Posted on 03/25/2021 4:48:05 PM PDT by jonno
It’s a Woodlouse Hunter, described as “not dangerously venomous to the average, healthy human being or family pet.”
Click here to learn more: http://bugeric.blogspot.com/2013/10/woodlouse-hunter.html
Did a Google image search (dragged and dropped image into images.google.com) and the closest it came to was a “Woodlouse Spider”.
Description :
These red/tan and cream colored spiders are commonly submitted because of their fierce looking fangs and jaws sticking straight out from their head. Despite their appearance these are great spiders to have around the home controlling nuisance sowbugs/pillbugs, their main food source. They are not of medical significance.
It’s a mostly harmless garden spider, and to those who shout KILL IT! You are a bunch of morons. Few spiders in North America can do any harm to a human, and ALL do a service in reducing harmful and pestiferous insects.
Idiots. Spiders GOOD! Spider killers EFFING MORONS!!!
Sorry...left that out...
Woodlouse Spiders - Dysdera sp.
Family - Dysderidae
Genus - Dysdera
These six-eyed, nocturnal Spiders have long Chelicerae/ jaws,
with large fangs capable of catching and eating Woodlice.
Found in damp but warm habitats, under stones, logs
too late your family (closet libs) overrode you..probably not the 1st time
Bugasalt him, er her
It’s not a black widow or a brown recluse. Let it live.
I agree with your wife!
Got bit by a brown recluse a few years ago. Huge blister, necrotic tissue and now a big scar on my leg.
Bugasalt him, er her
A woodlouse spider's venom is secreted from two large fangs that project from its body. However, woodlouses that come into contact with people can sometimes bite humans. These bites can be painful due to the spider's massive fangs, but they are not known to require medical attention. Source
I am arachnophobic. I don’t care how good they are.
I don’t like spiders and snakes.
I tried dropping it Google - couldn’t find a decent match.
So I came here :)
‘tranquillus’ makes it sound relatively harmless - but with a potentially nasty bite:
http://extension.psu.edu/broad-faced-sac-spider
The lesion from a BR is very telling, it eats the flesh and the wound is open with no skin covering it. Most dreadful looking thing I’ve seen. The one I saw was not small either, irregularly shaped and I think painful. I saw it in the Joplin Public Library.
I lived in Southern Missouri and had a BR in my mixing bowls every morning. I thought I was killing them with boiling water down the drain, I should have smashed it. The webs are different too. If you put your hand on a BR web it is tough and irregular, no fancy web. Once you touch one, you will never forget it.
Yeah, it’s Bob. I was wondering where he went.
Not harmful unless your are a pill bug or wood louse. You will find them in the house this time of year
That should do it!
Woodlouse Hunter
Seems like it fits the ticket; seems harmless enough - we’ll let her be. :)
Thanks for all your help!
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