Spiders
This section is for questions about spiders and insects that do not fit elsewhere. If you have a question about spiders or insects of any type, post it here for everyone to see. I am not an expert, but I do my very best to make sure your comments and pictures are posted as soon as possible.
One question about spiders that keeps popping up is how many spiders does humans eat without knowing it? The common response is that one to two spiders per day make their way into your mouth and trigger an involuntary response that causes a person to swallow the spiders.
That’s hogwash and in fact, spiders will avoid you when they can. Most of us sleep with our mouths closed unless we are snoring, and even sleeping, spiders crawling on your face will likely be brushed off before they would ever make their way into your mouth. Breathing alone would be enough to dissuade most spiders from crawling up your nose or into your mouth.
Chances are, you’ll eat more spiders than you’ll find crawling around your body. Did you know that the Food and Drug Administration has a set of guidelines that allow insects and parts to be included in certain food products? It applies to fruits and veggies, such as apples with worms, etc.
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I have spiders at my house. im not sure what kind but i’m scared they will bite. No one I know has ever seen one like it. It’s about the size of a nickle and purple/red. I’m worried because one layed eggs in my room, and now i have a bunch of spiders crawling around. i don’t want to kill them if i don’t have to. Does anyone know what kind they are?
Well,
I am not an expert either, and I have nothing against spiders, but that will consider me to sleep with my mouth closed.
Anyway, I don’t think spiders should be crawling into my nose. That’s just wrong.
well, bye.
I just put a spider outside in the snow and now I’m feeling guilty if it wasn’t dangerous. It looked like a grass spider, but in addition to the white markings in the head section, it had a broader back section with an orange stripe down the back. I live in the foothills, at about 6600 feet. Thanks
I live in Philadelphia, PA and I’m unsure of the kind of spider I found in my bedroom. It’s white except the bottoms of the legs (the feet) are a dark color. It seems like a funnel web spider. It was crawling on a dresser I had been storing in my shed but has been in my room for a while. I put it in a tupperware container with small holes but i’m not sure what to feed it or anything. If anyone has any info please let me know.
I found a weird spider in my churches bathroom. It is just like a black widow except it has no hourglass on it’s belly and it is a brownish color with almost a checkerboard of dark brown and a sort of white color on it’s back. Anybody know what this is?
Bitten on face apparently while sleeping. Started as a small red area with a small blister in the center. The next day the blister was much larger, the area very red and swollen. Felt like I was fighting an infection. The third day the blister was even larger. Contacted doctor and he ordered oral antibiotic and an antibiotic cream. Fourth day, blister still very large but swelling and redness down. Fifth day doctor lanced blister. Thought it was possibly a black widow, said the area would probably be ulcerated for a while but that I had started medical treatment quickly and did not believe I would have any problems.
Any idea what might have bitten me. My symptoms seem more like a brown recluse than black widow. We had been cleaning out a large storage closet in our basement that is directly under our bedroom.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Peggy
I found a huge spider in my house today (Utah) and I can’t find one on the web like it, this sounds crazy but it actually has ten legs and two big protruding points, like fangs. The extra legs or palps, are a bit larger and longer than the actual legs but look very similar. It has a very skinny but long body, kind of yellowish tan with some black, almost like a scorpion but definately isn’t. The body is about 1/2 in long with 1 in legs. Can someone help me with this, I have kids and worry that it might be poisonous. Thank you.
I have these little tiny round spiders in my house, everywhere. I have never had them or seen them before. They are really small, round, and kindof have a hard round body that crunches when you squash them. I find them in my bed, the counter and wall of my bathroom sink, and on the wall in the bedroom. I have not found them down stairs. I have had two spider bites and they swelled up and was about 3 quarter sizes big. The nurse at work was alittle worried about it but I am allergic to bees and she thought I could have been having a reaction. I can spray for them because I am also allergic to bombs and sprays. I just want to know what these things are. Thank you.
