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 so others can help. If you found a spider and are looking for more information, our Spider Identification will help.
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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.
I have over 35 bites on just my right leg… Its all over not just in one spot… Any ideas I live in Alaska … And I went to the clinic ad the said bed bugs were not what I was dealing with!!!
i saw a spider in my house it was the size of a quater it was s big brown im 10 years old i looked it up and its a brown rucluse there posiesn i almost got bit but i killed it by using a shoe scary. you cant outsmart the power of shoe!-_-
i live in lamar colorado and i found a spider today in my house…we have rose bushes by our front door and i think thats where it came from….the spider is a dark brown color with an orange triangle on its back it has faint obaige stripes on its legs …can anyone identify this spider for me pleeeeease !!!!
Look at this spider!
This is just one out of ten we found tonight!
I live in Rockville, Maryland and my brother spotted kind of like a purple daddy long-legs spider, it was huge. I have no clue what it was or if it was dangerous, so we went inside, I’m still curious about what it was, can anyone identify this spider so I can finally sleep well again? Thanks!
Just curious, what is the offspring of a black widow and brown recluse called? Black recluse? Does anyone have a picture?
Before Death Brown widow pics of Mother and Eggs in my Spare bedroom,
I live in Bellaire Bluffs FL, South of Clearwater…and i noticed these spiders but never paid them any mind. They are very docile but when catching her she became a trained killer…stinging and trying to bite at anything she thought she could get her fangs into. They eat other insects including spiders!
I attached a photo of a spider I found by my house. I can’t find anything like it on the internet. I need to know if it’s dangerous or not.
Hey there,
I took these photos over the last few days, the first one was taken in our basement in the evening about 8pm near our washing machine. It is approximately slightly larger then a silver dollar full span and is the second we’ve seen of this species.
The second photo was taken outside in the early morning (about 7am) and the spider was feeding at the time. The web is very “cobwebby” and chaotic and is in a sump type basement window below ground level. The spider is currently feeding and looks to have a “widow” type shape. Its quite small maybe 1-1.5 cms but very pretty I think and didnt seem particularly bothered when i stuck the camera in its face.
We are located in Southern Ontario Canada about an hour west of Toronto in the Kitchener/Waterloo area.
Feel free to use the photos/description on your site, I dont have online photo hosting so felt a comment was redundant without a photo.
Regards and thanks in advance
Pete
This post is in response to Kris M’s picture!
Kris, you’ll be glad to know that this isn’t a spider at all – what you have in your home is an American Spider Beetle, which are completely harmless to people. They typically can be found in kitchens and (in my case) the bathroom. Beetles, although some of them can look large and menacing, NEVER bite humans. The American Spider Beetle, because of its small size and long antennae, sometimes is mistaken for a bed bug or a spider. But trust me, this little guy just wants to eat your leftover food. You can tell your son he’s safe and sound.
I found a spider that is grey with a widow’s body and it has a dark blue diamond on it’s back and I can’t find anything on what kind of spider it is. Do you know the resources to find out the breed of spider it is? I also have a house spider that has laid two egg sacs and is super aggressive towards any of the spiders we put in with her except the brown widow
Hi have just seen a light brown beige color spider in my garden spinning a rather big web. It look just like a little little crab nothing like the common crab spider with the over grown front legs but all the legs the body it looks just as if a baby crab is spinning a web. It has a cross on the belly in red and brown and black. Does any one have any idea if its poisonous please help.
Please help me, me and my mom where letting my two dogs out and we, saw this spider about 2″1/2 inches including the legs it had a dark brown head and abdomen with light brown legs. I looked at a picture of a brown recluse and it had looked a lot like it then I went to scoot it outside as it was trying to but it couldn’t.
I went to help it and it lunged at me luckily I shook it off the shoe before it could get to me the it ran at me then I had no choice but to smash it before it could harm me my mom or any other part of my 5 member family not including my 4 pets it would be able to get to. Please I’m begging you please help me.
My neighbor was bit by a brown recluse spider in Secaucus. Also, a woman in the next town told us her daughter was bit on the cheek. Both luckily sought medical help quickly or else necrosis would have set in. Down south they use liquid smoke to counteract the venom before they get to a doctor. I saw it near the catsup in a supermarket. I’m keeping it on hand. Killed a large reddish brown spider in my bathroom. But the exterminator I brought it to said it had eight eyes and brown recluse spiders have only six. how could I tell without a microscope. It had a brown spot on it but it wasn’t the violin shape he said.
