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(2,892 posts)Region-wise?
How big is it?
Looks like a common brown spider, fast and aggressive, but harmless.
http://www.insectidentification.org/spiders.asp
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,272 posts)That black rubber door weather strip is probably about an inch wide.
Aggressive would sound about right. I put my hand near it before I saw it and the damn thing reared up on me.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)You need a whip, a stool and a starter pistol.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,272 posts)I usually live and let live but the little fucker had evil intent.
LunaSea
(2,892 posts)All spiders can bite, and have venom (they need it to eat) but most won't bite you if you are too big to be prey. Most of the venoms though, won't harm humans.
We get common brown ones here in the southeast, some I've seen as big as a human hand.
Their speed can make many flee screaming. This guy is probably just looking for spider booty, and not interested in you. Trap him in a glass, slide cardboard underneath, and usher him outside.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)than a rearing spider!
uppityperson
(115,674 posts)We had one in a nursing home I worked at yrs ago. Too big to be caught by anything smaller than a large bowl. That are rather omg size with really long legs. Here a couple links
Scroll down, notice the shorter legs on brown recluse and wolf spiders?
http://hubpages.com/education/The-Glade
http://bugguide.net/node/view/32847#27145
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,272 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Just zap it with bug spray.
uppityperson
(115,674 posts)An aide came screaming down the hall yelling, quietly since the residents were in bed, ",spider!!!!!!". I told her to get a glass and trap it and she shook her head at me. I asked where it was, " down there in the hall!!!". I asked if it was near that blotch, she got me it was the blotch. That blotch was not a big stain on the carpet but I swear it measured 8 inches tip to tip. Those legs were LONG. The discussion continued quickly as we didn't want to give it a chance to run into some Alzheimer's persons room, as that was the section we were in. But oddly enough, no one wanted to step on it, it was too big. A heavy old fashioned mop was obtained and sorry giant spider.
The body wasn't much bigger than a really big autumn orb spider, but those legs were amazing.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)I don't think I've ever seen a spider measuring 8 inches tip-to-tip. I wonder, how in the world did that thing escape notice for so long?
Laffy Kat
(16,356 posts)And THEY ARE poisonous! Read more here:
http://www.wolfspiders.org/
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,272 posts)I think he had a friken laser beam
Laffy Kat
(16,356 posts)I'd just nuke it out of orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)in these sorts of situations.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,272 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)Slightly poisonous but not serious. They are great hunters you won't have a bug problem with her around.
If they're outside I leave them alone. If inside and you have the fortitude you can trap her under a glass that you can see through and slide a piece of cardstock under to trap her. Carry her out, put the glass down carefully. Kick it over and run like hell.
Or smack it with a magazine.
They aren't usually too aggressive.
haele
(12,581 posts)We have an arrangement with the two and a half-inch one outside. She stays outside and takes care of ants, beetles, silverfish, stink-bugs and black widow spiders out there, and Laz doesn't freak out when he sees her inside.
She is to leave the monarch butterflies and humming birds alone, though.
Haele
DFW
(54,055 posts)Do you find you can suddenly climb walls easily, have extra strength, and feel a tingling sensation when danger approaches, although there are no overt signs of it?
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,272 posts)Does that count?
DFW
(54,055 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)I was asleep on the couch and it woke me up. I looked but found nothing. In the morning my arm was semi-numb.
I thought it was a spider, but when Jeannie came downstairs she said, "Hold still, you have something on
your shoulder." It was the scorpion. I mushed it. The tingling lasted most of the day and went away.
Lots of heavy duty insects here in So Az.
you were stung, not bitten. and lucky it didn't get you several more times. they can be nasty when they get you in bed - running down between you and the mattress stinging as they go and you are trying to levitate off the bed to avoid exactly that.
don't even ask how well I know this.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Good rains here, how about over your way?
Kali
(54,990 posts)the thunderstorms yesterday were pretty wild - they came in three waves with an hour of sun in between. crazy!
IDemo
(16,926 posts)If so, you very definitely don't want to be bitten.