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Sorry no photo, I’m at work. Keep seeing this spider outside. No “web,” but it sits on a couple of silk threads just blowing in the wind. It is light green with a fluorescent yellow rectangle on the top (I think it’s the top). It’s “skinny” with long legs. The legs are green with black stripes. It is not 1/2″ long. Anyone know what kind of spider this is? I’m on Long Island, NY.
we found a spider that has red legs & body,black head, black abdomen and 4 strange whitish-brown marks on it, it was very big it was under our porch. i live in port mcneill bc, Canada.
the spider ive found looks exacly like a brown recluse spider. i live in Michigan and i’ve read on many web sites about this spider ive found and it says they are very rare to Michigan. although they do like dark places such as under books and boxes, they like dark areas. We found this spider in our basement and its very warm down there. another thing that these spiders like. also i’ve found that they can live up to six months without food and water. this spider i have found is a darker brown and about the size of my palm. it has two huge fangs and big eyes. its legs are about two inches long maybe less. its just a estimate. and it looks as if its legs are spread out as if its on water. its very big and thankfully it hast bit anyone in the house. we have it in a jar at the moment because we want to find out what it is. although we aren’t sure yet. would someone like to send any info on it that would be VERY helpful.
my e-mail is x_coracupcake_x@ live.com
thanks again.
Cora.
I have seen the replies to #22 and I am worried that you are causing this poor person unnecessary stress! A brown recluse spider doesn’t have any marks on it like that spider does.
I also found a spider in my house it was #62 does anyone know what it is.
Thank you
rachel..#22
(i believe that is a brown recluse spider)
Dear Camilo and Allen, This is most defenitly NOT a Brown Recluse Spider. This is Wolf spider, they are much more hairy. Wolf spider mothers carry their young on their back. Wolf spiders can be kept as pets simler to a tarantula. (wich I have done) Wolf spiders are not dangours (unless allergic) and should be released out side into the grass their prefeard home. Your basement is probly not their first choice…. Brown recluses are much smaller and very skinny plus the have a fiddle shaped mark on their cephlathorax. If I can find a brown recluse pic I might upload it. It saddens me to see such a intersting spider die.
James L.
298… anyone? anyone know what it is? still hoping to find out.. or if anyone knows of any other sites I could check on? tia!
Not sure what I got bit by, About the size of a nickel. Started looking like a bruise with a raised bumpin the midddle.Does not hurt or itch.
Every year we have one of these staring at us as we walk out of our front door!! What is it and is it dangerous?????
Albert & Cynthia
Let me start by saying, I firmly believe that you should live and let live. Everything serves a purpose in nature and we all must coexist…humans, animals, insects, etc. I don’t kill anything – I catch and I release. (and living in the North Georgia Mountains, I do ALOT of catching and releasing!!!)
That being said, I do not wish to harm the spiders that have taken up residence between the screen and the glass of ALMOST EVERY window in my house, as well as the corners of my porch, deck and sunroom, UNLESS I HAVE TO!!! After hours of internet research and days spent studying the spiders, their webs and their egg sacs, the only reasonable conclusion I can make is that they are Brown Widows. However, I don’t see an hour glass (although it’s been hard to see the underside of their abdomen) and the egg sacs aren’t as lumpy as I’m told they should be. I just can’t find information on any other spider with similar characteristics.
Please help me! I am at my wits end trying to identify them and THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!!! As you’ll see in the picture, one egg sac even “hatched”. I don’t have children but I do have a husband, (3) dogs and (2) cats, all of which I want to keep safe. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Rhonda Balsamello
Big Canoe, Georgia
Hey,
I live in Montana and I have arachnophobia, so i try to find out all i can about the spiders that live in or around my house. But there is one spider i can’t seem to find anything on. I couldn’t get a picture sorry. But the spider is probably about the size of a quarter. Its body is bright yellow and has red almost translucent legs. It’s body is very round. Any information would help we have a two year old in the house and I am wondering if the spider is dangerous. I have never seen anything like it before and neither has my family. Any thing would help.
