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Any spider experts here? I swear this thing tried to bite me. (Original Post) Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2015 OP
Where are you? LunaSea Oct 2015 #1
Or, it could be a Brown Recluse - Slow, aggressive, and deadly... nt Xipe Totec Oct 2015 #2
Chicago. Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2015 #3
Reared up? pinboy3niner Oct 2015 #4
The framing hammer did the trick. Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2015 #6
too big for a recluse LunaSea Oct 2015 #7
holy cripes. I think I'd be less afraid of a rearing horse magical thyme Oct 2015 #18
Giant house spider. Non venomous but omg size indeed. It reared up to scare you off uppityperson Oct 2015 #5
. Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2015 #8
I wouldn't even try to catch that thing Art_from_Ark Oct 2015 #9
About the one I saw at the nursing home, the joys of being charged nurse at night uppityperson Oct 2015 #10
Holy cow Art_from_Ark Oct 2015 #11
Looks like a wolf spidy to me. Laffy Kat Oct 2015 #12
Here's another shot with flash. Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2015 #13
A wolf, I tell ya. Laffy Kat Oct 2015 #14
that's my usual response NewJeffCT Oct 2015 #15
I read in one of the links they have reflective eyes. That would explain the glow. Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2015 #17
Wolf Spider I think sharp_stick Oct 2015 #16
Wolf Spider. Won't really damage you. Just an itchy bite mark for a day or two at worse. haele Oct 2015 #19
In the aftermath of your enounter, one question...... DFW Oct 2015 #20
I once felt like that during a Grateful Dead show. Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2015 #22
Even radioactive spiders liked the Grateful Dead, so it's certainly possible. n/t DFW Oct 2015 #29
I was bitten by a scorpion on the arm last week in the middle of the night. panader0 Oct 2015 #21
stung Kali Oct 2015 #23
Duh, you are right, stung not bitten, shaken not stirred. panader0 Oct 2015 #24
yeah this has been great - last weekend the wash finally ran Kali Oct 2015 #25
It could be a Hobo spider, also called an "Aggressive House Spider" IDemo Oct 2015 #26
Yikes. oasis Oct 2015 #27
ewww Liberal_in_LA Oct 2015 #28

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,272 posts)
3. Chicago.
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 08:08 PM
Oct 2015

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.

LunaSea

(2,892 posts)
7. too big for a recluse
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 08:26 PM
Oct 2015

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.


uppityperson

(115,674 posts)
5. Giant house spider. Non venomous but omg size indeed. It reared up to scare you off
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 08:23 PM
Oct 2015

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

uppityperson

(115,674 posts)
10. About the one I saw at the nursing home, the joys of being charged nurse at night
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 12:55 AM
Oct 2015

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)
11. Holy cow
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 01:04 AM
Oct 2015

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?

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
16. Wolf Spider I think
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 08:04 AM
Oct 2015

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)
19. Wolf Spider. Won't really damage you. Just an itchy bite mark for a day or two at worse.
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 01:11 PM
Oct 2015

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)
20. In the aftermath of your enounter, one question......
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 01:37 PM
Oct 2015

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?

panader0

(25,816 posts)
21. I was bitten by a scorpion on the arm last week in the middle of the night.
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 02:36 PM
Oct 2015

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.

Kali

(54,990 posts)
23. stung
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 09:10 PM
Oct 2015

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)
24. Duh, you are right, stung not bitten, shaken not stirred.
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 09:20 PM
Oct 2015

Good rains here, how about over your way?

Kali

(54,990 posts)
25. yeah this has been great - last weekend the wash finally ran
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 09:23 PM
Oct 2015

the thunderstorms yesterday were pretty wild - they came in three waves with an hour of sun in between. crazy!

IDemo

(16,926 posts)
26. It could be a Hobo spider, also called an "Aggressive House Spider"
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 11:35 PM
Oct 2015

If so, you very definitely don't want to be bitten.



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