Interesting spider

[boykinlp]

I hate spiders, ALL spiders!

Back in my hunting days, I was trying to find my tree stand about 5 am. I had a head lamp on and was looking down as I was stepping over a blowdown. Just as I looked up, I was stepping face first into a very large spider web. To make things better, the large spider was in the middle of its web.

I kept wondering why that woman was squealing so loud that early in the morning, when I realized it was ME! Needless to say, I did not see any deer that morning and my hunting partners wanted to know if I heard that woman squealing.

 

[Arik]

Back to Davids spider, here in South Central Ky, we call those "jumping spiders". The little sucker just jump about 2 feet at a time.

We have them too, here in SE Pa. Stocky buggers, black with a little bit of white. One almost made me cause a 20 car pile up on the highway last week. There i am driving to work, have my window down and elbow out the window. From the corner of my eye I see something move under my arm. Look down and there he was! Big black, stocky looking bugger just sitting by the door handle..... i just about jumped out of the moving vehicle. I ended up practically sitting on the center consul/arm rest until i could pull over.....at which time i took my sneaker off and bashed him

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[LVSteve]

Start here and work your way in. Order Araneae - Spiders - BugGuide.Net
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I think I hear screams already.

 

[jlrhiner]

I usually can't identify spiders, what with all the screaming and jumping around.

 

[therevjay]

Dead spiders are GOOD spiders.

 

[rimfired]

Im not sure as to what kind of sipder that is, but I also found one lurking on my driveway. The body on this behemoth was probably the size of a quarter...

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Wolf Spider.

 

[snubbyfan]

I took this picture the other day of this little furry spider. Not sure what kind it is, but it has a very unusual pattern. Anyone know the name of this little guy?

I found a name for him.
The Who - Boris the Spider - YouTube

 

[Texas Star]

I think a wolf spider on the big one, too.

If Steve is right about funnel web spiders, that scares me a little. The one I have in mind under that name is from Australia and is very deadly.

Grocery clerks used to find quite a variety of spiders, even snakes, in bunches of bananas. Don't know if they still do.

 

[LouisianaJoe]

I got bit by a spider a several years ago. The site of the bite turned into what looked like an ulcer. It took over 2 months to heal with the application of an antibiotic cream. I still have the scar.

 

[Snapping Twig]

 

[Texas Star]

I got bit by a spider a several years ago. The site of the bite turned into what looked like an ulcer. It took over 2 months to heal with the application of an antibiotic cream. I still have the scar.

Brown Recluse? Your bite was a lot less severe than some from that species.

 

[jkc]

The spider pictured in David's post is apparently a Daring Jumping Spider, Phiddipus audax. It stalks its prey, rather than building a web trap, and pounces, from distances as great as two feet, trailing a silk recovery line. They purportedly have the best eyesight of any spiders, and ought to, with eight eyes! Absolutely creepy photos are easily found, as well as is a YouTube clip showing one following the red dot of light from a laser pointer, similar to a cat!

 

[LouisianaJoe]

Brown Recluse? Your bite was a lot less severe than some from that species.

I never saw the spider that bit me so I do not know what it was. I was not even sure what bit me. My doctor told me that it was a spider.

 

[BobC357]

I recognize him. His name is Charlie.
I was wondering where he ran off to.

When I worked for Redfield Gunsight company that made scopes way back when, they used black widow spider web for the reticles.

They actually had a spider master at the shop who fed and bred their spiders and collected the web for the scopes. Every now and then you'd hear a call over the P.A. If you see a black widow spider, call extension ... Suzy is missing (or some other girls name).

 

[rwsmith]

The Spider Master??

When I worked for Redfield Gunsight company that made scopes way back when, they used black widow spider web for the reticles.

They actually had a spider master at the shop who fed and bred their spiders and collected the web for the scopes.

Was that his job title??? Sounds like a comic book villain.

 

[rwsmith]

Don't most jumping spiders??

The spider pictured in David's post is apparently a Daring Jumping Spider, Phiddipus audax. It stalks its prey, rather than building a web trap, and pounces, from distances as great as two feet, trailing a silk recovery line. They purportedly have the best eyesight of any spiders, and ought to, with eight eyes! Absolutely creepy photos are easily found, as well as is a YouTube clip showing one following the red dot of light from a laser pointer, similar to a cat!

Can't most jumping spiders bite the ding-dong crapola out of you??

 

[JFootin]

I got bit by a spider a several years ago. The site of the bite turned into what looked like an ulcer. It took over 2 months to heal with the application of an antibiotic cream. I still have the scar.

Brown Recluse? Your bite was a lot less severe than some from that species.

I got bit by a Brown Recluse that dressed with me one workday morning. I got to the office and pulled my suit coat off when I noticed a lump about the size of a baseball on my back near my left shoulder blade! I had not felt a thing. One characteristic of the BR's bite is that it anesthetizes you so you aren't even aware it is happening. I went to the on site nurse and she said she could see three bite marks on the lump. That spider sat there and pumped every bit of venom it had into me during my drive to work, and I was totally unaware! I went to see the doctor and he prescribed some antibiotic cream, saying the injury should be cleaned and dressed daily. I was single and had no one to do this for me, so I went to the on site nurse every work day morning and she did it for me. The lump turned into a huge sebaceous cyst. There was lots of tissue loss and necrosis, and lots of puss squeezed out by the nurse for a couple of weeks. What a mess!

 

[BobC357]

Was that his job title??? Sounds like a comic book villain.

I believe it was. That was a very long time ago when I was there. Spider Keeper, Spider Master, something like that.

 

[pownal55]

I won't sleep tonight.

 

[Thuer]

According to my friend. He did not know the first one. The other two are Wolfspiders and the very dead one a fals buttonspider. All are not toxic. To me they are all brrrrrrrrrrrr.