Spider ID needed; found in NE Oklahoma

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Originally Posted by Chocolate Muffin's

Is that a Brown Recluse?

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No, that is not a brown recluse. Read more carefully.

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Originally Posted by Raptor

..Yes I know. I meant in the sense of being harmful such as a black widow or brown recluse.

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Chocolate Muffin's probably read this post and that's why she asked if it's a brown recluse.

Looks like a wolf spider:
http://pods.dasnr.okstate.edu/docush...01webcolor.pdf

I would have to agree with Jeff on this one.

I caught one here at work one night and took it home. I put it in the basement to eat any other spiders down there. After two attempts to keep it down there, kept finding him at the top of the stairs, I put him in an enclosure. Gave him a grass spider one day. Must have gotten bit by it in the leg, because after I dropped it in, the wolf spider tore off one of his own legs and ate it. Then proceeded to eat the grass spider. Tough little dude. True story.

Other board ID'd her as a Carolina Wolf Spider.

Wolf spider! <3 I'm in love with these guys. :]

The first spider I ever really got to be around was a wolf when I was little. He went into a heat vent when he was little, got fat and big on the insects in there and got too big to get out. So he'd stick his legs out all the time, lol and I used to try and pet him. (I was five. :P)

Is it fairly easy to keep them? I never considered it, to be honest, but I'd love one someday.

I haven't had much issue keeping them.