Help me identify this spider

[henktermaat]

Most all spiders are beneficial. I try not to kill them unless I have to (read: my wife makes me). I'd rather relocate them out of doors.

My wife locates some of them, I's kills the ones I's finds.

 

[colt45er]

I like spiders outside...inside they are dead.

Something about the castle doctrine, you broke into my house it is assumed you are meaning me or my family bodily injury or death!!

 

[JetGirl]

Yep. Wolf. We get them every October even when we do the foundation spray thing seasonally.
I hate them. I've drawn on one before...Of course it was with AirSoft, but hey... Whatever works, right?

 

[kickbacked]

watch out for brown recluses. I had one of them bring me to the ground. It was in a friends garage and i decided to stomp on it after it was sprayed with bug spray, the garage floor was very slippery and i took a fall. needless to say i killed him with my foot, shin, and knee

 

[henktermaat]

watch out for brown recluses. I had one of them bring me to the ground. It was in a friends garage and i decided to stomp on it after it was sprayed with bug spray, the garage floor was very slippery and i took a fall. needless to say i killed him with my foot, shin, and knee

That's my fear - of finding one of them. I'm sure I have 'em. Right now I just call every brown spider a "recluse" and kill 'em all!

 

[nova512]

it is the not often seen barking spider ,very smelly,if you see one someone ate something very bad.

 

[RelicHound]

Sleep, we'll keep an eye on things for you while you nap.

Spiders dont bother me..but if I found that in my house I would shoot it with a shotgun...from across the room..I aint gettin near that thing!

 

[Leadeye]

Carolina Wolf Spider, they can get pretty big and move fast when they want to.

 

[XMil]

[snip]
Although, it MIGHT be a "fishing spider". Do you live near a creek/stream/retention pond?

-J-

Those things get huge. I saw one in an outhouse in Yellowood St. Forrest. It was so big, I thought it was fake! BTW, that saying about scaring the **** out you is wrong, seeing that thing seized me up for week. It scared the **** IN me.

 

[Mike H]

Hopefully by now its a DEAD spider!

 

[henktermaat]

He's hanging out with Davey Jones now *sniff*

 

[Aszerigan]

I say leave the little guy alone. Spiders are good to have around - and they keep to themselves. No squish !

 

[henktermaat]

I say leave the little guy alone. Spiders are good to have around - and they keep to themselves. No squish !

No squish... flush.

I'll leave his outdoor buddies alone.

 

[dross]

They say you're never more than three feet from a spider.

I used to have arachnaphobia, but I was cured one summer in Oklahoma. I was in the Army and we were sent to train some National Guard soldiers near Muskogee. We set up for two weeks in this field with foot tall grass. We were sleeping on the ground in pup tents. When I walked through the field, it seemed alive with spiders. Hundreds of them every few feet, about the size of dimes and quarters.

At night sleeping there, you could feel them walking across you. I got so desensitized to them, I only brushed them off if I felt them on my face. Never got bitten.

I still don't like the damned things, but I got over my irrational fear.

 

[TheGunDen]

Wow! I never heard of a spider that will not bother you. I sit in the shop all day and I get bitten everyday by at least one. I say a good spider is a dead spider. and I would rather see a snake than any spider anyday. You can pretty much tell if the snake is poisonous without getting too close, but, a spider can bite you without knowing he is on you until its too late.

 

[femurphy77]

Wolf spider! Anywhere but my barn they are free to move along as there is nothing to see here! Inside the barn they are a target for my Benjamin .22 pellet pistol!!! I've gotten pretty good with it too, my most recent hit was from 47' away on a spider that pre-impact appeared to be about 1 1/2". I don't mind spiders much as long as I know where they are but in the barn I'm tired of cleaning spider webs.

 

[henktermaat]

Have you guys ever heard the saying "you'll eat 5 lbs of spiders in your lifetime" or some such thing?

 

[sig-sweet]

Does that BIG spider in the corner (with the smaller, but to be BIG spidies).......does it ever spell anything? If it doesn't...ah....kill it and it's brood..that's a horror movie going on there.

 

[Hkindiana]

I was once bitten by a Brown Recluse. The venom ate a golf ball sized hole in my leg that took a LONG time to heal up. Still, I don't kill spiders, as they are just another part of nature. BTW, I am NOT a tree hugger.

 

[finity]

Sleep, we'll keep an eye on things for you while you nap.

Spiders don't usually bother me but that right there is


Any idea how big that thing measured?