Hi, I live in the UK, and we were in assembly this morning (me and my best friend) and in the theater in school, there is a gap about 1cm deep between the floor beneath your feet and the chairs in front of you. Well, this morning, we looked down and there was this really weird spider in the crack. It was like two inches long in the body (which was only a little thicker than a stick insects) and all its legs stuck out at the same angles and were folded up quite small to it. The legs made a perfect M shape from where we were sat.
It was sooooooooo horrible!!!! 🙁 It was a weird whitish grey and had no eyes, and we just moved are bags away from it so as not to disturb it, and then kept are legs back and lent away from it. We have to sit there again EVERY TUESDAY and if it is there, I don’t know what we r gonna do cos it made us both feel Sick it FREAKED US THAT MUCH!!!! Please we really need help, in case they are anywhere else in school too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please Help US !!!!
I live in Florida. There is a small hole, about 2″x2″ in the corner of my bathroom. My girlfriend got me out of bed one evening to show my a brown recluse about the size of a silver dollar in the bathroom. I’m terrified of spiders. I killed it with a broom. Looking between the jacuzzi and wall, I saw at least fifty egg sacks. Should I call the exterminator or burn the place down?
Hi. I got bit by a spider and it swelled about the size of a quarter with two puncture wounds. The spider was one i could not find anywhere. The legs was light brown it had a an abdomen that wasn’t big but you could notice it. The head part was a little lighter than the abdomen. The spider altogether was about the size of a nickel or a quarter. I live in Indiana. I’d really like to know please, thanks!
I just saw a spider on my pumpkin and I have no clue what kind it is it has a white abdomen and a eggshell color body please. Help me.^_^
this spider I found, brownish, legs are a pink color, black on belly, with yellow spots, has a big butt like a black widow, sorry no pics, can anyone tell me anything, we live in Oklahoma. thanks
There is a huge yellow spider on our porch and it is huge yellow and has a huge butt and on the butt it has a black Line and I live Idaho can someone please help me find out what it is?
I live in new york state, my house is infested with these little spiders not the size of a quarter but they are light brown with ONE and I can’t stress the enough white stripe on its head, and nothing on it’s abdomen. there is really no unique part about this spider except the white stripe on its head.
I don’t mind spiders at all but I have a one year old daughter and it makes me worry a bit, I just want to make sure that they are not poisonous and will harm my daughter if she sees one and tries playing with it, not that I would just sit there and let her play with a spider, poisonous or not.
I have tried looking up on the internet I have spent hours on the computer trying to find what kind it is but I can’t! I do know it is not a brown recluse, or a hobo spider or any of those nasty big spiders, this is a small light brown spider about the size of big ant with long legs. If anyone knows what it might be or even just tell me if they are harmful or not I would appreciate it. Thank You.
Found this strange spider outside my window and was wondering if it is poisonous/what type of spider it is… thanks!
My husband killed a spider and billions of babies ran everywhere.
I live in Oregon and would like to know if I should call the exterminator or just take a deep breath and forget it happened (nightmare time tonight I am not fond of spiders though only kill ones that resemble the bad ones)
I’ve got one banana imported from Ivory coast with the spider egg sac. Do you know what kind of spiders would that be? Are they venomous? I am not sure what to do with them.
This is in response to Ryan B. from August 24 –
Ryan, your picture looks like a Hobo spider to me. They are prevalent in your geographic location. I don’t want to scare you, but they can have a serious bite, so you might want to check around for some other opinions, or just take steps to get rid of them. Don’t know if you have it in WA, but the best thing I’ve ever found is called “Hot Shot, Spider Killer”. Good luck!
Brown recluse spiders should be killed if you see them its the best way to get rid of them, you can put sticky traps down. They are not able to bite with out some little pressure either by you pushing them off of you or you rolling over on them, or in your clothing, shake your clothing and check your shoes! keep clothing off the floor or piled up anywhere.
That being said you must BLOW THEM OFF OF YOU! Do not touch them! They will walk off you. Do not push them off you! I have seen them bigger than they say they get. If you know you have them you can freeze one in case you get bit when you go into the hospital for treatment take it with you, they will then give you the anti venom. Some doctors won’t give it to you with out a spider.
Maybe someone could help me. My grandmother noticed a somewhat large tannish brown spider outside her front house window. This thing has brown stripes on its legs along with a black triangle on its under abdomen. She can only make out a black triangle, but i am worried that it might be an hourglass. Is this spider poisonous? Found this spider in Hudson County, NJ.
I would like to know if anyone can help me i.d. a spider. I have these large brown spiders that come down from the tree tops here in NJ. I was trying to find out what they are called. My friend calls them tree spiders, but I don’t think it is the correct term for them.
