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can you tell me what kind of spider this is ?
I got bit by a brown recluse Oct of 08 and I’m just feeling better and don’t want another bit again!
I have never seen one like this one is it dangerous?
if you could let me know
Thank you
Kimberly Z.
Sorry I have no photo to share, We found this spider in our car we were driving through NV and AZ so it was picked up some time in one of those states, It had shorter legs its back was orangish redish the rest was black to dark brown. Thanks for any help.
Found this running across the floor! Anyone know the type?
I just got bit by a spider coming out of my washing machine! It was about half in or a little smaller, it was black with a couple of yellow dots and strips, fat and furry! Any one got any ideas??? oh, I live in Florida northern fla
OK, now I’ve REALLY got the willy’s after looking at all the spiders on this website!!! We have found a spider (dead – thank GOD!!) on the rug in front of our fireplace. 4 days later, we’ve found 2 identical ones outside our patio door (DEAD also!!) Our neighbor thought it/they were black widows, but I’m not convinced….VERY concerned though. Yes, they’re black. Two of them (when they were alive, I’m guessing from the size they are now) were about the size of a nickle (including their legs.) They have a red line looking area going down their back, and a red kind of dot looking area on their belly. They are not shiny and their abdomen looks fairly proportional to the rest of their body. Can anyone shed some light on what they think they may be. If it helps, we live in upstate South Carolina (20 miles from the mountains – approx 4 1/2 hours inland from the coast) and 40 miles from the GA state line. Thank you for any help you may be able to supply!
Recently, I was browsing the internet and came across your site. It was very interesting and helpful to read. I live in Erie Michigan, right on Lake Erie, and we have spiders galore! Since, its early April, they are starting to come out for the summer season. Last year I came across a very large wolf spider on the deck, its abdomen was about 2 inches. The biggest spider I have ever seen.
If you wouldn’t mind, I would like to send in some pictures throughout the season just to make sure they are the harmless wolf spiders I have been told. Here the first one, found last week on my computer! I am going to have my house treated this year, since they are so bad. I can only guess they are so abundant here because of the water and large number of mosquitos. Its very common in the morning I would walk into another room of the house and get a web across the face.
Thanks for all the info and have a great spring.
Angela
I just found this, I’m not sure what it is.
First off, thanks for offering your time to identify spiders. I have
been searching for the past hour+ and have yet to come up with
/anything/ conclusive.
I’m just north of Birmingham, AL, and (barely) found this guy on the
carpeted stairs coming up from our basement (which has a garage and a
bedroom). The first thing that I think when I see a big, brown spider,
of course, is “is it a brown recluse?” From what I’ve seen on the net,
it’s not, but I can’t seem to find any spider that has the same
markings.
Thanks again,
Kevin
I have a family of these unusual black spiders living in and around my house. I don’t know what type of spider it is. Can someone help me identify this particular breed? It has a black head and black legs. The body looks like it’s carrying a sunflower seed, and it’s back is brown with a black skunk like strip down it’s back. I am concerned about what could happen if one of us gets bit. Please help me!
I dont have photo, but this one was in a finished bathroom in a finished basement the body was the size of a large thumb and with legs altogether was the size of a golf ball or bigger, was a burnt orange color. I didnt stick around long, as I suffer from severe panic attacks in the presence of spiders, it did look like his front legs may have been a little longer than the others. Tonight i was awakened by a sharp sting on my cheek, its extremely tender and painful! My son had reported earlier that he had seen a spider on my bed(after the fact of course) does anyone know what kind of spider this could be?
Hi,
Could you please help me to identify this brown spider I found in my Phoenix garage. Legs look a bit limp because it was dying from bug spray at the time.
Thanks,
Jason
I was told to go outside and look at the spider that my stepbrother had found in the back yard I’m not sure what kind of spider it is but it was the size of a half dollar with legs spread and the body on it was only about the size of a nickel. But it was a blackish grey color but on the abdomen it had really light grey waves and there were 4 of them. I didn’t get a picture of it.
I live in the Bay Area, Northern California, and found crawling on my bedroom ceiling a fuzzy-ish black spider with it’s underside black, and it’s topside red and black “lightning”. What is it?
I live in vallejo ca , found this spider yesterday and wanted to know what kind it is. it was on the wall inside the house, now its on the bottom of my shoe.
