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?

[Constitution Day]

LOL!

[geezerwheezer]

I was hoping you would find that funny. I kinda feel sorry for folks that don't see humor in everything, don't you?

[Constitution Day]

I did find it funny...actually, I thought that I should have put "spider" in there when I typed it.

I definitely feel sorry for the humor-impaired. Life's too short to be that way.

[stylecouncilor]

Maybe he's a violin spider.

[newfrpr04]

violin spiders are pretty dangerous- in same family as the brown recluse.

[txhurl]

lol

gotta go hunt up that Iraqi spider crab pic

[txhurl]

From another FR spider thread:

I need some SPIDER identification help.

A few weeks ago, I was bitten by a Brown Recluse (very painful and long lasting effects). One of my dogs was bitten by another spider - and my wife a couple days ago was also bitten - but NOT by another Recluse luckily.

Tonight I just found THIS rather large spider sitting at my back door - now dead!

Can anyone identify this arachnid? Hot Springs Arkansas area. Thanx!

ps. that is 1 inch on the scale. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1165423/posts

[SWAMPSNIPER]

10 or 12 years ago, I got nailed, in my sleep, on my left temple, by a brown recluse. I lost big chunks of my forehead, right down to bone, ended up with a secondary infection in my inner ear, that spread to my lungs, and damned near killed me. It was much worse than the two pygmy rattlesnake bites I've had. It is hard to tell from photos of shriveled up dead spiders. Based on your pictures, I would smash the little barstards!

[carlr]

You said it,there is nothing I have encountered on Earth that causes the reaction I have when in the vicinity of these things.

[Atlas Sneezed]

LOL!

[Not A Snowbird]

Anyone got an idea what this might be?

A manatee experiment gone horribly wrong?

[Cold Heat]

We call them wolf spiders in Ark...

It is not a recluse IMO, they look much different.

[Professional Engineer]

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

I've got wolf spiders living in my house. I let be for the most part, they eat other bugs I don't want in the house.

[laney]

Those are potato bugs.

[GRRRRR]

If you can see some white stripes on the legs then you've got the common European Garden Spider...

No worries, they're harmless.

[hindsfeetnhighplaces]

since I know have a horrible case of the heeby jeebies I have to share my "spider story with you all" LOL.

One night I fell asleep while reading a book. I woke up feeling like I was being stared at. Luckily( or unluckily depending on how you look at it) I had fallen asleep with the light on. I tried to ignore the feeling because the book I was reading was a suspense novel. Thought my imagination was running away with me. But the feeling would NOT go away. So I opened my eyes and began looking around my room. Nothin. Not a thing. So I reached over to turn out the light.....bad idea....it was then I saw it. A huge spider staring at me from the wall next to the lamp. I could see each one of its beady eyes and if I wanted to I could count each hair on its body. Its body was as big as the palm of my hand. Counting the legs it was bigger then my hand when my fingers were splayed.

I jumped out of bed and woke up my husband. "Honey, there is a spider on the wall...you need to kill it." Hubby is grumbling about being woken up for a spider. Usually when I am screaming about a spider they are little house spiders. "Honey, really, turn over and look on the wall."

He did. He jumped out of bed fully awake and cussing up a storm. "Where did that thing come from!!!" .....silence...."What do I kill it with?"

I wasn't sure but suggested a baseball bat. He ended up using a shoe. What a mess. I couldn't get back to sleep after that.I was afraid it might have a nest of babies somewhere. We didn't liver there for very long after that.

I have no idea what kind of spider it was only that I had never seen one inside the house before. I had seen them in the garage when I would go to feed the dogs. They would literally chase me and one tried to jump at me.Someone told me they were wolf spiders but I am not sure about that.

Well, that's my story. :)

[Bogey78O]

It's a fuzzy spider and not a sleek spider. That make a big difference. Odds are it's not poisonous since most fuzzy ones can at most cause a bad bite but carry little poison.

BTW... thisis the second "identify this spider" thread at FR.

[SunkenCiv]

St. Bernard's ghost, that was fuunnny!

[SunkenCiv]

Hobo spider image search:

Google

brown wolf spider image search:

Google

[pillut48]

UPDATE: Well, it was moot trying to figure out the thing, because when I went back the next day, I saw that the big guy had bit the dust: BUT.... Charlotte had come along and taken his place, her and her big ol' egg sac!! :-O Caught her feeding on the big guy, and decided, okay, do I love nature more or do I want a big ol' nursery full of little bitty spiders running around my kitchen? Needless to say, they all met the big vacuum cleaner in the sky. I suctioned the whole mess up, tossed the vac bag into a plastic grocery sack, and then threw the whole thing as far as I could into the back yard. If Charlotte was harmless, then she was able to escape. If she wasn't, next time my spider-eating cats go out, she's toast. :-) Thanks to all the respondents! It's been real! ;-)