Like I said they are pretty large, they seem to be quite abundant this time of year, mid August thru early October.
They come down at night. I can pull in my driveway at night and see them hanging. Once my headlamps hit them, they scurry back up into the trees. I occasionally walk into them at night and it creeps me out. They also make some pretty robust webs from the roof down to the bushes on the side of my house. Any help is appreciated. Sorry I don’t have any pics.
Found this spider on my front porch today! This is the best picture I could get after we captured it. It is laying on it’s back, so in the picture you are looking at it’s under side and it’s legs are all tucked in. It looks like a huge tan sac on it’s back, and it has long striped brown and tan legs. I think it might be a brown widow. Not sure, and I think I have more on my porch! I live in THE COUNTRY in Goochland, Virginia. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I have a young 5 yr old child, and 3 dachshunds that LOVE to catch bugs. Don’t want anyone getting hurt!
Hi, I just found this spider on my bathroom wall at about 1:00 AM. It looked like it was about the size of a quarter.
Please let me know if you can identify it, I tried my best to get a clear photo of it and have included 2, one with flash and one without. Thank you.
By the way, I live in western Washington State.
Thank you very much for you help, I have a small baby girl and don’t want her to get bitten by one of these as this is the second one I’ve found in two days all of a sudden.
-Ryan B
i would love to know what kind of spider i saw will tell what happened…….. i was driving down a dirt road, my passenger window was down halfway. i heard a thump on my roof of the car, about 30 or so seconds later i saw movement over by the window. i looked over and half inside the car and half outside the car was the biggest spider I’ve ever seen!! its body was the size of a baseball! it was a dark brown and had approximately 8 to 10 inch legs about as big around as a pencil and the were brown and yellow striped around with fine hairs all over them!
i only saw it for a few seconds as i stopped my car and ran away but my boyfriend was not far behind me and walked up to the car and saw it in there and opened the door and took his shoe off and knocked it off the car! i am not exaggerating the size of this spider in any way! my boyfriend is my witness! we live in northern Pennsylvania. i have told others about this spider and the farmers refer to it as a pa barn spider but there’s not one spider in any site I’ve seen that resembles it at all! if you know can you tell me? please! I’m so terrified to drive with my windows down now! we believe that it fell out of a tree that was hanging over the road! thank you!
I live in Norwalk, California. My mother has a gorgeous garden and her yard is filled with fruit trees and lush green foliage. I caught a spider that looks like a mini tarantula. It is hairy, it’s body is stubby and thick and the very tips of its legs are a bright green..Can someone please tell me what kind of spider these are? The spider itself is about as big as a quarter.
Hi there,
I live in Los Angeles, Ca, and the other day I opened my mailbox and a black spider about the size of a black widow with white stripes/spots all along its back was sitting in there. Should I be concerned or is it poisonous?
Thanks!
My daddy has a big welt on his leg but he never noticed it until today. So it looks swelled up and there is a white bump in the middle and its red on the outside. WE DON’T KNOW WHAT BIT HIM!
i watched a movie, where spiders actually laid their eggs in a woman’s cheek. Is that possible!? or should i keep it in the movies?
(USA,Kentucky)Tonight i was listening to music and all of a sudden a spider maybe the size of a quarter, go running by, its kinda orangish, and it goes pretty fast.
That makes the second one i have saw. And I have a major fear of spiders, venomous or not. I prefer not to have a spider bite:/
So if you have any idea what this spider could be please, do tell? 🙂
So I found this spider today on the chair outside next to my cell phone which I had trouble getting! It was Grey with orange bits like on his legs and he had two huge orange antennas and his butt was curled upward like a scorpion….. please someone let me know what this is!!!!!!
I don’t know if I got bit by a spider. But I came home from school with a fever of 101 my legs feel heavy and they tingle. I live in south Texas
I saw this black spider and I am SERIOUSLY freaked.This thing is terrifying! I’M GONNA WET MY PANTS! I have children and grandma and I want them both to live long.=)okay? Thanks for your help.
A worried pupil =)
I am trying to determine what kind of spider this might be help?????
Its black with pink on its rear. Live in Georgia.
I saw 3 spiders 2 2day & 1 yesterday. 1 was about 1 cm & it was black & red. others were red but tiny & they were not dots.
I got bit on my butt by a really big spider look like it wuz wearing glasses. Now my but’s swollen up big as a basketball and got a pattern on jest like a basketball too and I can’t sit down without fallen over. I’m worried I’m gone die if I don’t get something to rub on it.
