phamie mastolly Wednesday, September 19th 2007 - 12:36:50 PM p.mast@spiders.com how come there are more photos of non spider related things than spiders? I feel cheated and so does my spider friends. we demand more spiders or a change of domain name to possibley nickhassomespidersbutmostlyothernonspiderrelatedimagessuchashedgehogsandrainbows.com. Yours spiderly, Phamie

Jan Monday, September 17th 2007 - 03:24:29 PM janet.rikhi@virgin.net Hi Nick! I stumbled across your site when looking to identify a strange spider that I have never seen before. I am a Lepidopterist who loves nature generally. Spiders I tend to admire from afar! I am still unable to correctly id the spider in question, it may be a Nursery spider or a Wolf spider? It was laying stretched out and head down on my daughter's door frame tonight. The front couple of legs (pairs) were laying in a straight line in front and the back ones were likewise behind, they were dark brown. The head had a strangely fluted leading edge vaguely similar to the Florida crab spider. The body was long and like brown velvet with creamy edges down each side. I guess the body was about an inch long maybe slightly longer. Including the legs it was about 4" long. I have studied wildlife all my long (55) years but this one was a first for me! This was seen in Ashford Kent tonight 16th September 2007. If it is still in situ tomorrow I wll take it to someone who will be able to id it and let you know the result. Best wishes, Jan

nina Wednesday, August 22nd 2007 - 12:26:46 PM kaliopii_cain@yahoo.com So funny the spider i was looking for popped right up when i opened your site! But i would like to know more about her! The calipe spider is living right outside of my bedroom window. she's about half the size of a dollar bill if not bigger. she is gorgeous! please write me back. thanks nina

nina Wednesday, August 22nd 2007 - 12:21:43 PM kaliopii

Hayley Sunday, May 27th 2007 - 07:49:42 AM the_i_woman@yahoo.co.uk http://www.scifiscenario.bravehost.com/ heya, i love the site, i also love spiders. i had a couple of bird eaters in the past, but now i have a wild one taken up residence in my room. its been here for some time now and i encourage it to stay, its moved around my room several times trying to find the best spot lol. i cant find it in any of my books or on the net and i was wondering if you knew what it is. heres a pic, sorry theres only one and its not very good but my camera battery's gave up (stupid Ni-MHs) hope its good enough for u to tell. thanks http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j304/tonkssiggys/spider3.jpg

Ryan Wednesday, February 28th 2007 - 07:47:29 AM cleary_r@blaxill.net if any one has a way of keeping spiders out of thehouse please email me

siusi Friday, February 16th 2007 - 06:46:43 AM siusi.cor@gmail.com http://siusi-siusi.blogspot.com/ adorei!

zug Saturday, January 13th 2007 - 11:20:07 PM The Google Adsense ads that are honing in on the keyword spider in order to sell traps and pesticides don't seem appropriate for a site like this. Adsense's site says "filter unwanted ads" is an option.

Emma Jenny Taylor Friday, October 6th 2006 - 02:31:33 PM Comedymad90901@yahoo.co.uk This site is great

petrified one Saturday, September 23rd 2006 - 05:02:36 PM rubber_hel@yahoo.com Hi Nick, Stumbled across your website through the wonderful(!?) powers of google. I am EXTREMELY arachnaphobic (sp?) in other words looking through your site has sent shivers up my spine! The problem that I have is this. After coming back the kitchen I return to my living room and go to pick up a glass with a tiny bit of fruit juice in it and low and behold, whos sitting in the bottom of the glass but the creepiest and weirdest looking hellish looking spidery beastie you have ever seen (well, not you as you have probably seen quite a few!). But for me, a person who becomes paralized with fear upon seeing one, it is a right creepy little bastard! I was wondering if you could assist me in identifying it as it is becoming an obsession as I have never seen one so horrible in all my life. Basically it's 2 back legs are really really long. It has one really fat front leg, and the two front legs are bent up like horrible sharp spiked things *eep* HELP!