I need to identify a spider it was shaped just like a black widow but was dark brown with orange stipes lengthwise on the outer part of the sac. I killed it by drowning it in tilex cleaner. I am in central CA never seen one in my 50yrs.
my boyfriend was bit on the arm by a little black and white spider while at a cookout and instantly started to complain about tingling and numbness up his whole arm. the bite area was swollen to a bit larger than a quarter and felt very hard. after about 15-20 minutes later they veins in his arm were all bulging and up each vein spaced about 2 inches apart, were raised bumps in the veins.
the following day, the bite looks a bit better and the veins have calmed down, but then the vomiting started… he just told me that now he is having trouble breathing…
does anyone have any idea? he said he wont go to a doctor and i am pretty worried
My friend is seeking advice about this spider, the spider was to small to be seen yet after 2 hours of being bitten his arm, hand, and fingers were in pain. One bite caused his whole arm to go numb and burn up, he encountered the spider in his attic but he couldn’t see it to identify it, any clue what spider it was?
my bf had a bad experience with a spider a few weeks ago. He said that it was CLEAR with a blackish/yellow spot on its back. What kind of spider is that b/c I’ve done research and others have seen the same kind of spider. It must be some kind of new species of spider b/c noone has answers for it. Please if you have any information, respond.
I’ve lived on the west coast of south-central FLA for 30+ years and have seen a spider 3 times in the last 2 weeks (once at dusk, once in the early pre-dawn, and once at night) and have absolutely no knowledge of any previous sightings of this girl or her species on my part. Sorry, no pics. However, here’s what I can say.
Her abdomen is symetrically round and about the size of a dime. She’s a dull brownish-grey in coloration with no other discerning markings or hairy enough to determine if she has a “coat.” Legs are proportional to body size (unlike a female brown recluse) total body size slightly larger than 4-5mm.
She has made a web near an exterior door that is stunningly intricate (rectangular with the classic spiral pattern in the center) and has 4 anchors (2 on the ground and 2 on the roof of my home) that rises over 10 feet. All 3 times I have seen her, she seems to recognize my presence and the web is gone (literally) within an hour or 2 so she seems highly secretive. Furthermore, the time that I saw her at pre-dawn, my teacup chihuahua literally bounced off one of the web’s anchors and immediately came back inside.
Now I’m a true Floridian and have had my share of run-ins with recluses and really do like spiders (I won’t kill one in the house / trap it in a glass and take it outside), but this one concerns me just a bit as I might accidentally walk into her web and might get bitten. Is this some Central or South American transplant and is it possibly venomous (yes I saw “Arachniphobia” but I don’t need to call in John Goodman’s character…or do I?). I’d appreciate anyone’s input as to this marvelous creature.
I sleep in the same bed as my husband. 2 nights ago a spider must have been in bed with us because I woke up literally covered in bites all over my legs. They are huge, quarter sized, hard and HORRIBLY itchy. I cannot stand them, and he didn’t get bit once. He never gets bit and I’m alwasy covered in bites. I don’t know how to stop getting bit all the time. HELP!!!!
i was sitting in my house when suddenly my bro noticed a HUGE spider on the wall, i mean this thing was tarantula huge, and i have bite marks all over my right foot, idk what it is, if its poisonus, or if its even a native spider or an escaped neighbors pet.
it had a bigish butt, which was brown with a black triangle centered on it, and its butt was pretty much a flat circleish shaped, the head /body was smaller but pretty much same shaped. the legs were kinda short and fat, pls help quick i cant afford a doctor
im in florida by the way
Well i dont have a picture. they are so little! they are itty bitty little brown spiders that string down from the celing. they are about the size of a nail head. i dont think they have bit anything but it just amazes me. they are everywhere! im to scared to get close to them. but i dont want to kill them either. they are a tannish color and i live in KY so i was worried maby Brown recluse spider babies?
Last summer I found this spider that looked like a bee. I mean it really looked like a bee. I thought it might have been a poor bee stuck on a spider web untill i got a closer look and saw the legs and lack of wings. I still haven’t found anyone who could identify it. Unfortunately, at the time i didn’t think of taking a picture and it hasn’t returned this year.
