Spider ID

[IluvABbeef]

No, not the cat! :roll: :lol:

This gal:

She was about 2" long (from hind legs to front), and scared the sh** out of me when she dropped onto my arm. ;-)

I could go look in a bug ID book or a Ben Gadd book....but I'm too lazy.

So what is she? I've never seen a spider like her before...btw, she was living in on a dead birch (in between the peeling bark and the "inside" of the tree).

Thanks in advance.

 

[Outrigger2]

it may be a marbled spider. please correct me if i am wrong

 

[dun]

I would call it a "big dead spider"

 

[backhoeboogie]

I would call it a "big dead spider"

Yep. Only it wouldn't look like that one. I would be hairy wet spot on the ground.

 

[Nowland Farms]

SQUISHED

 

[J&T Farm]

It kinda looks like an orb weaver but I am not sure. It might not be. The picture looked similar.

 

[jw]

It won't look as big when it gives birth - to about a hundred live babies.

 

[CKC1586]

I don't know what the heck it is but be careful. I had a spider bite and it ate a hole in me! Ended up having to have surgery. Never really found out what exactly the species was but they figured it was a "hobo spider".... I had no idea there were so many different kinds and so many that really can do damage! So be careful!

 

[Lammie]

I have those around my house. I try to day away from them as they scare the heck outa me. My banana spider on the back porch, whom I named Charlotte, died. I found her Saturday where she'd crawled off her web.

 

[Tuffy]

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/clini ... rbspid.htm

Or might be this one


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Orb_ ... 200610.jpg

Marbled spiders are family Araneidae, Orb or orb weaver because their webs are spiral wheeled-shaped webs. Spiders that spin a web that looks messy are known as cobwebs spiders.

Brown Reclouse spider/Hobo spiders have six eyes (most have 8 ) arranged in pairs called dyads, and their bite can cause tissue death. I don't ever get that close to count eyes. :shock: I like to watch from a safe distance. ;-)

Like CKC1586 said, "be careful."

 

[IluvABbeef]

I would call it a "big dead spider"

Yep. Only it wouldn't look like that one. I would be hairy wet spot on the ground.

SQUISHED

:lol2: You guys are a hoot!!

 

[IluvABbeef]

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/clinic/Bugofwk/965460/marbspid.htm

Or might be this one


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Orb_ ... 200610.jpg

Marbled spiders are family Araneidae, Orb or orb weaver because their webs are spiral wheeled-shaped webs. Spiders that spin a web that looks messy are known as cobwebs spiders.

Brown Reclouse spider/Hobo spiders have six eyes (most have 8 ) arranged in pairs called dyads, and their bite can cause tissue death. I don't ever get that close to count eyes. :shock: I like to watch from a safe distance. ;-)

Like CKC1586 said, "be careful."

Thanks for the sites (and to everyone else), but from what I can see, it don't look like it's either an Orb Weaver OR a Marble Spider

The second she was on my arm (it was at least a second before I realized she had landed there), I found myself frantically flapping my arm to get her off! She didn't bite (thankfully), I think she was more surprised and shocked to find herself torn out of her home to land on a human's arm, and then suddenly be violently be shaken off to land on ground... I put her back onto the tree somewhere's close from where she came from, and let her be.

Like I said, I never seen a spider like her before, I've seen Crab spiders, Wolf spiders, and the occaisonal Jumping spider...but nuthin' like that.

I'm gonna see what I can find, if no one's gotten anything yet...

 

[peg4x4]

Pretty thing---from this far away :lol: