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What Spider Is That

Austrie

Austrie

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What kind of spider is the one in the pic, I found it in my house, on my towel.
 

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It reminds me of spiders I used to see in the bushes besides the runways at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida back when I was stationed there in the 80's. I never did find out what they were called. They would spin webs between the bushes and just hang there looking very menacing to a city boy like me. I'm pretty sure they're harmless though.
 
Looks like a wolf spider to me as well. I typically don't mind spiders but those must die when they come in.
In general, they don't spin webs and hunt on the ground. They can bit and are one of the few spiders (here in NY) that can pack a nasty wallop.
 
I know wolf spiders are scary due to their size, and commonly find themselves inside houses, but they are lethal hunters who will eat just about every other bug it finds in the house.
 
I was going to say wolf spider as well haha thats huge in comparison to the wolf spiders we have here, they like to hide.

I don't mind most spiders, but most die if they are somewhere I don't want them to be haha
 
We have house spiders. I like them. The ones in the garage feast on Miller Moths.

I don't understand how they always wind up in the kitchen sink first thing in the AM.

Even the Vulcan, who hates spiders, will put these guys out in the garage rather than swat.

You don't want to be around here when the Tarantulas migrate.
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Those suckers are big!
 
That looked like an orb spider from the pic. Common garden spider, and they can get rather large. I mistook them for those nasty bananna spiders once.

I could obviously be wrong, but that's what it looks like to me.
 
I quite like spiders, but treat anything I recognise as dangerous with a little caution. Being a foreign spider (I come from a land downunder) I've no idea what it is. However here's a water spider I took a pic of recently.

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Yeah before we got our pest control service, we had a major black widow problem outside our house and in our garage. He found 14 full grown female spiders around the house, and hundreds of younger ones. Yikes!
 
At the grocery store I use to work at, one time a shipment of bananas had a living banana spider in it! That was not a nice surprise. They said that they have found dead ones in the containers before, but never a live one
 
general eclect said:
I quite like spiders, but treat anything I recognise as dangerous with a little caution. Being a foreign spider (I come from a land downunder) I've no idea what it is. However here's a water spider I took a pic of recently.

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Cute :) Definitely an active hunter rather than a trapper - all those forward-pointing eyes. Don't know the species though.

OK, with you coming from Oz I understand your caution! Here in the UK most of our spiders aren't even capable of piercing human skin, and none of the native ones are actually dangerous.
 
Hadron said:
Cute :) Definitely an active hunter rather than a trapper - all those forward-pointing eyes. Don't know the species though.

OK, with you coming from Oz I understand your caution! Here in the UK most of our spiders aren't even capable of piercing human skin, and none of the native ones are actually dangerous.
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I've heard a few people claiming they felt bites from garden spiders - the stripey ones with big abdomens - but feeling a bite isn't exactly terrifying.
 
Rescued this (deadly) Sydney funnelweb about six years ago at the bottom of a bucket of water. After about an hour she dried out and started to show signs of life so put her into the cd spindle casing you see and took her up to the local hospital to be milked for the production of anti-venene.
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I would say Wolf Spider. They can get kinda big, not as big as Banana Spiders though. I ran in to a Banana Spider while playing paintball that covered my entire mask. I'm pretty sure thats the fastest I have ever thrown my mask off and readied my gun.
 
I'm assuming this is the only spider thread, so I'm not really hijacking it by posting pics I've taken of spiders am I?

This is a St Andrews Cross spider i spotted in the Botanical gardens:
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