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Fever · #11 04-04-2009, 12:25 AM

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I agree with Missy. From what I could see, could be a Wolf, at worst... which will still flame your ass up, but, as far as I know, not highly poisonous.
The markings on the back would be helpful.

gallow737 · #12 04-04-2009, 12:29 AM

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Yeah, it's in the trash, but I assure you it's not a wolf spider

jo_dile · #13 04-04-2009, 12:32 AM

SNAKE!!! Where are you???? You can surely solve this mystery.

gallow737 · #14 04-04-2009, 01:01 AM

Actually, I think it may be a wolf spider. The pictures that show up when you google image search look nothing like it, but they do look a lot like this:

I think that's them

Carlos Spicy Wiener · #15 04-04-2009, 01:09 AM

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Here you go gallow this link has the info to tell if it is a brown recluse. from the picture it doesn't look like on but read half way down the link page I give you and it tell you how to tell.

http://dermatology.cdlib.org/DOJvol5...l/recluse.html

gallow737 · #16 04-04-2009, 01:14 AM

Nah, not a recluse. Not even close. I'm almost 90% certain it;s a wolf spider now

Carlos Spicy Wiener · #17 04-04-2009, 01:15 AM

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Tastes it, I heard wolf spiders taste like an almond.

fsmak08 · #18 04-04-2009, 01:23 AM

A dead one?

korporate · #19 04-04-2009, 01:26 AM

That would scare the shit outta me. If I had as many of them in my house as you do, I would move.

Right now im putting my feet up just thinking there might be a spider down there

strommsarnac · #20 04-04-2009, 08:34 AM

If you have wolf spiders, there's a reason. They are a predator spider. They eat other bugs.

If they really are TWO INCHES and bigger, than you have LOTS of other bugs. Spiders are like fish. The more room and the more food, the bigger they get (up to a max size).

Personally, I've seen thousands of wolf spiders over my 39 years of life. Indoors, outdoors, cabins, log piles, eating brown recluses (freaking nasty spiders those are). I have yet to see even one which was more than an inch long.

While they are territorial, they don't usually prey on their own kind.

Now, all that said, killing 30 over 5 years is not a significant number. That's only 6 every year, or 1 every two months. Here in Ohio, we tend to ignore wolf spiders because they control the other crawlies we can't see. Wolf spiders try to stay away from humans and you rarely see them unless they are on the prowl or moving to better hunting grounds.

Maybe because I've grown up in Central Ohio which has lots of prey spiders, but I wouldn't kill them. Not sure where you live, but if you have a basement, capture the ones running around the people active areas of your home and toss them in the basement or outside.

Let the spiders help keep the pest bugs under control.