I was out on my back patio with my husband saturday morning after a huge down poor early that morning and i look down on the cement and see a spider i have never seen a spider like this before and i can not find an equal to it any were i was wondering if you can help me with this i unfortunately do not have a picture of it but my husband inspected it and looked at it for a good long while so i can describe it in exact detail.
It was the size of a quarter and it was furry black with all black legs and two large eyes that i could see clearly on it’s thorax was a white and black target it was a large perfect white circle then a black circle and then in the middle of the two circles was a solid white circle it had unfortunately losed one of its front right legs and was very agresive because of that we were trying to get him/her out of the way of the restarting down poor so it didnt drowned in the water and it reared up and batted at the stick we were using to try and move it to a safer location and it bared its very large fangs at us the fangs for its body size were quite large the were about 7/8 of an inch and were neon green/yellow. I would like to know if this spider is harmful as i come from washington in a town with qwite a few hobo and brown recluse’s i have been bitten quite a few times and i would not want another occurance and i dont want my two small children to be harmed in any way i am not a big fan of spiders and i am quite affraid of them i am in San Antonio TX around fort Sam Houston and i have asked many people around here if they have ever seen a spider like that or knew what it was and no one could help me with an answer i would appreciate it if i could get the answers i seek asap thank you hope to hear from you soon..
Rachel Clark
Hi – We found a spider similar to Sonda’s #62. I pulled some clothes together from my son’s room and my room and took them to the laundry room, my husband put the towels in the washer and found the spider. Unfortunately, he killed, so we didn’t get a great photo. I’ll send the photos we did get to your email. If you can tell us what it is, we’d greatly appreciate it.
thanks,
Pinckney, MI
48169
I found this in my home in the early morning! we live by a lake so I don’t knwo it freaked me out!!! It was huge!! It was brown had a big body, longer legs, looked like a tarantula maybe alittle smaller! not by much though!!
So I sent in the pic of the spider, all I can say is that it was brown BIG hairy! big body!! longer legs…i live close to a lake just moved here in Texas! I have NEVER seen anything like it!! I’m a little freaked out and I can’t describe any more about it but I hope the pic does it justice!!!! Please let me know
In the last week I’ve seen two of the same spider in my house. Both times I’ve found them crawling on windows. I live in mid-ohio. They are black and about the size of a nickle (this includes leg span too). They also have what seems to me a yellow dot on their back/butt part. (I don’t know the technical term.)
Also, the first one I saw started a web on my curtains (my curtains are white sheer, and at first was very hard to see the web. The web looked like a vertical tube. At one point the spider crawled behind it.
The one I killed shriveled up to about the size of a kernel of corn. (odd comparison i know).
I’ve tried to look it up but haven’t found anything. Is it possible that it’s a black widow? They seem a little hairy (although I didn’t get very close).
I have a daughter who is almost a year old and I want to make sure she’s safe.
thanks!
Like your website. I was wondering if you can help ID this spider? It is less than 1cm total length and was found on my boat (Panama City Florida-backyard by tidal creek). No bites yet but the proximity makes bites more likely. Thanks for your advice.
Kathy
Here is a very interesting spider the girls and I found when we came home this afternoon. It was on the playroom window screen and LARGE. Took numerous pictures to try and see if someone knows what type of spider it is.
Vickie
Hey there. I live in new Orleans, about 3 blocks off the river very near a port. Just saying, because i doubt this spider was common to the area. I’m thinking maybe it camein on a boat and wound up in my home. Regardless it was walking across my ceiling the other night and i almost died. By far the largest spider i’ve ever seen. I’m sorry the picture is so bad, but i was terrified. It was bigger than my hand spread open, to help give a reference. Please tell me what it is if you can, or point me in a good direction.
Thanks, Al
Black or very dark brown, slightly furry spider with a dark red oval mark on its back and small bright yellow spots inside the red marking. Caught it. Don’t want to let it go as I usually do with spiders because it seems scarier. Is it a wolf spider? It has built a web in the container in which I’ve trapped it, but I found it crawling on the living room wall.
Just curious what this spider might be. It is somewhere between 1/2-2/3 inches. Shiny black. It has a red tip on its butt. Does not have an hourglass design. Same colors though.
It was founf in Tennessee, under a brick.
If a response could be sent to my email, I would really appreciate it.
