What is this can anyone help please ?

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I'm terrified of spiders. Is it poisonous!? Help


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Well, it looks dead so probably not.

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This isn't exactly the kind of spider I expected to see when I clicked this thread. I'm still waiting for the punchline... :spid0r:???

Just dont eat it and you will be fine. However in its current condition I don't think you need to worry about if its venomous either.




Ps= Misha you made me laugh hard. I was expecting something different myself.

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I'm terrified of spiders. Is it poisonous!? Help


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There are no poisonous spiders. Therefore the answer is "No".

Use of the dreaded "p" word on this forum :p

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From the looks of it, if it is one of the few venomous spiders here in the US, it ould only likely be a Brown Recluse. I am not saying it is a Brown Recluse , just that it certainly isn't a Black or Brown Widow which are the only other two that are venomous in the States. Here is a video from You tube for a Brown Recluse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lwuItwsyP4

Regardless, as everyone else has already said, the particular spider in the picture won't be harming anything ever again. To quote Cousin Eddie, "If that thing had nine lives Clark, you done spent em all".

I am just scared okay. I moved into my first apartment after seeing this I'm just scared there are more. Yeah I know I sound like an idiot. I don't know what I am talking about. Before I decided to go searching the internet I figured I would ask here since people on here seem to be quite intelligent.


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Before I decided to go searching the internet I figured I would ask here since people on here seem to be quite intelligent.

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Sometimes too much for our/their own good. ;) Congrats on your new place!

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Originally Posted by rlditmars

To quote Cousin Eddie, "If that thing had nine lives Clark, you done spent em all".

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Ha!

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Sometimes too much for our/their own good. ;) Congrats on your new place!

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Ha I learn more here than I do anywhere else on the internet it seems. And thank you. :)


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All spiders are "venemous" to some extent. Looks like maybe a wolf spider

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Originally Posted by BiggBaddWolf

All spiders are "venemous" to some extent. Looks like maybe a wolf spider

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I agree. I said the only three venomous spiders in the US are the Brown Recluse, and Black or Brown Widow, which is incorrect. I should have stated they are the only three who's venom is potent enough to create a significant risk of necrosis and more. I appreciate the clarification.

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Originally Posted by rlditmars

From the looks of it, if it is one of the few venomous spiders here in the US, it ould only likely be a Brown Recluse. I am not saying it is a Brown Recluse , just that it certainly isn't a Black or Brown Widow which are the only other two that are venomous in the States. Here is a video from You tube for a Brown Recluse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lwuItwsyP4

Regardless, as everyone else has already said, the particular spider in the picture won't be harming anything ever again. To quote Cousin Eddie, "If that thing had nine lives Clark, you done spent em all".

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Im im not even from the states and I know you have more than 3 venomous spiders. To my knowledge
you also have the hobo spider , which is a house spider which uses necrotic venom . Looks to me from the picture that this is a hobo spider.

Not sure where the OP is from, but hobo spiders are generally confined to the Pacific Northwest here in the USA. :salute:

It's a little hard to tell from the pic but it looks most to me like a harmless male wolfspider, I saw male because it's tiny, not very fuzzy, and it's pedipalps are swollen. They go wandering to find mates. I don't think it's a brown recluse because they are wispyer looking, with smaller body to leg ratio. I lived in a house once with a horrible brown recluse problem. went to go to bed once, flipped back the blanket to get in and there were two right below my pillow. D:

Moved to Off Topic. ;)

Well, if you are going to be anal about it being venomous, might as well go all out. Yes, it is venomous. All spiders are venomous. Every. Single. One. The real question is does the venom pose a threat to a human. And that I can't help with.

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I am just scared okay. I moved into my first apartment after seeing this I'm just scared there are more. Yeah I know I sound like an idiot. I don't know what I am talking about. Before I decided to go searching the internet I figured I would ask here since people on here seem to be quite intelligent.

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Congrats on your own place, exciting stuff!

We were just having a bit of fun because of the forum section you placed it under it was very out of place and then it was a very dead spider that you showed us. So that paired with you asking in a simple way if we could help was just to much and we had to have some fun with you. All questions are welcome but some of us can be a bit silly.

