Spider ID

It doesn't matter what spider it is ... you have my permission to squish it.
 
is that not a black widow. I cant see the belly- was there a red hour glass on it?
 
ave said:
is that not a black widow. I cant see the belly- was there a red hour glass on it?
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Nope, no red markings at all. Black widows are not native to SA, its definitely part of the widow family though.
 
Both black and brown widow spiders occur locally.
The link supplied http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2005/april/buttonspider.htm gives the geographical location of the various sub-species.

Check for egg sacks in dark quiet corners.
It is usually about 1cm in diameter, is lodged firmly with spider web, and contains hundreds of young.

A favourite place for them is against the door rails of garage doors.
 
Subways81 said:
Black widows are not native to SA
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whaaaaat? U lucky- We get them all around JHB- almost walked into a fscker once. sprayed it with doom and it just sat there. Had to use a plank to kill it so I didn't have to get close again.

pezulu said:
Both black and brown widow spiders occur locally.
The link supplied http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2005/april/buttonspider.htm gives the geographical location of the various sub-species.

Check for egg sacks in dark quiet corners.
It is usually about 1cm in diameter, is lodged firmly with spider web, and contains hundreds of young.

A favourite place for them is against the door rails of garage doors.
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That's where ours are also. Those sacks look like round balls with little raised dots all over them. Horrible looking things.
 
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Another Spider to ID. It is about 8mm long from spinners to its head, it legs are very long tho, and god only knows whats growing out of the front of its head.

Come to think of it, I think it might be more scorpion then spider.
 
Opiliones (formerly Phalangida) are an order of arachnids commonly known as harvestmen. As of December 2011, over 6,500 species of harvestmen have been discovered worldwide,[1] although the real number of extant species may exceed 10,000.[2] The order Opiliones includes four suborders: Cyphophthalmi, Eupnoi, Dyspnoi, and Laniatores. Well-preserved fossils have been found in the 400-million-year-old Rhynie cherts of Scotland, which look surprisingly modern, indicating that the basic structure of the harvestmen has not changed much since then. Phylogenetic position is disputed: their closest relatives may be the mites (Acari) or the Novogenuata (the Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones and Solifugae).[3]
Although they belong to the class Arachnida, harvestmen are in the order Opiliones; therefore they are not spiders, which are members of the order Araneae.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones
 
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