In relation to #901 and #892…
Too me these look like camel spiders or wind scorpions…
The only problem with these is they get really massive and can be very aggressive.. They will often chase humans in an attempt to sit in the shadow we cast.
There is only one venomous sub-species of these spiders but they reside in India.
Hope this helps!!!
For Rachel #22 and Michelle #72 – Those spiders are NOT brown recluse spiders. The brown reclusive has a very distinctive upside-down violin shape on the top of its thorax (just behind its head) portion of the body. The “base” of the violin is behind the head and the “neck” of the violin aims towards the abdomen. Research pics of brown recluses on the web by typing “brown recluse spider” in your search engine. Your spiders are essentially harmless.
To Beth #16 – You need to get to a doctor ASAP and he or she will be able to determine if your bite is actually from a tic w/lyme disease, which seems so from your description. If so, you need treatment immediately!
To Jenn #30 – Your description may be of a “southern black widow”, sometimes called a “northern black widow”. These kind of black widows are found throughout the south and as far north as Massachusetts. They have a red pattern down the back instead of the plain, solid black of the more familiar widow. All widows have an hour glass on the underside of their abdomen. To make widows even more challenging to identify, they also come in brown or grey with a geometic pattern on the top of their abdomen and a yellow or orange hourglass on the underside! Regardless, all widows are very poisonous.
FOR EVERYONE ON KEEPING SPIDERS OUT OF YOUR DWELLINGS: Rub lemon oil or lemon Pledge along the base of all entryways, doorways and windows. Spiders taste with their feet and hate the taste of lemon. This is a very safe and green way to keep spiders out and will not harm your children or pets.
Hello I am responding to the new york residents who found the spiders that appear to be Brown Recluse I too have found several of these spiders in my northern NY home. I have 4 small children and am very concerned I am adding photos but they are not that great. We live about 50 miles north of Fort Drum. The Recluse I found was almost as big as a fifty cent piece. my husband also found a few nears the dogs dishes.
I do not have a photo.Mainly because I was at work when i saw it.
I work in a daycare and finding spider’s there is rare.But a kid in the 1 yr old class saw it.It was about the size of a quarter.It was black and has fuzz or fur type stuff on it. It was on its legs but mostly on its back. I ended up killing it since I didn’t know if it was poisonous or not and I had no way to set it free.I didn’t want to risk anyone getting bit.Does anyone know what it might be?I haven’t been able to find it anywhere while searching the net. I’m in Indiana.
I find about 1 a month of this spider in my house. I can’t figure where they come from. This one was in the kitchen sink this morning and was approximately the size of a half dollar. I’ve never seen a web or sign of a nest. No one has been bitten by one, but they freak out the kids, and worry me. We live 10 miles east of Seattle, WA in the foothills to the Cascades in a heavily wooded residential neighborhood. Can you help? Thanks.
Tony Beaupre
I had this Spider in my house last night (in Austria), and I’m just wondering what type it is and if I should keep an eye out for it from now on. It was a good inch and a half to two inches. Thank you!
Many spiders on this site are garden spiders, in grade 2 we all learned that Garden spiders are harmless, all of your pictures are! Their just different types, just a quick tip so you don’t mistake it…
If the spider has a web that is spreading from one object to another (Not in a corner, but spread out) It’s fangs are in-capable of biting you.
BTW — #1 and #97 Are Wolf Spiders, they are very docile and very rarely bites, but it’s just better to leave them alone
If your spider looks like Pic. 903 it’s probably a wolf spider –Harmless
930 – Huntsman Also Harmless
911 – And similar with white stripes Most likely a brown recluse – Very Harmful, Kill them without skin contact, very aggressive too
#22 is not a brown recluse I have seen one and that is not even close to what they look like I have lived in California my whole life and #88 ur from L.A. so what that spider is an Orb Spider very pretty spiders I think they make there nest all night up in the air then tear it down in the day then start back up again at night and do this repetitively, now my question is I just killed this spider it didn’t have the body of a recluse but his legs were long so I am a little nervous cause I cant find any spiders that look like he did the only reason I killed him is cause my friend has a 13 month old and she is scared of bugs…should have taken a picture…
I see this spider around houses here in Norway a couple of times a year. This time, having access to a 7 megapixel camera, I caught and photographed it, as I’ve always wondered what these spiders were called. It looks similar to the Australian Black House Spider, and they are around the similar size as far as I’ve seen (around 0.7 to 0.8 inches across, legs not stretched). As far as I know though, there is no record of indiginous venomous spiders in Norway. I’ve been looking around the internet for spider identification pictures and websites, but can’t find detailed information, especially not specifics on Norwegian species. I was hoping you could help me identify it.