Thank you,
Amanda, Montana
sorry my mom got closer to the spider and she says the one she saw was the size of a dime. my mother is really starting to worry about the baby in the house. Is the spider dangerous?
posts #712 and #746 are probly a wolf spider family “hogna” perhaps just spent alot of time examining the same looking spider from my family’s basement in Colorado. I also have a similar looking spider to Kimberly #666 and Armondo’s #676 and now I am stuck. I cannot seem to find any other picture’s of the spider in order to tell what it is and if I should be worried. PLEASE HELP! WHAT IS THE UGLY BLOOD THIRSTY SPIDER CALLED?
My husband found this spider in our kitchen. This is a picture from your page that matches what he found. Could you PLEASE let me know what it is and if it is poisonous. I am deathly afraid of spiders and want to know about this one. Thanks.
I found this spider on my rocking chair on the front porch. Wicked looking, can you identify it for me.
Thank you
Nancey Ragan
Augusta GA
I live in Kailua, Hawaii on the island of Oahu and yesterday I was sitting on my sofa when a small spider ran over my foot. It was a light yellow/brownish and I think a redish blotch on or covering its abdomen. With legs stretched out would probably have reached the edges of a dime. I don’t think that it was poisonous but I am interested in what it was because I have never seen one before. My cat ate it before I could take a picture but I am leaning towards a Happy Face Spider in which case I will feel bad because I know they are extinct. Please let me know what kind of spider it is. Thanks.
Hey
we have seen in the kitchen a small-medium sized spider.
4 small yellow spots on its back and red toned legs
Spiders started appearing at night several days ago. Web is gone after sunrise and they rebuild each night after dusk. Abdomen is definitely a bright yellow and one almost has a fluorescent green yellow look. Of course the yellow blanches with the flash and when I don’t use the flash the lens stays open and the picture is blurry. One of the neighbors claimed he got bitten by a spider and ended up in the hospital. I am trying to identify this spider. One of them is quite large about the size of a silver dollar. The other two are about the size of a quarter.
Joe
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I dont have a pic sorry but I was making my bed and saw across the bed was a spider at first it looked like a wolf spider (get them alot) but It was smaller and was dark brown and had Light brown Diamond shapes all the way down its body, its legs was hairy! My daughter and I have been getting bites on our bodies and they have been sweeling up as big as nickles and are very red some are yellow in the middle but as time passed the bites go away ! but hope you can help thanks kc
i sent some pictures of a weird looking spider and was wondering if you knew what it was. sorry the pictures aren’t so great.
I found a spider that was black with a white circle on it’s back and an orange dot in the middle of it. Looked like a black widow, but never seen one like this. Plus adv what kind of spider is this?
I live in Northern Utah and some years I find a ton of these on the road, on my siding, in my garage. People tell me it is a Wolf Spider, but when I look at pictures on the internet, this one does not look like a wolf spider? Is is a grass spider? Some I have seen are as large as my palm. Most are larger than a silver dollar. It is all brown except for some white and black stripes. Can you help me identify and give me some peace of mind. Thanks.
I am just curious if you might be able to identify the spider I saw last night, i don’t have 100% memory of it but I’d say its body was somewhere from 3 inches to 5 inches in size, it was a dark Grey spider and i think it was striped going vertical and i believe they were black. I live in iowa if that helps and I just really want to know what the heck is hanging out around m apartment. @.@ Thank you.
Yes, i have found two spiders that are almost identical-didn’t have a camera with me-the beast way to describe them are as follows: The first one had a gray body with black spots, reddish brown legs and the tail end was curved like a scopion and it acted like it wanted to sting. The second one was black with the same color legs and the tail end was the same as the first.
