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AHApartridge | 00:43 Tue 15th Aug 2006 | Animals & Nature
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has anyone heard of a big kinda spider thing called a lathreau (i think). i saw the creature in the south of france and it was HUGE and it had hook claws which it uses to climb up things, it was black in colour.
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Not very spider like but i know thwere is a species of black preying mantis in france.

http://naturallyconnected.typepad.com/photos/v iews_from_casita/black_praying_mantis-thumb.JP G
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no this thing was like the size of a laptop, although obviously it looked nothing like a laptop
Did it have a hard disc in the middle of its head!!!!!!! sorry coudn't resist............skylight
the latin name of the black widow spider is latrodectus (mactans). I wonder is your monster is some sort of relation ? The black widow is only about a cm long (female) & I think the male is about half that size.
Not aware of any latrodectus being that big. Camel spider maybe (not native to Europe) but they are not black. How much did it look like a spider? Did it look like anything else?
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i really have no clue what it might of been, it kind of flashed before my eyes. it looked most like a spider or a huge fly
im determined to find what you saw now!!! So was this a flying insect?

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i dont think so but it jumped and glided a bit into a bush.
It was probably some kind of Grasshopper. They can grow to huge sizes (18cm) and look quite scary when they are flying.
http://www.insectimages.org

Have a look at some images of grasshoppers etc.

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