The pictures I have were taken quite up close, so they are obviously not to scale. I’ve cropped them so only, but still all of the spider is visible, pasted them into a single image file and scaled it down 50%. If you want the full size un-cropped images I have that too. It is a little wet as I washed the old pill box I caught it in with tapwater before capturing it. As you can see, its legs are fairly hairless and it has a dark reddish brown colour, though the flash brightened it up a bit.
Hope you can identify it with what I have provided.
Vegard
i found this spider inside my outdoor garbage can. no webs were around. but i did see a little brown sac in the opposite corner. can you help me identify it? it is tannish with a weird darker stripe down the back.
For Barb #57. This looks like a Hobo Spider. although the bite of the hobo spider is initially painless, the bite can be serious. After 24 hours, the bite develops into a blister and after 24-36 hours, the blister breaks open, leaving an open, oozing ulceration. Typically when the venom is injected, the victim will experience an immediate redness, which develops around the bite. The most common reported symptom is severe headache. Other symptoms can include nausea, weakness, fatigue, temporary memory loss and vision impairment. In any case, first aid and medical attention should be sought, if bitten, as and when any adverse health effects are observed.
Hi the spider are Brown with white fangs.
There is a pattern on them but, I can’t see it because they are so small that there about the size of a piny.
i live in North Carolina
I live in southwest florida and came across a spider. There are a lot of different spiders and i end up killing them without taking pictures. If i come along to see this spider again i will take a picture. The first spider was brown about three inches long the body about 1 inch. Three was hook like structure at the head and a litter shade of brown triangle shape on the head portion of the spider, one side along the middle of the body pointing to the head. The bottom portion was a solid color of the brown. Another aspect of this spider is that it had only four legs three on the left (top two and what appeared to be the most bottom) and one on the right(top most). It was on my outside screen and it moved with lighting speed to the side to avoid me killing it but i was able to kill it. The second spider was similar to the first in all aspects including the legs except it was a total of one inch long. When i killed this spider then i thought what kind of spider was this. Can you tell me what kind of spider is this? If i come across another one I will take a picture. Thanks
I find these spider all over my property in Central Florida. My son is deathly afraid of spiders and fears it may be poisonous. I am having trouble identifying it via internet. Any help is appreciated.
I found this spider hanging over my door jam. It was huge! it wasnt agreesive and move pretty sluggish and seemed dead when i hit it but regained its stregth throughout the day. he never got away but could still move?! i just wanna know what it is. I live in Western Virginia.
I live in Greenville, South Carolina. i saw this on my door frame outside of my house. i’ve seen a web on the stairs before but it was a smaller brown spider in it. this one was about a foot and a half off the deck after it had been raining off and on all day. its about and inch and a half total size, black with red stripe on back and legs. it also has two eyes coming out of its head. it looks like it may have some yellow markings on its side and i didn’t get a good enough look ( i was more worried about getting the picture than studying it at the time as i’m a photographer) but it only has seven legs… i don’t know if that’s normal or if it had been pulled off.
I was out looking for bugs for a science project, and i found two spiders. One’s a kind of gold yellow with black stripes on only its back, and the other is brown with four white stripes. All I need to know is what they are, because I’m pretty sure they aren’t poisonous. Thanks for you guys’ help if you can look them up, because i’ve looked EVERYWHERE!!!
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dEAR fRIEND
i LIVE IN INVERNESS FLORIDA, FLAT RUSTY ORANGE SPIDER MOVES SIDE WAYS AND CAN HIDE BEHIND PICTURES AND JUMP VERY WELL. CAN NOT IDENTIFY IT SIZE OF MY HAND 2 OF THEM FLORIDA ROOM WALL OTHER TAN ORANGE FLAT BODY THOUGHT MAYBE WOOD SPIDER CAN NOT IDENTIFY IT WENT THROUGH ALL MY BOOKS, CARDS OF ANIMALS ON LINE PICTURES AND NOTHING.
