What type of spider is this.

[Staples]

I found this spider in my room a few weeks back and it looked mighty scary since it was not the kind of spider I usually see around here (in fact I have never seen this type of spider). I called my brother over and he walked near it (it was on the wall then) and he was equally as scared when I pointed it out. Before I got rid of it, I thought I'd take a picture as a souvenir (sp). Has anybody seen or know what type of spider this is? I know it doesn't take a big spider to kill you.

The Spider

 

[Eli]

How big the spider is has nothing to do with if it can kill you or not... our bodies simply aren't vulnerable to many of the toxic proteins spiders produce.

It's some sort of Crab spider, I'm pretty sure. It's harmless, although I don't doubt that it could bite and leave a welt.

Of course, I'd jump around and scream like a little girl if I ever found something like that on me.....

 

[Eli]

Also, where do you live.. and can you give an idea as to the size of the spider? Without anything to reference in the pic, it's kind of hard to tell if it's huge, or just a closeup shot.

Most crab spiders are small, that thing looks as though it's as big as your hand, lol...

 

[MrsHoneybee]

I have no idea on any spider names here, but that is very disgusting.

In Australia we have a huge spider called the huntsman, brown ugly thing. The ones I've seen can get up to about 1.5 inches in diameter, they just hover on the ceiling or wall. I would get a broom or put it into a container to take it outside. Spiders are yukky!!

 

[hevnsnt]

I think that is a dog.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: MrsHoneybee
I have no idea on any spider names here, but that is very disgusting.

In Australia we have a huge spider called the huntsman, brown ugly thing. The ones I've seen can get up to about 1.5 inches in diameter, they just hover on the ceiling or wall. I would get a broom or put it into a container to take it outside. Spiders are yukky!!

You have hovering spiders? You wouldn't happen to live near a nuclear power plant, would you?

 

[olds]

Looks like a flat spider.

 

[Staples]

I live in San Antonio, Texas. We are almost on the border of where Texas is a dust land but we manage to get enough rain to keep things green most the year. The spider was not very big, I'd say say maybe a inch and a half long at the most. We are 150 miles off the Gulf of Mexico.

 

[mastertech01]

That may be a Brown Recluse(sp) which are common in the Oklahoma Texas region. They can be very dangerous. I have a lady neighbor next door who nearly died from a bite from one. We have oodles of them here in Lawton during the summer.

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: mastertech01
That may be a Brown Recluse(sp) which are common in the Oklahoma Texas region. They can be very dangerous. I have a lady neighbor next door who nearly died from a bite from one. We have oodles of them here in Lawton during the summer.

That would be bad if it were

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: mastertech01
That may be a Brown Recluse(sp) which are common in the Oklahoma Texas region. They can be very dangerous. I have a lady neighbor next door who nearly died from a bite from one. We have oodles of them here in Lawton during the summer.

John
I remember when my wife was pregnant. We lived out off of SW Bishop. One night at dusk we were taking a walk and my wife had on open toed shoes. She almost stepped on a tarantula. They used to come up on the road for the warmth.

 

[mastertech01]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: mastertech01
That may be a Brown Recluse(sp) which are common in the Oklahoma Texas region. They can be very dangerous. I have a lady neighbor next door who nearly died from a bite from one. We have oodles of them here in Lawton during the summer.

John
I remember when my wife was pregnant. We lived out off of SW Bishop. One night at dusk we were taking a walk and my wife had on open toed shoes. She almost stepped on a tarantula. They used to come up on the road for the warmth.

Chris, I hear ya, I hate to mow the lawn during the summer as the weeds next to the house harbor those darned large brown spiders and they can jump pretty good too. Fortunately they usually just run for cover. I have seen around August as many as 15 along the back of my house while cutting the grass, some very large. Next to snakes, I hate spiders most.. LOL

 

[Anubis]

looks like a dead one

 

[hevnsnt]

Sketch of Brown Recluse

I dont think it is that

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Staples
I live in San Antonio, Texas. We are almost on the border of where Texas is a dust land but we manage to get enough rain to keep things green most the year. The spider was not very big, I'd say say maybe a inch and a half long at the most. We are 150 miles off the Gulf of Mexico.

