Weird Flying spider

[Wasabisam]

Hey guys,
Just before i saw a spider on my screen, so i thought normal spider, squish it, i tried and it "Jumped" on my speak next to my screen, tried again and it kept jumping, I was like WTF alrighty a jumping spider. I lost if for abit, then i saw it on my mouse cord, so i was trying to flick it off, and it flew back to my speaker. Yeah a spider that flew :S. I lost it again, but i found it like a min latter on my network cable, It flew onto my door.

I was looking at it as it was on my door and i noticed. It had 8 legs But there were 2 in the middle, were double the size of the normal legs, really dark black. as it walked they sort of flicked, really cool. Then when it flew its other legs tucked in and the large ones extended to wings and it flew. It was about 5mm big too.

I googled but found nothing, Anyone know what it was? Im scared of spiders, but this one was really cool, and i wanna know more :D

Thanks

Sam

[calumc]

:pics:

[Wasabisam]

before i thought about taking a pic, i electrical taped it to the door and smoshed it , so pics are useless sorry.

Sam

[Elenril]

*panics*
AAAAHHHHH FLYING SPIDERS!! IT'S LIKE MY WORST NIGHTMARE COME TRUE!! Soon they'll mutate even more AND GROW BIGGER AND BIGGER AND BIGGER UNTIL THEY TAKE OVER THE WORLD.

*shudder* I HATE spiders. Thanks for telling me they can now fly. This is going to haunt my dreams.

[Wasabisam]

they only fly in Australia :twisted: so ur safe in your dreams but when u wake up:dead:

ontopic it was a really cool spider, the way it moved, hope someone can find my spider on the web :p

sam

[Ironcat]

Jumping spiders of Australia! (http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/australian/salticidae/Salticidae.html)

Moth mimics spider! (http://www.livescience.com/animals/061221_spider_mimicry.html) Sorry, that one lives in Costa Rica...

Gliding Spider!
http://www.gloriousnebo.org.au/LOR/Maratusvolans.jpg
The Peacock spider or Gliding spider (Maratus volans) is a species of jumping spider. The red, blue and black colored males have flap-like extensions of the abdomen with white hairs that can be folded down. They are used for display during mating: the male expands and raises the flaps so that the abdomen forms a white-fringed, circular field of color. When the spider jumps he extends the flaps and uses them to glide through the air as far as 20 cm. His size is betwen 4 and 5 mm.
The species, and indeed the whole genus Maratus have been compared to peacocks in this respect.

[Drew]

What is it with this place and bugs?

Hairspray + lighter = bug napalm.

[Spawn-Inc]

well i see these spiders outside on the side of my house on the bricks, there about the size of a ant and they are black and white.

http://www.britishspiders.org.uk/images/enq/sasce.jpg

they can jump a good distance.



was this what you saw? its located in South Australia

http://www.spiderzrule.com/spider053/Brown%20spider4_small.jpg

http://www.spiderzrule.com/spider053/Brown%20spider3.jpg

http://www.spiderzrule.com/spider053/Brown%20spider8.jpg


here (http://www.spiderzrule.com/spiders063/06%2008%2006%20057%20123%20(Large).jpg) is your flying spiders

[Indybird]

this sounds kinda similar to this one I was dealing with. It did the exact same thing that you said, except it made a "pop" sound every time it jumped. I am not even joking-this was really weird. It eventually jumped out the window, but not before it scared me and then confused me. This one was real small, about 5mm like you said. Since you're in Canada and I'm in Michigan, this could very well be the same spider...

-Indybird

[Wasabisam]

Im in Australia if that was aimed at me, But anyway, It wasnt any of the pictures i have seen. It had abit of red on the top but all the australian jumping spiders that have red, wornt it. :? Also if this helps when i squished it, green came out of it :twisted:

Sam

[Elenril]

Maybe it's a mutant cross between a fly and a redback spider.

[xRyokenx]

Maybe it's a mutant cross between a fly and a redback spider.

Hmm... stupid college genetics classes. lol

Sweet spider... another cool bug that's best in a glass box, wuahahaha.

Oh yeah, reminds me of these glow-in-the-dark flies a friend of mine made, I didn't get to see them, but the seemed really cool.

[Airbozo]

In My neck of the woods we have;
Black widows
Wolf Spiders
Jumping Spiders
+ more...

The Black widows you have to watch out for because they are _everywhere_! Not very aggressive, but very protective.

The Jumping Spiders are VERY aggressive but only pack weak venom. It is the only creature that is so small, but so aggressive. If you surprise one, it will rear back on it's back 4 legs and hurl itself at you. Freaking SCARY! I have been "attacked" twice in the 14 years I have lived here and have a couple of scars to prove it (tiny ones though).

The Wolf Spiders are medium aggressive, but they get HUGE! Plus they carry their hatchlings ON THEM! I once saw my cat scurry away from something (she was being chased...) and saw a LARGE wolf spider after her. I put my drink glass on it and as I took my hand away the glass started moving!

http://www.usq.edu.au/spider/find/spiders/images/409C10.jpg

[Wasabisam]

thats one freaky looking spider. I have never seen a black widow or a wolf spider in real life, i dont think there are any where i live. :) but the jumping spider i dunno, this one i saw that flew, wasn't agressive, just didnt want me to kill it lol. Didn't jump on me or near me really.

Sam

[xRyokenx]

We have these spiders that make huge ass webs, think 8ft in diameter... be careful walking around at night, hahaha... we also have these black and yellow garden spiders that are about 2-3 inches in diamater and rock their web back and forth when you get too close for their liking (about 3-4ft away)... spiders are cool, just don't get too close, lol.

Ah jibbly jibbly...

[Airbozo]

Wasabi... I am pretty sure they have Wolf Spiders in Australia too. They don't build webs, rather they build "nests".

Even though they are negligibly poisonous, they can take out a chunk of flesh and it hurts like hell... They are extremely hairy too.

I am really curious about that spider that was flying. That is crazy ****. I would always be walking around with the flame thrower... After the spiders hatch, when the wind picks up it is really disturbing to watch the hatchlings "fly" on a silk thread. they just cast a thread up in the air and wait for the breeze to take them...

[Aero]

Airbozo, wolf spiders are mean little buggers. We have them back home. I found one in my basement when I was moving some old PC's. Scared the sh!t out of me. I trapped it in a plastic cup and killed it by sticking a straw attached to a can of "compressed air" in the cup. It slowed down, kinda tripped, and stopped moving. That will teach it to live near my 486.

I also had a pet spider for awhile. Looked kinda like a wolf spider only smaller and less evil. I would catch a bunch of moths in a cup, stun them with my "compressed air" technique, and feed them to the spider...mwwwwhhahahahah...The get knocked out, then wake up and get eatin!

[Wasabisam]

Airbozo, i think i have seen a Wolf spider, at the zoo though behind glass lol, thats where i like my spiders. But never found one in the wild, like my home or at school, anywhere. But yeah, this flying spider was cool, 8 legs, 2 big thick ones in the middle, Dark black, and when it flew the legs, sort of tucked back, and then the big legs made it fly, and when it landed it walked normal, but the thick legs sort of flicked. Grrrr I should of caught it and not killed it :(

Sam

[Elenril]

OH MY GOD THAT IS THE SCARIEST SPIDER I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE.

I'm going to have nightmares for a week now!! I'm going to stop reading this thread.