Cape Town and a friendly visitor

Oh my ****ign **** thats all kinds of ****ed up !!!!

 

[dualmeister]

Maybe not the coolest thing to see on the sliding door while closing the curtains ...

 

[marine1]

Put me in war, put me in any situation where danger is and I am fine, show me a spider and I freak the mother **** out

 

[JerryMungo]

Finally some rain in Cape Town and a friendly visitor

Beaut of a rain spider!

I always say just be thankful we don't get these in our houses:

..and of course aussies have it way worse... funnelweb... brown recluse...

 

[marine1]

Beaut of a rain spider!

I always say just be thankful it's not one of these:

..and of course aussies have it way worse... funnelweb... brown recluse...

If I saw that I would nuke the whole area

 

[Orihalcon]

Snapped these pics when I saw the unique abdomen.

I called it an atlas spider due it looking like a globe ;D

Any ideas?

 

[JerryMungo]

Another brown button spider - Latrodectus Geometricus.
If you get to see underneath the abdomen, you should see an orange hourglass shaped marking - some don't have it.

 

[Indigogirl]

Snapped these pics when I saw the unique abdomen.

I called it an atlas spider due it looking like a globe ;D

Any ideas?

That is STUNNING! There is quite a useful Saffer site called iSpot I found quite recently - which can also help with identification of some of these spiders.

 

[maumau]

and this one? is it another button spider? tks.

they seem to come in a range of colours and patterns

 

[HapticSimian]

and this one? is it another button spider? tks.

they seem to come in a range of colours and patterns

That's just some variant of a daddy long-legs by the look of it.

 

[Venomous]

That's just some variant of a daddy long-legs by the look of it.

Looks like it is one carrying its eggs around.

 

[Venomous]

Looks like it is one carrying its eggs around.

bwhahahahaha

my joke is true

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossopriza_lyoni

apparently they sometimes carry their egg sacks around....

 

[Lament]

Snapped these pics when I saw the unique abdomen.

I called it an atlas spider due it looking like a globe ;D

Any ideas?

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OOOoooooo you called it a Atlas spider, i was googleing "Atlas spider" and not finding anything", just came back to tell you to stop making up ****...hahaha

 

[JerryMungo]

That's just some variant of a daddy long-legs by the look of it.

+1
Daddy long legs

 

[JerryMungo]

Snapped these pics when I saw the unique abdomen.

I called it an atlas spider due it looking like a globe ;D

Any ideas?

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Another brown button spider - Latrodectus Geometricus.
If you get to see underneath the abdomen, you should see an orange hourglass shaped marking - some don't have it.

http://tinyurl.com/l9clzfs

 

[maumau]

Relieved at the daddy long legs the spotty colour was confusing but if they carry their eggs around, that's it.

tks

 

[Orihalcon]

http://tinyurl.com/l9clzfs

Thank you! That is it indeed.

 

[JerryMungo]

Thank you! That is it indeed.

Relieved at the daddy long legs the spotty colour was confusing but if they carry their eggs around, that's it.

tks

YW, thanks for the cool pics

 

[RiaX]

Other than a violin spider do you get any really poisonous spiders in SA ?

 

[Eskomisaloser]

Other than a violin spider do you get any really poisonous spiders in SA ?

There are black widows around here.