:Q Remind me never to live in Texas, if you consider a spider thats an inch and a half long to be "not very big"... lol

 

[Staples]

Good guesses guys but I doubt it was a brown recluse. This is a picture I dug up on the net and brown recluses look like they have a hard shell around them and have skiny legs.

Brown Recluse

 

[LongCoolMother]

dang. that spider looks fake. looks flat.

id be hella scared if that were in my house >_<

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: mastertech01
That may be a Brown Recluse(sp) which are common in the Oklahoma Texas region. They can be very dangerous. I have a lady neighbor next door who nearly died from a bite from one. We have oodles of them here in Lawton during the summer.

That is not a brown recluse.

Brown Recluse

They can be identified by a violin shape on their cephalothorax(head and thorax combined).

 

[mastertech01]

Yes, that looks more like what is around here than the one in the original post.

 

[Staples]

Originally posted by: Eli
:Q Remind me never to live in Texas, if you consider a spider thats an inch and a half long to be "not very big"... lol

I will have to reduce my estimates to close to an inch after looking at this picture (which was the full picture, you didn't think I would really get as close to the spider as the other picture might have led you to believe. did you?). Anyway, this one gives me a better scale to compare to. The metal looking thing is a sliding door threshhold. I do however have tons of roaches near two inches long and I just hate it when they all start flying at you when you go into the kitchen in the middle of the night and turn the light on.

Original size picture

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Staples

Originally posted by: Eli
:Q Remind me never to live in Texas, if you consider a spider thats an inch and a half long to be "not very big"... lol

I will have to reduce my estimates to close to an inch after looking at this picture (which was the full picture, you didn't think I would really get as close to the spider as the other picture might have led you to believe. did you?). Anyway, this one gives me a better scale to compare to. The metal looking thing is a sliding door threshhold. I do however have tons of roaches near two inches long and I just hate it when they all start flying at you when you go into the kitchen in the middle of the night and turn the light on.

Original size picture

Jesus christ I'm glad I don't live near you. Roaches flying around in the house? Ugh.

Worst thing we get is little brown ants in the kitchen.

 

[etech]

Spiders aren't any fun.

I got a bite on my big toe a while back. It swelled up to about the size of a marble. I went to the doctor and he said it was a brown recluse bite. I don't think it was because the center never went necrotic but it did take about two weeks to heal up.

The purpose of this.

Shake your shoes out in the morning if you have spiders in your house.

 

[Staples]

Yeah, I really hate those roaches but you learn to live with them after a while. You still will never get used to them crawling on you or them jumping on you but it is a rare occation after you know not to get them excited. If they are flying around (it seems to be what they do during mating season), I just close my door and they usually settle down after a few hours. If one comes under my door, I will be sure to whack him. Roaches have hard exosceletons and if they are running around (they will surely fly to when they are hyperactive), just hit them with a roll of paper and it will settle them (that one roach) down like magic. I hardly ever kill roaches because I could kill 20 every night (then I have to clean them up) and 20 more will just come into the house. If my mom was not so messy in the kitchen and would stop getting greese everywhere (and no she never cleans it), our problem with roaches would not be very bad. I remember last year when our stove broke, the kitchen stayed greese free and we hardly had any roaches.

Edit: I hate reinstalling Windows too but I am going to have to do it in a few minutes because Windows keeps drawing strange artifacts on my sceen and I don't like it. It almost looks as if my LCD has about a few thousand stuck pixels.

 

[MacBaine]

That's one thing I like about where I live... we don't have very many big spiders around here. I know we are supposed to have Black Widows, but I have never actually seen any by me. I am kinda worried about every moving somewhere else because of all these monster spiders. I'm a pussy, I know.

A friend of mine who was recently at Ft. Benning for basic training told me how they have Brown Recluses allll over the place. He told me a story of how while on an exercise in the woods, he walked right between two trees, not knowing there was a HUGE spider web between them with a GIANT brown recluse sitting right in the middle. Fortunately it didn't get one him, but if that was me, they would have had to shoot me to keep me from screaming.