I live in minnesota.
we found a spider silver with yellow and black stripes across the body belly was black about the size of a quarter leg span
Kay, so I just killed a spider in my room, and it was a pretty good sized one this time. It was probably just bigger than the size of a quater. I have been looking up spiders to see if I can identify the one i found in my room, and I haven’t found anything out. This spider was a dark brown, with two black stripes going down the biggest part of its body. It was not a brown recluse, wolf spider, or black widow. I’m sorry, I already killed it
so I do not have a picture. It was kinda fuzzy thoough, if that helps at all. Please tell me if you have any idea of what kind of spider this was !
I got bit by a spider a couple days ago. I have no idea what kind of spider it was, but it was red all around the bite, and some swelling, also. I went to the ER, and they gave me some antibiotics (Bactrim). They said it should get better in the next 10 days. Well, I’ve been taking the medicine for 4 days now, and it’s still swollen, and it tingles every now and then. Should I be worried?
Also, can I put ice on the bite, to help with the swelling?
Ok, well today I was outside with my friend we where playing baseball, so he hits a homerun. So I went into the bushes to get the ball, and i saw this spider web right by the ball. So i thought to my self oh if there is a spider it wont hurt me(I have a pet rose hair spider you know those big ones at the pet store). Psh i was wrong that spider came out and bite my arm, but luckly it wasnt deadly it was a little orb weaver spider. But, the bite hurts really bad tho and its really swollen too. But, no big deal. Oh i took the spider home cuz i cought it. Now he is my pet. lol he is really cool i will take pics and post them of him.
hi. did you know that you are never six feet away from a spider and that every year, you at least eat 12 spider! thats possible because when you open your mouth, then sometimes they might crawl in. it can be a venomist one! so just watch out!
My son and I were exploring SPIDERS and their webs in the yard because my son had a school project. We came across 3 white spiky insect eggs hidden behind a thick wall of web. While observing the eggs, a spider was crawling around and my son thought it was bleeding. I looked closely and noticed it was a marking. We immediately went to the computer to look up what we saw. I am relieved to have found this site to prevent my son from getting any closer to harms way. Thank you for sharing your experiences.
my mom has had this same looking bite multiple times. she has fibromialgia and a lot of other things that weaken her immunities. she has black widows, garden spiders, and these other spiders that look like spotted brown and cream widows in her house rampant! i need to know if this is one of those or if she is growing mutant spiders in her house. she has had the same looking bite about 4 times now with multiple heads and a hard red disk under the skin about the size of a pancake. she has had stomach pain and a headache. she is allergic to every medication except arithromyicin.
I live in southern California and I found a bright red, shiny spider in my garden area under a rock. I can’t figure out what it is and I want to make sure it is not poisonous. It is about the size of a nickle and the butt of it is very large. Can you please help? I’ve looked everywhere I can think to look. Thank you!
i found a spider and i would like to know what kind it is the description is orange body orange legs and tan butt if you could help me that would be great thanks in advance
I lived in my home for 1 year. Since i have moved in i keep getting biten by the same spider when i am a sleep in my bed. The spider has black stripes and brown on top and white on bottom. It can be really fast when it wants to be. I’m not sure how many of them are in my home. Right now i have one in a jar. It can make a web. Its legs are 1in long. Its body is small. Its fangs are helf of a inch long. Do you know what type of spider this is?
Its bites don’t hurt unless touched. They also don’t get to big.
Help!!
I live in southern California, and there are 2, 3 foot webs.
We don’t know what kind of spider they come from, but the web is a triangle, connecting from 2 verticle spots on the wall, to the fence.. any ideas?
Big ? Small? HELP!!!
I live in Chico Calif, and my 2 yr old was bit by a spider they had no idea wha was wrong it swelled up her leg bormed a ring blister around it, uc davis never sayw anything like it.she had afevr of 102 for 3 days banko didn not work.
Hi. I got bit by a spider when I was getting out of the shower this morning. It was extremely painful. When I looked down my leg had blood dripping out. I caught the spider in a jar. I tried looking it up on the internet, and it gave me 2 options to what it was based on the description- either a red back spider or a black widow. I took the spider with me to the emergency room. They checked the spider and gave me antibiotics, a tetnus shot and pain medication. They said it was a superficial wound and that I should be okay b/c I wasn’t having the ‘normal reaction’ that you would have if the venom was injected into you. The area that I got bit on my leg is tender and it is a little red. I may go see my family doctor in the morning if I am not feeling up to par. I recommend if anyone gets bit by a spider to seek IMMEDIATE attention. Do not wait, you never know, this may be the time you wait too long.
