Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Long legged spider
Posted by Roger Thomason on 29-09-2011 13:40
#1
Anyone able to ID this spider, loads of which have been plaguing someone's house :o (not mine thankfully) :) Body size about 5-6mm.
Edited by Roger Thomason on 29-09-2011 13:41
Posted by Paul Beuk on 29-09-2011 14:33
#2
Looks like a regular
Pholcus phalangioides, the cellar spider or skull spider, erroneously also called daddy longlegs.
Posted by ChrisR on 29-09-2011 16:56
#3
Also known as the Cave Spider ... incredibly common down here in the south ... just about every corner of my house has got one ... but they maybe be rarer in the north :)
EDIT: Yes, just checked the NBN - see
the map here
Edited by ChrisR on 29-09-2011 16:59
Posted by Calilasseia on 19-10-2011 00:03
#4
This is a species that has been spreading northwards in the UK over the past few years ... one of my Entomology Society colleagues recorded several hundred of them in a derelict house in Runcorn!