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[lonnyandrinda]

Question about spiders....
Okay so I moved into a new house and I have been getting a few small spiders and then a few nice sized grass/wolf spiders. However I went out to the garage (their man cave apparently) and saw one dead and it was HUGE. Now I know it isn't a tarantula so that is knocked off the list. However since it is dead it is hard to tell. I didn't get a close look as I am now bombing(fumigating) the garage. It was brown and one leg was extended which seemed to be 2-2 1/2" inches long. The head part of the body was about as big as my finger. I just killed a wolf spider earlier but this one is about 2 or 3x the size. I can try and get pics later after the bomb is done.


Any ideas on what it is?

Without a picture it's hard to say. There are a lot of "brown" spiders. Really large spiders if you've eliminated small tarantula would be most likely a nursery spider or fisher spider. Completely harmless. If you have a lot of spiders it is usually because there are a lot of things for them to eat. Stop the ants/flies/roaches/whatever they are eating and that will eliminate the spider problem eventually.

Did it look like this? http://bugguide.net/node/view/198018

 

[katie1500]

Without a picture it's hard to say.  There are a lot of "brown" spiders.  Really large spiders if you've eliminated small tarantula would be most likely a nursery spider or fisher spider.  Completely harmless.  If you have a lot of spiders it is usually because there are a lot of things for them to eat.  Stop the ants/flies/roaches/whatever they are eating and that will eliminate the spider problem eventually.

Did it look like this? http://bugguide.net/node/view/198018

Just another hour or so and I can go take a pic. It may look like that? It's just hard to say.... But good tip I have a few small roaches that are dead on the ground so they may have been after the live roaches or small bugs. It's going to be hard to keep everything out of the garage... Since it's a garage haha I'll spray another perimeter outside and inside to see if that works.
It may be an exceptionally large (larger than the normal ones I see) wolf spider.
Until the mean time when I can get a picture I'm going to be getting my hatcher ready as I have some silkies due soon

 

[Nuggetirl]

Quote: Wolf spiders can get pretty darn big. Long legs, massive bodies. Flip it over (back showing) on a piece of white paper when you take a pic.

 

[subhanalah]

thanks for letting us know about Dianna- will be praying

will keep on with the neosporin- would acv in the water balance what is going on with Gizmo? she is leaking something

If this is due to acidity or vent gleet, acv will exacerbate the issue.

What I would recommend is an Epsom salt drench, then repeat in 12 hours.

Just another hour or so and I can go take a pic. It may look like that? It's just hard to say.... But good tip I have a few small roaches that are dead on the ground so they may have been after the live roaches or small bugs. It's going to be hard to keep everything out of the garage... Since it's a garage haha I'll spray another perimeter outside and inside to see if that works.
It may be an exceptionally large (larger than the normal ones I see) wolf spider.
Until the mean time when I can get a picture I'm going to be getting my hatcher ready as I have some silkies due soon

If it is mostly beige with a dark brown/black fiddle on the carapace, it was a brown recluse. Anything else is harmless. Many wold spiders mimic the recluses, but the pattern is inverted or otherwise slightly different.

 

[artsyrobin]

Quote: ok, appreciate that, i don't have epsom salts, is there something else that would help?

 

[subhanalah]

ok, appreciate that, i don't have epsom salts, is there something else that would help?

the only other thing I would recommend is feeding coconut oil, but you already said you don't have that.

The neosporin on the outside may be doing alright, but I think the problem is "inside"

 

[Kyzmette]

Question about spiders....
Okay so I moved into a new house and I have been getting a few small spiders and then a few nice sized grass/wolf spiders. However I went out to the garage (their man cave apparently) and saw one dead and it was HUGE. Now I know it isn't a tarantula so that is knocked off the list. However since it is dead it is hard to tell. I didn't get a close look as I am now bombing(fumigating) the garage. It was brown and one leg was extended which seemed to be 2-2 1/2" inches long. The head part of the body was about as big as my finger. I just killed a wolf spider earlier but this one is about 2 or 3x the size. I can try and get pics later after the bomb is done.


Any ideas on what it is?

There are brown tarantulas in OK. In addition to the ones mentioned, the wolf spider gets pretty big and is harmless. The hobo spider is also buge and brown, and highly venemous.

 

[Kyzmette]

ok, appreciate that, i don't have epsom salts, is there something else that would help?

If it's vent gleet you could use any yeast infection creams that you can get at wal-mart.

 

[ashtree]

If it's vent gleet you could use any yeast infection creams that you can get at wal-mart.

Coconut oil will also work for that, it's what we use for all the diaper rashes and yeast infections little baby butts get. I swear by coconut oil. We eat it, cook with it, oil pull with it, use it for skin problems, I'm about to do the 2nd lice treatment on the chickens with it, it's seriously awesome stuff!

 

[Terrace]

It is about fair time. I am wanting to see some new to me breeds of chickens.

Any one here showing chickens.