ENDED UP WITH BITE ON SHOULDER THAT HAD TO BE LANCED.
CAN YOU HELP ME.
I live in south west England & whilst cleaning a shop floor, came across a spider which had a deep red/black body & legs. It’s abdomen was cloudy white/cream but had no markings. Whilst trying to get it into a cloth to pick it up & put it outside, it reared up & I was able to see that it had pincers. Although I was unable to get a photo I was wondering if anyone could identify it? It was about 2.5cms long.
@#100. That’s not a brown recluse. It’s a wolf spider.
Hi i live in NC, the spiders are black with yellow stripes and white fangs, about the size of a pinny or a nickel.
for number 62 ive found the same exact spider in northern califronia crawling on the ground and by the bright color looks it seems it might be poisonus. this was in gilroy california
I live in northwest Washington state and was just bitten by a spider that looks just like “April’s Spider”–post # 42–October 1, 2007. It was hiding in my clothes–very little pain thus far. any information you have on it would be appreciated. Thanks.
Top of spider
Bottom of spider
I live in southern California and found this spider on my dining room wall. It is by far the biggest spider I have ever seen. Judging from the eyes, I don’t believe it is a brown recluse, but beyond that I have no idea what it could be. My other guess is a huntsman spider, but I didn’t see any spots on the tail end. Anyone have any ideas?
I live in San Diego CA about 4 blocks from the beach. I’ve lived here for about 5 months now and I keep finding the same kind of spider all over my house. Always on the walls. Ranging in size from a dime to a little larger then a quarter. They are brown a black but. The Somewhat of a peanut shaped body, with the lower end (the but) being black. I almost want to say its a brown recluse, but all the pictures of brown recluses I’ve looked at seam to have much longer legs. I’m beginning to think their is a matting frenzy going on behind the walls. The house is over 50 years old.
I dont have a picture at the time but could you please give me an idea of what kind of spider this could be?
Thanks you!
Scott
i don’t have a picture sorry, I know a black widow when i see one but the spider i found in a suburb of nashville tenn was shaped like a black widow in my opinion approx the size of a dime legs included shiny finish and red as a beet from stem to stern. didn’t see any markings but i did let it live as i haven’t ever seen one b4. I have seen a lot of spiders, well acquainted with most of the local’s if it wasn’t solid red i’d be inclined to call it a black widow and go on. anyway central Tennessee on my brick wall on the shady side of the house. it didn’t seem timid at all. during day light hours and i found no web. any ideas where i can look at some mug shots?
I live in central New York state. I saw a spider crawling through the grass today. It was about an inch long. It looked black and fairly sleek (little or no hair). It had a mark on it’s back that sort of looked like a tan/light brown corncob. I was wondering if it was safe to go back in my yard today!
What a great website!! We will be sending a photo soon for identifying a spider – they seem to love our basement. We have been looking at websites for 2 hours now – yours is the BEST!! Jan
Hi there, I came across your web page (very nice!) in my search to hopefully find someone to identify a hideous spider I found in my house! I live in upstate New York and found my puppy chasing this large, the largest spider I’ve ever seen in person. It was about an inch or more in length and very dark appearing black and surprisingly fast moving! I’m hoping it’s not poisonous. Needless to say I am not a spider person, but now a very scared home owner wondering if this guest has left some babies around!!!
Hoping you can help identify this!
Jennifer
from upstate, NY
I apologize that my pictures are not that clear, I was shaking and a bit nervous to get too close to it! I zoomed and in lost some quality in the pictures while doing so.
Hi all,
I have a few bits on my calf, I noticed them about 2 days ago. There are 7 bits in total and they are all arranged in pairs about 1 inch from each other except for one which is off to the side of the others. I noticed them because they started itching, but I didnt see anything, all I could feel was a small bump. Yesterday the bumps turned red, and today the bumps are still red, but the surrounding area around each individual bump is red and about 1-2 inches in diameter each. The actual bumps however are about the diameter of a grain of rice. The itching is terrible, I put purell on it, because that was all I had at work with me today, and it helped with the itching. Also the skin feels much warmer then the rest of my skin, but I am not sure if that may be from the itching or the bumps.
About 4 months ago I had the same thing and in the same formation on my stomach, and it went away within about 1-2 weeks and left a small skin discoloration which is practically gone now.