Jay Bush Wednesday, September 13th 2006 - 12:09:23 PM lynnejay@ukonline.co.uk http://web.ukonline.co.uk/lynnejay Fab, though skin crawling...and we're sooo much bigger than they are!

Arachne Wednesday, September 13th 2006 - 06:50:52 AM dragonbreath@spinfinder.com http://spiderdelirium.stumbleupon.com/ Thanks a bunch, Nick! I've been lost here for hours. I'm a huge fan already. Cheers from one spider lover to another! :) Arachne

Lori Thursday, September 7th 2006 - 12:11:46 PM lori.ann.genario@knipper.com Need help. Have very large spiders in my yard and I can not seem to identify them. Brown legs are brown and white and they have white circles with a black dot in the middle of the circle, the are quite large and spin the perfect spider web. I live in jersey but can not live with these things in my yard. Can anyone identify them. Want to know what I am up against.

John Beckett Saturday, June 17th 2006 - 07:56:49 AM audrey.mowbray@ntlworld.com Hi Nick Have just used your website to try and identify a spider resting on an ornamental frog in my pond. It is a bit difficult from the picture but it is probably a male Dolomedes fimbriatus. Apart from enjoying his presence is there anybody/society that I should inform? Yours John

KERI JORNEY Thursday, January 19th 2006 - 01:05:41 PM JUS' THERE LOOKING AT YOUR SPIDERS AND THAT LED ME BACK TO REMEMBER WHEN MY BRO.KILLED A HUGE A''HOLE SPIDER.NO OFFENSE BUT, THE THING WAS MIGHTY BIG AND BLACK.LATER WE FIGURED IT AS A TARANTULA AND WHEN HE PELTED THE STONE AT IT AN'KILLED IT ,BLACK VENOM CAME OUT OF THE ABDOMEN AND IT SHRUNK.CAN U X-PLAIN WHY IT SHRUNK?

KERI JORNEY Thursday, January 19th 2006 - 12:58:29 PM

Keri Jorney. Tuesday, January 17th 2006 - 04:12:05 PM koerin-20at htm.com Hey there SPIDERMAN.Stumbled into your spiderworks and figured out that it was GREAT .It sort of helped me not to be afraid of the daddylonglegs at home.Take care and may the good God of heaven guide you on your spider discoveries.PEACE OUT.

keri jorney Tuesday, January 17th 2006 - 03:55:27 PM hi there Nick .I really loved watching the movie 'Eight LEGGED Freaks'anyway ,u should keep up the marvellous work.Now i'm outtie.

Michael Reid Wednesday, December 21st 2005 - 03:50:18 AM investor00123@yahoo.com http://www.designsnprint.com Keep on doing your thing Nick!

jillh10 Saturday, September 24th 2005 - 09:29:52 AM jillh10@hotmail.co.uk I too love spiders I have many in our garden, most of them are used to me now so I get a hug now and again...thank you for your lovely site Nick and well done

Vanessa Harvey Tuesday, September 20th 2005 - 07:48:16 AM Just tried to identify a spider and thought I'd try your website. It is superb. Many thanks and keep the pictures coming.

Gilberto Sunday, September 11th 2005 - 01:26:43 PM gr23932@yahoo.com Just visited your site and I'm very impressed. I'm really not a spider liking guy but your site has some really cool pictures. I'm from California, but currently I'm living in Belgium. I've seen some cool looking spiders that I can't find any info on. Maybe I could email you some pics. My wife wants to know if they are dangerous since we have an 8th month old daughter that likes to crawl and get into things. Well, cool site and lates!!!!!!

Natalie Tuesday, September 6th 2005 - 11:16:48 AM georgeharvey2003@yahoo.co.uk Hi Nick, I have just visited your site with my 2 children, my daughter wasn't too impressed, but my son (and myself) loved all the photos, especially close-ups of eyes and fangs!!! great site and would love to e-mail you with some Q's but to what address?

