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my dad found one like 579 in the middle of the street and i was wondering what kind of spider it was cause it looks savage and i’m very interested in spiders. i would really appreciate an answer, oh and i live in north vegas nv.
thanks in advance,
samuel hoth
It is not a great pic but it was as close as I was willing to get. This spider is the 2nd that I have seen of this size in my home. I am very concerned and I can find NOTHING that meets the description anywhere b/c of it’s size. The spider was at least 3 to 3 1/2 Inches in diameter. I held a can of cat food (ordinary flat can of cat food) up to the wall in the same orientation and the spider would have been larger compared to the pattern on the wall paper, so the estimate of its size is actually pretty conservative. I live in Florida about 30 miles north of Tampa in Land O Lakes zip code 34638. I am very concerned because while this is the 2nd that I have seen of this size I have killed many very very tiny ones that I am sure are the same species. I need to know what I am dealing with. Sorry the pic is the best I could do. PLEASE, I DESPERATELY NEED HELP WITH THE ID, I CAN FIND NOTHING. I am finding them in the bathroom as well as in my living space.
so i went camping this past memorial day weekend…….was at keuka state park which is in upstate ny. the last night we were there i went to go pick up a sweatshirt that was on the ground and found this giant thing of a spider. the body alone had to be about quarter sized. i have never seen a spider that looks like this around this area…….maybe you guys can help?????
Hey,
I live in Oregon. My name is Courtney. My roommate found a spider in her room. I have seen this kind of spider before but I do not know what it is. Its not a wolf spider. IT LOOKS JUST LIKE THE PICTURE IN COMMENT #950. But it is smaller, so I’m assuming its not an adult yet. It has four legs on one side, and four on the left as well. But on the left hand side one of the legs its very small. It’s dark brown with a light brown stripe down its body, its stops on its butt by ending at a point. And on its butt the stripe has dots that lead all down it. It has VERY long legs. I can’t get a good enough picture to put up.
Thank You!
Ps. Thank you to #988, It was a wolf spider. (:
In the past two weeks I have found two medium sized spiders around my home. They are black and fuzzy with thick bodies and a yellow spot on their backs. The first one was found in my sliding glass door and the other was on my front door. I live in Southern Oregon. I do not have a picture of them as I simply killed them so my dogs would not try to eat them, and yes, they have tried. Can anyone tell me what these are?
looking to ID this guy here. i think it could be the Brown Recluse but just want to make sure.
i don’t have a pic sorry but it had a red head and a brown body my sister saw it outback in a brown web that’s all i know
I have had had several of Sonda’s #62 spider show up on walls, and on my daughter’s leg in bed in our basement in Northglenn, Colorado. Does any one know what it is, and if we should be concerned. Thanks! Wayne
I have found 3 of these in my house in the last week and this one in the garage! Please help me to identify I have 2 little kids and am afraid of them getting bit!
I live in upper Michigan and was at camp and came home. While cleaning out my camper I found the biggest spider I’ve seen up here. Does any one know what kind of spider this is?
A friend found this spider outside today, near evening.
We live in Rhode Island. It’s June 1st.
Could you help us identify it?
Thanks.
While moving a storage bin on our back deck, my son and I found this spider. We did not kill it and it only took about 15 minutes for it to find a dark place to go. It was not on a web and there were no dead animals/exoskeletons around to identify what it may eat. We live in West Michigan, about 30 miles from the shore of Lake Michigan. This spider was found on May 29, 2009.
A response to the spider in #246. I have deployed 2 times to Iraq and liven in the high desert of California. In Iraq the spider is called a camel spider and can reach the size of your hand roughly. In California they have been known as Sun Spiders. My grandmother called it a vinigaru which she says you will get the taste of vinigar in your mouth kinda. In Cali. we had quite a few of them in our house many times and just did the same thing and moved them outside. The pest control guy told me they were not harmfull to humans but painful if bitten. They are a very agressive spider and think they are great danes. The biggest I have seen had an abdomin the same size as my thumb and my Gram squished it on our tile floor. But none the less never had a problem with them.
what is #70?
