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8/4/2009 7:17:39 AM EDT
Found this on my patio (I'm not a good photographer, this is the best I could manage):

http://plinker.org/images/spider1.jpg

Can anybody identify that beastie?

The ID becomes more evident in the next pic:

http://plinker.org/images/spider2.jpg

(yes that is a red hourglass on its underside)
8/4/2009 7:23:55 AM EDT
[#1]
Quoted:
Found this on my patio (I'm not a good photographer, this is the best I could manage):

http://plinker.org/images/spider1.jpg

Can anybody identify that beastie?

The ID becomes more evident in the next pic:

http://plinker.org/images/spider2.jpg

(yes that is a red hourglass on its underside)






Kill it and don't think twice
8/4/2009 7:25:04 AM EDT
[#2]
Hair spray and lighter NOW! Or 5.56......whichever is closer.
8/4/2009 7:37:26 AM EDT
[#3]
My preferred anti-spider weapon is my air rifle.  Makes a nice . . . . splat. (and doesn't disturb the neighbors)
8/4/2009 8:18:31 AM EDT
[#4]
Male Widow, they are highly susceptible to the bottom of a foot.



Squat!
8/4/2009 8:21:04 AM EDT
[#5]
Why is everyone's reaponce to something they don't understand always: "KILL IT!!!"


Why can't we all just get along?

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8/4/2009 8:24:44 AM EDT
[#6]
Male Widow?  Wouldn't that be a widower?  and all this time I thought this was a Brown Widow.

I have also foud and dispatched Black Widow spiders as well.  My air rifle works like a charm.
8/4/2009 9:32:01 AM EDT
[#7]
That's not a widow.  It's just a normal orb weaver.
8/4/2009 11:07:09 AM EDT
[#8]
God I hate spiders. I should have never looked at this post.

Kill it and hope it doesn't have little baby's on it's back.

M
8/4/2009 12:29:22 PM EDT
[#9]
Quoted:
Why is everyone's reaponce to something they don't understand always: "KILL IT!!!"


Why can't we all just get along?

Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile


I understand.......it's a harmless Orb Weaver.....and I'd still kill it. I don't play.
8/4/2009 12:39:00 PM EDT
[#10]
Quoted:
Why is everyone's reaponce to something they don't understand always: "KILL IT!!!"


Why can't we all just get along?

Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile


So are you the spider whisperer?
I know about spiders......thats why I kill them. I would rather swat flies all day than wake up to one of those creepy little basterds crawling up my back in the middle of the night. (has happened twice)
8/4/2009 12:48:13 PM EDT
[#11]
Quoted:
God I hate spiders. I should have never looked at this post.

Kill it and hope it doesn't have little baby's on it's back.

M


My wife did a "mag dump" with an entire can of raid on a wolf spider.  She popped it and then the babies hopped off and tried to make a break for it.  That freaked her out and she unloaded the rest of the can on them.  I'm not sure if the drowned or were killed by the poison.  Spiders don't really freak me out, but when those babies jumped off, it did give me the creeps.  
8/4/2009 2:01:10 PM EDT
[#12]
This be what a Brown Widow looks like. Yours doesn't look like it is.





Your crappy pics are too crappy to tell just what exactly it IS though.
8/5/2009 9:17:43 PM EDT
[#13]
DEATH TO ALL SPIDERS!!!  the creepy eight legged, eight eyed freaks.  *shudders*