Natalie Tuesday, September 6th 2005 - 11:16:33 AM georgeharvey2003@yahoo.co.uk Hi Nick, I have just visited your site with my 2 children, my daughter wasn't too impressed, but my son (and myself) loved all the photos, especially close-ups of eyes and fangs!!! great site and would love to e-mail you with some Q's but to what address?

Sarah Thursday, September 1st 2005 - 09:09:11 PM sezzy1uk@yahoo.co.uk Great site!! Im terrified of spiders any bigger than a 2 pence piece, but I am facinated by them...odd really! Just to say I think youre a fantastic photographer and was wondering if you do it professionaly or as a hobby? The pis of the snakes and hedgehog as well as the spiders are brill. Thats all I had to say. Have fun with the spiders.....x

Barbara Ann Clough Friday, August 26th 2005 - 05:27:01 AM Hello. I found an odd spider in my garden about an inch and half across which I indentified from your website as a ARANEUS QUADRATUS,although not a spider freak I couldn't see it come to harm so released him (I think) into a field at back of my Garden. Which is close to Leeds. So if I find anymore eight legged wonders I'll be back to your marvellous website. Many Thanks PS I lived in Australia for awhile and developed a heathly respect for spiders after a fairly close encounter with a small funnel web spider.

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kat Monday, May 23rd 2005 - 04:16:46 PM me@katnicholson.co.uk http://thedreamwolf.deviantart.com Hey there Nick! Great website man!! a fairly comprehensive list of speices and some absolutely smashing photographs!! :) I found your site by searching for british spiders... - I've found some odd ones in my new house which I wasn't familiar with, and your site by has by far the most extensive collection from all the sites I've seen! :) ... the spider in particular which bought me here this evening I now beleive to be a female Amaurobuis similis, thanks to you I now know her name, even if I can't pronounce it! ;) Good luck to you in all you do!

Emma Jenny Taylor Monday, May 2nd 2005 - 02:56:51 PM emmainfenny@yahoo.com This site is great

dave Thursday, March 17th 2005 - 12:34:52 PM davidallanwonderboy@hotmail.co.uk i enjoyed looking at the pics on your site but unable to find the spider i was looking for ,it is as large as a garden spider if not bigger the web orb in shape was massive the spider it self was black in colour almost blackwidow colour but had red dots around the base of the body and i teesed the spider out with my finger and it went for it with a very fast attack if i hadnt puuled away it would have latched on ,spiders being my fave i was shocked to see this from a spider witch would normally run away could u try and help me thanxs

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amber Thursday, November 18th 2004 - 09:18:57 AM kitty0354@hotmail.com im quite curious as to what you do for a living. if its anything to do with photographing and categorizing spiders, i would love a job like that some day. what an adrenaline rush. im a bit nervous around spiders but at the same time they fascinate me. i actually did find a spider out in the woods in lansingburgh, new york that you dont seem to have any pistures of. it has thorns but not like those on the orb spider. it resembles and orb spider but not the one you have pictures of. its colors were dark and the thorns were not so distinct. any clue?

rick Saturday, November 13th 2004 - 02:43:19 PM rdschomer@charter.net

Joshua Wednesday, November 10th 2004 - 09:41:36 AM k123456789010@hotmail.com http://www.night-fall.net/spiders I LOVE the site, lots and lots of valuable info. Keep up the good work!

sam Wednesday, October 20th 2004 - 06:25:20 AM dubbsta@hotmail.com i like ur site i got a spider that i found in my bedroom and for some reason just kept it as a pet. they are great to watch

Lisa Wednesday, October 13th 2004 - 05:45:19 AM fizzyfrog2000@yahoo.co.uk What a brilliant site!

chez Tuesday, September 28th 2004 - 01:49:50 AM sexycutenfine@hotmail.com your site is wicked,usually im afraid of spiders but now i know there more afraid of me and they only do stuff to protect themselves, thanx chez

Antje Saturday, September 25th 2004 - 10:14:01 AM amschu@gmx.de http://www.pbase.com/antjes Wonderful website! I enjoyed your jumping spider descriptions a lot. Jumping spiders cured my arachnophobia actually, when I started photographing them, fear turned first into respect and then into affection. When the spider who used to live at my door died (he lost a fight, obviously), I felt so bad - I wouldn't have thought a while ago I would feel bad about a spider's death. I think that just happens once you look into a creature's eyes and it looks back at you.

