What type of spider is this(pic) ?

Question

They are everywhere , i've seen about 20 of them running around . I'm just curious :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/annafur/2724242578/

Thank you :)

Answer 1

Yick... *shudder* spiders creep me out. Sorry, wish I could help you more, but I don't know that much about spiders... how big is it?

Answer 2

--- The photos are not very revealing but I think what you have are called "Parsons Spiders", however I am no expert and it could also be one of the poisonous types. I have placed links and urls for photos and info about the Parsons spider in the source box labelled [a]. If you look those over you might be able to tell better than I.

PARSON SPIDERS:



Figure 6. Parson spider

Gnaphosid spiders are common spiders outdoors. A specific gnaphosid spider known as a parson spider (figure 6) is occasionally seen inside. The parson spider is a medium-sized spider (1/2 inch long) with a brownish body and gray abdomen with a white band running down over half the length of its abdomen. Parson spiders hunt at night. During the day, they are usually found outdoors under stones or loose bark in silken retreats. Indoors, they hide under objects or in cracks or crevices.

--- I have spent an hour looking for what looks like the photos you show and I can't pin it down but it looks most like a Parsons.. It looks like it could also be a kind funnel web spider. Of this group belongs the "Tegenaria agrestis", the Aggressive House Spider. The Aggressive House Spider is one of the most common spiders found in houses in the Pacific Northwest.

--- It rarely climbs vertical surfaces and is usually found only

on the ground or lower floors. We have called it the

"aggressive house spider" because it bites with little

provocation when cornered or threatened.

(see [b] in the source box)

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--- Only four spiders of medical importance occur in the PNW. Two of these, sac spiders in the genus Cheiracanthium, are rarely encountered. The other two, the aggressive house spider, or hobo spider, and black widow spider occur commonly in association with human activity and present a real danger in terms of bites.

--- Your pictures are just not revealing enough to positively ID them. Its possible it could be a trap door spider or a funnel web type like the aggressive house spider. The Washington State University Extension offers a identification procedure if you think your spider might be of a poisonous type:

------  SPIDER IDENTIFICATION  ------

Anyone suspecting a spider to be dangerous should

collect it carefully (without crushing) and send it for

identification in a leakproof vial of alcohol (any type) to

the Plant Diagnostic Clinic, WSU Puyallup, 7612

Pioneer Way, Puyallup, WA 98371-4998.

( SEE  [C] IN THE SOURCE BOX )

--- The Washing University site is also full of spider ID information and picturers.

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--- I hope this helps you

Answer 3

If that second one has a light area at the end of it's tail then it might be a white tailed spider. They aren't very big, but they have been blamed on some occasions for causing flesh eating disease. This was not proved, but I am freaked out by white tails, we have a lot of them around here.

Answer 4

email Todd likes spiders.  

Answer 5

That's weird...I was wondering about the spider, so I posted the same question. I didn't know you posted this up, I should have just asked you!

Answer 6

Tarantula?

With The Orange Legs, I Think They'll Get

Bigger, They Might Just Be Babies..

But, Where's The Mom? OMG

This is an tarantula picture, this is a fully grown one:

http://flickr.com/photos/bsmith4815/1529...

those spiders don't look full grown, they look amateur, like they haven't matured yet. These spiders, have black dots too. However, you could never be sure. In the U.S, spiders can be poisonous, and you never know if this can be. You should email it to someone who specializes in spiders, just look on the web. Spiders and Snakes can be very dangerous

Answer 7

I have no idea what kind it is without doing some research, (which I would normally do, but I just got home from a 6-hour drive and I'm tired, lol) but here's a few websites that might help. I've used them a bunch of times.

http://enature.com/home/

^ Go to Advanced Search (on the menu bar at the top) and put in all the info that you can remember about the spider. It should give you at least one match (if you get no matches, remove some of the info that you've entered). You might be able to figure out what kind of spider you've got using this site.

http://whatsthatbug.com/

^ This one takes longer, but it's just as good a resource as enature. You'll have to scroll down a bit and click on all the Spider pages under Bug Info (list on the left). There're pages and pages full of photos with IDs. Or, if you don't find your spider there and no one on Y!A can give you an idea, you can e-mail the people that run the site and they might reply. (I don't know if they reply to all e-mails, or only the ones they post on the site -- I've never e-mailed them.)

Hope this helps! Good luck ID'ing. =)

Answer 8

EWW! nastaaay!

i've been looking at your photography and you're pretty much amazing at photoshop and stuff so will you help me out please? i have the right links now...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...