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ICEBALL585

Bacontard
Sep 8, 2009
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Does anyone know what type of spider this is??? It's body was about an inch long. It's the second one I've killed in the past few weeks.

 

syadasti

i heart mac
Apr 15, 2002
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290
VT
Brown Recluse... yikes.
Its a wolf spider, as threatening and dangerous as a bee. They are beneficial spiders as they provide free pest control (this means your house is prime hunting ground for insects). If you are afraid of them just put them outside.

http://www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/Lycosidae/

Ways that people benefit from these animals: controls pest population.

Wolf spiders can give you a painful bite if you handle them carelessly, but it the bite usually doesn't do much damage unless the person bitten is allergic to the venom.
 
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jdcamb

Tool Time!
Feb 17, 2002
20,050
8,769
Nowhere Man!
Does anyone know what type of spider this is??? It's body was about an inch long. It's the second one I've killed in the past few weeks.

Polish folks call them trap spiders and since they kill house fly's you leave them be. Unless you find one in a bedroom. It's basically a wolf spider. Put it your Garage or screened in porch and it will thrive. Spider plants are named after them. They love gardens and will eat the worms that eff up your peppers and beans....
 

norbar

KESSLER PROBLEM. Just cause
Jun 7, 2007
11,503
1,719
Warsaw :/
Polish folks call them trap spiders and since they kill house fly's you leave them be. Unless you find one in a bedroom. It's basically a wolf spider. Put it your Garage or screened in porch and it will thrive. Spider plants are named after them. They love gardens and will eat the worms that eff up your peppers and beans....
That's news to me. Though I agree. Leave it be. Spiders are the best insects one can have in your house.
 

stevew

resident influencer
Sep 21, 2001
41,159
10,097
in my youth i went years without a haircut/shave....

now...

beard...

head gets a #2 all over every other week....

i don't have the patience......after four or five weeks without a haircut....drives me nuts..
 

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
43,078
15,165
Portland, OR
Been going here since about 2000? Used to go every other week when I was working at the armory, now it's about once a month. I haven't had long hair since '91 (pre-boot camp).



<edit> It's a little out of the way where I live now (used to be a mile away) but every time I've let someone else touch my head, it turns out bad. So I make the drive.