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Cracka_X
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Re: Name this spider (large pics) [Re: LethalX5]
#6042515 - 09/08/06 09:11 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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A banana spider appeared over my front door one day and I was about to kill it, but before I did I noticed something amazing... A wasp flew into its web and she killed the fucker! That spider proved its worthiness of staying in front of my door. Sometimes I'd watch it outside my window and see more n more wasps getting caught in her web. Then there was a very windy day and my spider wasn't there anymore. I named her Charlotte.
here's a pic
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ToTheSummit
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Re: Name this spider (large pics) [Re: Asante]
#6042554 - 09/08/06 09:25 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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As soon as I saw the pics in your first post I said to myself "Hey, those are them damn things I've got out in my yard!". Theres tons of them here! Obviously an egg sack hatched in the area this spring.
Then when you discovered its identity and posted the description I knew I was right... those are the exact spider I have here.
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Range and Habitat
This species ranges from Washington to Nova Scotia, south to Guatemala and Baja California. It can be found in coastal areas of San Diego County.
I live on the beach in San Diego!
edit: sorry, just noticed Lethal was the original poster and Wiccan found the identity
Edited by ToTheSummit (09/08/06 09:52 PM)
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Mitchnast
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Re: Name this spider (large pics) [Re: Cracka_X]
#6042585 - 09/08/06 09:37 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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charlotte is not a Nephila clavipes, the harmless banana spider.
another spider known by the name "banana spider" and also "wandering spider" as it comes from tropical areas on shipments of bananas is the Phoneutria nigriventer
known to actually attack people from accross rooms.
the bite may well prove fatal as they have potent venom and a LOT of it.
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cricket
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Re: Name this spider (large pics) [Re: Mitchnast]
#6044218 - 09/09/06 12:55 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I know what a reclues looks like. I can ID the spiders and the molted skins. I've spent most of my life living with them in and around my homes.
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat...rue#Post5737246
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat...rue#Post5740734
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Edited by cricket (09/09/06 01:01 PM)
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Mitchnast
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Re: Name this spider (large pics) [Re: cricket]
#6044254 - 09/09/06 01:05 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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there are some desert recluses in eastern California
this is a pretty decent range map, tho the reclusa species does occur further east. it may not be as far north as this map sugegsts tho.
Im in hobo spider territory myself unlike the the recluse. the bites are relitively painless and go unnoticed untill they begin to fester and rot. bites are often venomless, or have little venom, my wife got bit a few days ago while sleeping. diddnt do much damage. the bites effect fatty tissues the worst
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AKSE
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Re: Name this spider (large pics) [Re: Mitchnast]
#6044340 - 09/09/06 01:44 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Mitchnast said: cricket, if you have a brown recluse that means you definately live in the southern states east of the rockies.
OTHERWISE you definately have something else.
In the PNW, the big nasty biter is the Hobo spider.
black widows keep to themselves, i have dozens as pets.
I have heard of poeple finding Brown Recluses here in southeast Alaska, but I can't confirm that. We have Hobo spiders as well, typical house spiders, Orb Weavers, and wolf spiders.
That is definitly a large garden spider, I've found a Golden Orb Weaver up here sitting in the very middle of a big perfectly oval web. It looked like something out of national geographic!
Edited by AKSE (09/09/06 01:49 PM)
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Mitchnast
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Re: Name this spider (large pics) [Re: AKSE]
#6046058 - 09/10/06 06:57 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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cases of recluse reported in the PNW began oddly enough in the 30s around the same time the Hobo spider was introduced, and began to decrese gradually as the hobo spider became more and more recognized as the actual culprit.
most people dont actually SEE the spider that bites them tho. as the hobos bite is mostly painless untill it sets in hours later.
recluse bites are like fire
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cricket
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Re: Name this spider (large pics) [Re: Mitchnast]
#6046613 - 09/10/06 12:57 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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They are rare but I have found them as far north as Wyoming.
I have found that most animal range maps are very inacurate. Most mark areas they are commonly found but not the areas were they are rare, or sparsely populated.
If you want to get rid of spiders in your home you have two choices. Chemical poison, or releasing 1-3 house geckos. I've seen house gekos clean a 4 unit apartment building of roaches in less then a week. The roaches never returned. Of course with spiders that size you will need a bigger lizard.
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Re: Name this spider (large pics) [Re: cricket]
#6046972 - 09/10/06 03:08 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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haha big lizards
but wont the geckos shit and piss all over my house and make it smell?
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Jadian
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Re: Name this spider (large pics) [Re: AKSE]
#6047044 - 09/10/06 03:35 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Freaking hobo spiders were all over the place in my house in Anchorage.
Only really freaky looking spider I ever saw up there in Alaska, since I moved down to Arizona I've seen some big bad looking motherfuckers.
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cricket
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Re: Name this spider (large pics) [Re: LethalX5]
#6052220 - 09/12/06 12:52 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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The big ones like you show in your post are females. Before long they will mate and start hatching thousands of babies.
2-3 small lizards will generate no noticable smell. As far as shit and piss. It will be less then 3 of those big ass, spiders will drop. You probably track in more on your shoes after walking through a park or public bathroom.
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Re: Name this spider (large pics) [Re: cricket]
#6052328 - 09/12/06 02:01 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I fucking hate spiders. They give me the heebie jeebies.
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Re: Name this spider (large pics) [Re: LethalX5]
#6052442 - 09/12/06 04:37 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Spiders are all over my house.. they never really bother me. At least they take out other insects
There used to be some kind of spider in my room that would go into hiding whenever I was around. When I was sleeping, it would come out and get under the covers. The thing(s) would bite me sometimes in my sleep. Woke up to one biting me once. Everyone once in a while I'd have little bite marks on my body when I got up in the morning..
A similar but more startling situation was when I woke up to a wasp under my covers while I was in bed! It was moving extremely fast and making a buzzing noise. I had rolled over in my sleep and put my hand right on the wasp. It started going crazy.
Cool pics and interesting looking spider.
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