I keep finding these spiders in my home and outside. They are dark with a white stripe going down the head and a white stripe going down the body. Are these dangerous? I found one in the dogs water dish at night by morning it was still alive. They are a inch big. They have the pinchers on the mouth. the woods are behind my apartment. When I go into my home I have noticed they try to scurry in. I have poor health. I am concerned about if they have a bad bite. I also have grandchildren. Please if someone can help me to identify this spider species please contact me. I live in Midland, Michigan Please contact me asap at grammylala@charter.net or sirfitz@charter.net thank you thank you if you can help me. Jean
Hello, there was a spider on an item I brought home from my car tonight. I only saw it on there while I was picking up the stuff from the top of my bed because I was getting ready to go to sleep. It startled me so by reflex I dropped the item back on the bed and the spider disappeared somewhere. I took all the stuff off the bed and shook really well but could not find it. It was a tan-yellowish (prob more yellowish) spider, about an inch size or a bit more, good size legs (same color as the body), not skinny legs… I’ve never seen this kind in my life though. I wish I could describe it better but it happened really fast. Please tell me what to do… I’m afraid it’s somewhere in the bed and might crawl or bite me in my sleep… I live in TN.
Hi all,
This morning my sister and her husband found a nest of spiders that had fallen into their bath (full of water from the night before) out of a wind chime that hangs in the bathroom. We are trying to figure out what kind of spiders they are because they were not babies they were small coin size adults! I did some reading on communal spiders but still have not come up with a species name other then communal nest spider and the pic doesn’t match. The nest looked like it was built with mud and web possibly, we have pictures. Can you help??? We live in South Africa
My wife and I are going on a week long missions trip to Haiti with some others from our church. We will be going during the march break. I live just outside Toronto in Canada and we don’t have much in the way of poisonous anything here.
I have just found out that the houses I will be helping to build in Haiti are made of concrete block.
I bricked my garage here a couple of years ago and there were lots of crawlies in the holes of the bricks.
I’m a little nervous about what I might find in the holes of the blocks.
What should I be on the lookout for.
ya i live in warren Michigan and earlier today a little black spider landed on my boyfriends head and i went to go wipe it off and it bit me, i picked up the spider afterward with a pen cap and brought it to my gramma and from then she squished it. it just throbs and not really a mark there. but i don’t know what kind of spider it was and it would be nice to know whats prowling around my house.
I saw a round black in color about the size of a golf ball, (like the weed on a stem and you blow on and the seeds of the weed blow away I think its called pussy willow) but in was still ,no movement I kept looking at whatever it was and it didn’t move I then turned away just for a second and it wasn’t there anymore. Whatever it was it was quick to move. My step daughter said it was a wolf spider but I have been looking at the wolf spiders picture and its nothing like them. Its almost like a net rolled up into a ball black not solid but like a spiral ball no solid body no eyes or legs what is this?
I live in southern Maryland. When I was outside on my break at work, we have this gazebo to sit at, there was this long spider with black legs and the oval shaped body. It had yellow and white designs on its back and when you get close to the web it starts moving up and down. Any one know what kind of spider this is? I have a picture but I’m not sure how to upload and show everyone!
My son got 3 holes on top of this head. He has had it for 2 1/2 weeks. the (DR) said it was a growth but it looks like a spire bite. I don’t know.
My name is Sam and I live on the East coast of Maryland. I found this huge spider at work. It is hairy, brown, has light brown tiger stripes on its legs and body, brown eyes, and spots on I guess what is its back .We receive loads of freight all across the US and from other countries. 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 silver dollar. Can you please help? I’ve looked everywhere I can think to look. Thank you!
Sam from Maryland
I have these spiders in my house that look silver but when light hits them them seem glassy and they’re quick too!!i killed one this morning in my sugar bucket but they’ve tried to build in between things too. Please identify this kind for me so i can rid my house of it!!!!
I found a spider in my laundry room last night it was like the size of a nickel maybe. to me it looked almost tan or lighter. it had a orange spot on its back. the legs reminded me of crab legs but longer. this spider i have never seen before. i live in Montana. I should of took a picture of if but i didn’t my husband killed it.
Hi, ummm i got a bite in my lower left back neck. like where your spine in the neck is. i got bit like 1 inch away my spine on the left. and now my shoulder is like numb now. is it the cause of a spider or something else? its really numb right now. like we i move it my should start hurting. but since im a teen and i like pain. it doesn’t bother me but my dad said there is 5% chance it could be a poison spider something like that. so i don’t wanna die right now.
