NEED HELP QUICK!!! if you know about spiders please look im freakin...

[ApacheXMD]

if there's one thing that completely freaks me out, it's a spider..
especially a big fat spider that's the size of my palm...
*shiver* All those pics sent chills down my spine.
with all due respect, sucks to be you
i think i'd rather jump off a building than have a spider touch me

-patchy

 

[Orbius]

When I lived in SE Texas, I used to wake up with little spider fang bites all the time, never saw the spiders though maybe they crawled in my mouth like that other poster said. One time though I woke up with these big fang bites which were like a half inch apart. It was probably from a spider about the same size as the one in the picture. I'm glad I moved, bugs are creepy.

 

[Shockwave]

Jesus! Thats definately a brown recluse! Your as good as dead man........

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

It amazing how small it is and still scare the sh!t out of us.

We humans are weak.

 

[Kelvrick]

It looks like the BR and the friggen Hobo spider to me.

Yes, we humans are weak. We are so weak they can bite us while we're sleeping and kill us! Damn them spiders! I kill all of em. Ever since I woke up one night as a kid and saw this daddy longlegs crawling on my blanket around my feet. It was headed straight to my head! It just went in a straight line. I buried myself under blankets and shivered liek a wimp. Ever since then... Spider=stein.

 

[Jfur]

I have to agree that spiders are the most TERRIFYING thing out there. My husband teases me becasue I actually SEE spiders that aren't there -- occassionally I wake up in the middle of the night and SEE a phontom spider on the wall and screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam. Hubby is sweet and "does battle" with th blank wall so I can go back to sleep But if I saw what Ameesh has, I don't know what I'd do :Q

edit: I thought someone said it was definitely WOLF, now I hear it's not -- does anyone really know,so poor Ameesh can get some sleep??

 

[hoe4damoney]

Looks very similar to a huntsman spider. Harmless.

What is so scary about it? And 4" isn't big for a spider.

 

[Ameesh]

bump for morning crowd.

 

[Ameesh]

i finnnaly did get some sleep only to wak up to thi... godd what an afwul 12 hours...

 

[Descartes]

Welp, considering I've had an infestation of brown recluse spiders in my townhome for the past few months, I can tell you almost w/ 100% certainty that that IS NOT a brown recluse spider. He's too bulky for a BRS. BRS have legs that protrude from the body at almost 90degrees upward, and have the first 3 pairs pointing forward, and the last pair toward the rear. As FFMCobalt noted, they are also quite small! I was reading an article from an arachnologist who refuted the complaints of BRS in the west. They simply are not there, according to him. I'll pull up a link if I can find it.

So, it IS NOT a brown recluse, and it's not a black widow. From the looks of it, it's not a hobo spider either (don't think hobos are even around that region). I think you're probably pretty safe, just sleep on your back instead of on your stomach, as spider bites on the face are rather unsightly

Good luck.

[edit]Also, another peculiar thing about the BRS. The BRS' I've had in my home are very, very territorial. By that I mean that they stay in the same spot, pretty much always. I've found many spiders, and simply opted against killing them to see what they'd do over time (was waiting for exterminator). Everytime I checked on them, they were in the same spot, hardly even switching directions. I could go into some other very freaky behavior that I've observed regarding the BRS, but, lets let Ameesh get some sleep, he's got some busy days at MS ahead! [/edit]

 

[ThePurplePlatypus]

It looks to me like it could be a wolf spider, since you say it is very big. However I don't know very much about their physical markings. I don't think they're harmless though, I remember reading that they are deadly.

 

[NozlerAtClemson]

To all the insect people out there, sorry but if I see a spider it doesn't live long enough to identify it. Last year, I had to live in these old dorms that left over from when Clemson was a military college(60s?) and there are holes all in the walls that they can use to move around in. At the top of all the walls is molding but in our room the molding was pulled loose at one end. One day a large spider came to visit through the molding. I didn't want to mess with it and neither was my roommate. It left after I blasted it with a small fire etingusher(I can't spell).

 

[Ameesh]

coming from someone who has had fiorst hand experience im glad its not a br. a lot of here say in this post which makes me scared nonethe less.


thanks.



so it looks like alot of people say its a wolf spider. now i just gotta find where they are coming from, i sent emails to a bunch of people (proffessors of entomology) asking if they could tell what it was. We'll seeif any of them respond.







