Bio-Security type Question

[Adydas]

Ill move this shortly to off topic but incase theres any experts out there that would normally ignore that area ill put it here a second.

Found a rather odd spider, and cant find records off it on the Nz Spiders Directory supplyed by MAF / Te Papa Mueseum etc.

Anyone help ID this little bugger

High Quality 500kb file.

http://adydas.net/spider/spider.jpg

[MrOizo]

I found a centipede once and it looked to be from another country.
When i was doing some work for DoC, i gave it to the woman i was workking with and they had it identified as a common house hold one... didnt know how common it was as i had never seen on before?!

Take it into DoC and have them have a look at it

And that pic is hardcore! wonder WTF it is

Was meant to put a pic up of the thing we found but it on the other comp

[Adydas]

its nuts eh, certainly not no common spider im aware of.. weve emailed DOC

[B ROWDY]

Ew! That thing is vile!!

We see some hiddy bugs in cars (and a couple of snakes) and I remember a volvo we had to get maf to quarantine and spray 6 times before the nest of spidlers finally died

Hope they email ya back so we can find out what it is!!

[Emperor]

You'd be suprised at what they call common insects lol..
We opened up a container at work and amongst all the tires was some ugly looking mosquites, bright green with ugly little bits hanging off them.. MAF said they're common in NZ
And i'd never ever seen one before

and that spider is hideous

[B ROWDY]

It makes you wonder whats out there eh? All sorts of creepy crawlies you have never seen before

[Nat]

Ewww that thing is horrible looking

Will be interesting to find out what it is, hope its not common I dont want to run into that, I have enough of the white tails we get

[WeNdY^cLeAr]

I was sure freaked when I saw it on the wall of the house!!!
Now I keep getting the shivers and think somethings crawling on me!!

I HATE spiders!!!

[Infinite]

o_O ive found some fked up bugs in a car that i got from japan like HUGE beatles that have like harliqun green/purple skin colours :S was a nice color tho lol

[B ROWDY]

o_O ive found some fked up bugs in a car that i got from japan like HUGE beatles that have like harliqun green/purple skin colours :S was a nice color tho lol

Mmmm yummy bugs! We get quite a few of those, worse thing Ive ever found was a finger

[strap-on]

i found a bullet not in its casing, just the tip of a bullet which is evn more scary

[neo]

mehhh, if in doubt, squash it .. (not nice but who wants any more bugs than could possibly poison you)

[ollieboy]

I think I recognise it, I will have a search in my books but I'm not guaranteeing I will find it. It is pretty ugly

[Dragger_Dan]

mehhh, if in doubt, squash it .. (not nice but who wants any more bugs than could possibly poison you)

That thing looks evil. Don't squash it, shoot it

[B ROWDY]

Preserve it!

[mr pad]

Eat it!

[Nat]

I was looking at spider pics today theres some freaky spiders out there but I did find this one called a crab spider looks kinda similar in body shape but the color completely different, but apparently they change color to adapted to their hunting terain they use, so I dunno it could be in some way related but it may not be.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/australia ... iders.html

its the white one at the bottom of the article

[ollieboy]

I was looking at spider pics today theres some freaky spiders out there but I did find this one called a crab spider looks kinda similar in body shape but the color completely different, but apparently they change color to adapted to their hunting terain they use, so I dunno it could be in some way related but it may not be.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/australia ... iders.html

its the white one at the bottom of the article

I think you're right, I knew I had seen it somewhere, I couldn't remember the name but that jogged my memory and I looked it up in one of my books, They do look very similar.

[Adydas]

looks the same, but that appears to be more than changed colour it seems to be the spider its self..

[ollieboy]

I think different species have different colours, they are from same Genus though.