Posted: 7/19/2013 7:00:28 PM EDT
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Not having luck at the moment searching elsewhere. Just noticed four of these things in my basement, and there's probably more. Web is random. I had to clear out a section just to get the camera somewhat close, and it hunched it's legs up and turned away from me. These spider aren't very big either. Body is less than 1/4in wide and with legs outstretched I'd say between little less than a nickel. Basement is pretty cool. 55-58. I'm in Southwest Washington state. Hopefully this picture is clear enough. The spider is upside and I'm looking up at an angle. Only two poisonous I know of yet supposedly around here are hobo spiders and western black widow (which it doesn't look like.) When I noticed the web I thought 'WTF is black widow doing in my basement?!' and ran upstairs to grab a piece of firewood to crush it with or maybe look for material to quickly build a flame thrower, but then I went back down for a closer look. Terminate with extreme prejudice, or transplant outside or a different part of basement?  |
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common house spider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasteatoda_tepidariorum |
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If a person were to learn what the recluses and widows (spiders, not human females) looked like in their areas, and that's simply TWO spiders, well ARF would have less fun.
Learn to recognize the bad ones. That's ALL you need to learn. Everything else is fine. Even recluses and widows that are in places you don't use are fine. (I know about Hobo spiders, but they're not in my area, so I don't worry about them. Learn the two or three "bad" spiders in you area, and ignore the rest.) |
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Been having a problem with tiny ants in the basement, and it looked like one of them caught a fly. They're going to get relocated anyway, because I was about to move some stuff around. I'll look for pictures of different colored juvenile widows and see if anything matches. |