[ex-Texan]

The Hobo Spider is more dangerous than the Brown Recluse.

This is One Big Ugly Spider

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[ex-Texan]

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[thescourged1]

Ahhh...So that is what that little ugly is called. 20 years ago, I found one hiding in a corner of my bedroom. How he got there, I have no idea. This was in Northern NV.

[willyone]

These babies jump too and can cover alot of ground real fast. Plus they have a set of jaws that are awesome. Even without the poison you do not want to get bite. I had one in a jar and put a pencil down by it. When it bit the pencil you could feel the force through the pencil. Ouch!

[agrandis]

Then there's this one:

THE AGGRESSIVE HOUSE SPIDER

Tegenaria agrestis

This common funnel-weaving spider is found in the northwestern United States. Its body is about inch long; it has a dull tan color with darker markings on its oval abdomen. This spider makes thick webs with the funnel neck back in a wall crevice and the wider mouth opening into a room. They are found only in moist areas of basements or cellars, in ground level window wells, and so forth. The spider has been given its name because it readily bites when touched or pressed. The bite, not initially painful, resembles the bite of the Brown Recluse spider (not found in the Northwest) and other bites that result in ulcerating lesions. A close relative is distributed in the northeastern United States but is not aggressive. These cellar-dwelling, funnel-weaving spiders were introduced from Europe where they are very commonly found in structures.

There was a woman recently bitten on a bus in London by what was believed to be a tropical spider. It caused symptoms similar to the Brown Recluse, too. Could be an introduction of some foreign spider has occured in LI.

[agrandis]

Oh, I see I posted info on the same spider, T. agrestis. Different common names, same critter.

[cmsgop]

Thank You For The Info. My Wife was bit by a spider on a woodpile last night here in Washinton State. She saw this thread and is a little freaked. Her hand is a little puffy and has a raised white mark surrounded by red.

[ethical]

All right. That Hobo spider is looking an awful lot like what I have always called a "bathtub spider". We find them here in the northwest in our bathtubs looking for water I presumed. I hope that's a different breed than the Hobo because I have had a very casual approach concerning the "bathtub" spider.

[Jefferson Adams]

Just saw your post #47. Yep. Hobo Spiders.