Posted: 4/21/2010 8:21:08 PM EDT
in my kitchen:
Doesn't appear to have the violin back but damn it was big. Roughly a 4 inch radius to those long legs, eeww. I hate spiders. Now anyone know the type? That's the second one in two days, I maybe calling for a spraying... |
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Looks like a brown recluse to me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider I saw one once in the house now I have a guy come every other month and I haven't seen one since or anything else for that matter. |
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For sake of disclosure, I am NOT an creepy bug expert by any means... But I am the sort that jumps on the table and fires off a few rounds at the hint of such.
All joking aside, I believe that's a "camel spider". We get those little suckers all the time in the far SW. About two years ago or so we found one in the garage about hand size. |
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kulkulcania hibernalis
He's just out lookin for some action.... ETA: These things love to crawl on your ceilings at night, but they're not very good climbers. Hope you don't sleep with your mouth open...   JK
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kulkulcania hibernalis He's just out lookin for some action.... ETA: These things love to crawl on your ceilings at night, but they're not very good climbers. Hope you don't sleep with your mouth open... JK
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kulkulcania hibernalis He's just out lookin for some action.... ETA: These things love to crawl on your ceilings at night, but they're not very good climbers. Hope you don't sleep with your mouth open... JKLooks exactly like the one on my wall. |
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Working in the medical field, it's funny. Every single person who comes in swears that they were bitten by a brown recluse spider if they have an insect bite.
The brown recluse is not a species that lives here in the desert. Their primary region is from Texas east through the southeast. As mentioned the one in the photo looks similar and is a distant cousin but is not as dangerous as a brown recluse spider. The brown recluse spider is native to the United States from the southern Midwest south to the Gulf of Mexico. The native range lies roughly south of a line from southeastern Nebraska through southern Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana to southwestern Ohio. In the southern states, it is native from central Texas to western Georgia north of Virginia[2][3]. A related species, the brown violin spider (Loxosceles rufescens), is found in Hawaii.[4] Despite many rumors to the contrary, the brown recluse spider has not established itself in California.[5] There are other species of Loxosceles native to the southwestern part of the United States, including California, that may resemble the brown recluse, but these species have never been documented as physiologically significant.
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looks big to be a brown recluse...they tend to be a bit smaller....HOWEVER, at the E22capt household, all brown juicy spiders are Brown Recluse untill proven otherwise. I'm with you on that! I suffered a spider bite on my leg that caused necrosis in the center of the wound, with a red quarter-sized ring around the area. Tender, and looked a bit like a volcano. I also had a headache for a few days. Desert recluse perhaps? Never caught the infiltrator, so it'll never be certain. My doc gave me Cipro for it, and he's not one to prescribe medicine without thorough consideration. The critter in MrsDarkstar's photo seems to be common out here. We've had a few like that. After what happened, Mr. Spider is guilty until proven innocent. 
Oh, and recluse spiders have 6 eyes instead of 8. A pair on either side, and one set in the front. |
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an 4" radius would be an 8" diameter... and that's a big dang spider! The legs were what made up most of the number, and since I didn't have a ruler it was a guess. Probably more like 2.5" to 3" legs. Quoted:get a cat or two. i've got two, and no spiders to be seen in the house. dunno if they'd be able to handle an 8"er tho!
I got two F.A.S.T. (feline anti-spider team) and they are pretty good about any critters but that guy was near the ceiling. |
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WD-40 and a bic lighter ...ya, i ended up paying for, and replanting my neighbors 10 feet of box hedges when i was 14 after attempting to kill a black widow "with fire". By the by....box hedges go up like they are made out of naplam. or so ive heard... |
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But those are little spiders compared to over here... You should have seen the Camel Spider we cought yesterday! We have them in Las Vegas, though I haven't seen one in years. Found one on my patio a few years ago. Creepy looking things, but pretty harmless. |
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But those are little spiders compared to over here... You should have seen the Camel Spider we cought yesterday! We have them in Las Vegas, though I haven't seen one in years. Found one on my patio a few years ago. Creepy looking things, but pretty harmless. Agressive...VERY agressive little devils. |
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I guess I'll be called the weird one now. I've found two in the house in the last week. I just catch them in a glass and put them outside. They eat a lot of the bugs I don't like, so I let them live and keep eating. What bugs do you hate more than the giant evil spider |
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I guess I'll be called the weird one now. I've found two in the house in the last week. I just catch them in a glass and put them outside. They eat a lot of the bugs I don't like, so I let them live and keep eating. What bugs do you hate more than the giant evil spider Good point. 
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I guess I'll be called the weird one now. I've found two in the house in the last week. I just catch them in a glass and put them outside. They eat a lot of the bugs I don't like, so I let them live and keep eating. What bugs do you hate more than the giant evil spider Good point. Mosquitos. God I am so sick of those little bastards! No matter what, every 20-30 minutes I find another one flying around in the house. I'd bunk down with a spider as big as me if it agreed not to eat me and it meant no more mosquitos, hell, I've bunked down with worse. 
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You are insane as far as I am concerned. I would eat a mosquito sandwich before I hung out with those spiders(pretty much any spider for that matter)
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I guess I'll be called the weird one now. I've found two in the house in the last week. I just catch them in a glass and put them outside. They eat a lot of the bugs I don't like, so I let them live and keep eating. What bugs do you hate more than the giant evil spider Good point. I would run into a burning building long before a building filled with spiders Every time |