I'm sure there's a pun, if only I could find it......Iraqnid?

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Originally uploaded by pedroalhambra.

I saw this little bleeder over the weekend - or rather, she saw me. They're all over the place. The Japanese Wood Spider (for it is she) is the commonest spider in Japan, with the strongest web. It also bites and is poisonous, this one was the size of my palm. They also have a habit of pitching their two metre wide webs across the bike sheds at my apartment. Woody here, though you cant see it, was actually spinning a web as I took this.