Found one of these spiders last night when I woke up to piss. It was chillin on the wall in the corner so i trapped it with a CD container lid and a greeting card. Took some pics then stuck him in the toaster oven on 250 to die quickly. Then took the last two pics. Asked a guy I know who is an exterminator if he thought it was a brown recluse and he said probably not since it doesnt have the very distinct violin shape on its back, but he didnt know exactly what it was. But he also isnt that good with identifying spiders, he just knows to sprays some dust when a customer complains of spiders.

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7/28/2011 12:13:35 AM

Southern House Spider

7/28/2011 12:40:53 AM

good god, probably looks a lot worse than it actually is but i think i'd probably crap my pants if i saw that thing. how big was it?

7/28/2011 1:03:18 AM

Thanks, glad to know now what they are. And yes they are pretty big to me too. Online said they are supposed to only be ~2" all the way across but I must have some giants over here because the past couple ones I have seen have been 2.5-3.5"

[Edited on July 28, 2011 at 1:11 AM. Reason : ]

7/28/2011 1:09:01 AM

I opened this thread on my phone. I'm glad nobody was around.

7/28/2011 1:40:04 AM

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7/28/2011 2:05:31 AM

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"The Southern house spider (Kukulcania hibernalis) is a species of large North American spider which exhibit strong sexual dimorphism. The males very closely resemble brown recluses, having similar coloration and body structure, though they have slender bodies and are uniformly brown, unlike the brown recluse. The females are dark brown or black and more compact. Both sexes may grow to be roughly 2 inches (5.1 cm) across (legs extended), with the males typically having longer legs, and the females often having larger, bulbous bodies. The abdomen of the southern house spider is covered with fine velvety light gray hair. Female southern house spiders are rarely seen, as they build radial webs around crevices, for which reason their family (Filistatidae) is called crevice weavers. Females seldom move except to capture prey caught in their webs. Males, on the other hand, typically wander in search of insects and females to mate with, having no particular territory. The southern house spider is a cribellate spider. That is, its spinnerets do not produce adhesive webbing. Instead, to capture prey the spider uses its legs to comb webbing across its cribellum, a spiked plate near the spinnerets. This combing action frays and tangles the strands, producing a fine, velcro-like netting that ensnares insect legs. Male southern house spiders sometimes appear aggressive, but they do not bite unless trapped, and their mouthparts are too small to easily penetrate human skin. They do, however, have an unnerving tendency to crawl across anything in their path regardless of whether it is alive. This is not aggression; these spiders are simply nearly blind and cannot see larger animals. Indeed, these spiders instinctively play dead if they feel threatened (a tactic which is effective against their common predators). Southern house spiders are capable of crawling through crevices as narrow as 1/4 in (0.66 cm) due to their elongated bodies and compact legs."

7/28/2011 8:17:20 AM

kill it with the fire.

7/28/2011 8:28:40 AM

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"kill it with the firetoaster oven."

7/28/2011 8:40:56 AM

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"I opened this thread on my phone. I'm glad nobody was around."

especially your girlfriend's father, he would've broken your phone with his shoe

7/28/2011 6:24:45 PM

moron, that spider would be of a high value if it had all 8 legs.

7/28/2011 6:28:54 PM

nuke it from orbit

7/28/2011 8:35:55 PM

cameltoe spider

7/28/2011 10:07:45 PM

I never noticed it before, but that sort of mimics the violin pattern on the back of a Brown Recluse.

7/28/2011 10:37:33 PM

^ yup... Now I think what I saw in my bedroom a few weeks ago was actually a southern house spider... It looked like a violin but I killed it first then tried to look

7/28/2011 11:08:54 PM

Spiders are our friends. They eat the shitty and annoying insects.

7/29/2011 9:44:46 AM

hell naw

Fuck having a vampiric creature with 8 legs and far too many eyes hunting living things in my house.

if that becomes necessary, I'll be introducing a Frog into my home.

7/29/2011 9:50:21 AM

^2 hahaha

I spray them with Comet or Glade air freshener... Always does the trick

Ps:

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"good god, probably looks a lot worse than it actually is but i think i'd probably crap my pants if i saw that thing "

Oh I assure you they look just as bad in person. After further review the one I saw in my bedroom was most likely this and not a brown recluse... It was almost as big as my palm.

[Edited on July 29, 2011 at 9:56 AM. Reason : .]

7/29/2011 9:53:56 AM

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"Spiders are our friends. They eat the shitty and annoying insects."

Spiderwebs are pretty much a sign that your house if filthy IMO. First you had bugs. Then the spiders moved in. Now they're dropping their feces and bug carcasses in the corners of your home and you're too lazy to knock down their webs and put out some bug spray.

[Edited on July 31, 2011 at 8:49 PM. Reason : l]

7/31/2011 8:42:07 PM

Lol, I don't have spiderwebs in every corner of my house, and I wasn't suggesting that you keep a colony of spiders in your house. Only that spiders get a bad rap. If they're outside I leave em alone. If they're inside and clearly aren't black widows, I'll move em outside.

8/1/2011 10:24:17 AM

bump

8/23/2012 2:47:49 PM

pretty sure I know what this is...

Saw it while doing some yard work yesterday.

8/23/2012 3:00:58 PM

with fire, you shall kill it.

8/23/2012 3:04:08 PM

^^thats a Friendly Spinner

they make good pets

8/23/2012 3:07:13 PM

I'm set to auto-kill if it even resembles a black widow or a brown recluse. Shoot first, ask questions later.

8/25/2012 5:26:43 PM

my wife and i camped out near the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah for the Perseid meteor shower a couple weeks ago and woke up to see this tarantula nearby:

8/25/2012 6:39:03 PM