I would relax. Judging by some internet research, that doesn't match up to any spider that poses a serious risk to humans. To ease your mind a little more, here's a handy ID chart to spiders in North America.
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Wolf Spiders are very handy though, since they're known to hunt and eat Black Widows and Brown Recluses. :)



And YES GUYS, I know it says "poisonous". :P

Of course, the problem with charts like that is most people who don't care for spiders are not going to take the time to look one up if it's in their house. The other problem is, there are a lot of harmless spiders that look an awful lot like a dangerous spider, especially from 15 feet away.

That being said, I don't mind spiders in the house. Usually I see them and calmly fetch a glass or plastic dish and an index card, persuade them gently to enter the glass, and relocate them back outside. Of course, large spiders of any kind terrify a lot of people.

If you want to know just what a mind trip finding a big spider in the house can be, I'll share my true experience with you. Two years ago in the middle of fall, my husband was cleaning out from under our deck and found a very large female Kentucky Fishing spider. Our second. Don't ask me what a fishing spider from Kentucky was doing under my deck in mid Missouri, I don't know. Anyhow, being the kindhearted soul that I am, I took her in, just like I did the first. We placed her in a large critter keeper with some coconut bedding and a dish of water crystals, and fed her crickets through the winter. Although large and rather intimidating looking, our girls were very docile and fascinating pets. In the spring, as the weather began to settle, we set a date to release the girl at a large conservation area with lots of lakes and ponds, suitable habitat for a fishing spider, wouldn't you say?

A week or so before our chosen release date, I woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. I closed the door and turned on the light, to discover a very large fishing spider in the bathroom sink. I didn't panic or scream, but calmly opened the bedroom door, while trying to figure out how the female escaped her keeper, made it all the way across the bedroom and into the bathroom. I peeked out into the bedroom at the keeper on the dresser. The female was clearly resting in her favorite corner. I looked back in the bathroom. The spider was still in the sink. I looked back in the bedroom. The spider was still in the keeper. It took my sleepy mind several times looking from one to the other to process this was a second spider. So, not knowing what else to do I woke my husband, who grumpily helped me to catch the second spider. With a little effort and fast moving on our part, we succeeded. In the morning, I got a good look at our new visitor, and discovered it was a male. My only theory was, he had somehow smelled/sensed the female and had managed to get into the house past the cats searching for her. I was however glad I found him before he made it into the bedroom and onto the bed in his search.

We kept the two side by side for a week, feeding them up on crickets, before we turned them loose. Hopefully, they found a suitable home quickly and produced a new generation of spiders.

To the OP, I understand being afraid. I have always been terrified of jumping spiders. Hairy little beasts that can jump a mile <shudder> I couldn't tolerate them inside or out. However, in the last few years I have discovered, mostly through spider people I met via reptile people, that they can actually be quite cute and charming. And wonder of wonders, people actually keep them as pets! So, little by little I've been conquering my fear. It's not easy, especially when one of the really large ones finds it's way into the house, but I have learned I can treat them as I do my other guests, if I am quick. It helps to understand they are not monsters, any more than my beloved snakes that frighten people so badly are. They don't go around stalking people to bite them any more than my snakes do. We've kind of reached a truce I suppose you could say. I don't go out of my way to hurt them, and I don't judge them based on fear. I see too much of that with my snakes, and I feel a bit like a hypocrite to act that way towards a spider.

Gale

spiders are alright

I love my house spiders. Got a bit of variety but I mostly see the huntsman types bolting across a wall or the wolf variety scampering about on the floor. Haven't seen a roach in quite a while and any insects that wander into the house I can ignore knowing they will be hunted down with extreme prejudice. My advise would be to relocate any that you are unsure of and let the ones you know to be harmless do what they do best - destroy bugs.

One of my wall bolters slowed down by her egg sac. I was pretty pumped to get another generation of these suckers in house. I pity the crawler that catches their eye. The smoke detector is 5 inches across for size reference.
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One of my jumpers on perimeter patrol taking down a katydid that wandered too close to the side door.
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