What's this in my shed then...?

[Feistybird]

A mass (about the size of my hand) of small grey black metallic-looking shiny balls (looks a bit like caviar, only bigger).

I guess they're eggs of some sort, I would just like to know what I'm going to be infested with, when they hatch....

no offence but, I hate you all.

Let us know if he pops!

Am actually genuinley interested to what they could be.

Don't pop them, you will enrage the pod-mother, who will scuttle out from under your shed at 1 am, and weave a cocoon around your bedsheets, so you will wake up with them wrapped around your feet....

WHOOOOarrrrr a hah ha ha!

If you pop them they will leave scuttley, slimy trails all over your garden.

Not going out to my shed - you never know what you might find in there....

lol Colditz

dont pop anything, how cruel!
how would we feel if we went thru all that pain of giving birth then someone 'popped' our babies?!!
:o

especially if we went thru it hundreds of times like that creature has!!

I am really not worried, but just out of interest, what do spider eggs look like? (and i really won't believe you if you say black metallic balls.)

ah Shaysmummy, the voice of a true mother.

Black metallic balls.

dear god, I just did a search on google images - and up came an image of camel (wtf?) spiders.

I need a stiff drink

Camel spiders - spiders with humps?

Camel spiders - spiders with humps?

Camel spiders - spiders with humps?

Camel spiders - spiders with humps?

no humps, just great big effing things, they have knees fgs.

Ooops it wouldn't work the first time I clicked post message - so I got a bit trigger happy. Sorry :o

Knees? Thats so they climb your stairs easier and get into the bedrooms quicker!

I know spiders do lay alot of little eggs like what your describing.

We had a similar thing last year. The spiders that came out had a round body but quite high IYSWIM and it had a really bright pink stripe going across it.

They seemed to lurk around the shed too.

LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA

OH

MY

GOD

(NDP starts to twitch uncontrollably)

No seriously.
They weren't big by any means. Probably the size of your little finger nail.

PMSL NDP

See, NDP is uncontrollably drawn back to this thread....

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I can't help myself.