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strange spider?

Created by decrepit decrepit  > 9 months ago, 11 Mar 2017
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decrepit
decrepit

WA

12802 posts

11 Mar 2017 12:03pm
This little guy was on the wall just under our internal fuse box. I don't think I've seen anything quite like this before.
Anybody recognise it?????



It's only a centimeter across the legs so this pic is magnified around 10 to 12 times depending on your screen resolution. I'm not sure why the legs are twisted, we haven't touched it. And it hasn't moved in the last 4hrs
pweedas
pweedas

WA

4642 posts

11 Mar 2017 12:29pm
Yes, I recognise it.
It's a spider.
It probably fell out of it's web and broke it's poor litttle leg, thus it's twisted.
And if it's not moving, it's dead.
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decrepit
decrepit

WA

12802 posts

11 Mar 2017 2:00pm
The fall theory looks right, trouble is it's a meter up a wall, could have mistimed a Tarzan act on the end of a long thread I guess and just slammed into the wall.
I was about to say it still hasn't moved 6hrs later, but check this.



Legs still don't look comfortable but they have moved.
Spider Rigamortis perhaps?


gavnwend
gavnwend

WA

1373 posts

11 Mar 2017 2:57pm
It's a dead spider.probably got sapped.
Rails
Rails

QLD

1371 posts

11 Mar 2017 5:43pm
Looks like a baby wolf spider
rod_bunny
rod_bunny

WA

1089 posts

11 Mar 2017 4:01pm
Possibly just molted.
If its anything like the blue manna's I've had for a year, the legs would be very floppy.
Beaglebuddy
Beaglebuddy

1595 posts

11 Mar 2017 5:23pm



decrepit
decrepit

WA

12802 posts

12 Mar 2017 2:05pm
well I didn't kill him/her/it but dead it definitely is, fell to the floor sometime during the night.
actiomax
actiomax

NSW

1576 posts

12 Mar 2017 5:11pm
It would be the husk of a male spider .
After mating its killed & eaten by the female sucks the life out only leaving a husk .
rod_bunny
rod_bunny

WA

1089 posts

12 Mar 2017 5:51pm
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actiomax said..
It would be the husk of a male.
After mating, the female sucks the life out only leaving a husk .


So just like normal marriage then?
decrepit
decrepit

WA

12802 posts

12 Mar 2017 5:55pm
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actiomax said..
It would be the husk of a male spider .
After mating its killed & eaten by the female sucks the life out only leaving a husk .


Certainly is very light, I guess that's what you call being "completely drained".
PGS
PGS

PGS

NSW

69 posts

12 Mar 2017 8:59pm
Spitting spider
actiomax
actiomax

NSW

1576 posts

12 Mar 2017 9:21pm
I sometimes think spiders get it right .
After mating they pay with there life .
Humans after mating pay for the rest of there life
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