I live in Tallahassee, Fl. I found a brown spider that had spun an egg sac on the outside of my car window under the plastic wind-shield I attached to that side window. The egg sac was a bright like lemon yellow color. The spider is light tan on top and a reddish brown on bottom. The body id about 4 times bigger than the head. Any ideas? Thank you!!
I have seen this spider in my house be for many times and I can’t find it on the internet does anyone now what type it is and if its poisonous?
I have the same kind of spider described by nicole in #8 above. I have only seen them in one bedroom (always on the bed itself) and the bathroom attached to it (usually in the sink). Unfortunately it’s my son’s bedroom and now he’s scared to sleep in his bed. They are tiny reddish brown globular shaped bugs. They don’t seem to move very quickly — their legs are pretty short. We have lived in this apartment for 3 years and never saw them until about 3 months ago. I also would like to find out what they are, where they come from, and what to do about them.
I just went upstairs and found one of the little buggers and took a picture of it. It’s not great, but it might help. After looking at the bug and the picture, I now think it only has 6 legs, so maybe it’s not a spider. See what you think.
I’m pretty sure that’s a tick, not a spider. I don’t know where you live, and the picture’s a little fuzzy, but it looks like a brown dog tick. They don’t carry lyme disease or attach to humans, but they sure are gross.
Found unusual looking spider. I found it near the roof of the house. It was creating a web and came down near my eye level and then went back up. It is dark (brown or black) and has a white fleur de lis design (well, the sides curve upward instead of downwards like the fleur de lis) but that is what I think of when I see it. I live in South Louisiana (Grand Lake) about 30 miles from the coast in Cameron Parish.
well i have a really big spider in my back yard it is about the size of my fist its about 3 inches wide and its legs are about 4 inches long it is brown and has a lot of spikes and white bumps over it i don’t want my dog or little brother to get hurt so i just want to know if its poisonous?
I live in santa clarita ca, the other day I found strange looking spider walking around my hous. It resembled a ant and a potato bug. It has 10 legs. Anyways I looked it up on the net and the closest spider that resembles it is a camel spider. But it then it said camel spiders are in Afghanistan. It also said these spiders are of solpugids group. So I looked solpugid up and there it was. It also said they live in southern ca, but I’m still wondered how it got here because I’m up north. So I believe I got myself a 0ne inch camel spider.
i found a bright red spider with a black lower half of its body im wondering if its poisonous or not and ive looked on every site possible…does anyone know any information about it?
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?
Hey guys
Please help me,
i have been bitten by something whether its a spider or something else i dont know. it began with a small spiderlike bite but then my whole finger got swollen and now im not able to move it much, last night i woke and my whole hand was sore without there being any sign of alternative bites. it seem to be affecting the bone structure in my hand and i am quite worried that it might get worse. do you know of a spider with the same kind of bite?? i want to firs make sure before i go to a doctor, your help would be appriciated. thanx
Me and my baby were playing on the living room floor , when i saw this freaky thing,, so i got my son & ran to the kitchen for a container. I needed to know what it was and if there were more. I did some research and found out it was a camel spider, which is scary cause i just had the bug man spray . Now i worry my baby might get bite.
I live in Los Lunas NM and i have never seen one of those and i don’t want to see one again……………
Hello, My name is Sarah and I live in Eastern Michigan. The past few years I have seen some spiders in my yard that have brought me great concern. They are EVERYWHERE! I am allergic to spiders and I’m nervous to even step out my back door! This makes me sad, because I’d love to spend the summer in the garden, not inside terrfied of being bitten.
I’m not sure if it’s one kind or two. I believe it’s two.
One of them is shaped similar to the brown recluse, it is light greyish tan in color and has a large oval on it’s back, except the ends come to a point instead of being rounded. The center of the oval shape is yellow or orange and is surrounded by a dotted line of black and white. They are absolutly HUUUUGE. At least three inches long, an inch wide and the legs are about 3 inches aswell.
You can get very close to them without them moveing. They seem extremely lazy and not very intimidated. The first one I saw actually appeared to be sun-bathing. I usually find them around my rabbit hutch.