Please help identify…found this spider in flower box on deck–July 2009. Flower boxes contain petunas. Located in Maryland. Sorry for the poor quality of photos–taken with my camera phone. When I returned with my regular camera–it was gone (at least I couldn’t find it which creeped me out more). The legs and head were black, but the rear segment was bright shiny red with a line of black dots down the middle of the segment. The rear segment also appeared to end in an upward point. I’ve been searching all over the web and can’t seem to find an answer. Thanks for looking.
Hi…. I found i spider earlier today that looks like its related to the tranlancha family… but not sure it black with a yellow spot on its back… and has furry legs….. Is it deadly or should we kill it? Its in a jar.
Thanks,
Alexis
I am wondering what kind of spider #62 is. I live in Salt Lake City, UT and I have found 2 very similar looking spiders like that in my basement apartment. The spider is a very vibrant red. My initial thought is red is never really a good thing. I have a 3 year old boy and want to make sure the danger level of the spider just to be aware. Not sure if it is THAT spider exactly but has very similar resemblance. Any info would be super appreciated! Thank you!
#80 / Andy – I have the same spider! i’ve captured it and am treating it as extremely dangerous until I find otherwise. I just can’t figure out what it is; i feel like i’ve been to every possible spider site! please help
Hi All-
I just got back from a canooing trip in Northern Indiana. Upon stopping to relieve myself, I looked at a log directly in front of me and saw the biggest spider ever!!! I scared it and didn’t get a picture, but I was hoping that my description would prompt someone to recognize this beast of a spider.
To me, it looked like a wolf spider who mated with a tarantula. It was, and I’m not kidding here, the size of an’s adults palm. The body of this thing was about 2 1/2 inches (including the head). The legs, however, sprawled out like they were, made this spider gigantic. It was brown in color, not noticable other colors on it’s body. Didn’t look too hairy or anything. One thing about this spider was that it’s butt did stick out a little more than your average wolf spider, but I would characterize this spider’s body of more longer than round. I didn’t notice any black in it or anything…
I couldn’t believe how huge this thing was. I am not exaggerating it’s size. Literally the size of my palm. Any ides?
I forwarded photos (7/10) of a spider found in the lower level of our house. Can you help us identify the type of spider we found?
I found a spider very similar to post #666 and I was also wondering what kind of spider that is. Myself and my crew at work have been bitten by several different types of spiders, and this is the first one I’ve seen like this here.
First off, i live in northern Michigan (upper peninsula) and these spiders were in my camp last night and this morning and all i can think of is these being wolf spiders, much too large to be brown recluse’s. one of them, the largest had a body about 2 inches long, but really thick, and with the legs extended about 4 1/2 inches in diameter. almost all black and gray, but very hairy. the second spider, which was on the floor this morning about 2 feet from my head was smaller, but had a very round bottom on it, and was more shiny black then hairy. i’m not really worried about them being poison, just curious as to what they are. thank you for any help.
To number 87 it looks like you have a brown widow spider which even though it is not as venomous as the black widow its still one of the most venomous spiders and its highly dangerous
Cindy, the black spider that you have found is what I believe to be a regal jumping spider. They are not venomous to us, but they will bite.
i really don’t know what happened to me but my hand is purple and on my thumb a little low has a wit spot and itches really bad
Does anyone know what spider #766 is??? Have on on my desk in a jar that looks just like it.???
What is this? We are stationed at camp Pendleton, CA.
Thanks,
Bobbi
I kill this type of spider daily in my house. Is it dangerous or poisonous? I am about to have a grandbaby in the house and I am worried. Please help. Thank you.
Would someone please help me out on this?
I’m pretty sure this is a commonly seen spider, but I would like to know what I am dealing with. They are all over my home.
Found (often) running across sofa, floor, bed, walls… of my South Carolina home.
The size from leg to leg is about as big as a half dollar to the old silver dollars (US).
I’m pretty sure its not a brown recluse, but I’m no expert, so this is why I am asking.
