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Anyone Recognize this Spider?
Jonno ^ | 3/25/2021 | Jonno

Posted on 03/25/2021 4:48:05 PM PDT by jonno

One of my kids found this in his room today and took the picture. He & mom let it go outside. Apparently the leg-span is about the size of a nickel.

I don't recall seeing anything like this before in our area (Minneapolis subs).

Anyone have a clue as to what species this is?


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: arachnid; arachnids; spider; spiders; vanity; woodlousespider
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To: 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


21 posted on 03/25/2021 5:01:17 PM PDT by bimboeruption (Trump = The best President since Washington. )
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To: jonno

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.


22 posted on 03/25/2021 5:01:20 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: jonno

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!!!


23 posted on 03/25/2021 5:01:21 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: jonno

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


24 posted on 03/25/2021 5:02:11 PM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: jonno

too late your family (closet libs) overrode you..probably not the 1st time


25 posted on 03/25/2021 5:03:04 PM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: jonno

Bugasalt him, er her


26 posted on 03/25/2021 5:03:04 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something)
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To: jonno

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.


27 posted on 03/25/2021 5:03:12 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: jonno

Bugasalt him, er her


28 posted on 03/25/2021 5:03:28 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something)
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To: jonno
Looks to me like a Woodlouse Spider

Woodlouse spider

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

29 posted on 03/25/2021 5:03:42 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Don W

I am arachnophobic. I don’t care how good they are.


30 posted on 03/25/2021 5:04:24 PM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: jonno

I don’t like spiders and snakes.


31 posted on 03/25/2021 5:06:37 PM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: libh8er

I tried dropping it Google - couldn’t find a decent match.

So I came here :)


32 posted on 03/25/2021 5:07:40 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: jonno
No, you should not squish it. There's likely others...


33 posted on 03/25/2021 5:07:57 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

‘tranquillus’ makes it sound relatively harmless - but with a potentially nasty bite:

http://extension.psu.edu/broad-faced-sac-spider


34 posted on 03/25/2021 5:08:28 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Robert DeLong; jonno

I agree...Better Description

https://beyondthetreat.com/woodlouse-spider/


35 posted on 03/25/2021 5:09:21 PM PDT by HippyLoggerBiker (Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake. )
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

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.


36 posted on 03/25/2021 5:09:29 PM PDT by Battle Axe (Repent, for the Lord is coming.)
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To: jonno

Yeah, it’s Bob. I was wondering where he went.


37 posted on 03/25/2021 5:10:00 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: jonno

Not harmful unless your are a pill bug or wood louse. You will find them in the house this time of year


38 posted on 03/25/2021 5:10:31 PM PDT by I ate the donut hole
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To: Magnatron

That should do it!


39 posted on 03/25/2021 5:10:56 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: moovova; bimboeruption; libh8er; Robert DeLong

Woodlouse Hunter

Seems like it fits the ticket; seems harmless enough - we’ll let her be. :)

Thanks for all your help!


40 posted on 03/25/2021 5:10:57 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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