Jesus Christ!!

[NonServiam]

welcome to half of the spiders I have found in my house....except the third one(i don't think it is a spider but everytime i see one in my house i want to fcking stomp it).. i dont know what that is I just typed in cricket spider in google because that's what it looks like to me.

I know the fourth one is a grass spider or in the wolf spider family. The third one is just that...a cricket, they just kind of look like a spider. The second one is a jumping spider. Those jumping spiders are wild! If you watch one walk they do it very erratically almost like they're under a strobe light! But what is that top one? I've seen them around my house too and they look like they would have a nasty bite.

[lxskllr]

I think the top one is a common house spider. If it's the one with the fine wispy legs, they're pretty benign. Those are on the top of my "keep" list.

[texasmade]

the top one is a "cellar spider" it reminds me of a grandaddy longlegs, just with a bigger body. I have those around here as well(granddaddy longlegs). I've only seen a black widow once in my life and a black widow like spider that had a white hourglass. Also have scorpions here(I like keeping those around and will actually one in the arage every now and then when I see a couple of spiders)

[NonServiam]

I think the top one is a common house spider. If it's the one with the fine wispy legs, they're pretty benign. Those are on the top of my "keep" list.

I just did some research and you are right. It's a "keep" spider. It's called a long-bodied cellar spider and they feed on Fiddlebacks and Black Widows.

Edit: Texas, you beat me to it. Thanks though.

[texasmade]

and they feed on Fiddlebacks and Black Widows.

that is all I need to know

[texasmade]

i find these in my back yard..and skinny black ones that are about 2 inches long

[Roo]

Brown Recluse Range:



Tegenaria Gigantae:



Range:



Hobo Spider: (these are coming for a neighborhood near you! Always misdiagnosed as Recluse bites around here)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo_spider

[victoryredchevy]

Just across the border here in Oklahoma we have the same. Was your grass spider the ones with the brown/yellow length wise stripes? That's like the one I stepped on and 100 babies went scurrying.

I know all about the Golden Garden spider. I was walking out to the shed one day and walked right into the web. I saw that big bastard and I screamed liked a little girl. I think they're also called an Argiope spider, and they are very beneficial but I wouldn't want one down my pants!

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Golden Garden (argiope)

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Is this what your grass spider looked like?

Yep, that's it. Those garden spiders are very neat, but if you happen to disturb them they'll make you pay. My grandfather told me their bite hurts worse than a bee sting.

[Phager]

Brown Recluse Range:



Tegenaria Gigantae:



Range:



Hobo Spider: (these are coming for a neighborhood near you! Always misdiagnosed as Recluse bites around here)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo_spider

Good info there Roo. We don't have many T. Gigantae this far south, but I've seen one or two and they scared the crap out of me. One good way to tell the difference between T. Agrestis and T. Domestica (Hobo and house spider respectively) are the height of the spiders and webs. T. Agrestis is much of a climber, so if it's hanging out in the corner of a ceiling it's probably a house spider and likely beneficial. My rule of thumb is anything lower then eye level get's whacked with magazine/paper/handy house cat

Pat

[Roo]

Where are you located Phager?

[daruckis]

dude my mom got bit by a brown recluse and her entire thigh looked like the most disgusting rotting pus oozing flesh id ever seen. the doctors at first thought she had MRSA. she was quarantined for like a day before they settled on spider bite.

[MojoQuestor]

dude my mom got bit by a brown recluse and her entire thigh looked like the most disgusting rotting pus oozing flesh id ever seen. the doctors at first thought she had MRSA. she was quarantined for like a day before they settled on spider bite.

My granddaddy was one tough hombre. Once he got kicked in the face by a mule (or maybe a cow), broken nose and all, and never did go to the doctor. But he couldn't shrug off a brown recluse bite. He waited longer than he should have, like people tend to do, but he went.

[Phager]

Where are you located Phager?

Oops, didn't realize I didn't have my location listed. I live in Corvallis, OR. A litte south of the typical T.Gigantae range, but way too many Hobo's (the spider type that is ).

[Joe234]

Oops, didn't realize I didn't have my location listed. I live in Corvallis, OR. A litte south of the typical T.Gigantae range, but way too many Hobo's (the spider type that is ).

That's the one. I'm in Salem.

[Jimbob_Rebel]

Cellar spiders love to bite.Pick one up with a pair of gloves some time, first thing it will do is dip down to "kiss" the leather. Their bites aren't bad, similar to a skeeter bite but they're bloody annoying enough that I kill them where I find them.