Unknown brown spider

[bugmeister]

Please excuse the quality, these were taken at extreme range and are almost all crop, hardly any resizing.

 

I was walking beside a stream and spotted this spider on top of a piece of floating reed. I don't think I've ever seen a  spider like it, and on looking closer it seemed to be wet.

 

Any ideas what kind of spider it is?

[Leon]

no idea but it looks evil!!!

 

 

http://wiki.britishspiders.org.uk/index.php5?title=Main_Page

[Terry]

Hi Bugs, could it be a woodlouse spider?

http://wiki.britishspiders.org.uk/index.php5?title=Dysdera_crocata

[NannyFerret]

The shot iss good considering the circumstances.

I haven't a clue what it is though.

[Phil]

Looks like the kind of thing Kobione would be more familiar with, not British looking at all.

[bugmeister]

Hi Bugs, could it be a woodlouse spider?

http://wiki.britishspiders.org.uk/index.php5?title=Dysdera_crocata

I don't think so, that one sounds as if it's a landlubber as well as being mainly nocturnal. This was in the middle of a stream and looking rather wet.

 

Looks like the kind of thing Kobione would be more familiar with, not British looking at all.

It does look a bit strange, but the picture was taken at Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire two days ago