What kind of spider is this?

[Indignant]

i go out of my way to not use the front door because there are a bunch of spiders over the porch. today driving the Bronco I was reaching up inside the door to move a loose rod that blocks the window so i could roll it down and one crawled onto me... luckily enough i had pulled over to reach up there or i would've crashed because i was flailing

edit: oh, and i remember staying in Zak's "shop" when we played the scenario game and seeing a HUGE spider in the corner while I was taking a dump... i didn't think it would get scarier until i went in the next day and didn't know where it was. nobody else had killed it... bastard was lurking on me

[MANN]

Lolol...actually my wife gets on to me because I am the spyder crusader. I will go out of my way to keep her from killing them to take them outside.
I am not really afraid of spyders, not that want one on me. I find them pretty facinating...however a wasp or bee is another story. I run and scream like a girl.

I'm with you there.

That would make 3 of us. I will bite the head off a snake, grab an alligator by the nose, or wrestle a gorilla. When it comes to bees I will jump off a sky scraper if it is after me.

[wetwrks]

Aww, isn't it cute.

[chafnerjr]

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Normally I let spiders live simply because I really really hate the other bugs they eat... and really they generally don't bother me. Hell my mother always used to call me in when I was a kid, to catch spiders and bring them outside because she couldn't stand them.

Now, while I was away at college I kept my stuff in storage... heated storage. And one year while I was visiting my folks and decided that I wanted the little 13" TV that was in said storage and because I had just put on 4 brand new tires at my fathers shop next door so it was just a quick stop on my way back to RIT. So I load up the TV and get on the highway. about 15 min down the road a big *** wolf spider crawled right across my face!!! And ya know what? Apparently that's my breaking point with spiders.

I mean I actually punched/slapped myself in the face several times, and when the spider fell off my face (apparently I have trouble aiming in that particular direction) I looked up to realize that somehow I ended up sideways on the highway (rt 16 NH southbound just after the Rochester tolls) at ~70MPH... no I am not kidding!!! Oddly enough this and the blaring horns around me still could take my mind off the spider in my lap. Luckily I managed to fishtail into the breakdown lane one handed while punching my crotch. Oddly I don't remember any pain from this.

The funny part is that I still didn't manage to kill the spider! I jumped from the car allowing the spider to fall to the ground where I stomped and jumped on the bastard for what must have been several min, until I was sure that I had exacted my revenge.

The worse part was driving the next 6 hours back constantly looking around form more spiders. It was pure hell for the first 2 hours until I calmed down a touch... Being that I am proud to be pretty damned fearless I am sort of ashamed to admit that a tiny little hairy 8 legged creature almost killed me. I just hope that someone gets a laugh out of what was easily the most terrifying moment of my entire life... no joke!

[Lohman446]

I looked in one of my friends snake aquariums once and noted the snake was missing.

He was a little upset I had drawn my pistol as I looked for it.

The bible specifically instructs me to kill snakes :) .

[kosmo]

If I were you Id hold on to that thing. Those are some of the coolest spiders there are. Not really poisonous, but it does hurt when they bite you. But theyve got great eyesight and theyre incredibly smart for a spider.

[SkinnyHare]

like a couple others said, that looks like one of those wolf spiders. i don't know if that's even the right name, but it's what they get called around here.

i'm up in the wasatch front area of UT and we used to catch them in the house fairly frequently. just throw them out into your garden if you catch one... they're pretty good about keeping nuisance insects in check. as far as i know they don't pose a threat, but it is creepy to see one crawling along the wall at 2am.

[Eatem Alive]

One of the funniest movie scenes ever...
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My son can't even watch this part.

[oneworld]

thats a little guy..they get as big as my fist around here..ands in not un common to find em on your bed..i get bit by them in my sleep alot..just a welt and itchyness for awhile. cured my fear of spiders tho.

[Sumthinwicked]

yupo wolf spider and they dont do anything besides leave a lil bite when your sleeping leaves a bad looking pimple fo about a week then it puckers( skin scaring over from the acid in the bite) then reheals happens on my face alot not perm though ....i have been bit a few 100 times in the last few years they are in CT all over the place just use a bug bomb keep your house clean no crud onthe floors should cut down on them also keep blankets from touching the floor

[Bolter]

The largest thing we have over here is maybe the size of a fingernail. Maybe even smaller, not too sure, but the strange thing is people are fanatical about hating them! There is nothing poisonous about any of them, and bites are rare anyway, but you still get people everywhere standing on a chair screaming like a girl.

We get hornets though.... those things are crazy!

The Japanese have it worse....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkecB3igfj8

[Thordic]

We used to get big suckers like this all over the front porch (all the bugs came to the porchlight, it was like a spider buffet).



I didn't mind as long as they stay OUTSIDE the house. The second they cross the doorway, they are dead.

The worst part was you had to get used to waving your hand in front of your face as you left in the morning, or else you'd get a face full of web they had built that night.

[custar]

Here in Oklahoma, we have tarantulas. They are not common here in the central part which is part of the Great Plains, but they are plentiful in the eastern part of the state which is more mountainous. The females reach almost 6" across, and the males are a bit smaller. The females are fairly gentle, but the males are aggressive. I have had a few as "pets". It was interesting to toss in a grasshopper or other insect and hear the spider crunching the prey. Although the tarantulas have sizable fangs, it seemed they were content to crunch up their meals.

custar

[paintball72]

i have to say i HATE spiders, and i have a reason to. when i get bit by a spider, almost any spider around here, mostly wolves, i swell up really bad. its like putting a walnut on my arm and that is how bad it is. so i squish on sight, especially if its in a sleeping area.

[Lohman446]

The largest thing we have over here is maybe the size of a fingernail. Maybe even smaller, not too sure, but the strange thing is people are fanatical about hating them! There is nothing poisonous about any of them, and bites are rare anyway, but you still get people everywhere standing on a chair screaming like a girl.

We get hornets though.... those things are crazy!

The Japanese have it worse....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkecB3igfj8

By definition all spiders are technically poisonous, just most are not poisonous enough to effect humans.