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So...was at my parents place tonight and took some things to their basement. Finished basement. There has been a bunch of workmen there today working on the heating system. I carry stuff down and put it on a shelf and turn around to find an exceptionally large spider sitting on the floor in the doorway.
Large as in considerably bigger than a silver dollar. I would say close to 2 silver dollars.
No...didn't burn the house down trying to kill it...I caught it and relocated it to one of the window wells.
DenverGP
08-08-2017, 00:42
EDIT: After additional research, looks more like a "hobo spider". One source says:
Causing necrosis in a similar but more mild fashion than the brown recluse, the hobo spider is generally referred to as an “aggressive house spider”. Bites are not known to be fatal to humans.
Could be a Brown Recluse, I wouldn't let one live anywhere near me or my family.
The brown recluse venom is extremely poisonous, even more potent than that of a rattlesnake. Yet recluse venom causes less disease than a rattlesnake bite because of the small quantities injected into its victims. The venom of the brown recluse is toxic to cells and tissues.
Bite victims may experience these symptoms:
- severe pain at bite site after about four hours,
- severe itching,
- nausea,
- vomiting,
- fever, and
- myalgias (muscle pain).
Occasionally results in a severe local reaction with signs that include:
- blistering (common)
- necrosis (death) of skin and subcutaneous fat (less common), and
severe destructive necrotic lesions with deep wide borders
If you think you or someone you know has been bitten by a brown recluse spider, then the individual should be seen by a doctor that day. If possible, bring the spider in question to the doctor's office. Identification of the spider is very helpful in making the correct diagnosis.
If the patient is unable to be seen by a doctor that day, he or she should seek care at a hospital's emergency department.
I suspect it was a wolf spider. Definitely didn't look like brown recluse. Not really like the photos of the hobo spider I see either.
GilpinGuy
08-08-2017, 01:14
Any spider or insect in my house gets terminated immediately. It's MY house, not yours. The Bug-A-Salt (http://amzn.to/2hFppkv) has made this a bit of a fun family activity.
71576
A couple of times a year I set off a "bug bomb" fogger as well. Usually when we leave to go camping for a few days.
buffalobo
08-08-2017, 04:56
I suspect it was a wolf spider. Definitely didn't look like brown recluse. Not really like the photos of the hobo spider I see either.This^^^
If you're unarmed, you are a victim
Any spider or insect in my house gets terminated immediately. It's MY house, not yours. The Bug-A-Salt (http://amzn.to/2hFppkv) has made this a bit of a fun family activity.
71576
A couple of times a year I set off a "bug bomb" fogger as well. Usually when we leave to go camping for a few days.Ya that one would be getting a rat/snake shot round or something of that size from my G22. Plenty to dispatch that 8 legged creep and still safe.
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It looks like a Colorado Brown to me. Think larger wolf spider and completely harmless to humans.
Yes found one of those F-ers in my garage last week , right near my damn face as I was pulling some stuff out.
I got cruel and unusual on his ass. Poison and a propane torch hehe. It's funny cuz I've removed 4 snakes from the yard ,
Every time it's " look a snake " with a weird smile on my face. I called it a wolf , never heard of the brown.
I can't really get the size in those pics. Can you put your finger next to it so we have some scale?
We are plagued with woodlouse hunter spiders in our basement/backyard. They are a little freaky looking and I was worried about them being brown recluse until I did some research (no "fiddle"). Harmless killers of other bugs. I still trap/kill in the basement but I don't have to burn my house down.
I can't really get the size in those pics. Can you put your finger next to it so we have some scale?
I wasn't about to get my finger that close to it. Tried on the outside of the bowl but it magnified my finger so that didnt give proper perspective. Sitting on the floor it was about baseball to softball size. With the legs spread full it would have been a good softball.
Fentonite
08-08-2017, 11:43
We really don't have Brown Recluse spiders here. Occasionally, a stray may arrive in a box that was shipped here from another part of the country, but even that's very rare. I still am not a fan of any spider though, and prefer them dead.
71581
I wasn't about to get my finger that close to it.
That was the joke ;)
Maybe he wanted to cuddle?
Wolf spider, I catch them in the house and release them outside, they're good guys to have around.
Bailey Guns
08-08-2017, 13:52
There are more damn spiders here than anywhere I've ever been. Webs everywhere. If a web can be strung between two points there's a spider here that'll do it and they fill up with insects fast...so I leave most of them alone. Fortunately, most are harmless. When I was younger I was TERRIFIED of spiders. They don't bother me any more, though.