I’m generally not so squeamish (sp)… but this one was running across my back last night while I was laying in the bed (obviously this was why it is in the squished state it found itself in).
The funny thing is, I have been seeing so many of these, that I literally shook out my sheets before I went to sleep. This just freaked me out.
I would really like to get an email reply to this, if possible. So feel free to print my email HomeNot@ HotMail.Com
Thanks,
Kyle
Sorry I didnt take a picture but I will never forget it. I live in mid-Missouri and found one spider in the house and one outside in an almost empty water bowl. It’s body is about an inch long, and well over 2 inches with the legs. It is dark brown and the body has two distinct round sections. The legs, upon closer inspection (after it was dead), were slightly hairy and had stripes across them. Larger than any wolf spider I have seen, common here, they can jump a couple inches, are very fast, and smart. The one inside ran from my son to me, dashing under the couch at the last second. We moved out the couch looking for it and eventually found it clinging to the bottom of the couch. I don’t want to go to sleep anymore. What could they be?
Hi there, my name is katie and i live in boise, Idaho. i have never seen one of these around my house… until now. ive been searching to figure out what it is and i have no idea. can you help? its body is just less then an inch long.
thanks,
katie
I found this spider in my garage. I live in Southeast Michigan. Oakland County.
Can you help me identify this spider?
Tom Braun
My children found this spider on the side of our house. We live in Massachusetts, in between Boston and Plymouth. It appears to have a ton of little ones as well – so small that they are barely visible unless you are looking closely. Any idea as to what it is?
Thanks,
Stephanie
We found this spider on our living room chair — first floor. We live in
Cleveland, OH. We’ve never seen a large spider like this in our
area…probably 5-6 inches.
Can you identify, please?
Thanks for the help,
Mike Brediger
Cleveland, OH
Just got bit in the big toe by something… I presume a spider (can’t find it) while sleeping. I have two puncture marks in my toe and the bite woke me out of my sleep…it felt like I got electricuted. Any thoughts? I live in Illinois.
Couple of these spiders are appearing around outside of my house and I was wondering what type of spider they where. They have funnel type webs and this is in North Carolina. Thanks in advance for your time and help.
Oh my gosh! I live in Boise, Idaho and i am very use to seeing only the typical house spiders… with the exception of when my family goes camping up in Northern Idaho. Sometimes some interesting eight-legged freaks hitch a ride in our backpacks and we find them as we are unpacking. So,I found this exotic spider that was frighteningly large in my house a couple days ago. I thought that maybe it was from when I came back from vacation( I went to Colorado Springs), until I went to my friend’s house and saw the exact same spider- she lives about five blocks away.
The spider is a yellowish shade with a very large abdomen. It has red and whitish-yellow striped legs. On the upper area of the abdomen, there are two very large horns. It is a little bigger than a penny! It was making an extravagant web near my t.v. chair and i usually don’t disturb spiders if they are not harming me, but i wanted to examine it closer. My younger brother and I were attempting to put it in a bottle, and we were successful for a few seconds, and then the spider popped outta the bottle perfectly accurate through the not so large hole! We were both shocked! Then we realized that it was still hooked on to its amazingly thick web, and it also appeared to be playing dead. I am afraid of how absolutely clever and intimidating this spider looks, but i can’t find any information on it.
Anyone got any Ideas?
I and my parents were tearing up our deck when I spotted one of these skittering around. I couldn’t tell you what the webs looked like because we tore them up with the deck without realizing it. There was also one that was identical in shape but smaller, with a slight purple sheen to it.
The one in the picture was small in comparison, I was worried because I haven’t ever seen this type of spider before.
I saw a spider that had a yellow fuzzy body and black legs not afriad of water cause i tried to drowned it with the hose very fast runner just wonderinf what kind it may be. We live in noth western arizona.
My name is Amber and I am looking to find out if the two kinds of spiders i found in my back yard are dangers to me or my pets.
