Need help identifying this spider... Recluse maybe?
http://i1036.photobucket.com/albums/...4/IMAG0544.jpg
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Need help identifying this spider... Recluse maybe?
http://i1036.photobucket.com/albums/...4/IMAG0544.jpg
Should've placed something in the picture to show size.
Thanks
Did you smash it after you took that picture? [Coffee]
Hell yeah. What's crazy is I just bombed a couple months ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
Dude thats the first thing I noticed when i moved out to Brighton, sheer volume of the little bastards. I had eco first come out for about 2 years, and didn't this year....Funny I have seen barley any this year.
Ewww. I just know that the Recluse has a violin shaped coloring on its thorax, not on its abdomen. The nest creeps me out though.
It's not a brown recluse.
I don't think...
http://spiders.ucr.edu/recluseid.html
That's what I'm thinking now after looking at some pics of em. Thing looks evil, wtf is it...Quote:
Originally Posted by jackthewall81
Mexican jumping spider! Yeah I dunno, just wanna put the wife at ease by positively identifying this thing.
Maybe some sort of wolf spider?Quote:
Originally Posted by hghclsswhitetrsh
Does it have 6 or 8 eyes?
Supposedly Colorado does not have the Recluse. That doesn't stop everyone I know from identifying every single spider they see as one though.
Lex, that isn't a nest, it is just white carpet. heh.
Just tell her it's a wolf spider and be done with it. I always say that to my wife. [ifshesawthisshe'dkillme] But it helps her relax and I can dispatch it quickly and move on.
Ha. Got me on that. Must be my contacts getting dry at the end of the night.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Can't see the head, but probably just a wolf spider or common brown house spider.
athere have been a lot of black widows out, so there must be a fair number of recluses around.
according to this site the recluse is *very* rare in Colorado but not unheard of.
http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05607.html
A friend of my wife was bitten (in Colorado) by a brown recluse. So, rare or not, they are around here.
When I first met here she was still recovering. She got bit in the calf and it had eaten away most of the flesh and muscle. It was pretty gruesome looking. She was wheelchair bound for a while.
possibly a recluse, it is close, but the legs appear too dark. never know though.
all I know is I kill spiders, all of them. kill it with fire if possible!
Here in Trinidad, our local catch phrase is: Transvestites, Spiders, and Bears Oh MY!
Since it was in the side yard, I couldn't shoot it... I dropped a 45 round next to it though so it knew what it was up against if it made any sudden movements... [Tooth]
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...ntitledjhp.png
holy shit, it would probably take a few .45s to drop that thing!Quote:
Originally Posted by spyder
Not sure how true it is, but I was told in HS biology that most poisons don't work on arachnids (spiders). Something about hollow legs or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by hghclsswhitetrsh
That'd be my guess as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackthewall81
Definitely not a recluse though, not without the violin. This admin has been bitten by one of those, when I was a young toddler. Put a big hole in my belly. When I got older, I made it my goal to learn as much as I could about those things.
Now, I've got black widows in my sprinkler valve box. Clearly see the red hourglass on them. first ones I've ever seen in real life. I have to clear the webs out of the way every time to need to get into the box. Spooks the heck out of me - worried one of 'em is gonna go out of their way to bite me. So far, they just scurry away.
Amen to that. Same here.Quote:
Originally Posted by sniper7
Black widows should spook you, they are one of the few spiders that will go out of thier way to bite you. I have noticed a lot of them lately. Had a friend in college who used to catch and keep the things in jars for some odd reason. I just kill every one I come across.
Surely when you threw the .45 round at it you told it, "The next one is coming faster."Quote:
Originally Posted by spyder
Common brown house spider.
There are lots of brown recluse spiders where I work, I caught the Queen Black Widow last week. Biggest one I've ever seen. Caught a decent sized wolf spider the same night, he was a little bigger than the widow, but she ate him anyways. I'll see about getting pics of her tomorrow, she is our shop mascot.