Also found a black spider with a red dot on back in my office.
cant tell if it was a black widow as I am trying to figure out if there is another option. spider is still loose in my office…
Hi i just seen a spider in my bathroom i was thinking it was a brown recluse but i cant’ be for sure cuz im not sure if they have a white line down the middle of the abdomen and it was also a dark black or maybe brown im slightly color blind…
#87 – that is a brown widow spider! Also #56 sounds like a brown widow spider also
Me and one of my friends were playing around with water guns on the porch. On the window of our door, ( which is clear, so we could see both sides) there was a small, but mean looking spider. It was black, with a dark green head. On it’s thorax, there were 3 pale ornage dots. On the other side of the window, we could see the fangs. I live in western Kentucky, very close to the Ohio River. Anyone know?
Rachel #22 that I can say is NOT a brown recluse…that is a wolf spider and yes it is poisonous, I live in rochester also, and from watertown area I see those all the time around marinas and boats. Brown Recluse has a lighter brown body skinny legs, and on its body where the legs come out from has a dark almost black violin with the head pointing toward the butt.
yesterday while out walking i found a grey spider, a few sizes smaller than the average persons palm. it looked slightly fuzzy, but definitely no more than peach fuzz, with a larger, white behind. I live in upstate new york, very close to lake Ontario, and I’ve only seen one or two of these here. it moved fairly fast too.
Hello,
I found a spider in my garage that looks exactly like #62. Can you please tell me what kind it is? If it is harmful or not? Thanks alot.
I found this spider living next to my washing machine. It has a very irregularly shaped web that almost seems to be randomly connected hexagons which is about 2 feet long. The spider is mottled grey and brown with a dark stripe on his underbelly running the length of his body. It is hard to see his back, but there seems to be a large dark spot in the middle of his back. He looks to be about 3/4 of an inch long. I live in Marin County, just north of San Francisco California.
#20 I think is a banded garden spider. I Live in Northwest Indiana and have found them in my gardens. I have read they are pretty much harmless. hope this helps
Have a great day
These spiders are everywhere. Usually in my garage, or in my basement. I live in Southeastern PA. They can get very big (the size of a half dollar) or they can be smaller (the size of a nickle)
if the picture did not come up it most closely resembles #22
I found this spider in my garage.. i live in central Florida… Any ideas?
I found a spider on my interior window. It had black furry legs and red stripes on its abdomen. Relatively small. Thanks.
We run a fireworks business and every year when we get cases of fireworks in from China they have these spiders in them. They are a flat spider, front legs to back legs are as big as a quarter, and the body is the size of a pencil eraser.
Any help with an ID as to what we are dealing with would be appreciated, thanks!
Frank
The spider is light tan on top and a reddish brown on bottom. The body is about 4 times bigger than the head. Any ideas? Thank you!!
Found in the midlands of South Carolina in Lexington County.
Have a great day!!
Jen and John
Anything to be concerned about? It looks like a brown recluse but what do I know!
thanks
steve
My daughter and I found this spider (maybe) it is about 1/4″ long, but I could not see the eyes on top, it doesn’t have the body or leg structure of a jumping spider, could this be a big mite? It looks like a spider to us and we keep and breed tarantulas, so we allow the existence of the spider world around the house and normally we can identify everything we encounter.
Hi!
Can somebody identify this spider?
It’s very common in Hungary, actually this kind of spider makes up 80% of the spiders that I encounter in my room.
The biggest one was maybe around 1,5 cm in diameter. (0,6 inch)
I work at a garden center and saw a strange looking spider. It was fairly large, black, fuzzy legs, and had a distinctive white spade shape on it’s back. What is it? Does anybody know? Is it dangerous?
My girlfriend found this inside a…tent? It’s like a tent that you put on your patio, intended to keep bugs out.
Anyhow, it was about as large as the size of her palm (she’s a petite girl).
Thanks!
