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What the HELL is this doing on my carpet? *nasty spider*

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No Lifer
WTF

I was a bit concerned with the black widow I slew in July, but this thing is of a great significant size and quite upsetting to find dead on the carpet. Is it a brown recluse? Speaking of those two people on Mrsskoorb's floor got bitten by BR in the past few weeks and have major wounds from these things (unlike Black Widow's the brown recluse bite is localized and basically rotts the area where it bit you).
 
Brown Recluse bites are really really nasty. I can't determine whether that's a BR or not, but I remember finding tons of bugs in our house in AL when we lived there. The moist clay-like soil is a breeding ground for spiders, roaches and other gross things.
 
Brown Recluse Well that looks a lot like my little friend. We have a bottle of stuff in the garage I'm going to go and spray around the house now. However, I think it's time for some serious spider killing now. This isn't cool. BTW since it was dead in the middle of the carpet and moved several minutes later by one of my cats god knows where they found the damn thing.
 
Ahh... I just found one of them the other day too. Glad he was laying their dead instead of still crawling around.
 
My brother pays a monthly or yearly fee to get his house bug sprayed. He says at the first sight of any insect inside the house they will come back and respray the entire house. They also spray around the perimeter on a regular basis which is supposed to keep the bugs from coming back. I would suggest you get something similar. I live in New Hampshire and the cold weather seems to keep most things dead, so we don't have a similar service.
 
Identifying the Brown Recluse Spider
One can readily learn how to identify recluse spiders with less than a minute's training. Whereas most U.S. spiders have 8 eyes, typically arranged in 2 rows of 4, the recluse spiders have 6 eyes arranged in pairs (dyads) with one anterior dyad and 2 lateral dyads (Fig. 1). All 13 species of U.S. recluses (11 native, 2 non-native) share the same eye pattern. In many publications, the violin pattern on the cephalothorax (the first body part to which the legs attach) is mentioned as a diagnostic characteristic (Fig 2). Although it is quite consistent in adult brown recluses (although it can fade in preserved specimens), many western U.S. recluse species and some young brown recluses have virtually no contrasting pigmentation in the violin region (Fig. 3, 4). In addition, recluse spiders have abdomens that are devoid of coloration pattern and their legs are covered with fine hairs but lack thickened spines.
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From this SITE about halfway down.
 
Originally posted by: HotChic
Brown recluse spiders have a darker "fiddle" shape on their back. Does your dead friend there have one?
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Though fuzzy i think my pic does justice to his markings. i can't see any others even up close...
 
In regards to eyes I just used my magnifying glass and it has a top row of 4 eyes and then below that row of 4 is a row of 2...for a total of 6. Its legs do have fine hairs on them, but in places some fatter black spikes that come off the legs. It's abdomen definitely has contrasting colors/patterns though.

What the heck is this buggar!
 
Brown Recluse spiders have a violin shaped mark on their back, which is why they are sometimes called "fiddle back" spiders.

That one in the PIC is too big for a B/C, they have much smaller bodies.

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Originally posted by: Skoorb
In regards to eyes I just used my magnifying glass and it has a top row of 4 eyes and then below that row of 4 is a row of 2...for a total of 6. Its legs do have fine hairs on them, but in places some fatter black spikes that come off the legs. It's abdomen definitely has contrasting colors/patterns though.

What the heck is this buggar!
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You should be glad not to see this guy:

http://www.petbugs.com/caresheets/P-fera.html
 
Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Brown Recluse spiders have a violin shaped mark on their back, which is why they are sometimes called "fiddle back" spiders.

That one in the PIC is too big for a B/C, they have much smaller bodies.

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Hmm...it does have 6 eyes though, which is unusual. But they are definitely not in three distinct groups, but rather follow the 4 on top of 2 pattern I described. I'm wondering could it be a hobo or wolf spider. Also maybe a banana/huntsmen spider (since I Just bought two freaking bunches of banas that could explain it!). Now I'm scouring the net until I ID this bastard!

 
My old townhome was absolutely infested with the BRS, and yours is bigger, darker, and thicker than any I've ever seen. It looks like a fiddle on its back, but it's hard to tell.

If you found one, there are many, many more my friend 🙂 I'd start checking your sheets, clothes, shoes, etc., just to be safe. Good luck!
 
Hmm I really can't identify it. Hobos are not to be found in Alabama. It's certainly not a widow of any kind (I think!). Its 6 eyes are unusual and indicative of a recluse, though they are not in a horseshoe pattern.
 
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