I have a spider in my bathroom that has a web set up on my over toilet storage it has been there about a month now. I watched a mosquito hit his web and we reached an agreement.
We discuss politics during the morning business meeting. It's scary spider shaped I.E. big abdomen small thorax and head not nearly as furry and cuddly as OP's.
he leaves me alone and I do the same
I have a spider in my bathroom that has a web set up on my over toilet storage it has been there about a month now. I watched a mosquito hit his web and we reached an agreement.
We discuss politics during the morning business meeting. It's scary spider shaped I.E. big abdomen small thorax and head not nearly as furry and cuddly as OP's.
he leaves me alone and I do the sameLucky it's you. If it was me it would be a dead spider.
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Personally, I relocate harmless spiders to the garage our outdoors. Reason being the only thing worse than a spider is a poisonous spider. The harmless variants compete for territory & in some cases even eat their poisonous counterparts.
I suspect it was a wolf spider.
That's what I recognize it as.
theGinsue
08-08-2017, 20:24
Could be a Brown Recluse, I wouldn't let one live anywhere near me or my family.
When I was a young toddler, still in diapers, I was bitten on the abdomen by a Brown Recluse (this was in Missouri). It ate a hole clear through my skin to my guts about the size that an adult thumb could pass through (according to my folks). My mom told me she could see my bottom rib. Not sure what the ER doc did to control the necrosis. But it was treated and eventually healed. The morning the babysitter found the hole in me my mom had just read a story in the newspaper about how a 60ish year old man had been bitten twice and died. I was lucky.
I still am not a fan of any spider though, and prefer them dead.
That's how I feel about spiders. My comment above explains why.
So...was at my parents place tonight and took some things to their basement. Finished basement.
I'm am quite certain that it is a male Carolina Wolf Spider. They will seldom bite and if they do (if provoked), their bite is not venomous to humans; though it can be as painful as the sting of a wasp.
Here is some info about them: http://www.spiders.us/species/hogna-carolinensis/
Wolf Spider.. pretty common here.. The biggest one I've seen here in Boulder rivaled a small tarantuala at about a 4 inch diameter leg span.. Have a picture of it on an old phone that I haven't been able to retrieve. They like to enter your house in the fall when the temps start dropping.. The average size I see is around 1-1.5 inch diameter..
Brown recluse is only about the size of a quarter. Very skinny, not hairy. The violin mark on the back is very easy to make out. Never seen one here, but we had 'em in Oklahoma.
Wolf Spider.. pretty common here.. The biggest one I've seen here in Boulder rivaled a small tarantuala at about a 4 inch diameter leg span.. Have a picture of it on an old phone that I haven't been able to retrieve. They like to enter your house in the fall when the temps start dropping.. The average size I see is around 1-1.5 inch diameter..
I'm telling you guys, wolf spiders don't get that big. Colorado brown spiders are hard to tell apart other than they get much larger than your typical wolf spider. If you're seeing something that looks like a tarantula it's most likely a Colorado brown spider.
I'm telling you guys, wolf spiders don't get that big. Colorado brown spiders are hard to tell apart other than they get much larger than your typical wolf spider. If you're seeing something that looks like a tarantula it's most likely a Colorado brown spider.
We need to rename this to the Colorado Toilet Spider and get it on the tourism website to warn visitors and anyone thinking about relocating.
sellersm
08-09-2017, 10:55
We need to rename this to the Colorado Toilet Spider and get it on the tourism website to warn visitors and anyone thinking about relocating.
Just add one clause: "this spider is known for being hostile to the growth of marijuana plants and its secretions will render pot unusable!" [Coffee]
We need to rename this to the Colorado Toilet Spider and get it on the tourism website to warn visitors and anyone thinking about relocating.
ROFL
Genius!
gnihcraes
08-09-2017, 18:01
I'm telling you guys, wolf spiders don't get that big. Colorado brown spiders are hard to tell apart other than they get much larger than your typical wolf spider. If you're seeing something that looks like a tarantula it's most likely a Colorado brown spider.
Wolf Spider/Brown Spider, we played with 100's of LARGE ones as kids. Just south of the federal center, one particular vacant plot there had an endless supply. 5 Gallon buckets of them at a time. ah, the good old days! Makes me wonder what they really were, sure looked like wolf spiders.