The second is the same color, with similar markings but their abdomen is very bulbous and round. The bigger the spider gets, its abdomen swells extremely huge but the rest of it stays about the same. When they are killed, they pop into a greenish yellow goop rather than what you’d think was a spider. Those seem to be nocturnal.
They are everywhere though! You cant take more than a step before finding another one.
Please help!
I found a spider on my porch i have never seen. It was a bit bigger than a nickle and had a bright yellow (my son said orange) bulbus body and translusant clear legs with black evenly spaced rigs aound the legs. I can’t remember the color of the head-neither can my son- so it must not have stood out. It was probably black.
Any ideas what kind it was?
BB,
I’m not a pro about spiders but have been studying them and that spider you explained sound like a Saint Andrews cross spider but I could be wrong but if you can give me more details I could possibly find the name of the spider but until then don’t try to mess with the spider if you think it might I bite.
But if you can take a picture and post it on here that would be great!
I have a spider hanging outside my suite here and I have never seen anything like it. We have a lot of wolf spiders here so I am assuming it is a wolf spider only it is white or a crea color. Is it an Albino Wolf Spider??? Also It isn’t out during the day. It comes out at night and builds it’s web as well as sits in the centre of the web. Can you help tell me what kind of spider this could be???
ok, well i’ve read alot of these stories of spider encounters but im still not sure what mine is.
i live in Canada maybe about a week or two my little sister pointed out that there’s this HUGE spider by my window, so i go and see. After staring at it for awhile it scurried away and i haven’t really seen it since. Until yesterday, i saw its web (not it) it was huge kinda cool looking i guess. Then Today at 1:30 am i couldn’t go to sleep and i had my lights out, my bed is right beside the window so i look out of it. And there is the spider again! so i turn on my lights and go check it out, i’ve been staring at the thing for over 20-30 minutes just watching it out of curiosity its pretty big but i don’t know how big.
Here’s my description.
Its brownish with black stripes almost over its entire body, when you look at the back it has a weird design and two bumps that look like spikes, on the other side of the body its just has a black kinda thickish line. It has 8 legs (no duh?) there kinda skinny and you can kinda see the hair on them the back body is bigger then the head.
the thing is i cant find any pictures or matches to my spider the closest relation to mine is the wolf spider. but im not sure its that i’ve searched everywhere i can and im getting kinda scared to sleep now, not knowing what the spider is and the dangers.
i’d really like to sleep again so please help!
There is a spider I’ve never seen before making about a 2 ft. web on my back patio. It is black with 4 bumps on it’s back and it’s about 1/4 of an inch big. I don’t have a picture – yet – but I haven’t seen any pics on the Internet that look like this spider. Any help is appreciated!!
I will upload a pic tomorrow if he’s still there… not going near that thing in the dark!!
I just recently moved to a brand new apartment located in a wooded part of Galveston county in southeast Texas. I do know that the units sat vacant for a few months before people were allowed to move in. In that time it seems that the apartments were overrun by these little brownish black looking spiders with white or tan markings on the abdomen. I have never seen anything like it before, I have attempted to identify them on my own but I have not had any luck. If anyone can shed some incite on what they are I’d be very grateful.
I found a little tiny round spider/insect crawling on me. I have never seen them before. They are really small, round, and kindof have a hard round body that crunches when you squash them. It was in my bedroom. I have bites on me that I don’t know where they are coming from. I just want to know what these things are. Thank you. The picture matches Kris M #34 in 34!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please help!
i have got bit by something but i am not sure what it is i am really freaked out
I saw an insect/spider that had six legs. It had 6-7 red dots on its back and its butt was almost larger than its body. What kind of insect was this?
I’m trying to identify a spider. I live in Washington, on the Idaho border…we have a lot of spiders. Anyway, this spider had the biggest butt I’d ever seen. It was huge, bulbous and was orangish/tan. It’s web was on the side of the house and hung down quite a bit. It was probably as big as a half dollar and when my son killed it (sprayed it down then stepped on it..so no pic), there were white guts everywhere. What was this spider??
