What kind of spider is this?

Vich

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Kill it, it will climb into your mouth and lay eggs. That huge pouch on its ass has 1000 little fvckers ready to eat you alive.
 
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Hmm, not seeing a whole lot that looks much like it. The closest has been common house spiders and brown widows (the latter it only looked like one pic that I saw of them, so I doubt it is that).
 

Rubycon

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Looks like a common orb weaver. If its web doesn't affect your everyday walk traffic, leave it alone. They catch a lot of bugs that otherwise would find their way in your home.
 
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Originally posted by: MS Dawn
Looks like a common orb weaver. If its web doesn't affect your everyday walk traffic, leave it alone. They catch a lot of bugs that otherwise would find their way in your home.

Yeah, I don't want to mess with it, as we could use a few more spiders around here to be honest, but I need to light the pilot light for our heater and its kinda in the way. Hmm, I'll see if I can't leave it alone (it crawled over and curled up on a pipe).
 
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Originally posted by: MS Dawn
Looks like a common orb weaver. If its web doesn't affect your everyday walk traffic, leave it alone. They catch a lot of bugs that otherwise would find their way in your home.

Yeah... orb weavers have that huge, disproportionate rear end. Harmless... to people anyway. Otherwise they are pest killing machines.

If it's in a bad spot for you just get it on a stick and move it somewhere else.
 
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It was a good spider and didn't bother me while I tried to get the pilot light lit (too bad it wasn't cooperating like the spider was) so I left it alone.
 

Captante

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Good for you ... too many people automatically smash spiders on site & not only are they very beneficial creatures to man, 99% of them are completely harmless to us as well, despite how scary some of them appear!
 

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Originally posted by: Baked
Do us a favor and kill it w/ a flamethrower.

Hahaha, and tape it too.

Just messing. Yea, I would just leave it alone. If its not in your bedroom, just let it do its thing...less work for you in the end anyway. You won't have to use that fly swat'er as much. :)
 

sandorski

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This is a Common Living Spider. Kill it before it kills you and all will be fine.