I have some of those spiders like the one in 1029. I also have brown recluse. I also have have several nests of black widows around my house and boy do they get huge! Please so help me if anyone knows a way to kill them once and for all, let me know. Recently, after much jumping and screaming and finally making it sick enough with spray to get it off the window to get it onto the sill and knock into a box and out of the box onto the drive and just before killing it, I noticed a black widow with one and a half hour glasses (my mother said it may have just finished mating). But I just noticed the other day, a spider web between two bushes and the spider was green. Now, I have no pictures and I will not get close enough to take any.
I get too much by too many and I am real bad allergic to all spiders – both poisonous and nonpoisonous. The past too spider bites have made me run fevers and given me kidney infections. With this in mind, I wonder what are the probabilies of type of spider that could be biting me or is it just possible that I am hypersensitive and need to talk to my doctor(s) the next time I see them about running test(s) to see if some kind of shot(s) or medicine(s) are available for me for the next time? The obvious thing is getting rid of the black widow infestations around the house.
i was wondering if anyone had any ideas at all of #625, toms spider picture. my neighbor, opened up a door in their basement of the house they rent, and there are atleast 10 of THOSE exact things in there, they are all dead, but i cant find ANYTHING like that anywhere. thanks.
Michelle #22; Please do not let #100 frighten you. Your friend looks like a harmless (yet still creepy) wolf spider to me.
I have photos of day 3 spider bit on my son. Pus keeps coming out but not sure what is going on. No fever just red and really swollen. It’s a little over 1/2 dollar size. Taking him to urgent care in the morning. Will let everyone know what is going on once we see the doctor.
Hey, I came across your site while trying to identify a spider. I found the little guy exploring my lab workstation, and caught it in a petri dish. I couldn’t get my camera to focus on it, but I made a rough color sketch of it. I live in Portland, Oregon.
Here’s a description:
-small, body length 6mm, with legs extended 15mm+
-torso, legs brown, abdomen black
-darker brown bands on the legs
-4 black eyes in one row (I think, it wouldn’t hold still under the stereoscope long enough to see)
-black bulbous extensions above the fangs, with hairy joints
Any help in figuring out what this thing is is appreciated! Thanks!
Found this spider, which i am pretty sure is a brown widow…however from what I understand they are not found in southern Indiana, which is where I live. If it is not a brown widow..what might it be? These are two different spiders but I believe they are the same species.
Brian R.
This spider is about 3 ½ ”- 4” long. I found it outside the door to my home in Richmond, VA a few weeks ago. It found his way inside this weekend. I am inserting a photo. It is not furry but not shiny (sorry about the photo quality). Any clue what type it is? You can post this on the forum if you like. I have not been able to find other photos similar to this one. Several are close but usually the markings are not a match or the size is too small.
Can someone please help me identify this spider? It was running through my home.. and about a good 2.5-3 inches long in diameter. Any ID would help or maybe what family it’s from. A starting point, please.
Hey so i need some help trying to identify this spider. I have no clue as to what it is…. and i know what most spiders look like. I’ve looked on google images for this thing and couldnt even find it.
I dont have any pictures of it so cant actually show it to you but it was the oddest looking thing but have no clue weather it may be venomous or not.
The spider was probably half to 3/4 the size of my pinky finger nail. It’s head was like a reddish orange color with no markings on top. It’s abdomen however was a darker red color, but had multiple black stripes on both sides, two on each side.
The abdomen was a long oblong shape, not circular like most spider abdomens are. The legs were all a dark grey maybe even black color. The fangs were pointed down with the actually teeth pointing inwards like all small spiders do. If i can get a good picture of it thats not fuzzy or blurry i’ll post it up here. But I can not find its picture on the web. Maybe a new kind of spider lol i live in the country so it may be very possible. So….. help?
I found a spider last night when it almost jumped onto my dog while i was outside walking her. It looked somewhat like a brown recluse but it was about the size of the palm of my hand! It was in the bushes in an empty lot and in new york if that helps at all. Can anyone give me any clue as to what it might have been??
Thanks!
We have the same spider as #108. Haven’t seen a name attached to it yet. Has anyone got a name?
i found this spider @ my friends lake house. it was in a web, and is slightly bigger then a quarter. my parents and i think that it may be dangerous, so please help.