I live in southeast Mississippi and I have 3 small children. I am terrified of spiders but I recently had to face that fear when I was bitten in my sleep by a brown widow. I was very ill for 4 days and the bite swelled to the size of half a baseball. Slight fever, muscle cramps/ spasms, chills, nausea, stomach pain, chest pain, sensitivity to light, and the symptoms lasted for 4 days, slowly tapering off after the second day. This bite happened a month ago and I still have a pea sized knot there.
I did not go to the hospital as I did not realize what exactly happened until a whole day had gone by and worst of the symptoms had passed already. Instead I soaked in a tub full of warm/hot water with 2 cups of Epsom salt and 1/2 a cup of baking soda. I soaked in the salt bath for twenty to thirty minutes every day for about four days- holding the bite down in the water for several minutes at a time. It did quite a bit even after the first soak to draw much of the poison and inflammation out of the affected area. I then applied antibiotic ointment liberally and frequently for about a week. Drank plenty of fluids and took Motrin.
I soon realized after I was bitten that I had a BAD infestation under my carport- I killed twenty the first day, 15 the next morning, and 5 to ten of them here and there for the next two weeks. There were numerous spiny egg sacs everywhere and I did not find them to be shy at all about where they chose to build webs, however, when disturbed- they bolted. Now if you sit back and watch you can see tiny baby spiders floating through the air on strands of silk. They’re everywhere. Of all the research I’ve done- I gathered this advice:
Wear protective clothing being careful to protect your neck, face, hands, i.e. baseball cap& scarf- ladies wear your hair in a ponytail and twist into a bun, scarf around your neck covering the collar of your shirt
sleeves pulled over the cuffs of your gloves and pants tucked into your socks
Clear all clutter and vacuum all cracks, corners, eaves, ledges, window sills, door frames, etc, where webs are present- Any lawn equipment, childrens’ toys, lawn furniture, etc needs to be inspected for spiders & egg sacs and cleaned thoroughly.
I sprayed a regular home defense bug spray you find in home improvement stores but it only worked if you hit them directly and was useless once it dried. Use a good contact spray, kill em’ dead, suck em’ up with the vacuum, remove and destroy all egg sacs and make the environment is inhospitable- no other bugs as a food source, no clutter, maybe a real good residual pesticide if you can afford to hire someone professional or purchase it through a pest control business.
No chemical will work if you don’t eliminate the comfy living situation they find in your home- especially if you have other bugs all over the place. They’ll move in and take over. They breed like CRAZY and there are SO MANY babies- not cool. Still fighting my problem- I’ll update you if I am ever to get rid of them COMPLETELY. I pray- don’t want my babies getting bit and I don’t want another go at it either. Not fun.
P.S. TREAT your yard!!! Every inch of it- and the perimeter of your home and all entrance ways and windows!! It helps cut down on the bug population thus cutting down on the spider population.
I LIVE IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS, I HAVE SEEN THESE LITTLE BLACK HAIRY
LOOKING SPIDERS WITH A BRIGHT YELLOW DOT ON ITS BACK. THEY
ARE REALLY SMALL, I DO NOT KNOW IF THEY ARE BABIES OR IF THEY
ARE JUST TINY. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE. LIZ
THEY ARE REALLY SMALL, SMALLER THAN A DIME.
Response to #34 Kirsten, That picture looks like a bedbug.
Response to Bob #50
I found something almost exactly like what bob found in his apartment his post is number 50 it totally freaked me out, then it started coming after me. I pinned its abdomen down with a stick and tried to see how large the fangs were, they were rather large. It bit the stick I used to see the fangs and a crushed it, maybe I was a little harsh on the poor thing but I was bare foot getting fire wood and I would rather not get bit. I live in CA near the coast and I myself have done some searching on the web but have not found anything myself. The legs though seemed more red then brown to me.
I can’t shed any light on it but I thought I should post this.
hello my mom and dad found a spider in our house here is a description: yellow kind of a hexagon shape we don’t know what it is they took it to my school science teachers and they don’t know what it is either so if you know anything about this PLEASE reply
thank you
thomas
hey all i hope someone can help me identify i have a spider on my mail box that i’m terrified of it’s white with like brown stripes it’s about the size of a nickle with it’s leggs included. i can’t seem to find it so far yet on the net but any input would help
thanks
Kris M from post 34 and 35. I reposted your picture trying to find out what these are because I have seen similar insects in by bathroom. Here is the response I got:
“It is a “spider beetle” in the genus Gibbium.
