Large Spider

[cysoto]

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/

[def90]

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..

[rondog]

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.

[Jer]

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.

[Skip]

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]

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!"

[Jer]

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]

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.

[flogger]

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...rnd/index.html

[def90]

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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