WHAT Kind of SPIDER is this???

[Elite Silkies]

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When in doubt- SQUISH!

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I just squished a wolf spider the other night and literally hundreds of babies were on her back!

 

[chicken crazed 1o1]

When I was little i would hold those spiders All ThE Time or If I was mad i would kill them

( I am talking about the wolf spider of course)

 

[TnChickHen]

Definitely wolf spider. We have them like crazy around here, but I must say, they do take care of the black widows, as I've not seen them. But Brown Recluse... different story!! went to go move the dog box, and a brown recluse about the size of my palm (ok over exaggerating a little, it was about the size of a quarter) crawled out from under it. Picture this, my husband, holding up a 125 lb dog house and I jumping on top of it, because I'll be darn sure i'm not getting bit by one of those!! Lol, he dropped the box, and grabbed a shovel and started to attempt to smash it, didn't work, so I kept yelling at him to smash it with his boot, and he proceeds to tell me "If you want me to smash it with my boot, than you're crazy! I'm not dying because it's on my boot!" Haha, some soldier of a husband huh? He will get other things on his boots, but not spider mush! After about what seemed hours, only a couple minutes really, we were finally able to smash it. Than after smooshing it, our rooster came over and scratched it to pieces.... stupid rooster! where were you the entire time! yeah, I hate spiders too! we have Orb Weavers here, very pretty but very menacing looking.

 

[chisNchickens]

Wow you all are big freaking babies like my husband! Its a little spider! Big deal! Have none of you read the children's book titled "Be Nice To Spiders"??? They are very beneficial creatures. Geez. The only creature I find scary and disgusting is the HUMAN. Now they can be scary....

 

[Elite Silkies]

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Apparently you have never been bit by a poisonous spider to be able to see the damage they can cause. Or did you just wake up on the wrong side of the bed today? Or maybe one crawled up your behind and gave you a nasty attitude?

 

[cluck shmucks]

Oh Lord, I am having an anxiety attack just reading this! LOL! I can't even hardly muster up the ability to scream when I see them, I am rendered silent with fear! That is until I scream for my boyfriend to come smash them! HA HA! Even as a kid, have always hated them. My brother hated me for it, because on occasion, he'd get woken up in the middle of the night to come smash one I had found. One night he wouldn't do it, so I threw a text book at it and RAAAANN!!!!

Finding later that I had perfect aim, THANK YOU LORD!!! I don't know what it is, but the thought of them, and/or of squishing them, makes me gag--literally. I stepped on one barefoot one time, and HEARD it POP! Ever since, GAG! And to HEAR the footsteps? I have heard that one time, that's the WORST! Shiver, Itch, Crawl out of my own skin! EEEWWWW!!!!!! Doesn't matter what kind, they all freak me out. Well, except for some reason those huge, fat, brown garden spiders--which are always OUTSIDE, thank you very much. I don't mind them so long as I don't have to get near them.

We just moved into a new house--an old farm house, updated, but been around a while now, and there are not nearly as many bugs as I'd expect to find. But when we first got here, I found two--within a day of each other--HUGE HUGE HUGE spiders (much of the size being the actual body, they were fat and juicy looking, really disgusting, I've never seen them before), in the worst places! One in our bedroom closet, and one in the kitchen beside the fridge. Why not the garage, or the basement? Geez... Anyway, of course my boyfriend smashed one for me, but he wasn't here for the other--so I drowned it in bug spray. And left it for him to clean up when he got home, LOL! I did not go near that fridge until then, even though the stupid thing was dead. Can you say irrational? I'll admit it...

Okay, I'm gonna go read some cute chicky stories now and clear my head

 

[Okie Amazon]

We have a bunch of wierd spiders at our place - they are sorta like a Daddy Longlegs, but the body is even smaller and the legs are even longer. Just a tiny dot of a body and waaaaaay long tiny legs. They cluster in big groups between boards leaned on the barn wall, etc.

Brrrrr!!!



Hmmm.... I guess it is a "Daddy Longlegs" but a bunch of the images are different. Maybe Daddy Longlegs is just a generic name for a bunch of different long-legged spiders(?)

 

[Elite Silkies]

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I think that is a harvestmen and it's not poisonous. Harvestmen only have one body part. I don't actually think they are even classified as spiders either. Could be wrong on that, but I don't think so. There are a few different looking ones too.

I have the cellar spiders often confused for the Daddy Long Leg, but they will kill anything! Even black widows and wolf spiders.

 

[Okie Amazon]

They just freak me because usually I "turn up" a big clan of them when I'm busy working around the yard and not even thinking about it, they scatter in all directions, usually one or two up my arm!!

 

[LoreenH]

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