Sandra Friday, September 10th 2004 - 11:22:43 AM lips_of_silence@hotmail.com Hi.. loved your site :) Love spiders, i like kidnapping them so i can watch them eat and do all those stuff.. well, keep on with the good work []

alice shaw Wednesday, September 1st 2004 - 08:01:08 AM aliceshaw123@aol.com I'm really scared of spiders, but my sister has just done a Phd in the use of spiders as a pest control agent in brasica crops and after looking at some of her samples through microscopes i have found a little bit more out about them, these photographs are great, my sister has a really good one of a crab spider and plenty of others (perhaps u would be intrested in them)

Louise Monday, August 2nd 2004 - 07:26:08 AM mullets_rule_ok@ yahoo.com Like the site! Great photography.

Flyerstarter Design Sunday, June 20th 2004 - 02:18:29 PM info@flyerstarter.com http://www.flyerstarter.com Maybe you can answer this question: Once I was sitting with my mates watching telly or some such, then I just happened to look at something on the wall in the corner of my eye. It was a spider, so incredibly ****in' big, we were sitting there saying to each other.. "No, there's no way that can be real". It was one of the BIGGEST spiders i'd EVER seen, in a zoo, in books, etc. We thought someone had placed a fake plastic spider on the wall as a gag. Then it MOVED. And we screamed.. the bravest of us immediately obtained some sort of blunt instrument and promptly bludgeoned this monster to death. My question is, though, upon inspection of it's corpse, within 5 minutes of it's demise it was shrivelled to a very small percentage of it's size when it was alive..?! It's corpse was hardly impressive and did nothing to embellish our story of this enormous spider. Any ideas as to why this spider shrank exponentially immediately upon its death? Cam house spiders retain a large amount of fluid or such? Thanks

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Anu Neuvonen Saturday, May 22nd 2004 - 04:37:48 PM viilinainen@hauntedmansion.com Wonderful site! I like spiders as well, pretty amazing creatures. Next time I see a spider I'll photograph it for you! Anu, Scotland/Finland

Maria H Monday, May 17th 2004 - 05:05:34 AM em_henriksson@hotmail.com Hi, Nick. Your page is helping me cure my insane fear of spiders! I have such an admiration for these complex creature, I want to like them, they are fascinating and dramatic, sometimes even beautiful, though if I find one on the kitchen floor I nearly pass out with fear. The housespider that lives in the kitchen is doing a great job of pestcontrol, it has eaten all the ants (i think it did, did it?) and stays under the stove or behind the cupboards when I am in the kitchen. Every morning when I open the kitchen door it appears from under the stove for a few seconds, then retreats out of sight for the rest of the day. Is this coincidence? Is it deliberate behaviour? I would love to learn more about the common housespider and other spiders around the house. Has anyone written a book about spiders around the house in Britain? Do email me if you have information about this. Kind wishes, Maria

Mark H. Monday, May 3rd 2004 - 07:44:31 AM - n/a - http:// - n/a - ...just to say Thanks, and Well Done so far. Trawling to find any clues to what had (to layman's eyes) the jizz of a black widow minus the red. Balance of probabilities, available info, blah de blah ... so hop and a skip (well okay, some links and some googling) led me to your pics of the corner-loving Steatoda bipunctata ... which I think it probably is. Oh well.. :oS Still, keep up the good work (though please try not to lose sight of the various socio-economic and environmental issues surrounding fossil-fuelled global travel, eh?) Thanks again anyway Nick, Best Wishes - Mark :o) .

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