Spider identification help.

[DoctorX]

A lucky escape there Heretic!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420722/Sp...

[evilmunkey]

so if you want to live and thrive , let the spider stay alive eh... i say, if you dont want bites at all, shoot the bd while still on the wall.

[DannyScene]

I'd rather not take the chance so rather than try and identify it before deciding if I should build it its own little bed or not I'll kill the fk out of it

[evilmunkey]

absolutley this ^

[NoVetec]

IIRC, if it is a Brown Recluse, it'll have 6 eyes instead of 8.

But the thing is, who wants to get that close to check?

[Yertis]

yellowjack said:

Why? Just why?

Are you some kind of wus? It's only a spider, FFS, and a beautiful one at that. Just scoop 'em up and let 'em loose someplace else, there's no need to squish 'em to death

They're positively beneficial, cause you no harm and do a great job of ridding the place of pest insects. [devil's advocate mode]Cats on the other hand are highly detrimental to local ecosystems and to my flowerbeds, and can decimate wild bird populations, but apparently it's some kind of offence to stomp them to death and lob their carcasses over the back fence. I'd rather have a houseful of spiders than a single cat in my neighbourhood.[/devil's advocate mode]

Agree with you on both counts. Although having had a very nasty bite from a spider a few years ago (hand swelled up and turned blue) I tend to pick them up using something other than my hand. Fascinating creatures.

[yellowjack]

Mandown46 said:

Spiders are funny creatures.
The webs they spin can be beautiful, and they are some of the most fascinating mini-beasts out there, so many different types to look at and study.

They also scare the beejesus out of me.

I 'know' they cant hurt me, and are supposedly more scared of me than I am of them, but if theres one in the house, I cant rest until its out of the house. I do my best to capture them with a glass and a bit of card, but on occasion they have had to be squashed.
I suspect its down to a bad experience with a massive spider and my face as a child.

You are my brother, and I claim my five pounds

I don't actually think you are my brother, but he did have a terrible experience with a spider as a child. He woke up crying for mum, in the top bunk, and we all ended up downstairs crowded around him looking at the 'spider bite' on his arm (it was a freckle ). I went upstairs to find the spider responsible for the (non) bite, and came down with a little red-brown thing, which he nervously identified as the culprit, and it was duly ejected into the front garden.

Whilst catching the real spider I may have accidentally placed a large black rubber 'haloween' type spider, with long black 'hairy' legs in his bed, right at the top under the duvet, where he was sure to see it. Mum persuaded him that it was safe to go back to bed, and brought him into the bedroom, then he climbed the bunk ladder and pulled back his duvet.....

.....and promptly hit the ceiling, literally (it being the top bunk). He dived off the bed into our parent's room, ranting about the massive spider in his bed, and I almost felt guilty, he was shaking like a leaf in the wind. Of course, by the time mum came back in, my rubber spider was safely tucked away under my own pillow, leaving her baffled and believing he was 'seeing things'. He didn't come back to our room that night, either. What made it worse was the fact we lived in a 1940's built council house, with 'straight through' airbricks high in the walls, so spiders were never a rare sight in the house. My poor brother