I have been looking on many websites and I am not finding what I am looking for. I am from Manitoba Canada and I have just moved in to a house that had a pool left behind that was all deflated and mashed up and unused for a long time and wet on the ground and when I went to move it there was brown spiders with little white bums on them. Me being scared of spiders didn’t look to hard but they moved fast and if i saw them right they could fit on a quarter. The other is very very tiny almost hard to see little red spiders i found on my deck. I don’t have any pic’s as of yet but if i can get us the courage, I will take a few.
Thanks
#1138, Bobbi, I live on Camp Pendleton too and we have these spiders all the time in our house. They are just grass spiders, not any danger. Try putting some lemon pledge around doors and windows it should help keep them out.
Hi there! I found a spider out at my land that I have never seen before! I’ve been searching sites and found nothing simular. It was not hairy, med size (inch and a half or so). It was slightly translucent, and was a yellowish color with redish stripes on it’s legs with a lemon like body. It was on top of some grasses. Any idea? I’d love to know.
out_of_the_box86@hotmail.com
Thanks!
well i don’t have a picture but i will explain to you what i found.
my sister and i were in our backyard and we found our dogs sniffing at a baby dead mouse or something. my sister went to pick it up with a leaf and an orange spider came out. i think it looks like(the body not the color) the spider Robyn showed. it was bright orange though. we were by a wood pile if that helps. we thought it was a tick at first. my sister was scared for our dog because he rubbed his back on that spot too.
please help us.
Rae’s spider (1149) looks like a female black widow
Hi. I sent some photos via email in hopes of an identification.
Michelle
i found this spider and I was wondering what kind it is and if it is poisones or not?? I live in Prescott, Az.
i happened to see this spider on the patio today.
it has tiny hairs and is black and brown with brown stripes on the legs.
no less than 2 inches wide.
we live in Vermont.
appears to be some sort of egg sack being clutched under it. (can we expect to see a bazillion more of these guys around here sometime soon?)
We found this odd spider outside our home in upstate New York. No one we know has ever seen one like this. Sprawled out it’s larger than a quarter. It’s abdomon is a sulfur yellow and its legs are dark brown and clear striped.
Okay, i don’t have a picture of the spider I saw, sorry about that. This spider was pretty small. It might fit at the end of my fingertip. It was like, a light green and dark green stripped all over its body and on its belly there was an orangish/redish mark that reminded me of the black widow hour-glass shape. I didn’t get a good look at the top of it, because it was in its web up in a corner of a pool that I was swimming in. I’ve never seen one like it before and all of my searches come up with nothing.
Anyways, thanks for the help! — Liz
I found this in my kid’s crib a few minutes ago. She has some bites I thought were mosquito bites until I found the spider. We live in Pennsylvania, but my mom just sent us a box of clothes she got at a yard sale in Georgia which I unpacked near her bed. Is it a bad spider? A biter? Poisonous? Kid has been scratching the crap out of her foot for two days. I saved the spider in a vial. (I wouldn’t be concerned, except I was bitten twice by spiders when I was a child, once by a recluse, and once by something unknown that made a mark and black escher.)
i found baby spiders in my room, i was on my laptop and something bit me they are very small and basically translucent appear to babies and appeared out of nowhere its itchy i cant get a picture of the spiders or the bites because they are minuscule i live in NY are they dangerous and what should i do about them im not a spider person
I found a black spider with red on the back of her abdomen, guarding an egg case, under the lid of my composter. I moved them both nearby, but off of the composter. The descriptions of black widow spiders say the red is UNDER the abdomen, not on the top, right? The spider is about 1.25 in diameter and we live in North Carolina.
my friend took a picture of this spider she found outside her job in sloatsburg, lower new york. she says it was really big. it has 2 yellow stripes running down the sides of its brown body. its 2 front legs are extended forward and are different colored from its body. can someone identify it for me so i can tell her if its poisonous or not? thanks a lot.
