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What kind of spider did I destory this evening?

Noshtero

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Disclaimer: If you're a fan of spiders, this thread will involve death by shoe.

Sorry I couldn't get a live picture. My first reaction was to obliterate it with a shoe.

This SOB was on the floor next to my bed. Which also means I will not be sleeping tonight.

I see these things off and on, and I'd say they're the "common" big spider around northern Illinois.

They have a very pronouced thin diamond shape. Almost like a marquee cut diamond ring.

They're a little bigger than a quarter alive, and about the size of a dime post-shoeing.

I've always thought they were Wolf spiders.... but I thought I'd check with ya'll.

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No doubt. I dropped Nike bombs on that thing like you wouldn't believe.

I'm happy to say I'm afraid of very few things, but spiders are one of them.
 
Well, sure, ask for identification after you hit it with a laser guided Nike. See, what you should have done is put a little collar on it, with a tiny leash, and tie it to the bedpost until you could get better pictures in the morning. I'll bet Joezilla could have identified it then. Now ... it's just a fuzzy lump of dead.
 
PS: I hate spiders!

I'm a trucker. I backed into a loading dock last summer. Another truck was next to me. I walked up to the dock plate and said hello....... and just stared in horror. He looked like Tyson just beat him for 3 rounds. He had been in his sleeper a couple hours before his load was ready and woke up with a spider between his eyes on his nose and it bit him. It was a brown recluse as he had it in a jar. He had a "hole" in his flesh at the bite spot, His face was swelled up really bad to the point his eyes were about shut. The color shades on his face resembled a target with rings circling the bite and extending out from the bite spot. He swelled up as I watched him.
I told him there's a hospital just a mile away but he declined. He drove back to southern illinois with a 45,000# load on his flatbed.
Check your sheets tonight men!
 
dawsonbob said:
Well, sure, ask for identification after you hit it with a laser guided Nike. See, what you should have done is put a little collar on it, with a tiny leash, and tie it to the bedpost until you could get better pictures in the morning. I'll bet Joezilla could have identified it then. Now ... it's just a fuzzy lump of dead.
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Lol this is funny stuff.
 
We have those here in Tx as well..we always called them "wolf spiders" too. They can get pretty big, (huge actually), but are viewed here as harmless. (Unless you break an ankle trying to get one off you in the middle of the night.)

We have recluses here too...only see them for a couple months during the middle summer, but it's every year now. Once you have them, it's very hard to stamp them out totally. (I've tried, spectracide every year...still find them).

There is no mistaking a recluse...they have 6 eyes set in three pairs, instead of the more common eight eyes. Through a mag glass the eyes look like a face..like two eyes and a nose. They are uniformly tan or brown 100%...not speckled anywhere. Also the fiddle shaped mark on their back is is very distinct under a mag glass. I've read not all will have the fiddle mark depending on diet/enviroment, but every one I've killed (30+) has had it.

Your kill is definitely a Wolf spider though.
 
My first poem, when I was about ten:
"I saw a spider and stepped on it quick-
now it's longer, and wider, but not quite as thick."
 
Judging by what little striping I can see, I'd probably bet on a wolf spider, although the male banana spider looks a lot like that.
 
Thanks guys. Ya I figured the parallel black lines was pretty much dead on a wolf spider.
 
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