I dont know what type of spider this is, and I dont know if the past bite is connected to the bites i have now…
Thanks for any advice or suggestions you have!
#3. September 8th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
i got bit yesterday and im not sure weather or not it is a spider bite or maybe a mosquito. i noticed it late afternoon. It’s about a 1 cm bump on my shoulder, it didnt hurt at all when i first saw it, a few hours later is was extremely sensitive to the touch and i woke up this morning to find it it now purple. does this sound like a harmful spider bite?
I live in Missouri. As much as I did not want to, I had to kill a spider in my apartment. The body was dark black, the head looked like it had a gray beard, and on the top of the abdomen, it had three gray diamonds in a row; starting from the head direction and going to the tail. The body was thick, and when curled up it looked like it would have fit on a nickel, if not a quarter.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
I was helping my dad clean his room so he could switch with my older sister, and I was moving a picture frame that he had left on the ground, and there was a harry, brown-ish red-ish spider under it..I picked a clothes hanger up and put it in front of the spider and it crawled kind of slowly onto it…it stayed on it while I walked outside with it without moving and my dad killed it, it’s body was maybe an inch across and its legs where a little long and kinda thick but not too thick, and it had no markings and I thought it was a brown recluse, but my grandma told me that brown recluse’s had smaller bodies….
oh, and if it helps, I live in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and its either spring or early summer here and it was a warm day when I found the spider, thanks!!!!
We found an interesting “object” on a tree branch last week. It was a perfect square (about 1cm square) and it had several tiny “holes”. My husband removed it from the tree and we put it in a plastic bag with the intention of showing it to a friend who knows about trees. We forgot all about it and while cleaning out a basket in the kitchen today, I came across the bag. About 10 tiny spiders had “hatched” from the square. They are black with a red tip on their tail-end. 8 legs. They are maybe 2 millimeters long. While we sat there examining them, I noticed another one hatching. It was completely orange in color but was the same size. Any idea what kind of spider this is? I can’t get a good picture, since they are so darn small!
I found this really huge black spider in my bathroom, scared the crap out of me, at least 2/3 inches lots of legs(didn’t stay to count) took the only thing that was handy, hair spray, and sprayed it alot, it kept on moving, throw it in the toilet that totally woke it up and flushed it down. I live in South West Fl., very tropical especially now its the rainy season. I’m not scared of alot of things, but this one takes the cake. I also seen a very large tan hairy spider, bigger than my hand, it was so fast couldn’t even get close enough to kill it, it saw me coming….What the heck are these (look like killer spiders) invaders in my home, please respond ASAP, thank-you, K
Hi, I live in Colorado Springs and i just found a spider in one of the refinished rooms in my basement. It is brownish and tan. It is very small and it was just sitting on the wall when i found it. No web or anything. It has these weird markings tho. On its belly it has a dot with what looks like a V under it.( it’s brown but the markings are tan). It has the same design on its underbelly just opposite in color. Does anybody know what this could be? Unfortunetly i dont have a picture because its only like a quarter of and inch in length so its not coming out clear.Thankyou if you can help.
Found in my laundry room
Black furry-looking spider about 10 mm in size with white outlines on its head and legs found our house in eastern Massachusetts. Actually this is the 2nd one we found. Its head has a white shape on it and its body has a white line on either side. This is as close a shot I could take. Thanks for any help.
What kind of spider is this?
hi. my name is kaitlin and i live in Michigan.
my family took a trip up to mesick and i saw this spider and i was wondering what type of spider it was.
please let me know.
thank you
-kaitlin
Hi Jim,
I live in Southwest Georgia and found this spider in my house!!! I can’t identify it with any known Georgia spiders. Any help you can give me identifying it would be greatly appreciated!!!!
Thank you,
Kathleen
My son found this in his bedroom about 20 minutes south of Seattle.
It looks so much creepier in person.
Should I be as freaked out as I am? Not sure how to add the pic I took.
So I squished it before I could get a pic but in my garage today I found a black spider with a red ban running down the TOP of it’s abdomen. I’ve looked all over to figure out if it’s actually a Black Widow or not and can’t find anything similar except for an Austarian Widow. But since I live in KS, I figure that’s not it.
I have the same spider in my house as #62. I killed it. Freaked me out. Has anyone Identified it. I have a little boy and I’ve never seen this spider before. Please help, thanks!