hi there,
I’m on a vacation in Spain right now, but i’ve seen a very strange spider in our swimming pool today.. i was wondering what kind of spider this could be! the spider has black/dark brown hairy big legs, his body is round and big too (at least i think its his body…) its black and dark red/brown.
now what i think is its head…. it’s in a shape of a water-drop only much bigger, like the nail of a man’s thumb, with 2 large teeth, the head is black/grey, with 4 yellow dots.
hope somebody knows what I’m talking about!
greetings…
I live in Central PA and have had two spiders like this in my basement. I have never seen them this huge in this area. They move rather slowly and I only see them at night.
I found a black spider with a white zizgzag on its back. At first it was in the front sitting in his web between the trash can and the house. I moved one of the can to the side of the house and it made its web there.The spider grow in size in about 5 days. I live in Cary, North Carolina. My neighbor had two like that in the back of his house.
My daughters discovered a spider making a web outside their bedroom window. It is brown with a bulbous body and a black bell shape on a white field on its belly. Toward its rear is an another dark brown bell shape, not on a white field. Total size with legs splayed is about a quarter.
This spider was found in a warehouse in Northeast MS. It is the size of the end of a pencil eraser.
Thanks,
Duddy
1147 Alchimera, Looks like that could be a Funnel Web Grass Spider.
Kristi
#1164
That’s a Nursery Web Spider, they are big enough to give a painful bite, but aren’t considered dangerous. Hope that helps!
Kristi
#1164
That’s a Nursery Web Spider, they’re big enough to hurt if bitten, but not dangerous. Hope this helps!
I live in southern California,and i saw a spider in my bath tub. It was mainly brownish and had like red brown legs but the legs weren’t long. it looked like a black widow just it was reddish color. it was about 1.5 inches. i would have taken a picture but it went down the drain before i could take the photo.
what kind of spider was #7
#21 is a Banded Orb weaving spider non aggressive and non posionous to humans.
Hello, I found few spiders identical as the one numbered 62. They were in the living room and kitchen sink of my apartment. I have never seen this kind of spider and had problems identifying it. I have 20 months old doughter and I am very concerned with her safety. Could you please let me know what kind of spider it is. Is there anything I could do to make the apartment less desirable for spiders?
I appreciate your response.
Kate
#70 that is a jewelled spider it is in the orb spider family and is non poisionous.
I found this spider making a web late one night , the web was very large and the spider is about the size of a dime. can anyone help to identify this spider?
i found the EXACT same spider as Valerie Kolusk #916 . The only problem with this web site is that everyone is posting photos and questions, but I see NO answers.. Am I missing something here? I want to know what this scary spider is and if i need to do anything about them being around the place.. thanks.
I was wondering if anyone has identified sonda’s spider, #62? I live in Colorado and I have seen two of these in the past two days. One was crawling across the carpet in the basement and the other one crossed the driveway and crawled under some pave-stones. Are they dangerous?
I can’t send a photo right now because the spider is nestling in a corner of the glass I trapped it in and the lensing affect is defeating my poor camera’s abilities to take a clear picture…
I am usually quite tolerant of spiders because they eat the real pests that I can’t stand, but this one was skittering across my kitchen floor and sort of rearing up at my cats very aggressively. Since I wasn’t sure if it was poisonous, and I could not keep the two cats off of it, I captured and kept it under the glass rather than my usual catch and release policy.
The spider is mostly red or a deep brick orange. It has black markings – like short stripes – on its abdomen but the front part is mostly solid. Its legs are black and yellow in bands – its 4 rear legs have many smaller bands but its front 4 legs are only black near the base and then solid yellow to the tips so that the tips are almost invisible against the glass. The front of its “face” – what looks like maybe eyes or pincers or antennae – are black. The stomach has similar coloring to the back, although there seems to be an oval/cyllinder shaped brownish area in the very center of the bottom of the abdomen that is hard to distinguish from the rest of the orange.