Spider beetles of this sort are well-known “stored product pests” that infest flour and other dry foodstuffs. Locating the infested material and discarding it should end your problem, though Gibbium has been known to thrive in old houses with no obvious means of sustenance….
Store vulnerable foodstuffs (including dry pet food, birdseed, etc) in glass or metal containers with tight-fitting lids. Plastic and cardboard offer little resistance to hungry insects with chewing mouthparts.
Use any “.edu” website that addresses stored product pests for more information, and low-cost or no-cost do-it-yourself control measures.”
I found a 1/8 inch black smooth oval/round shaped body 6 legged bug, the body seemed more oval like not interrupted found in my 15th floor apartment brooklyn bathroom, bathtub to be exact ?
looks very much like the picture for 34 above here on your web site
when will I hear a response as I don’t see any to the inquires above?
i have a spider bite it has tiny red spots on it and cant find out what it is
I saw this weird spider in my house around maybe febuary this year an it was a red-orange with almost a cone shaped body, it had hard outer shell and moved very quickly. Luckily, I killed it after screaming five times.Does any one have a clue what that thing is? I could not find a picture of it on the internet.
I went to visit my dad for the summer once and decided to go for a walk in the woods out back. I took my phone with me because it had a decent camera on it, and I take pictures of everything. Anyway, I came across this one spider that I had never seen before. it was small, and if I had looked any faster, I would have just assumed it was bird poop, but I stopped because I saw this “bird poop” walk on a web. I watched this spider in awe of its strange body. I had never seen anything like it before. Then when i tried to take a picture of it, the spider was so small that the auto-focus wouldn’t work, so I took a leaf, got it as close behind it as I dared, and took a closeup picture of it. I didn’t know if it was poisonous so I didn’t get too close. I finally decided to do some research on it and found that it was a Spined Micrathena spider.
I really need to know what kind of spider this is, I can’t find an answer anywhere. I took a picture of it in Greensboro, NC in a forest. It was yellow and orange with black and white legs. It’s body was bulbous and maybe about 2 inches long. Anyone know what it is?
I have spiders in my bedroon. They have orange circle on back and orangee brown legs and seem to disapear in light. I have tried to catch them but cannot. They have not bitten yet. One woke me up and was in my nose and I blew it out, that is when I got a look at it but disapeared before I could catch it. They have had babies in my ceiling light/fan. I want to get rid of them, please help. These spiders do not leave webs but do crawl on them.
Before winter came, i woke with one on my arm… i didn’t get bit, but spring is back and now there everywhere! I was wondering at first if is was something like a hobo spider, giant house spider, something like that… its black(or just a very dark brown), it is not skinny, but definitely not stubby, legs are same color, still not skinny but slightly long, not straight, and the two huge front legs that are bent, there are no tiny feet-like bends on the end of the legs, its lower abdomen is not sac shaped or extremely large, but probably the same size as its upper abdomen, but i cant remember too much about the tiny details because im too afraid to even be in the same room, but the underside is the same color as the top, and there’s no other color, and if there is white, its really tiny and not obvious. It could probably fit on a nickel(maybe smaller). It stays on the ground, i dont see any webs, they run slightly fast, there almost never in the open(unless running), usually next to something or in between things. I live in Utah.
Today I was in the bathroom looking in the mirror, I turn around to reach for my wash cloth and a huge black spider was on the edge of the tub. At first i thought it was fake but then it began to move. I didn’t quite get a good look at it because i was terrified so I killed it with raid. I live in Philadelphia, PA. Please Tell Me What Kind Of Spider It Was.
@ april,
The spider could be these certain types, black widow, or a wolf spider. Where you like i think the best closet spider would be a black widow.
I found a spider on my school locker it was all black with a furry body and an orange diamond on the bottom. It freaked me out when I looked up to find it just sitting there staring straight ahead. It creeped me out so I smashed it up. I looked it up and can’t find what it is anybody know?