White Spiders

[coccinelle]

Found 3 white spiders behind the sink in the cellar. They looked like plastic, the size of a penny and toy like. Anybody know what they are? I've searched the net but can't find them.

[rowanwitch]

The only really white ones are the crab spiders and they wouldn't be indoors... The comb footed spider is mostly white but much too small and the greyish white 'cellar daddy long legs ' is too big... Where do you live? as there may be small colonies of escapes specific to certain areas

[LoftyLottie]

Perhaps

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/CellarSpider.jpg/250px-CellarSpider.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae&h=188&w=250&sz=8&tbnid=UccKPdWYlOcbhM:&tbnh=95&tbnw=126&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcellar%2Bspiders%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=cellar+spiders&usg=__BT5gUNGkjNVUdDRrXEKKGik5L-I=&docid=Oyj-TkqMFK6aRM&sa=X&ei=r_jbUbu4AsWJ0AX7loCYCA&;ved=0CD8Q9QEwAg&dur=277

[viv38]

As they were in a dark place like the cellar, could they be ordinary spiders, but albinos ?

[LoftyLottie]

http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/forums/spiders/21697-white-spiders.html

http://www.uksafari.com/crabspider.htm

Could be of help

[Chipchopper]

It sounds like the Woodlouse spider you have, they feed almost exclusively on woodlice.

[LoftyLottie]

~Ahhh, don't go near them. Apparently they bite and are venomous! I just looked up Woodlouse Spiders!

[coccinelle]

Thank you for your answers but no it's none of them. It looked quite toylike!! but it wasn't. Maybe it is a spider which goes white in such dark places. Next time I see one I'll take a photo, in fact i should have done that when I saw them but just wanted to get rid...

[FredPuli43]

That's quite possible. Even the famously brown mouse spider gets paler in the right conditions. But I think you have found a new species or sub-species. Just think of the honour. It will be [something] or [something, something] coccinella. Yes, I know that coccinelle might suggest a small beetle, but that's no bar.

[Downtowner01]

Spiders who live in dark places will be pale and spiders who live in the light will be dark. If you want to know exactly what kind of spider it is, I recommend calling a university entomology department.