I found a large 4″+ legspan spider in my basement in Eastern Iowa. I think it’s a wolf spider but would just like to confirm, it didn’t seem to be near any sort of web.
Thanks
We live in VA (USA). We have seen quite a few of these big spiders and do not know what they are. Can you identify it for me?
Thanks.
Ami DeGray
Spiny Backed Orb Weaver #70
I finally found out what my mystery spider is!!! I would call it a wood spider. (#461 for picture) It might seem strange, but if the spider you’re trying to identify looks similar to mine, if you search “spiders on drugs” on youtube, it will bring up a crazy video, but it definitely helped me figure out what I had!
And, by the way, even though spiders creep me out beyond all belief, this website is super!!!
what kind of spider is this
did anyone ever identify the spider is #62 photo? I found one in my garage in western New York state. thanks, Phil
Found many spiders in my house. they are small about the size of a q-tip head. the body and legs are redish orange the abdomin is greyish brown and has a white dashed line, roughly 4 dashes, on its abdomin from the web spinning spot to mid abdomin on top and 2-3 others on each side. No hair that can be seen. The abdomin is roughly 2 16ths of an inch wide and 3-4 16ths of an inch long. The body is roughly 1 16th of an inch long. The legs are about as thick as a mechicnical pencil led the thin type.
I wrote in detail about the BIG black spider last week, the boby 2-3inches, very long legs. Tonight I found another black spider, almost as big as the last one but thicker body, and a little hairy. I live in South west Fl, and it’s the raining season, been here since “88″ never seen nothing like these creepy crawlers. HELP!!! ASAP.
I don’t have a picture but i live in south central Kentucky just along the tenn border. I was picking up a bottle out of my kitchen floor that fell out of trash when this spider jumped from the bottle or fell off of it on to my arm, of course i freaked and knocked it off in the floor and immediately stepped on it.
I wish I hadn’t killed it right away so i could have identified it better but it was 2.5 to 3 inches in length, cream colored almost white but not exactly, it was probably 1.5 to 2 inches across its back from one front leg to the other, front legs and back legs longest and other legs shorter shaped exactly like grass spiders, think it came in through a window where air conditioner is, there is an old flower bed and small tree just outside the window and is also where we keep the water hose,so it’s shady most of the time and damp too. looked everywhere can’t find a picture on any spider website??
I am dumb founded. I have small children and am worried that there may be more, want to know if they are dangerous.
My son found a spider in his camper in my back yard. It is light brown almost white and a skinny little body. It jumps, and it has a darker brown stripe running the length of it’s body. Don’t know if it is a boy or girl and truly don’t care. Need to know is it poisonous as I have 2 grandchildren living with me. Thanks a million.
Hi,
I live in Las Vegas NV and tonight on my porch I found a spider in the corner just off the ground. It was hanging upside down in it’s web and by first glance, it looked like it could be a black widow because of it’s black color and sleek curvy shape.It’s was about the same size as well, and had a rather bulging abdomen just as they do. (I find a lot of those out here in the dessert) How, ever instead of an orangish-red hourglass or dot, it seemed to have three vertical gray dots that were very small, on it’s underbelly. This is the first time i’ve seen one in a few years, and I’ve never seen one on my new side of town yet because I figured they’d all been eaten by the Wind Spiders over here. I would truly appreciate it if you could help me to identify this spider.
Thank you,
Niqui
Hi,
I am trying to identify the spider on the pictures below. I found it in my garden in Lesotho, Africa. It has beautiful colours and is not really big. I am just curious about the name.
Thanks,
Gerdien
The spider in photo # 80 is the spider I saw under my deck in the metro Detroit area.Can you identify it.
thank you
mike
Sorry I don’t have a pic but I want to know what kind of spider this is. It is on the small side black and hairy with a white dot on it’s back. Does anyone know what this is?
Jan
#62
I think we have the same spider! I live in Hillsboro OR…any ideas as to what it is?
Okay…I think this is the same spider as in picture #62 but with a slightly different abdominal shape and color. I’m sending a picture of it to the referred to email address. This particular spider was in the dirt of my garden in south-west Indiana and not in Oregon so it adapt easily. It was about an inch long from mandible to tip of abdomen. I wasn’t able to capture it before photographing it.
to those worried about spiders in #’s 1,22,57, 72,97, etc. those are NOT brown recluse spiders!!! I believe they are wolf spiders, though not 100% so still be careful. Brown recluse spiders look like the picture below in the link. You can identify them by the violin shape on the back of their thorax. hope this helps.
