Anyone know what kind of spider this is? [Archive]

gatotsu77

09-19-2008, 3:31 AM

Little bugger was hanging out on my front porch... being that I don't particularly like spiders, but yet I'm intrigued by photographing them, I had to fight myself to get within about a foot of this little guy.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c70/animefan73/spider1.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c70/animefan73/spider2.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c70/animefan73/spider3.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c70/animefan73/spider4.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c70/animefan73/spider5.jpg

Please excuse the atrocious jpeg compression of MS Paint... I need to re-install my copy of photoshop. For some reason, it decided to deactivate it when I swapped motherboards. -_-

Reefscape

09-19-2008, 5:38 AM

I know i know i know.....ooooh oooh.....pick me pick me......

Its a web making spider ...am i smart or what??? he he he :popcorn:

**Niko now leave this thread as he is simply not being constructive....**

Lupin

09-19-2008, 5:49 AM

Lady G

09-19-2008, 8:24 AM

A very creepy looking one!!! GAH..thanks for the goosebumps LMAO!

Blueiz

09-19-2008, 9:19 AM

In light of this thread, we need a new forum rule, NO picturees of spiders directly uploaded to AC.

That is one HUGE spider!! *blue runs around the room with the heebee jeebees*.

I would love to help, however Im sorry to say I woont be going and intentionally looking for picture of these monsters on the web to help you ID it..

bettagurl

09-19-2008, 9:29 AM

Could you get a picture of her back? She looks like some kind of weaver, but I need to see her back before I can confirm a species..

Vicious_Fish

09-19-2008, 9:47 AM

That's a Brown Widow, Latrodectus geometricus.

http://www.247wildlife.com/brown-widow-spider.htm

Lady G

09-19-2008, 10:03 AM

BLLLLEEEEHHHHAAAA!!!!!!! Why did I click that link!!!!:eek:

Radar

09-19-2008, 10:08 AM

:wall::wall: The same reason I did,now I feel a panic attack coming on.

catnipgal

09-19-2008, 10:19 AM

It could be either a brown recluse or a wolf spider.

Vicious_Fish

09-19-2008, 10:23 AM

It could be either a brown recluse or a wolf spider.

Nope, it's a Brown Widow. Trust me. :)

Brown recluse and wolf spiders are hunting species that don't live in webs.

petluvr

09-19-2008, 10:30 AM

Not a brown recluse I had a close personal acount with a recluse that bit my ankle and I darn near lost my foot. Still have a huge black spot on my leg 3 years later. NOT brown recluse.

spunjin

09-19-2008, 10:30 AM

Vicious_Fish is dead on. One will not find a Brown Recluse in a web on a porch and I believe Wolf spiders are more of a terrain dweller and are much much bigger and are fuzzy.

spunjin

09-19-2008, 10:36 AM

Petluvr knows first hand. That sucks. The recluse is a carnivorous spider with flesh killing venom, in a way much like a staph aureus infection. The dead muscle must be cut out and the cavity kept clean to make sure not bacterial infection starts in the wound.

catnipgal

09-19-2008, 10:37 AM

Not a brown recluse I had a close personal acount with a recluse that bit my ankle and I darn near lost my foot. Still have a huge black spot on my leg 3 years later. NOT brown recluse.

I've been bitten by brown recluses also - 3 times - when I lived out West. The only thing I remembered is they had really long legs. Same as wolf spiders. I still have scars from where I was bit. I was told I'd need a skin graft, but I dont think the scars are that bad.

I've seen a black widows close up, but not brown widows.

petluvr

09-19-2008, 10:45 AM

I had to go through 2 surgeries (if you can call then that) where they scraped out all the dead crap. Talk about pain OMG. The place I still have is DEAD no feeling what-so-ever.

Madcrawdad

09-19-2008, 10:52 AM

It could be either a brown recluse or a wolf spider.

Definitely not a wolf spider... here's a pic of a wolf spider, living by my back door, that I took over the weekend.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w104/madcrawdad/spider.jpg

Here's another one (that I didn't take) of a momma wolf spider out for a walk with her young 'uns. Kinda cute.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w104/madcrawdad/600px-Wolf_spider_with_young_in_gar.jpg

oO.Crim.Oo

09-19-2008, 1:55 PM

Cute my BUTT!

jackiomy

09-19-2008, 2:05 PM

Nice mom but very icky!

petluvr

09-19-2008, 2:13 PM

The mom pic reminds me of Stephen King's "The Mist" when all those baby spiders came out of the dude.

bettagurl

09-19-2008, 3:03 PM

Definitely not a wolf spider... here's a pic of a wolf spider, living by my back door, that I took over the weekend.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w104/madcrawdad/spider.jpg

Here's another one (that I didn't take) of a momma wolf spider out for a walk with her young 'uns. Kinda cute.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w104/madcrawdad/600px-Wolf_spider_with_young_in_gar.jpg

Aww, that's adorable.. I found a momma with her egg sack once, very protective of them, too.

