Journal FortKnox's Journal: Spider ID 25
Since I'm not at home, i have to use village photos, so my apologies... but my wife took a pic of a spider from our garage she saw today (tried tidying things up while the kids were all taking naps).
She's immediately thinking its a brown recluse, which I know is completely incorrect, but am having trouble ID'ing it (especially since I only see 6 legs?!?). Its in a container and was under a 30lb bag of dogfood on the floor. Its about as big as a quarter.
Spidy
She's immediately thinking its a brown recluse, which I know is completely incorrect, but am having trouble ID'ing it (especially since I only see 6 legs?!?). Its in a container and was under a 30lb bag of dogfood on the floor. Its about as big as a quarter.
Spidy
I'm gonna huff and puff (Score:2)
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They are pretty harmless from what I understand.
At least the ones my wife has made me remove from the house/garage are.
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Left the carcass where he died as a sign to the other spiders.
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wife: Josh, clean that up
Me: No, its a sign to all other bugs that I don't mess around with their kind.
I'm like the Vlad of the bug world
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Jusdging by this site, I believe the above post is right, it's a grass spider/funnel weaver [google.com].
-Ab
Definitely not a brown recluse. (Score:2)
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So sorry to have offended the entymologists here with my poor identification of shapes.
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Violin shape. [osu.edu]
It's also doesn't look like a wolf spider. [okstate.edu]
My guess? it sort of looks like a crab spider. [ohio-state.edu]
We have a name for spiders that big though - we call them "roach hunters". I hope you didn't kill it... one spider that size can take out literally hundreds of roaches in a year.
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How big is it? (Score:1)
It looks like it came from Klendathu (Score:1)
Freaky (Score:2)
Speaking of spiders... (Score:2)
As such things are unknown in Germany, BoE was duly...impressed. Hell, even a Virginia native such as myself was duly...impressed. So much so that you will note the blurriness of the photo because I was using the zoom. I mean, that thing coulda jumped on my face and sucked out my life-force if I got too close.
Right?
Though I remember a long time ago, here on the Dot, someone posted a picture of a wall
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Dear President Bush, please nuke Iraq. Thank you.
Cheers,
Ethelred
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And that clock spider? Right Chere [wikipedia.org]
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