I was actually looking for an identification on the nocturnal grey with black stripes spider, not medical advice; sorry for the miscommunication of my message. By the way, I have noticed that this spider is only present during the fall months. Finally, that nasty bite cleared up early in the third week, with only a slight fever/nausea first few days; never had to see a doctor since the brown recluse similarity of the
Hello, I get bitten every so often, and the last time it was pretty nasty; somewhat similar to a brown recluse. I took a picture of this guy, and was wondering if he’s the one. The largest I’ve seen them get is nickel size. They are nocturnal, gray with black stripes (color I think). We live in Central Ca.
We live in hostage NY and recently found this spider on our shed door. Please help us identify it as we have small children and fear it may be poisonous. Thanks…..
I just sent a photo of an orange and yellow spider, I’ve never seen anything like that before. Please help me identify what kind it is and if it’s poisonous. Thanks..
Hi, I am looking to identify a spider. I live in Boulder, CO, and find multiple of these in my basement.
Any help in identification is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Nick Daniello
Okay, found it. It’s the “Solifugae, aka: camel spider, wind scorpion, sun scorpion and sun spider – solifugae are neither scorpions nor spiders. The name derives from Latin, and means “those that flee from the sun.”
RE: The post below: We found a spider that perfectly fits this description and have the exact concern and curiosity. We live in north Phoenix (AZ). I went to change the outside dog water dish and initially though ta piece of grass was floating in the water, but then thought it was possibly a scorpion w/out the tail (we have cats). Our whole family loves to “investigate” and find out about creatures so I brought it in for other opinions. This thing appeared to be as dead as dead could be. There were a couple of other floaters which we were checking out as well.We got out a toothpick to turn it, flip it, etc. but absolutely not an ounce of life…or so we thought. My husband saved it, setting it on a paper towel so we could web search later. About an hour and a half later my husband called out, “this thing is moving, S, it’s alive!?” I put it in a glass jar to hang on to it, left for about five hours and came home to a very alive and actively moving spider. I began to search, and shockingly, came across Jessica’s comment, as we too, believed that spiders only have eight legs. Her description is so similar to what I’m viewing. Do you know what this is? I’ll send photos to your e-mail listed above. Thank you.
Jessica
#7. July 13th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
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 definitely 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.
The Terminex man said we have “yellow sack spiders” which are as poisonous or more so than black widow spiders- rather along the lines of a brown recluse. They form yellow sack webs and will also kill wasps and take over their nests. He said they will kill squirrels, small animals, frogs, hornets, wasps, etc. They seem to be lethal creatures. They have a large body with two yellow strips and can grow to be the size of a saucer. He sprayed them quite well and said they should be dead within 2-3 hours if not days. I have never heard of a “yellow sack spider” and wonder if they could also be called the “banana spider”I see listed on your site. He also said that when humans are bitten, their skin tries to deteriorate just like when bitten by the brown recluse. My neighbor also has them under her patio but hasn’t done anything about them. The Terminex man said they won’t come here again because of the poison. He will be back in 3 months as I bought a year’s contract. Do you know anything about these creatures? Thanks for your reply.
Hey.
Today i was walking towards the computer and saw a spider. Dead its about the size of a quarter. Although it is dead i would like to know what it is just in case it laid eggs. It is brown with two black stripes running down the length of its whole body vertically. It resembles two sunflower seeds stacked on one another. My camera is dead so i cannot take a picture of it. I tried to describe it as best as i could, but its still vague.
Sorry:(
Yesterday, I saw a spider, it looked like any old spider, except it had wings. It was black, about 3/4 the size of a nickle, and had clear wings. If anyone finds out about this weird spider, please post!
I found two spiders in my yard that are about and inch long and are red on one half of their body and the other half is clear. Can you please tell me if they are dangerous or just garden spiders?
I was about to climb onto my quad until I found this lime green spider with what looked liked stingers, I sprayed it to death with armarole just cause that’s all I had and it scared me!! Please any one let me know what kind of spider this is and is it harmful.
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?
@ 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 have a spider bite it has tiny red spots on it and cant find out what it is
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?
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.”
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
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
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.
Response to #34 Kirsten, That picture looks like a bedbug.
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.
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’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 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 have got bit by something but i am not sure what it is i am really freaked out
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 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.
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!!
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!
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???
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 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?
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!
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……………
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
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? 🙂
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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 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 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 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!!
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 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.
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 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.
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 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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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?
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 !
we found a spider silver with yellow and black stripes across the body belly was black about the size of a quarter leg span
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.
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?
im in florida by the way
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
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’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.
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.
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 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
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.
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 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.
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 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?
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 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
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 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?