Vicious_Fish

09-19-2008, 3:08 PM

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w104/madcrawdad/600px-Wolf_spider_with_young_in_gar.jpg

That's a Rabidosa rabida, commonly known as the "Rapid Wolf Spider".

Madcrawdad

09-19-2008, 4:50 PM

That's a Rabidosa rabida, commonly known as the "Rapid Wolf Spider".

If you've ever uncovered one in the garden, you'd know why.... They take that egg sac and head out rapidly.

excuzzzeme

09-19-2008, 5:00 PM

I had to go through 2 surgeries (if you can call then that) where they scraped out all the dead crap. Talk about pain OMG. The place I still have is DEAD no feeling what-so-ever.

That must be the place right between the ears! LOL :rofl::rofl::rofl:

I also have had many an encounter with "Black Widows" and had never seen a brown one. I didn't even know they existed until now! Thanks for that biology(?) lessons!

bettagurl

09-19-2008, 5:17 PM

I'm pretty sure she's a skinny brown widow, female:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cirrusimage.com/Arachnid/brown%2520widow.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cirrusimage.com/spider_brown_widow.htm&h=746&w=966&sz=535&hl=en&start=21&usg=__Shmqe6rYe3PjGtvbK6haBaRvL1E=&tbnid=1wesgX64kneWSM:&tbnh=114&tbnw=148&prev=/images%3Fq%3DL.geometricus%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26s a%3DG

gatotsu77

09-19-2008, 5:51 PM

I'm sorry! I didn't mean to freak anyone out. :( I kinda did announce in the thread title that it was a requested ID for a spider though... :\

Interesting to find out what it was, and I definitely agree that it was a Brown Widow. I wish I hadn't messed with the brightness of my LCD on my 40D, or I'd have gotten some brighter shots. (when I previewed them, they seemed well-exposed... but then, they look decent on my home monitor. The monitors I work with at work SUCK) I'll be darn sure to erradicate that thing if I ever see it again... just reading about what kind of injuries are sustained by their bites is more than enough for me. As it is, I already hated spiders... now I just have another reason to chase that one down with some Triazicide.

kj5kb

09-19-2008, 6:03 PM

GREAT pix!

..another good excuse to get a BETTER camera...

bettagurl

09-19-2008, 8:05 PM

cam191919

09-19-2008, 8:08 PM

if a black widow is a women who kills her husband, kinda like the spider does, then what does a brown widow do...

petluvr

09-19-2008, 11:41 PM

if a black widow is a women who kills her husband, kinda like the spider does, then what does a brown widow do...
The black widow doesn't eat it's mate always. He just doesn't leave fast enough and she mistakes him for food.

petluvr

09-19-2008, 11:42 PM

[quote=excuzzzeme;1623671]That must be the place right between the ears! LOL :rofl::rofl::rofl:

:silly::silly::silly:

gatotsu77

09-20-2008, 6:20 AM

Awww... :(
Try getting her with a net/big bowl with top and taking her away from your house, they don't normally wander far from where you leave them.. I just hate killing something because it cannot help what it was born as, this life is all she has, remember that ;)

That is a very good point... and much like you, I tend to avoid killing things unnecessarily. (example.. most guys with pellet guns will intentionally shoot small animals for the "fun" of it. I can't stand that... I've never intentionally killed anything with my pellet gun) If I can find a way to relocate her without risking injury to myself, I'll do so, and maybe dump her in my neighbor's yard. :devil: Hey, they killed my cat and my dog a couple years ago by putting down rat poison and not telling us. They deserve it. :mad2:

Notophthalmus

09-20-2008, 12:05 PM

Widows are pretty easy to keep, so long as you're careful. I kept a black widow for over a year, feeding her crickets and moths.

Beegone

09-20-2008, 12:18 PM

It looks like a juvenile black widow spider, if the web looks real junky looking it probably is. I would start there anyways.

lilim10

09-20-2008, 1:57 PM

It looks like a brown widow or a common house spider, I never find any sort of those here, just mouse spiders and black widows...

bettagurl

09-20-2008, 4:12 PM

That is a very good point... and much like you, I tend to avoid killing things unnecessarily. (example.. most guys with pellet guns will intentionally shoot small animals for the "fun" of it. I can't stand that... I've never intentionally killed anything with my pellet gun) If I can find a way to relocate her without risking injury to myself, I'll do so, and maybe dump her in my neighbor's yard. :devil: Hey, they killed my cat and my dog a couple years ago by putting down rat poison and not telling us. They deserve it. :mad2:

That they do.. Anyone who would kill an innocent animal for no reason at all deserves bad things.. I mean, if I had no way of getting a dangerous animal out of my home/around my home then I would have to consider killing it.

