What Type Of Spider Is This?!

[Jahee]

Spider

Its body is about 2CM long, i don't think its poisonous, hope its not anyway!

Never seen a spider like that here!

 

[TheUnk]

Brown recluse. Prepare to die.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Could be a SPIDER spider.. but we'll never know.

 

[Skacer]

You stole it's leg?

 

[zinfamous]

Tanzanian Death Weaver. probably came over on a crate of bananas. It spreads an extremely potent neurotoxin aeromatically through tiny pores in its abdomen. you may be dead already...

 

[MrDudeMan]

it isn't a brown recluse. it doesn't look poisonous. don't worry about it.

 

[Bumrush99]

The type of spider I would stomp to death the second I saw it

 

[Jahee]

Originally posted by: Skacer
You stole it's leg?

Oh yea i didn't even realise it had a leg missing! Lol, wasn't me...

 

[MrDudeMan]

chances are it lost that leg trying to capture prey it couldnt handle. the body and pedipalps arent the right shape to be a recluse IIRC.

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
it isn't a brown recluse. it doesn't look poisonous. don't worry about it.

Well, it does show a similar size, coloring, and eye pattern to the brown recluse, though it is fairly far from it's natural distribution. Oh, and all spiders, barring two families, are poisonous.

 

[NuroMancer]

Originally posted by: Skacer
You stole it's leg?

Wow I missed that the first look.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Originally posted by: Skacer
You stole it's leg?

Its a teenage mutant ninja spider

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Does appear to be a brown recluse

http://tonova.typepad.com/phot...zed/brownrecluse_1.jpg

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: Bumrush99
The type of spider I would stomp to death the second I saw it

/thread

 

[jjzelinski]

Originally posted by: zinfamous
Tanzanian Death Weaver. probably came over on a crate of bananas. It spreads an extremely potent neurotoxin aeromatically through tiny pores in its abdomen. you may be dead already...

lol

 

[jjzelinski]

Brown Recluse are tiny, seriously doubt that's one.

 

[Papagayo]

It's rare 7 legged spider.. It likes to run in circles.

 

[Bumrush99]

That picture really creeps me out.....

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Smash it. If it gets up and kicks your ass, it's a Chuck Norris spider. Very rare.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Does appear to be a brown recluse

http://tonova.typepad.com/phot...zed/brownrecluse_1.jpg

dude I know in Oklahoma calls the recluse a "fiddleback" due to the fiddle-shaped mark on their backs. The OP's spider doesn't appear to have it... I'd say this is just a mimic.

My first thought was brown recluse, but it looks too big in the pic and I don't see the fiddle.

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: Bumrush99
That picture really creeps me out.....

 

[benzylic]

Syringer will gladly come over and kill it for you

 

[imported_Baloo]

It is definitely a brown recluse. Which are not tiny, by the way, except shortly after leaving the egg. Nasty sting on that, but won't bite you unless cornered.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
it isn't a brown recluse. it doesn't look poisonous. don't worry about it.

Well, it does show a similar size, coloring, and eye pattern to the brown recluse, though it is fairly far from it's natural distribution. Oh, and all spiders, barring two families, are poisonous.

Spiders are not "poisonous", toadstools are "poisonous". Spiders, snakes and scorpions are "venomous". All spiders are venomous to some degree although very few have venom that is dangerous to humans. The Brown Recluse is one of the ones that's dangerous, but that isn't a brown recluse.

 

[HighPsi50]

It certainly doesn't really look like a recluse from the (lack of violin shaped) coloring of the thorax and the fairly translucent legs. I can't tell from your picture the number of eyes on your spider there, which is the best way to identify. Recluses always have 3 pairs of eyes (6 total) whereas most other spiders have 8 eyes. Hard to get close enough to tell, tho.

Recluses are very fast for their size, but not aggressive at all, and prob. wouldn't bite you unless you stepped on it or got it trapped against your skin somehow and put pressure on it. Result of bite could range anywhere from almost no reaction at all to complete necrosis of the bitten tissue which can be severe enough to cause loss of a hand/foot if bitten in extreme cases.

So in other words, better safe than sorry