Spiders are out to get me!

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paulney

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Ok, a couple of weeks ago while cleaning up in a particularly dark corner in my garage, I ran into a Black Widow. Or at least I think it was a Black Widow: it jumped into my hand from a bag of old fertilizer I lifted.

I sucked that mother into the vacuum cleaner too quickly to take a look at its underbelly, but the overall shape did look like a Black Widow.

Now just 10 minutes ago I wanted to clean up the floors in the kitchen, and my wife noticed this sucka sitting right above my head on a ceiling. I took a couple of shots and captured it into a plastic cup.

Can you identify what spider is this? It's about 2 inches in size.

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Update: while I was typing this message, it killed and started eating a daddy long-legs spider I put in the same cup with it.

Pics:

Spider eating poor daddy long-legs:

Spider eating 1

Spider eating 2

Spider eating 3

Update:

It's a wolf spider. Thanks to dennilfloss and MS Dawn.

Here's some info on them:
http://www.ento.okstate.edu/ddd/insects/wolfspider.htm
 
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paulney

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Holy sh!t. When I captured this spider, I also happened to notice a daddy-long-legs sitting nearby, so I put them both in one cup.
While I was typing the OP, the big mother killed the poor daddy and is eating it right now.

That was fast.
 
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Rubycon

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Looks like a wolf spider. You probably want to get rid of it. They're jumpers and I don't feel comfortable around something like that.
 
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Zugzwang152

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Originally posted by: paulney
Holy sh!t. When I captured this spider, I also happened to notice a daddy-long-legs sitting nearby, so I put them both in one cup.
While I was typing the OP, the big mother killed the poor daddy and is eating it right now.

That was fast.
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ZOMG! UPDATED PICS, STAT
 
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paulney

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Originally posted by: MS Dawn
Looks like a wolf spider. You probably want to get rid of it. They're jumpers and I don't feel comfortable around something like that.
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Yep, definitely looks like a wolf spider. Thanks for the quick info :)

I'll give it a smack down.
 
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RaistlinZ

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I dunno man, but that looks like one badass spider if you ask me. Looks like it would hurt a hell of a lot if it bit you too. Don't even bother throwing it back outside, just flush that mofo down the toilet.
 
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