Please help!!!!! # 1031 and # 1024 (My pic) are the same spider!? Hungary and Central Florida are not even on the same continent! Please help! I HAVE A LOT of these around my house and garage!
Hello, I live in SW Washington state and I found this strange looking spider, it’s light brown with a brown stripe all the way down its back. It is about 1-1.5 inches in length.
Anyone wanna take a crack at figuring out what this spider is? Found him on the wall in the bathroom here at work. If it helps, this is in SLC, Utah. So far I haven’t found any photos that look quite like this anywhere online. I just want to satisfy my curiosity and find out more details about this spider.
Rachel and Michelle
Dont listen to the above character. Brown recluses are about the size of a quarter or smaller, they have 3 pairs of eyes, and a violin looking symbol on them with the neck of the violin towards the butt end.
Also they dont have designs on the butt end.
i was messing around in my front yard when i saw a spider on my car. i captured it in a mason jar. i let it go this morning. i tried to find a pic online but i couldn’t find it. its about the size of a dime with a white mark on the abdumoin. its legs were balck. i think it is some kinda jumping spider, i dont know. if u could tell me what it is and if its poisonous id be greatfull.
Thanks!!
i found a yellow spider with a dark triangle on its back in my mom’s master bedroom while using her computer. i am in the Virginia Beach, VA area.
i found a yellow spider with a dark triangle on its back in my mom’s master bedroom while using her computer. i am in the Virginia Beach, VA area. i panicked and got a pad of index cards and threw it at the web, which made it fall down (it was hanging by a web from the ceiling), and it’s somewhere in there. we have visitors, so i have to sleep there. is the spider poisonous?
i found a yellow spider with a dark triangle on its back in my mom’s master bedroom while using her computer. i am in the Virginia Beach, VA area. i panicked and got a pad of index cards and threw it at the web, which made it fall down (it was hanging by a web from the ceiling), and it’s somewhere in there. we have visitors, so i have to sleep there. is the spider poisonous?
I live in Southern Michigan and i’ve found many of these spiders in my house and outside.Although my house is surrounded by woods and I should be used to creepy crawlys by now,I still don’t like stumbling upon them.They very in size,and the one below is slightly bigger than a nickle.I found it while cleaning the top of my computer desk off, and took the photo through a water bottle.My grandpa picked the bottle up to take a look at it and it tried to bite through the bottle to bite him.Should I at all be worried about this type of spider?
http://tinypic.com/r/2nbbwip/5
thanks,
Sage
Recently i have been finding alot spiders exactly like the pic #22. I have two young kids, I thought they were wolf spiders but some people are saying brown recluse can you please advise as to what species they are. I just need to know if i should kill them or leave them be. I do have pics if needed, but its a look-a-like to #22
Hello I need help as well identifying a spider. The spider looks very similar to the spiders posted for #22 and #89. If my spider is the same-Brown Recluse is it strange to be in my home? I found the spider while I was vaccuming my rug it popped up from underneath the rug against my door frame.It was very large though…i dont not kno how big the other spiders posted where but it was about the same circumfrence of a tenis ball. I was too scared to approch it any closer but waaayyy to scared to leave it so I sucked it up with the vaccume hose so my boyfriend could handle it when he got home. When he got home about an hour later he took the whole vaccume appart and there was absolutly no trace of the spider or a squashed spider.We recently just bought a forclosed home that was abandonded for over a year so i expected to see some weird bugs. I live in Plymouth, MA and have a 10 month old daughterand am very scared of this is the same spider as the others. I do have a picture but unfortunatly do not have the connection for the computer anymore so i cannot post it. please let me kno as much as you can and what I should do. and would a terminator be helpful because I DO NOT want a family of that spider in my home!!
thankyou hope you can help me,
Jenn
Hi,
I found this spider in my basement just to the right of the washing machine in a poorly organized web structure. It didn’t look anything like a normal web at all, it was just a mass of web and cobwebs in the corner. It’s smaller than a dime and has a bulbous abdomen. The abdomen looks like 3 different colors: Light brown, and dark brown and what looks like a dark rusty red. It has a odd dark brown design on the middle of the top side of the abdomen. The legs are alternating colors of dark and light. Oh! I live in Northern-ish Ohio
found this guy in a ga garden, running across the drive. not happy that i caught him, about an inch long
any idea what it is
thanks
lukas
We live in Eastern Canada, NB to be precise, this not so nice looking spider was in the children’s play tent. It hasn’t bitten anyone yet but we’re concerned with the children running around. Can you please help us.
