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?
I used to find those often in my room in Kansas, the body is like a carapace, hard. i accidentally picked one up, luckily it didnt bite me. the back end would vary from whitish, to greyish to purplish. scary little buggers.
Several years ago my now 13 year old beagle was almost mauled to death. My brother said he wasn’t going to make it. I told him to pray and please get him over to the vets and that was on a Sunday. Came home from the vets with tubes and stitches and a bunch of medicine to put down the tubes and give by mouth. I decided to put the liquid silver biotics down the tubes and lathered the gel all over his body and also squirted the gel on his food. You cannot tell he was ever injured except his bark sounded different. Shop around on the internet and check out the ounces. Some are price gouging. I have been buying from https://www.allstarhealth.com/ca.aspx?b=see&p=39984 I usually buy enough of the gel plus the silver lozenges and liquid to get the free shipping. I often check elsewhere just to see if a sale is going on. The cost has really skyrocketed over the years. Great gift idea!
Spiders are the reason why God invented flame throwers.
With you on that.
Reading is fundamental. The word FEW means NOT MANY. The two main problem spiders in North America are the black widow, and the brown recluse. Both are mainly found in cellars and crawl spaces where people seldom are, hence the name RECLUSE for one of the species.
Leave them both alone, they will leave you alone. Unlike jumping spiders, which have the cutest little attitude ever. The things are 1/4 inch long and try to look tough. It’s adorable!
If it wasn’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all. Bring it!
Is that even a spider??
Wow no one has said a word iota about the reflection in the abdomen that strangely looks like Biden. The spider should be squished and will be found lurking in the basement where the court of public opinion will not interject in the falsification of the spider’s true identity. In the spider kingdom the female is known to eat the male, hence the Harris and Jill spider subspecies.
I generally have a live and let live attitude towards spiders, unless they choose to drop on me or crawl in bed with me. I have even been known to assist them with catching prey, especially flying termites in the fall.
I found a green rhino beetle in the drain of my shower once ... thing was about 2 inches long and just the horn sticking out of the drain. I have NEVER jumped that far in an enclosed space!
I bet you he can jump 5+ feet! Watch out!!!
Mee too! This sums up how I feel about spiders:
I haven’t seen a spider like that near south central Kansas. Have seen a few black widows on my outside walks and a brown recluse in our house. The widows probably came from bags of mulch products purchased from home improvement stores. Recluses are common in dark areas of homes in this area. Lucky we don’t have tarantulas here, my dad would have freaked out. He made me shoot a big one in Oklahoma on a fishing trip I actually wanted to catch it and he sad NO your not putting that in my truck. He is so scared of spiders; however rattle snakes he had no fear of. We caught a 6’ wrattler alive on a very warm night with my 30/30 rifle on its neck and my dad bare handed it. Talk about a RUSH. Miss those days🙏
Well, in that case I stand corrected, but this spider won’t typically infest a house unless it’s infested with pill bugs, which isn’t very common.
Apparently the Brown Recluse is the AR-15 of spiders.
If you apply a portion of a nitroglycerin patch to the bite area (sooner the better) it prevents the vasoconstrictor portion of the venom from shutting circulation to the bite area and it disperses and gets processed through your body quickly without the necrotic rot hole developing.
Bashful Bullheaded Sac Spider (hunter, nocturnal, likes dark dry places, doesn’t spin webs. If you have a magnifying glass you might be able to watch the heart beat under the centerline of the abdomen. The second part of its taxological name is tranquillus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YECsNH-e6c
LOL!
I grew up in my grandmother’s home, and when it was very hot and dry in the Summer these big palmetto bugs (giant cockroaches) would come up into the apartment somehow.
I distinctly recall playing with them joyously on the kitchen floor, when I was less than 3 years old. But as I grew older, I found them repulsive and scary.
I think fear of ‘bugs’ is something we learn.
(We took my mother-in-law to a science fair some years ago, and I was appalled to see her, in one of the exhibits, allowing a tarantula crawl all over her. She was a Country Lady, and obviously hadn’t learn that fear - she actually liked that ‘bug’ :-)
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