Can anyone identify this spider?

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buncha grown men afraid of a harmless spider ain't right...

:neener:

and RC- the colorado tarantula migration is AWESOME

~WIDOWman
 
Great RC now you've just tainted my love for Colorado with that story. Talk about something out of a nightmare.

And Widowman, if Indiana Jones can hate snakes then I have every right to hate spiders :p
 
sorry im late to the party! its a carolina wolf spider. they can get massive (one of the biggest in North America). often frequent trees for the tasty insects that inhabit them. minimum caliber is .357 mag 158 gr. xtp!
 
This reminds me of my horror spider story.

I was 17 years old and working my first job at a tinseltown movie theatre. They had me opening at 7am and i was pretty sleepy and relatively new to the job. I get in and start walking to the bathroom when i notice something out of the corner of my eye is walking about 10 feet away on the floor and keeping my pace.


I stop, and it stops. About then i get the heebie jeebies and look at the object doing this. It is a spider that I swear was the size of a dinner plate :uhoh:

Maybe not a dinner plate, but it was BIG. I look at it debating what to do and figure that at 6 bucks an hour, and figuring any arachnid that got that big had to be one mean mofo...I let him go his own way and went mine.

Later on, I told a veteran over there about my encounter and he nonchalantly said "oh yeah. wolfgang? hes been around for a while" Dang thing had a NAME


haha sorry about the long read, but this thread reminded me of that story so i figured id share
 
the orb weavers are super cool. aka garden spiders, and writing spiders.

They generally put a thick zigzag of silk in the middle of their web to keep birds from flying through it. The wive's tale is that if you can read your name in the zigzag, you will die the next day.
 
I had one of those orb spiders on the side of my house a year or two ago. I threw a baseball at it and the darn thing threw it right back at me :p
 
In the Philippines I had a huntsman spider bigger than my open hand run across my chest while i laid down for a nap. yes, i jumped up and screamed like a little girl who just had her doll taken from her. it wasn't a proud moment for me. after a protracted fight i finally killed said spider with fire. since that time spiders and i have had an accepted open war where no quarter is asked or given.
 
"That's not a spider, mate, THIS is a spider" (Only the bar is photoshopped in this pic):

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I'll take bears any day.
 
.177 air pistol is what I uses for arachnids what invades my premises. Little'uns get a burst of air that tends to burst 'em, big'uns gets a pellet.

That's when I don't just catch'em and toss 'em outside in the bushes, or when the dog doesn't play 'em to death.

She's weird. Thinks bees make a tasty snack.
 
That OP's buddy is a wolf spider fur sure. Some of them can get big, like the size of your hand when they lay out in stealth-mode. Some mistake um for brown recluse which can really mess you up if their bite isn't treated within 4 to 12 hrs. Those golden orb's in post #33 can get the size of a sparrow bird and knit a web 10ft in diameter I've seen um in the shhwamps and they have been known to catch birds ... yes BIRDS ... as larger as a mocking bird. They get tangled up in their massive web and the orb just sits in waiting for it to exhaust itself trying to escape then moves in for the kill. Red weaver orb's can get big too and they can knit large webs as well. The red ones only come out at night and there’s nothing creepier then slipping out of your tent at night to make a weewee and walking into one of those big o’l web things :barf: and their silk is stronger then steel and once that sticky mess gets on yah you keep feelin it for hours !!! gad I hate spiders and snakes !!! :uhoh:
 
This here is a brown recluse, or fiddleback. See the violin shape on its back? They're not much bigger than a quarter, legs and all, and are very skinny. Nasty little buggers though. Found one trapped in a coffee cup once, and it was rarin' back threatening to kick my ass. He got sprayed.

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I have them brown recluses in my basement...
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Uhhh, hope you're joking. The bite can be about the same as a venomous snake.

Saw an e-mail a few months ago showing the reaction to a recluse bite. Guy was bit on the back of his hand just above the big joint at the top of his thumb. Hand swelled up like a catcher's mitt. The bite area was probably as large as a tennis ball. Skin and muscle all rotted off. It was a mess. Might have ended up losing his hand as bad as it looked.
 
I wish I was... I steer clear of them on a regular basis. They're all over in my area of the city, and it really doesn't revolve around pleasantries. I steer clear of them, and so far they don't bother me... Just have to give 'em space. But even still, the anxiety attacks are horrendous. Like I said earlier, I'm extremely arachniphobic.
 
When we first moved into our house we found a few of these wolf spiders around.

This one was in the garage and seemed friendly enough...:p

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