Hi
I’m Cassie, I live in Chandler, AZ. ME and my girlfriend were getting our things together to go camping for a few days when she stepped out back to grab the grill. she took a pot off the top of it an was just about to pick up the bottom part of the grill when she like did a double take and saw this huge spider kicking it right where she was about to grab.
this is the first time i’ve ever seen a spider that looked like this. . . Brown Widow right? I was just wondering whats an effective way to kill them and since now we’ve seen this one are we right to assume we probably have more around we just haven’t seen them?
Well, Thank you for you time.
Cassie Fox
Just moved to Maine and was greeted on my deck by this spider. Can anyone identify it for me? My granddaughter is allergic to spider bites so any help would be appreciated….
Jeannie
These are the pics of the spider in the corner of my bathroom.
Thanks
Erin
#74 you are right about #22’s spider. It is a wolf spider and not a Brown Recluse.
Brown recluse’s have very long thin brown legs with no spines and are not gray in color. Neither do they have stripes that go down each side of the body from their head to the end of their body.
Wolf spiders are not considered dangerous, but can be very aggressive if cornered or startled. There are probably hundreds or thousands of wolf spiders roaming around in the grass in your backyards. There is no need to kill them. Just catch them and put them back outside where they came from. They just seem to wonder inside from time to time.
As for #28, #57, #72, #89, #97 … You all have wolf spiders!!! Don’t be alarmed.
For anyone interested…There is a great site (spiderzrule) with really great pictures of spiders. You should be able to find your species of Wolf Spider there.
#1021 that looks like a True Granddaddy Long Legs there. I’m not 100% sure, but that’s what that’s what I think. They like to come inside warehouses and old buildings. They can make a very large very irregular shaped webs for catching anything that may happen to wonder close by. They are harmless.
#1010 looks like another species of Wolf Spiders.
#1018 Wolf spiders are not poisonous! They are not considered to be dangerous, but they can be aggressive and bite if harassed.
#42 that is a Black House Spider. Very docile. Not dangerous.
#1006 and #1038 not sure, but those do look a lot a Brown Recluse. It’s hard to tell for sure w/o actually seeing them.
I live in Northern California and I saw this spider on my kitchen window, in my house. I have lived here my entire life and I have never seen such a thing. The way the legs are held together and the hair on the legs. It certainly creeped me out!!
Thank you,
Karen
Did anyone find out what 298 is? My daughter found one exactly like that in Florida (North Port area) and brought it home.. we thought it was a wolf spider… then maybe a brown recluse.. then who knows?! Also, she had a huge egg sac she was carrying with her.. about the size of a dime. The babies hatched the last few days.. but now we are really concerned as to what she is.
This is for the photo #1059. My husband caught the same spider in your photo two days ago. He put it in a empty soda bottle to show me when I got home from work. I have yet to get information on this spider. I have been on the computer ever since I looked at that ugly and scary spider. I swear it is looking at me saying, “you wait lady when I get out of this thing I will get you.” lol So when or if you find out what kind and if it is poisonous please send me an email. Thank you
Mary
I found this nasty looking spider in my house and I want to know if it is venomous or not. Please Help!
I found this in our bathroom where we are doing drywall, it was huge. I am wondering it is bites, as I have 2 big dogs, and we don’t want to find another one any time soon. Any need for worry of this one? Please email me back. Spiders are my biggest fear!!!!!!
