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?

[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.

[pillut48]

That was my first thought, since we had a wolf spider in our house in California a couple of years ago, but this one seemed to be making a nest/web out of dust bunnies under there, so I wasn't sure. I thought they only did their hunting outside.

Oh, and the weather has been super mild here, so the cold didn't drive it in, I don't think.

[Fierce Allegiance]

That's ok, than.

[PaulaB]

Yummmm


I love salsa ;)

[Maximus of Texas]

Ok, here ya go

[keithtoo]

Looks like a Wolf spider. Harmless.

[Rutles4Ever]

Garden release? That sounds so "PETA". I would just stomp on it.

Of course, I'd be screaming like a little girl at the same time (Man, I hate spiders).

[PaulaB]

[Sam's Army]

Yeah, this joker's been running around loose in my 'hood lately. Try as I might to find the owner, no one has claimed it yet. Guess it's time to call the dog catcher and see if this is something they can handle:

[demkicker]

Don't mind me. I've been corrected and I'm obviously wrong, although one person said your spider looks fuzzy, which it doesn't to me. I couldn't really get a good look at its shape to rule out whether or not it has the hour glass shape, but it probably isn't a brown recluse. I'd still call the exterminator if I were you.

BTW, was the pic of you spider taken after you killed him with some insecticide? The reason I ask is that its legs were drawn up.

[Spruce]

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