Spiders eat an estimated 400-800 MILLION tons of insects annually. I had heard that's equal to the weight of humans living in England. I try to relocate them when I can.
(of course, this is a CNN report so....) http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/15/health/spiders-eat-tons-insects-trnd/index.html
I'm telling you guys, wolf spiders don't get that big. Colorado brown spiders are hard to tell apart other than they get much larger than your typical wolf spider. If you're seeing something that looks like a tarantula it's most likely a Colorado brown spider.I can't find any spider online called a Colorado Brown Spider...
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I dig spiders [rockon]
So do I.
Bailey Guns
08-10-2017, 11:45
Spiders eat an estimated 400-800 MILLION tons of insects annually. (of course, this is a CNN report so....)
So it's probably more like 3 or 4 ounces...
JohnnyDrama
08-11-2017, 09:54
I vote Wolf Spider. We occasionally find the that large around here. We get enough tarantulas that it's easy to differentiate the two. I think spiders are pretty cool. All arachnids in fact.
I was bitten in the leg by a Brown Recluse when I was eleven. The area around the bite turned into a golf ball sized sore that oozed green puss. At the doctor's office the sore was lanced and drained, I was given an antibiotic shot and a course of antibiotics for another week or so. I had a nasty, circular/ divot scar on my leg for around two years after that. I can still see the scar today.
GilpinGuy
08-11-2017, 13:35
I vote Wolf Spider. We occasionally find the that large around here. We get enough tarantulas that it's easy to differentiate the two. I think spiders are pretty cool. All arachnids in fact.
I was bitten in the leg by a Brown Recluse when I was eleven. The area around the bite turned into a golf ball sized sore that oozed green puss. At the doctor's office the sore was lanced and drained, I was given an antibiotic shot and a course of antibiotics for another week or so. I had a nasty, circular/ divot scar on my leg for around two years after that. I can still see the scar today.
A guy at work had similar bite on his leg. He had a giant oozing hole on his calf for months. Nasty....
A guy at work had similar bite on his leg. He had a giant oozing hole on his calf for months. Nasty....
Yep, had a friend that was bitten twice on his chest, centerline right between the boobs. They found a B.R. web in the window well of his bedroom.
That was about 20 years ago. He still has scars and gets very nervous talking about spiders.
So... i'm going to forward this link to him.
71602
LMAO! Where's Peter Parker?
Had to dispatch the toilet spider this morning he was on the last roll of TP. Herding spiders is worse than herding cats
kidicarus13
09-27-2019, 19:37
Any idea what kind of spider this is... https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190928/aa66fae3351db1f465d9f9e0b993647b.jpg
buffalobo
09-27-2019, 19:52
Any idea what kind of spider this is... https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190928/aa66fae3351db1f465d9f9e0b993647b.jpgOrb weaver. I have posted pics of them a few times. Ok guys in the spider world, eliminate bugs and want to be outside.
ChickNorris
09-27-2019, 20:12
Orb weaver. I have posted pics of them a few times. Ok guys in the spider world, eliminate bugs and want to be outside.
Yup. That particular variety is commonly called the'Cat faced spider'. (https://bugguide.net/node/view/33149) Can live a couple years too.
Rather obvious now but their back looks like a cat's face (ish). I picked this image for the contrast to illustrate.
BPTactical
09-27-2019, 20:21
Nope
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There are always a bunch of those up in Pawnee, and HUGE! I've been seeing them around my place as well.
Yup. That particular variety is commonly called the'Cat faced spider'. (https://bugguide.net/node/view/33149) Can live a couple years too.
Rather obvious now but their back looks like a cat's face (ish). I picked this image for the contrast to illustrate.
Great spider to have around. They get rid of other things you don't want and aren't highly venomous.
After dealing with scorpions on a routine basis, spiders are low hanging fruit. The scorps in this part of CO climb walls and ceilings, but suck at it, so they spontaneously drop. Even found one inside the glass of a kerosene lamp on top of a shelf. I had seven in one glue traps in a two week period, got stung again this year, dunno where they come from. Had one run up my pantleg once (outside, thank God) after having stung me thirty minutes prior and I couldn't find it. Where the hell it was for thirty minutes I don't like to dwell on too much.
They make wasps look like weak sauce. It feels like stepping two inches into to a rusty nail, that is hooked into a 9v battery. Such a unique feel I always know when it's a scorp
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