Think the widow would win against the trantula? Big and bulky vs small and fast...
I'd put money on the Tarantula.Quote:
Originally Posted by spyder
Spyder.. Rob.... Both you guys are sick... Nuke and pave
Spiders give me the heeby's. Found a black widow nest at the shop last year
Spiders ate lots of other bugs, as long as they don't sneak up on me, I'm ok with them.Quote:
Originally Posted by DFBrews
I'm sure this was already said but....
http://cdn.motinetwork.net/motifake....1235695993.jpg
Preferably with the illustrated method above.
Its the kind that has thousands of baby spiders to crawl across you and the Mrs as you sleep.
Feel better now?
Same thing happend to me, left calf....they suck....Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
I used to work with an exterminator. Bug bombs won't kill spiders. But it will kill every other bug out there.
Also, look up the Hobo Spider. Same venom as the Brown, but all over Colorado.
It looks like one of the funnel spiders I see when I go hiking around here. I drop grasshoppers in their webs and wait for the spider to come out. They are really quick and some of them are big.
When spiders come in my house I catch them and put them outside, they are good to have around because they keep the other bugs in check.
Me too. Wouldn't have happened to be Cal Poly back in the late 70s, would it?Quote:
Originally Posted by dwalker460
O2
http://whatsthatbug.com
lotsa pictures and more
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Originally Posted by roberth
I used to do this but with more and more black and brown widow spiders showing up I had to start killing them because I have 2 small children running around. I have noticed an increase in bugs in one summer, pretty crazy.
OP I would be willing to bet that is not a recluse, they have a different body shape without the bulbous abdomen. Looks more like a black house spider or something.
http://www.termite.com/images/blackhousespider150.gif
In July I had two wolf spider looking beasts in my house. They were both about an inch long, and were very aggressive. When you got within a few feet, they would raise their front two legs and hold their ground. I'll see if I can find the picture that my wife took.
My understanding is that the brown recluse has no web and uses speed to catch its prey. They run around at night. If they show up in Colorado they have hitched a ride. If you want to see whats running around at night glue traps are a must.
One of the things i have gotton real paranoid about is buying used monitors,, stereo equipment computers, ecetera off ebay. spiders and eggs. Bedbugs and eggs. Roaches and eggs. I buy new.
I've gotten to the point where I either put most spiders outside or leave them be. I figure the reduced fly/mosquito/bug population is worth putting up with some heebie jeebies, especially in these West Nile days.
The main exception is Black Widows. Haven't seen any hobos or recluses, though they tend to be confused with other harmless spiders. (The recluse looks a lot like the common funnel weaver house spider, including body shape and a fiddle-like pattern on the cephalothorax. The OP photo doesn't look like a recluse, as others have said - legs look too stubby and the abdomen looks too large.)
OK, the other exception to the let-live rule is if they are crawling on me or dangling at eye level. Then I have to be in a very forgiving mood for them to avoid the big squish.
A fellow soldier got bitten by one on the ass when we were going through field excercises in BNOC at Ft. Riley, KS. Poor guy didn't know what got him until the flesh started rotting. As I recall, they got him into the hyperbaric oxygen chamber, but since most treatments are ineffective, he still lost a sizable piece of his gluteus maximus and obviously had to be dropped from the course.Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
I did look it up because I like to know about small things that crawl around that have the potential of killing me or causing a chunk of my body to rot off[Flower], From CSU ext.Quote:
Originally Posted by JM Ver. 2.0
"A special spider issue is the "hobo spider" and its purported danger to humans. This originated from an unfortunate study that suggested this spider could cause slow healing wounds similar to those known to be sometimes produced following a brown recluse bite. This report received extremely wide distribution in popular press and the internet. However, subsequent research has demonstrated that this original report was erroneous and based on unsupportable anecdotal evidence. The hobo spider is now recognized as >not< being a dangerous species. It is a harmless funnel weaver spider and is now found in many areas of the state."