Though it may not have been very big, you noticed the strange coloring of this pest -– a dark red colored body with a larger, mahogany abdomen. It could be a woodlouse spider (Dysdera crocata ...

Many people in Scotland would call it a slater, or maybe a woodlouse. It is a tiny land-dwelling crustacean, with a segmented flattened body and seven pairs of jointed legs. Researchers have been ...