<< Welp, considering I've had an infestation of brown recluse spiders in my townhome for the past few months, I can tell you almost w/ 100% certainty that that IS NOT a brown recluse spider. He's too bulky for a BRS. BRS have legs that protrude from the body at almost 90degrees upward, and have the first 3 pairs pointing forward, and the last pair toward the rear. As FFMCobalt noted, they are also quite small! I was reading an article from an arachnologist who refuted the complaints of BRS in the west. They simply are not there, according to him. I'll pull up a link if I can find it.

So, it IS NOT a brown recluse, and it's not a black widow. From the looks of it, it's not a hobo spider either (don't think hobos are even around that region). I think you're probably pretty safe, just sleep on your back instead of on your stomach, as spider bites on the face are rather unsightly

Good luck.

[edit]Also, another peculiar thing about the BRS. The BRS' I've had in my home are very, very territorial. By that I mean that they stay in the same spot, pretty much always. I've found many spiders, and simply opted against killing them to see what they'd do over time (was waiting for exterminator). Everytime I checked on them, they were in the same spot, hardly even switching directions. I could go into some other very freaky behavior that I've observed regarding the BRS, but, lets let Ameesh get some sleep, he's got some busy days at MS ahead! [/edit] >>

 

[Ameesh]

<< i think i'd rather jump off a building than have a spider touch me >>




me too! i just cant do any thing about it.

 

[gittyup]

All spiders have exactly 8 legs. I see more than 8 there.

 

[bunker]

<< All spiders have exactly 8 legs. I see more than 8 there. >>


No you don't. You see 8 legs and 2 pedipalps.

Don't think it's a wolf spider either. It looks like a damn house spider to me. Your average run of the mill house spider.

 

[Mangos]

that definitely looks like a wolf spider. I've played with wolf spiders since I was a child. they're extremely quick, but they seem relatively harmless to humans.

 

[bunker]

I repeat, not a wolf spider

*edit - Full body shots of Wolf Spiders

 

[Pikachu]

Nothing I can do about terrorists, but I may be able to help you with this terror. Here's a suggestion from WhiteWonder's Spider Topic:

• Look at the door sweeps on your entrance doors. Make sure they're sealed tight when closed. Put some Ortho Sevin® Garden Dust on the sill between the screen door and that door sweep. It's safe, so use plenty.
  
  Seal around heater vents in the floor, so none can creep in from the cellar. Seal around vent stacks and drains that go through the floor and outside. Spray Diazinon around the outside of the house as directed. I've done all of the above and rarely see a spider or ant in the house.

The door sweeps are about $5.00 each, "Sevin Dust" is only a couple dollars and one container can last for months or years. Diazinon is about $7.00 and the landlord ought to reimberse you for that. For a very few dollars you can easily cut down the infiltration by 90%.

 

[Ameesh]

<< I repeat, not a wolf spider

*edit - Full body shots of Wolf Spiders >>



its definetly not that, if i saw that id move into a hotel, crap!

 

[gumbysucks]

Have the exterminator spray for ants and other bugs too. I was in a house with spiders for service once, and the walls were covered in large 2-3" spiders, needless to say her furnace didn't get serviced. She did tell me she had lots of ants first , which made plenty of food for the spider population.

 

[Ameesh]

i tell him thanks.

 

[Pikachu]

I tweaked your picture to see if I could better identify it. Found a good source of info at PEERS Spider Identification Key. My guess from there would be a Crab spider. Poke around there and see if anything else matches.

 

[Sengar]

I've developed an intense hatred of spiders during the course of living in my current house. At certain times of the year, I'm absolutely infested with them - I've had spiders land on my head while I was at the computer, I've woken up with a spider bite on the inside of my mouth, sometimes killed 15-20 in one day. Up until this year, it was always smallish, off-white spiders, slow-moving, easy to kill. This year's model has mostly been of the slightly larger, meaner, fast-movingdark variety - looks quite a bit like the hobo spider, although I'm not entirely sure - the only close-up looks I've gotten were after I took the liberty of rearranging their guts for them.

Those things are one major PITA. I've had to chase them down (they're actually fast enough to have gotten away from me a few times) - and a couple times when I've cornered them they've actually come at me. After all these years I've gotten used to the almost constant presence of spiders in my house, but the thought that something that much smaller than I am actually has the courage to attack me never fails to creep me out.