Mouse Spider Scotophaeus sp.
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August 2017, rear garden, Staffordshire, England.
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Mouse Spider Scotophaeus sp.
August 2017, rear garden, Staffordshire, England.
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When I enlarged the photo, it occurred to me that the fur of the spider (if that’s what it’s called) resembles that of a mouse: Robert Burns’s “wee sleekit”!
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🙂 They also move similar to a mouse, too.
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Brilliant. Never seen one of these before. Looks a bit like a Sac spider.
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Thank you, Ark 🙂 They are only quite small, but are quite a beautiful colour.
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Moves like a mouse or is able to consume one with one hearty gulp? I step away from the screen lol!
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It is only quite a small spider, smaller than a mouse. But it is quite a furry spider and moves in a mouse-like way. Don’t worry, it won’t jump through the screen 😉
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Sometimes I view your critters on the smallest screen I own (iPhone)just in case there’s a chance of that happening haha!
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Beautiful – I love spiders!
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Thank you 🙂 I tend to find this species in the house.
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A nice find! I had one as a visitor when I was staying in a mobile home in Sussex, but haven’t seen one recently. Of course if you google ‘mouse spider’, you’re immediately bombarded with photos of a much larger and highly venomous Australian species of the same name…I’d be surprised if the UK tabloids have never managed to print that one by mistake!
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Thank you, Adele 🙂 Yes, our spiders can get quite bad press here.
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When the photo is enlarged, the spider looks quite handsome. That saying, I still have chills.
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Thank you, Annie 🙂
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Does move like a mouse mean whizzing by at the speed of light? Last mouse I saw I barely saw, or does this little chap creep quietly?
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It kind of creeps quietly, I believe.
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Ah. Thank you for clarifying. A spider that creeps rather than sprints, surely less startling.
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