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    eww eww eww not exactly field herping

    this is the 3rd one i found in my house this week...what is it...i have a nightmares of spiders anyone know what kind it is..ifs its poisionous...and if its harmful to my kids at all?

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    Im 100% certain its not poisonous. Im not an arachno expert though so i have no idea what type of spider that is.
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    Re: eww eww eww not exactly field herping

    Quote Originally Posted by Mike41793 View Post
    Im 100% certain its not poisonous. Im not an arachno expert though so i have no idea what type of spider that is.
    Correction.."venomous" Mike, not "poisnonous"!

    All spiders are venomous!
    Its just that some are harmful to humans and other are not.
    That little guy looks nasty but I have no idea about the species...
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    It is not a BW or a Brown Recluse, so it is not terribly venomous. Other than that I am no help, lol.

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    Depending on how big it is, it's hard to tell from the picture. But here in Ga we call them Wolf Spiders. They get HUGE, but they are harmless to humans. Usually in ga, the bigger the spider, the less harmful it is.
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    We have a ton of those
    we call them wolf spiders too

    they're not nasty
    but they are fast which is kinda scary
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    Re: eww eww eww not exactly field herping

    Quote Originally Posted by Navy View Post

    they're not nasty
    but they are fast which is kinda scary
    Yes and they have a tendency to jump. Lol
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    They are rabid wolf spiders(Rabidosa rabida). They can bite but usually don't. They are all over my yard and I don't worry about them. Just catch them and put them back outside and let them eat up all the annoying bugs.

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    It's a wolf spider. When they end up in your house they messed up and accidentally wandered in there. They generally stay outside and make webs that look like the funnel webs that funnel web spiders make in bushes and crevices. They are all over the place by me. Mostly outside around my house and where I work but sometimes I find one inside and they freak out and run away when I go near them.

    They are big and creepy but they shouldn't harm you. They are not aggressive.

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    Re: eww eww eww not exactly field herping

    Quote Originally Posted by Foschi Exotic Serpents View Post
    It's a wolf spider. When they end up in your house they messed up and accidentally wandered in there. They generally stay outside and make webs that look like the funnel webs that funnel web spiders make in bushes and crevices. They are all over the place by me. Mostly outside around my house and where I work but sometimes I find one inside and they freak out and run away when I go near them.

    They are big and creepy but they shouldn't harm you. They are not aggressive.
    If they were found roaming in the house then they are undoubtedly not members of the family Agelenidae, or sheet web (not funnel web) spiders. I've kept sheet web spiders in the past and every one that escaped from an enclosure was found at most 3 feet away from the enclosure with a new sheet web and attached funnel. No self-respecting agelenid would roam about a house and not stop to make a web. I would say that it is a wolf spider, family Lycosidae, which do not build webs for the purpose of prey capture. The only thing that wolf spiders use silk for is to make egg sacs; they are hunters as opposed to being a sit and wait (web) predator.
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