Large Spider

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.

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Originally Posted by WETWRKS

I wasn't about to get my finger that close to it.

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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.

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

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Originally Posted by DFBrews

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

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Lucky 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.

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Originally Posted by WETWRKS

I suspect it was a wolf spider.

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That's what I recognize it as.

I dig spiders [rockon]

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Originally Posted by DenverGP

Could be a Brown Recluse, I wouldn't let one live anywhere near me or my family.

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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.

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Originally Posted by Fentonite

I still am not a fan of any spider though, and prefer them dead.

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That's how I feel about spiders. My comment above explains why.