Can you identify this strange insect? (1 Viewer)

[stephenoblunt]

It was on the wallpaper outside my parents' room. Strange creature - does anybody know what it is? My sister nearly got sick when she saw it.

 

[ratmonkey]

Looks to me like some manner of spider.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

it's a horn fly

 

[Froog]

some type of daddy long legs spider? although it is very unusual, the mandibles look very big...

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

 

[theoootini]

MUTANT FOCKING SPIDER ALERT!

 

[snakybus]

A spider's not an insect, lads

weird looking spider if it is one

 

[Cormcolash]

Is it a Tyrannosaurus?

 

[ann post]

if you really want i can ask the oulfella, he knows about these things.

 

[Milker]

a crab in the style of harry clarke?

 

[Space]

I reckon it's a common spider.

 

[Cryptid]

Fourth one down in the middle..?

 

[ann post]

the legs look adapted for landing badly, which makes me think its an underdeveloped version of a daddy long legs. i wouldn't fancy trying to run bout on those. feed it for a while. show it this thread.

 

[broken arm]

mom?

 

[snakybus]

No, it's not a daddy long legs, they have wings, and are actually not spiders (unless you mean the harvestman, which this isn't)

what I find weird is that it appears to have chelicera or mandibles, like a spider, as well as two antennae, which a spider doesn't have, yet it has 8 legs. So I'm wondering if one of the pairs of legs are "false" legs or wing, or if this is actually some kind of wood louse type thing

freaky

 

[ann post]

thing about the sort of freak weather summer we've been having is that more obscure species that don't normally thrive but exist in ireland populate much more then they normally would, due to the abundance of heat and food. In donegal we've been getting reports from people about being bitten by giant spiders from the outlying farming community. It looks like it might go on water actually with those light weight legs, was there flooding round yours this week?

 

[therealjohnny]

this winged things we Irish call Daddy longlegs..aren't

hres a Daddly Long Legs

I think , going by the general shape and the suggested furriness, that it might actually be a cats nose and whiskers

i have provided a rough sketch to hep visualise my theory

 

[snakybus]

Yeah, there was a 4-inch diameter spider in my house recently. "Let's get daddy to take it outside", says the girls.

wtf? no way!

I had to do it in the end, scary

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Yeah, there was a 4-inch diameter spider in my house recently. "Let's get daddy to take it outside", says the girls.

wtf? no way!

I had to do it in the end, scary

haha! if i find a spider in the gaff i have to leave until someone else removes it. it's not fear but revulsion. i actually feel physically ill in their presence. if there's no one else there i usually kill it with a big book. no way i'm picking one up

 

[snakybus]

this winged things we Irish call Daddy longlegs..aren't

roysh, hate to be a pedant and all, but the cranefly to which you're referring is actually the Irish/British daddy long legs, and is an insect. Then there's the daddy longlegs spider, which we non-Yanks would call a harvestman, and then there's the cellar spider, which Ozzies call a daddy longlegs, and is the only true spider of the three.

 

[stephenoblunt]

was there flooding round yours this week?

No flooding, just excessive rain like everywhere else. He seemed friendly but a bit touchy if that's any help.