Hey,
My name is Courtney and I live in Oregon. I nanny for a one year old baby boy and I keep finding these spiders in his room. They are black, have orange and black legs, and have a orange spot on its butt with a faint white line down the middle. I can’t get a good enough picture of the spider, nor can I find one online. I want to know if these spiders are poisoness! From the looks of other peoples comments, It may be a wolf spider? Let me know.
Thank you! (:
My husband was bitten twice by a spider…they are large red swollen bumps on his wrists with lttle bite marks in the middle..he says he didn’t feel anything right away..he was in the garage lifting the lawn mower..I’m guessing that spider was underneath it..he saw a large amount of baby spiders all in a web but did not see the female spider..we live in southern Ontario…at first I was afraid it may have been a black widow spider..
we get them here..but then I saw the bites that were posted and they look exactly like the brown recluse spider bites..he is having no reaction or discomfort but the marks are not going away…they are huge. I really do not want to see that spider that bit him..I may never leave the house again. my question is does a black widow spider bite differ from other bites and does everyone react the same to the bite..
sorry i cant get a photo but there’s this spider in my backyard and i have never ever seen it before and i desperately want to know what it is.
it has a web that’s kinda blotchy, not well done bugs can fall through it, its either dark brown, black black red, or black with and orange stripe down its abdomen, and a thick V on the underside.
its web is made between my garage and fence and hides in the underside of the fence when not doing anything. ants crowd around the web a lot too, and is its main food source.
One of these nearly crawled into my left ear while camping near Idyllwild, CA. I was setting up our tent and this little fella must have found it’s way onto my hat and crawled down the leather strap which ran just next to my ear. I accidentally flipped it off just before it made it into my ear.
I think #S 1,22,28,57,72,89,96,and 97 could all be the same type of spider I live in Las Vegas Nevada and have seen plenty of these in my yard, neighborhood, and inside my home I was told by an exterminator that they are wolf spiders, but they also resemble the hobo spider, not the brown recluse, brown recluse have a black violin shaped marking and are also called the fiddle back spiders.
hi i don’t have a pic of the spider because i tried to kill it and it feel in my bed. i live in huntington ny and i get these small dark brown spiders and they are always crawling on my bedroom walls when the tv is on at night. i tried to look it up but cannot find one like it. it looks just like a regular spider and it doesn’t have a large sack….i don’t think it was the hobo or recluse spider but i’m still scared and cannot go back to sleep and my poor boyfriend is in the bed by himself and doesn’t care hehe…ooo and how long should i wait to go back to sleep it’s been about an hour and i’m so tired that i might sleep on the couch. thank you for helping me
i live in southwestern michigan and have found 4 spiders so far in my childrens rooms…in the last week…Big!roundish hairy black spiders with a yellow dot on its head and back…ive also seen them in my garden…are they poisonous?!help
thanks!-Disgusted
these spiders look like 955 but with yellow (could be white i suppose…i was pretty freaked out)spots,one on its head and one on its back yuck
also….it looks like the pic in 955…and 965..but with the 2 dots,one on head, one on back…its NOT a garden spider…the legs are short and furry too!!!
-Disgusted
i got bit a few days ago and at first it was just a red bump the size of a bead and didn’t hurt at all. but now a few days later their is a red bump the size of a dime surrounded by a large area of light red the size of the opening of an 8 ounce paper cup. the area is very painful to a point of having to limp. the area is also stiff and very sensitive to even the slightest touch. if anyone knows what bit me i will feel a lot better. (maybe)
this was found in my very large basement sink. It was easily 3 inches in diameter. The body had some orange on it. Too scared to get a closer picture. What is this? I live in upstate NY and have no idea how this bad boy got in my basement.
Thanks,.
I found a spider but I killed it before I could truly Identify it. I live in Oregon and have seen a lot of spiders but this one got me worried. It was a small one, black with short legs. What was distinctive was a red strip on the back. Almost hour glass shape. I thought black widow for a second but the marking for them is underneth. This one was on its back. Do possible know what this may be.
Thanks