If I can send a picture later I will. The most distinctive feature was not its looks but its aggressiveness – it ran towards my cats and reared rather than running into a dark corner like most of my eight-legged friends….
Continuation of #1170…I just realized my spider looks a lot like spider #1169 except instead of the white on 1169’s rear legs it is a yellow color. The legs of my spider seem a bit longer and leaner and the abdomen seems shorter but really I was surprised when the page updated and it seemingly pulled a picture of my spider out of thin air.
To #22 and #72 (Rachel and Michelle):
Please do not panic. Those pictures do NOT look like a Brown Recluse. I don’t see the tell-tale fiddle or violin shape on the cephalothorax (the part right behind the head). Both of these pictures look more like a wolf spider. While venomous, they are non-aggressive spiders that would sooner run then bite. I would not be overly concerned, but if someone does get bitten by one of these spiders, you should notify medical personnel.
Krystal (#147)
That’s what we southerners affectionally call a Crab Spider. They come in many different colors (my personal favorite one is black and white), and are harmless.
Tyler (#239)
The spider that you are describing sounds like a Daring Jumping Spider. It is black or brownish in color with 3 spots on its abdomen (2 smaller near the point of the abdomen, one larger towards the head). It is harmless, but can be aggressive. I hope that helps!
Jeff (#220) and Stacey (#222),
These pictures appear to be from the family Steatoda, or false widow spiders. These spiders are harmless.
I keep finding this particular spider in my basement, its has a white abdomen, bright red legs and head, and its fangs look more like mandibles. Its about 1 inch or more in length. Is it poisonus? Aggressive? PLEASE HELP
It actually looks kind of like #1157 but with NO hair
Anybody know what the spider is in Tiffay’s post (1157)? I found three of them recently, I live in Flagstaff AZ, can’t seem to ID it. I have another macro picture if one is needed.
This spider along with 3 others that look almost like it where found on my patio outside my apartment in Madison, AL. TY! I hope i zoomed in enough for you to identify it. Thanks again
I found this spider in my friend’s back garden, right by the back door. Even though the spider fascinates me, it makes me nervous as she has a 13 month old who plays right by the spider!! Is it dangerous?
Thank you for any info!
This big momma was found by the lake house in Pensacola fl. is it a biter?
Please let me know!
I found a large spider in my yard making huge spider webs it looks like the pictures belonging to # 7 and # 67 and need to know if they are poisonous or not. I have very small children and I want to know if there may be more around.
Thanks, Barbara
#72 – that’s a wolf spider. it is venemous, but non-agressive. if bitten it does require medical treatment.
what kind of spider is this its just like # 95 picture please tell me asap (as soon as possible)
Today I killed a spider that looked quite similar to #911, But I’m not sure whether it was exactly the same, the only thing I’m certain about is the legs which looked exactly the same. And I think the body had quite that shape. and the colours were pretty much the same.
I found it in a shipment from the US (I live in Sweden). It’s interesting to know whether it was dangerous, and how to know.
I caught a spider that looks like chirsy’s white with yellow stripes with minor black ones and the legs are banded and i kinow it not a Saint Andrews Cross spider. Please help me
Hey it’s me again it looks like chirsty (20) spider and it kind of scares me
i just got bit by a spider…..
it was very tiny… mostly black but had like a sheil on the very back that was white with black spikes
I just sent in a photo of a small white spider(ling)? in a glass which was probably dime sized measuring with legs extended. I am guessing an orb weaver of some sort. big white butt. I turned it loose. just wondered what kink it was. Also, can you recommend a good spider identification book?
thanks, Jane in SLC
I have what Sarah #21 has under a roll of tape with a card on top. It looks big but I think it is a coward. It plays dead also. Not at all aggressive but too big to let wonder about the house. Northern California. Should I nix it or show mercy?
Sarah
#21. September 21st, 2007 at 8:17 am