Thanks,
Natalie Cable – NewBrunswick Canada
we found this big spider at a friends house thought it was cool and wanted some info. has some silver paint that dripped on it before we saw it. abdomen was approx. 1 1/4″ in diam. black and orange striped legs
I found a black spider in my basement laundry. I live in the midwest. It was a little fuzzy like a wolf spider but it had a bright red stripe down its back from tip of the back to the butt. The total size was a nickel with legs. My first thoght was black widow but I thought it would have a hourgass-shaped red spot. Can you identify?
Hey, I recently moved into an old house in Atlanta Georgia. The windows work on this weird pulley system and a spider has taken up residence in the hole where the rope goes beside the window. There web is feathery and cobweb like. They don’t seam to like the light much but we see them during the day sometimes. We named all of them so we don’t want to have to kill them unless they are poisons.
Thanks,
Courtney
I live in norridge IL up in the north suburbs and we usually don’t get these kinda spiders in this area. Just wanna be curious what kinda spider is it!
Sal #87 and all questions about brown recluses vs wolf
#87 is called a red hourglass around here…poisonous but not like the black widow and not as agressive. you see alot of them in SC, i live in the midlands and will occasionally find both around my house..
As for the controversy between what a wolf spider is and a brown recluse the easiest way to tell is that they are kind of “reversed”. A wolf spider is brown with two small black stripes down it’s back, they like to come inside and stay in places like attics, basements, bathrooms, closets, etc. They don’t have webs and can be very small or up to 2 inches big. They get big and round around the middle when they are pregnant. I see them unpacking boxes at work alot.
A brown recluse has almost the same markings, but on it’s underside. definatly don’t touch it to find out if that’s what it is, better to just assume it is and stay as far away as possible. They like damn dark places like wood piles, under stones, in gardens around around gutters. hope this helps everyone!
I saw a black spider with a white spot on the end of his legs…almost look like a tarantula.
WE found a spider in our travel trailer. We live in Michigan, the lower peninsula, and it is black with a white spot on its back. Not very big. Do you have any idea what kind of spider this may be?
We found this spider under our window sill outside. I think it’s a bold jumping spider by researching on the web. Do you know anything about them? We live in Portland, Oregon and have never seen a spider like this one before.
#22, #72
Those are wolf spiders. You can tell from the pattern at the back of the head…these guys can be aggressive! Do not provoke. Bites should be medically treated by your doctor.
We went camping this past weekend (Ohio) and when we woke up the next morning and were putting the beds up in the camper my cousin said oh you slept with a spider. I never saw it so I’m not sure what it looks like I did text her to ask her what it looked like. I didn’t notice anything right away. That evening I started getting bumps (about 5 of them) in a circle on the back of my arm…they kinda look like mosquito bites but the big red bumps are in a circle. They itch and are somewhat painful. I noticed another section of them on my back too. Same scenario except there is about 6-7. I sent photos of the back of my arm as well. The only thing that worries me is 1) the pain and 2) I’ve been feeling sick with bad headaches, super tired, cramping in the stomach (which I swore I thought I was pg! lol but I’m not!) Any help is appreciated!
#1003 I submitted my spider #1061 to another site. I recieved an answer that it is basically harmless and is called a Nursery Web spider. I looks like the one you found at Keuka…I’m from the Keuka (Horsheads, NY) area adn never saw one until I moved to Maine.
I meant to leave the message for 1003 NOT 1083
There is a very dangerous spider found in the San Fransico Bay Area and along the Northern California coast. I believe this spider was brought here in the 1800’s by gold seekers from around the world. This spider is brown with large bodies and short stubby legs. They don’t spin webs but make nest’s and they can’t climb walls either. Their found inside walls, atticks and basements. There very elusive and difficult to find. All who know about this spider are keeping it from the public because it’s so dangerous. If the Bay Area people knew about this spider it would cause mass panick. I was bit by one in 1982 while camping at an old gold mining camp. It took three days for the venom to pass through my system. On day three I was 95% blind. The venom attacked me for twelve hours, and when I awoke, I lost absolutely all of my body fat. The next day I spoke with a doctor that worked at the Santa Rosa Ca. hospital by phone from Ukiah Ca. He told me that it’s impossible to lose all my body fat in twelve hours and survive. He also told me, I was lucky to survive this spider bite. The spider that bit me had a four inch body. Four years later I found another female running across the floor that was bigger than the one that bit me, about a six inch body. Which leads me to wonder, how big do they get. There common name is……..the assassins. I’ve been trying for many years to find info on this elusive and extremely dangerous spider with absolutely “No Results”
my mom has a bite or something on her ankle and we cant really tell what it is, so could someone please tell me what it might be!
