Spiders?

MoparMan · Jul 28, 2015

I've heard some spiders are good like some snakes are good. Any idea about this one? :dunno:

MoparMan · Jul 28, 2015

BTW, I know it's hard to tell in this pic but it would pretty much cover the palm of an average size persons hand.

Fire Freak · Jul 29, 2015

Wolf spider http://www.arabpestcontrol.com/PestIdentification/Spiders/WolfSpiders.aspx

jp fan · Jul 29, 2015

MoparMan said:
I've heard some spiders are good like some snakes are good. Any idea about this one?

That looks like what I seen so many of last weekend when we cut hay, bet I seen hundreds of them but not sure what they are

Hucklebuggy · Jul 29, 2015

I've always heard them called Wolf spiders, or house spiders. Their harmless. They do kill other insects. However apparently Red wasps are their kryptonite. I've smashed 2 red wasps that were carrying one of these things around on the ground in the last week. Kinda crazy to see a little ole red wasp dragging one of these big boys across the ground.

joho75287 · Jul 29, 2015

Yeah wolf spiders are ok
Outside they get a pass. Inside they all die.
We have the lovely brown recluse and black widow here is North TX. No passes for them.
Oh, we have tarantulas too, but they are harmless and docile and kinda like yard pets. Lol

MoparMan · Jul 29, 2015

Thanks fellas. I've seen some around the yard before but they were never this big, this one kinda startled me when I was taking out the trash last night it ran across the driveway in front of me.

grcthird · Jul 29, 2015

I murdered a black widow that would cover a silver dollar in the shop at work few months ago. Never seen one so big.

TacomaJD · Jul 30, 2015

All spiders are evil and should be kilt with fire. :****: :spin:

infamous1 · Jul 30, 2015

Re:

My gramps was from Texas and used to talk about my uncles catching tarantulas in mason jars when they were kids. I can't even imagine. A buddy of mine stayed in Florida for a couple of years and said the brown recluse would grow huge down there too.

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pholmann · Jul 30, 2015

TacomaJD said:
All spiders are evil and should be kilt with fire. :****:

FTW!!!!!!!!!

joho75287 · Jul 30, 2015

TacomaJD above....

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joho75287 · Jul 30, 2015

Little one I found in my back yard and the kids kept for a few days.

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pholmann · Jul 30, 2015

Bees and spiders are two things I cannot stand.

CHASMAN9 · Jul 30, 2015

joho75287 said:
Little one I found in my back yard and the kids kept for a few days.

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A little bit of Tannerite should get that stain off your frisbee.

joho75287 · Jul 30, 2015

CHASMAN9 said:
A little bit of Tannerite should get that stain off your frisbee.

Nah - we like the tarantulas in the yard. They are docile and don't harm anything and eat other bugs. As long as they stay outside I'm ok with them.
Scorpions and big centipedes (like the Indiana Jones Temple of Doom kind) immediately get addressed... "with severe prejudice"... LOL

TacomaJD · Jul 30, 2015

pholmann said:
Bees and spiders are two things I cannot stand.

Yup, I will pick up a snake and do the helicopter with it, but I'm terrified of wasps and spiders!

patooyee · Jul 30, 2015

We recently had a bunch of these guys living behind our dumpster:

I was allowing them to feed and grow back there for a month or two but they were getting so big that none of the staff would go out there to dump trash anymore so we relocated them.

joho75287 · Jul 30, 2015

patooyee said:
We recently had a bunch of these guys living behind our dumpster:

I was allowing them to feed and grow back there for a month or two but they were getting so big that none of the staff would go out there to dump trash anymore so we relocated them.

Those orb weavers patooyee??

patooyee · Jul 30, 2015

Yup. Also called bananna spiders. My brother and I used to catch them when we lived in central Florida. We would put a bunch of them in a 5 gallon bucket and you could hear their legs tapping on the side as they went to war tearing each other apart. When you would open the lid the webs would be so thick that you couldn't see past the top yet somehow they found enough space in there to kill each other. There would be limbs and body parts laying in the bottom. Once they get big enough they can catch birds in their webs and eat them. You think its bullshit until you walk into one of their webs. The string is really thick and strong. I believe a full grown man would have trouble breaking free if he walked into a thick enough one.

Their venom is the same found in black widows but less concentrated and injected in smaller doses. Its about like a wasp sting. They generally leave people alone though. You can handle them and they won't bite unless you pinch or squeeze them.