If I had caught the people who shot my cat through his shoulder they'd wish they had never seen him... Hearing my baby cry for me to come get him broke my heart.. I have finally given him to a better home where he can be indoors to save him from the nut cases who find shooting things fun.

jpappy789

09-20-2008, 4:33 PM

EEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW!

gatotsu77

09-20-2008, 4:58 PM

That they do.. Anyone who would kill an innocent animal for no reason at all deserves bad things.. I mean, if I had no way of getting a dangerous animal out of my home/around my home then I would have to consider killing it.

If I had caught the people who shot my cat through his shoulder they'd wish they had never seen him... Hearing my baby cry for me to come get him broke my heart.. I have finally given him to a better home where he can be indoors to save him from the nut cases who find shooting things fun.

I'd be furious... and if I'd have caught them, I'd make sure they go to jail for it. Cruelty on that level is simply unacceptable. I'm sorry to hear that happened. :(

bettagurl

09-20-2008, 5:20 PM

I'd be furious... and if I'd have caught them, I'd make sure they go to jail for it. Cruelty on that level is simply unacceptable. I'm sorry to hear that happened. :(

I really wish I knew who it was.. Probably the same people who killed a neighborhood cat, I had to hold him in the last moments of his life because of those sickos.

There is someone on another fishy site that that starts an "m" who talks about shooting strays.. gah I wanted to get into it with him but being immature doesn't help a thing.

bettagurl

09-20-2008, 5:20 PM

EEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW!

Oh eww yourself Papi :D

gatotsu77

09-20-2008, 6:12 PM

I really wish I knew who it was.. Probably the same people who killed a neighborhood cat, I had to hold him in the last moments of his life because of those sickos.

There is someone on another fishy site that that starts an "m" who talks about shooting strays.. gah I wanted to get into it with him but being immature doesn't help a thing.

Agreed. Stooping to their level simply provokes an even more irrational and illogical response... and will likely further usher their views of the matter into even more sinister ideas. Why throw gasoline on the fire? Someone just ends up getting burned as it rages on. :\

I've talked to several people who intentionally target ground squirrels and the such if they happen to notice them while at the shooting range. I cannot justify this action. If I were hunting for the sake of survival, I'd target something adequate to provide nourishment, or depending on the circumstance, whatever opportunistic catch I could get. Shooting them just for the sake of "fun" is certainly not "fun" in my mind.

Alan R

09-20-2008, 6:35 PM

bettagurl

09-20-2008, 6:49 PM

I hate spiders! They are my only real fear in life. This is a horrible thread and should be closed. In addition all spider threads, discussions, and photos should be permanently banned for ever and ever and ever! :silly:

Boy do I have a bunch of pictures to PM you.. I have quite the spider collection in my house... from tiny jumping spiders to bird eating tarantulas.

Alan R

09-20-2008, 7:00 PM

Boy do I have a bunch of pictures to PM you.. I have quite the spider collection in my house... from tiny jumping spiders to bird eating tarantulas.

I have actually had a tarantula. An attempt to over come my fear. When I was in the reptile business I got a Sunburst Baboon from a supplier of mine for $5. i figured a $35 (retail) spider for $5 might as well try it. If you know anything at all about spiders, you know I made a HUGE mistake choosing a SB as a beginner T. Super fast and super aggressive among other things. Very long story short the experience ended with me digging through a trash can with a pair a grill tongs and welding gloves where it had jumped when it escaped. Then with me screaming like a girl when it came running out of the trash after me. I was able to contain the spider without killing it and gave it back to the guy I got it from. The experience left me scarred (in a somewhat amusing way) and very clear on why I was afraid of them in the first place. It was a very educational experience.

bettagurl

09-20-2008, 9:42 PM

I have actually had a tarantula. An attempt to over come my fear. When I was in the reptile business I got a Sunburst Baboon from a supplier of mine for $5. i figured a $35 (retail) spider for $5 might as well try it. If you know anything at all about spiders, you know I made a HUGE mistake choosing a SB as a beginner T. Super fast and super aggressive among other things. Very long story short the experience ended with me digging through a trash can with a pair a grill tongs and welding gloves where it had jumped when it escaped. Then with me screaming like a girl when it came running out of the trash after me. I was able to contain the spider without killing it and gave it back to the guy I got it from. The experience left me scarred (in a somewhat amusing way) and very clear on why I was afraid of them in the first place. It was a very educational experience.
I must say.. starting with old world Ts is not a good thing :D
Maybe a nice Chaco or rosie? lol
I have to say, I have lots of crickets around, in my spider tanks, and they do not help me et over my fear of them.. The day my cricket tank's top broke open.. in my room.. people 5 miles away must have though I had been being stabbed. 50+ crickets.... everywhere...
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Sorry to derail your thread.. I love spidies.

gatotsu77

09-20-2008, 9:57 PM

Hahaha its all good, this is really funny. I can picture myself with the tongs and gloves trying to fish the thing out of the trash can too. I'd feel bad if I hurt the poor little bugger... but I'm horribly afraid of spiders. I can deal with crickets... been covered in 'em on more than one occasion. It tickles. :p: