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Look at what Misty Found

Posted : 6/29/2006 4:06:07 PM

Under the Anything and Everything Else, here's one: I AM FREAKING OUT.

I have posted below a picture of a spider that crawled out of somewhere and was making it's way across our family room carpet. I want to move out of my house and never return. I have vacuumed so much today, I think my central vac is going to implode.

Anyway, here's a picture of the stinker and I would love to send $1000 to the first person to identify this spider for me, but I don't have $1000, so I'll simply send you hugs and kisses.

Here is he, does anyone know what type it is?

Benedict

Posted : 6/29/2006 4:10:23 PM

No idea, but euuughhh!

IMHO, spiders belong OUTSIDE. I know they may be social beings and will want to be with their people [

] but they are a working, outside animal.

Creeeeeeepy! Ben eats any spiders he finds in the house (we don't have any poisonous ones around here.)

Kate

jeano

Posted : 6/29/2006 4:10:50 PM

Send the picture (make it a bit smaller) and write to the folks athttp://www.whatsthatbug.com

Go there and look at the spiders, someone else likely has found one. That's the best bug identification site I know.

jeano

Posted : 6/29/2006 4:13:01 PM

ORIGINAL: Benedict

Creeeeeeepy! Ben eats any spiders he finds in the house (we don't have any poisonous ones around here.)

Kate

Be careful, Kate. Dogs can have allergic reactions to spiders just like people do to bee stings and hornets. I know a dog up here who go pretty sick from a reaction to spider bit, almost went into anaphylactic shock! We don't have poisonous spiders in Alaska, either.

Benedict

Posted : 6/29/2006 4:18:41 PM

jeano - really?? ack! I didn't know that, thank you sooo much for telling me. I'll watch him more closely if I spot one. [

]

Much appreciated.

Kate

cakana

Posted : 6/29/2006 4:24:02 PM

How big is it? It looks huge! Did you pick it up? The fact that you could catch it and take a picture of it makes you a hero in my book [

].

angelamarie

Posted : 6/29/2006 4:35:48 PM

Did I pick it up???? YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!! First I locked the dogs in the back hall, then I put on a pair of rubber gloves and held a tupperware as far away from my body as I possibly could, and he walked in. I've still got the creepy crawlies. It is nearly an inch from the tip of it's pointy bum to the front of it's hairy face.

As for dogs eating bugs, Misty's famous for it. Last year she got a large carpenter ant (did you know they have pincers?) embedded in her tongue, and that didn't teach her a lesson, the following week she got one stuck on her nose. And, when you go to pull a carpenter ant off a dogs tongue or nose, the head stays embedded, you only get the body.

Jean, thanks for the bug id site, I'm on my way there.

loveukaykay

Posted : 6/29/2006 4:39:51 PM

Ew!!! Ack! OMG. Ew! Gives me shudders... yyuuugghhh.

I hope you can find out what kind it is!

Karen

Posted : 6/29/2006 4:40:03 PM

I hope you killed it. A good spider is a dead one. I hate anything with eight legs as soon as I see one I get the mortein, I guess thats what happens when you live in a country with the deadliest spiders.

Kara

Posted : 6/29/2006 4:41:19 PM

Maybe a Nursery Web Spider (Pisaurina mira). They are called that because they are a hunting spider that only builds a web to raise its young in. They are a common spider, and can be anything from a light blonde color to a darkish brown. Max size is like 1.5".

http://images.google.com/images?q=Pisaurina+mira&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

Don't kill it! Just put it outside, it will eat way more bugs than it will do you any type of harm. I hate bugs, but spiders are ok because they eat bad bugs!

angelamarie

Posted : 6/29/2006 4:48:46 PM

That looks like a possibility, but it's hard to tell, isn't it? Thanks for the link. I haven't killed it, I'm going to go put it in my most unfavorite neighbor's yard.

forpaws

Posted : 6/29/2006 5:18:51 PM

A good spider is a dead one.

Hey no fare.... The spider also plays an important role in our critter chain. I feel sorry for the ones that live near ya. You wouldn't want to come to my home them. I have many and they are almost twice that size.

Angel, It looks like a wood spider to me. If it is all brown and has no yellow or black markings. They don't eat much...lol

I'm going to go put it in my most unfavorite neighbor's yard.

I am busting a gut! That is too funny. You go girl.

cakana

Posted : 6/29/2006 6:11:08 PM

I'm going to go put it in my most unfavorite neighbor's yard.

[sm=rofl.gif]

ummm, you're not in Northern California right? [8|]

pofi_pasquale

Posted : 6/29/2006 7:37:23 PM

OK, I'm NOT particularly squeamish or freaked out by spiders, but EWWWWWWW! Crimeny - that's icky. And I think Kara Ann figured it out -looks like that Nursery Web Spider to me.

And if you live in Minneapolis, I'm sorry - I know Mia is a barky thing, but we're working on it, I swear!!!!!

angelamarie

Posted : 6/29/2006 7:44:44 PM

Well, Kara Ann would win the thousand dollars if I had it, instead, I send you hugs and kisses. Here's the answer I got to my posting on bugguide.net:

This is a female nursery web spider in the family Pisauridae, genus Pisaurina. Despite her size, she is harmless. Well, a bite would be painful, no doubt, but certainly of no long-term consequence. Simply do what you are probably already doing: usher the spider into a container and then release it outdoors

I'm north of Boston, and the spider has been released, I will never disclose to where. It could very well be on it's way to Minnesota or California, you never know.