Help Me ID this spider, please (Personal)

Jan 3, 2006 | Self

[pillut48]

Here's a picture of a spider that I found under my baker's rack awhile ago--I can't identify it though...was hoping some of the wonderful folks here might be able to help.

If it's a garden spider, we'll do a release into the back yard garden, but I have a 5 y/o and I don't want to take a chance that it's a dangerous spider.

Anyone got an idea what this might be?

[pillut48]

[freedomson]

Get out of that house.

NOW!

: )

[ToddBush]

It's called a bigious freakingous spiderous.

[Owl_Eagle]

That's funny.  I got bit by a spider like that a couple of years back.  It swelled up real bad and hurt something awful and then about two weeks later, all these baby spiders that looked like that came pouring out of the sore.  But I think the two incidents were just coincidental.

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[bnelson44]

Where are you located?

[demkicker]

I'm guessing a brown recluse. You need an exterminator, quick!

[Maximus of Texas]

It's the itsy, bitsy spider that went up the water spout.

[Larry Lucido]

Did you look in its wallet?

[keat]

There's only two venomous spiders in the US and that ain't either.

If they wanted to be released into our garden they'd probably be there right instead of your kitchen. I'd kill 'em where they live.

[dirtboy]

Where do you live?

[PaulaB]

all these baby spiders that looked like that came pouring out of the sore

I hope your kidding.....

[GSWarrior]

I'll help you squish it.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

If you are thinking that it is a brown recluse.... It don't look like one to me.....
Here a link. http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2061.html

Looks more like a brown wolf spider..... but generally those to weave webs they are a hunter spider

[Larry Lucido]

I looks kinda like the one that bit our dog.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

If it is, brown recluse bites can be dangerous.

[bnelson44]

Doesn't look like a brown recluse. Does it have 6 eyes in 2 clusters of three? If not, it isn't a brown recluse.

http://entomology.unl.edu/images/spiders/spiders1.htm

[Maximus of Texas]

Similar to my story. I had something attach to my face. Later it fell off but while eating dinner that night my stomach started convulsing and this came out. We were able to kill it and mount it.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

I hate spiders. I am terrified of those little bastards.

[bert]

How many eyes does it have?

[PaulaB]

LOL


Ok that was funny and I laughed

[VRWCmember]

That is definitely not a brown recluse. BR's are not big and fuzzy like that one. They have essentially the same shape as a black widow but are brown with a white "fiddle" shaped marking on their backs.

Brown recluse:

Black widow:

[Tijeras_Slim]

That's hopkin brown spider.

[keat]

It's a Wolf Spider. Don't listen to anyone else. It's harmless but, like all spiders, it can bite so I would kill it.

[Maximus of Texas]

He's serious. Also, Bill Gates sent him a $1,000 check for forwarding an email to all his friends. Also, Owl lost his kidney once when he woke up in a bathtub packed full of ice while staying at a hotel.

[VRWCmember]

Mind you, moose bites kan be nasti.

[najida]

Cool picture!

I love spiders....but it ain't a brown recluse.

Not a black widder either... I have lots of those in the woodpile.

[Maximus of Texas]

Obscure Aliens reference

[djf]

That's what I thought, a wolf spider.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Does anyone else see the face of Jesus on it's back?

[Owl_Eagle]

We were able to kill it and mount it.

Yeah?  I'd probably of tried to eat it, but that's why they make chocloate and vanilla.

Oh, the spiders, the doctor at the emergency room (okay, my neighbor who's a nurse on the phone) said they were "Brown Recluse Spiders" and they were very friendly... or poisonous... let's see, she was poisonous and they were friendly.  I think that's what it was.

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[A CA Guy]

Yell "ILLEGAL" at it, if it runs you have yourself a Mexican spider for sure.
From there you will have to figure out what kind though.

[PaulaB]

I think we've talked about drinking so early in the day ;P

[keat]

Here's a picture of a creature that I found under my bed awhile ago--I can't identify it though...was hoping some of the wonderful folks here might be able to help.

If it's human, we'll do a release into the back yard, but I have a 5 y/o and I don't want to take a chance that it's a dangerous creature.

Anyone got an idea what this might be?

[A CA Guy]

By the way, if it is a Mexican spider, it would be making the webs American spiders refuse to weave.

[ssaftler]

Looks like my congress-critter (LOL)

[Owl_Eagle]

Ridicule, or at least the blatant hijacking of a thread as the source of levity really ought to be expected when you turn to FReepers for advice when it's not about guns.

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[Hoodlum91]

It's dangerous. Don't let your 5 year old near it.

[PaulaB]

LOL



Vaya Van Prisa De la Prisa!!!!!!!!

[Constitution Day]

LOL! Maybe they can sell it on eBay!

[Antonello]

If it were in my house any identification would have to be done using whatever was left on the bottom of my shoe. Nothing gets to live in my house unless it either pays rent or gives me a tax deduction.

[A CA Guy]

With salsa on top!

[EX52D]

LOL...I'm guessing something "other wordly"...

[Fierce Allegiance]

We were able to kill it and mount it.

You and your one track mind. It's all about sex with you.

[pillut48]

Please tell me you are joking!! =:-O

We are north of Dallas, south of Oklahoma.

I thought fiddlebacks only like dark damp places?
This part of the kitchen is near a large window and
pretty bright. The baker's rack has a grid-like shelf,
not solid, so it's pretty much open space under there.

The spider itself is about 1.5-2 inches long. I blew up the pic to see it better, so it's not quite chihuahua size like it looks, LOL.

[unixfox]

Looks like my congress-critter (LOL)

Nah, wrong picture. Here he is.

[Maximus of Texas]

Nothing gets to live in my house unless it either pays rent or gives me a tax deduction

What about census takers? Got any fava beans and chianti?

[MadCharity]

Possibly a wolf spider?

All these pics of spiders is making me feel the creepy crawlies now....ughghgh. I generaly don't mind them, but seeing many makes me start "feeling" things crawling on me...

[pillut48]

Doesn't look like a brown recluse. Does it have 6 eyes in 2 clusters of three? If not, it isn't a brown recluse.
http://entomology.unl.edu/images/spiders/spiders1.htm

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Bwahahahahaha!! Said as if I would get close enough to count such things. This pic is from a camera with a really REALLY good zoom lens!! :-)

[Gay State Conservative]

You needn't fear because as Woody Allen told a distraught and frightened Diane Keaton in Annie Hall

"I've been killing spiders since I was 30".

[Maximus of Texas]

No, its about sex with CZJ.