hi all,i was weeding my driveway & seen a web,he was hiding under a leaf & was the biggest spider i have seen,i have not seen one like this?? orange-black legs with a big green body-i at first thought it was a egg sack but no!! it took about 8 sprays of raid before he went down-i put him in a jar after that & he is still moving!! any help would be appreciated-he is about 1 1/2-1 3/4 around.thanks
ok so a few nights ago i got bite by a spider or mosquito. a fday passed and nothing was wrong but yesterday when i woke up it itched like crazy, the bite is purple, and around it is swollen. i need help!!!! today i founf a rather larger spider in my room. its black fury, and has a white dot on its back. i need the name of the spider who did this.
1084- Jeanne- what is the other site you used to identify your spider? I am still trying to find out what kind #298 is.. I really need to know since dd brought one just like it home from FL.
Well, my dog and I have been getting eaten alive by one of the many types of bugs at our house. (Husband is bite free, of course)
The other day I found a bump on my head. I freaked out. Had husband look at it, he said it looked like a blood blister, after he scared me shitless about it possibly being a tick. He kept telling me to pop it as he looked at it, so I did. Apparently clear fluid and some blood came out. It is now a bump/scab.
Can’t post picture as “bite” was popped.
It does not itch, nor did it before. Could this be a spider bite???
the spider i found is like the one in the picture above,i have looked all over the internet and can’t find it, the picture is the one sal #816 can you please tell me what kind it is.
#67 The spiders in your picture look like Hobo Spiders. While being dangerous is questionable by some; I have always been told to stay away from them and that they are definatly venemous. Although not likely to be deadly, their bite is painful and can carry a host of unpleasant symptoms.
Hello,
I live in Gilbert, Arizona (near Phoenix) and found this spider in my backyard this evening. I thought it was a male black widow, but I was wrong. Can you tell me what it is? Thanks so much.
Rachel
I believe I have found a few of these lately, but I’m afraid this is the first time I’ve gotten a picture of one. I found it at around 10:00pm in the “track” of my sliding screen door here in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was dark tan / light brown in color although it does look darker in the picture.
Anything to worry about?
Thank you!
Do you know what kind of spider this is? Thanks!
Hello, This spider is outside every morning with a grand large web and when the sun comes up good… it and its web is gone but it sets up shop in the same place every night. I have attached some pictures. I am in central Florida. Thanks for any help.
I live in Colorado, I found this spider crawling on the floor in my room, and I’ve never seen a spider quite like it. It was dark gray and very shiny, it almost looked black it has 4 indents on it’s back in a square shape and it doesn’t have a white stripe down it’s back, that’s just from the flash. I was just wondering if it’s poisonous or not and what kind of spider it is. Thanks!
I cant believe the amount of people misidentifying brown recluses and banana spiders. Look, a brown recluse is NO BIGGER THAN A DIME!!!! It has a TAN (lighter colored) abdomen. If you dont have those two things, you dont have a recluse. Banana spiders?? The odds of finding one in the US outside of a produce stand in a grocery store is about one in a billion. Coated with white hair and capable of reaching 4-5″ across, they are obvious. Also obvious is that the majority of people attempting to identify the species here aren’t attempting to verify their claims. If you have a bite, and it gets bad, that DOESN’T mean that the spiders venom is necessarily at fault. Many harmless spiders can open up the skin and leave a lesion that is susceptible to infection. Many of the bite descriptions I have read here sound exactly like an infection.
Amanda, #1096 is a female Bold Jumping Spider. They are “bold” in that they will jump on you if you wear any black. They are ambush killers with exceptional eyesight. They like to hide on things that camoflage them so that they can ambush successfully. They are not dangerous, and if they see you coming, they will probably hide.