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Check out this beast
By far the biggest rascal I've ever seen here in the region I live in. Other than the garden/banana types.
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Krikies!!! Did you have to pull out the Big Bore 44 to finish it off?
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It's a spider.
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The pic could be a little clearer but I think that is a Southern Baccahopis Solicapitillis. They are not harmful and only eat small insects like mosquitoes.
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Big spiders seem to be in this year  . Next thing you know everyone is going to want one 
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It's cute! I hope you didn't hurt it. Looks like a kind of Wolf Spider.
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I don't know how you got that 22 round that close to it but I hope you used another to kill it after the pic!!!!!:308
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....I think that is a Southern Baccahopis Solicapitillis.
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More commonly known as the "Alabama Barking Spider". 
Seriously though, it looks like a Dark Fishing Spider. The females can be 3" and look scary, but are relatively harmless.
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That's not a .22 round.It's a 50 BMG!!! Run for your lives!
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In response to Kritter's image:
Oh no, can I visit one forum without seeing an LOLcat? I guess the O RLY owls are coming up next.
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Yeah, I know we're not supposed to kill spiders, they're our friends, they eat other bugs, blah blah blah ... but when they get that big, they're just plain creepy, and need to go.
Oh, and how DID you get that .22 round that close to a "live?" spider without it running away?
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I feel my arachnphobia acting up again!
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We regularly have some that look like that on the front porch, and they try to run inside whenever the door is open. One has to have fast feet to keep them from getting in. Ours may be a little lighter brown than that, though, and I'm not certain they aren't recluses.
Last summer, one made it inside the front door, before she got the boot. When I squashed her, what look like thousands of little ones abandoned ships and scattered hither and yon. Thankfully, I had the bug spray handy, and coated the wood floor with it in a circle to contain them, then worked my way in from there. After that, I even had to break out the vacuum to clean up all those corpses.
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OH, the humanity!
You, sir, are a mass murderer of arachnids.
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OH, the humanity!
You, sir, are a mass murderer of arachnids.
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I think thats called a public service.
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Dang near killed a pair of britches when it happened, too. I'm not especially scared of spiders, but you just don't expect to squash one and then watch it turn into a boatload of them.
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The pic could be a little clearer but I think that is a Southern Baccahopis Solicapitillis. They are not harmful and only eat small insects like mosquitoes.
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Uh.. yeah.. looks like a Southern.. Bacca.. Soli... um... spider. 
It never surprises me.. (well maybe sometimes) the amount of knowledge that can be found on this forum!
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Good catch USAF385.
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We regularly have some that look like that on the front porch, and they try to run inside whenever the door is open. One has to have fast feet to keep them from getting in. Ours may be a little lighter brown than that, though, and I'm not certain they aren't recluses.
Last summer, one made it inside the front door, before she got the boot. When I squashed her, what look like thousands of little ones abandoned ships and scattered hither and yon. Thankfully, I had the bug spray handy, and coated the wood floor with it in a circle to contain them, then worked my way in from there. After that, I even had to break out the vacuum to clean up all those corpses.
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Yours was a wolf spider. I think they carry their babies on their back.
This would be the recluse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider
Make sure you look at its eyes lol
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You can look at its eyes. I'll be busy doing the barnyard shuffle on top of them. We've got enough critters in our house without the extra 8 legged ones.
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Eh... I've seen bigger.
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Isn't that thing dead yet?
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