Since first being recorded in Ireland in the late 1990s, the Noble false widow has become one of the country’s most successful urban spiders. Discover what Irish research reveals about its spread.
Look what I found cleaning out my bird seed storage a while back… One of the False Widow species… A first for me! The cupboard spider – Steatoda grossa. About 3 or 4 of them. Was surprised to find so many large spiders tolerating each other in the small confines of a garden seat box used to store bird feed.
This morning, a fresh sunny day in April in coastal Galway, just as we were getting the kids ready to leave for school, a false widow spider started making its way from the front door across our hallway. It wasn't moving too quickly so I was able to get an envelope to...
A Close Encounter in Cork Hey there! Hope you're keeping well, I actually stumbled across my first false widow spider earlier today and identified it with the help of the internet. I have nothing but good things to say about it honestly! I typically tend to keep my...
Over the past year I have noticed a lot of false widow spider webs in my back garden around my shed. I recognised them due to their messy box/sail like shape - as opposed to the traditional neat patterned web of a typical garden spider. The spiders are only active at...
Was it a baby false widow spider bite? I'm pretty sure I sustained a baby false widow spider bite this summer but I'm not 100% sure. I have seen loads of the adults recently, really for the first time too. A neighbour told me last year that they had a lot of false...
