Help me identify this spider

[AmericanBob]

i see those things around swimming pools all day long. what's real creepy is when they trap an air bubble and run along the bottom of the pool. i know they're benifical for eating other bugs, but they're just pure eigh legged evil to me.

 

[Hop]

I usually leave them alone, even in the house, but I got bit by one over a year ago (at night so couldn't see the damn thing very well). My whole fore arm was swollen up for 2-3 weeks. 2 MONTHS later I pulled a hard fang shaped something out from under my skin at the bite mark area (I still have it in a ziplock bag in case it hatches into some kind of mutant human/spider creature). Over a year later and I still have a dark spot that hasn't gone away.

 

[Thumper]

I was once bitten by a Brown Recluse. The venom ate a golf ball sized hole in my leg that took a LONG time to heal up. Still, I don't kill spiders, as they are just another part of nature. BTW, I am NOT a tree hugger.

You are correct.Been there twice myself.Last one took 8 months to heal.

 

[Beans&Bullets]

Yuck , squash it, quickly. With a really big BOOT!

 

[SmileDocHill]

My wife got bitten by a spider on her leg in a rain forrest in Colombia. Had to have surgery then and about every 5 years a growth pops up that has to be removed again. "Other world" scary stuff in my opinion.

 

[printcraft]

My last unlikable encounter was while changing the transmission in my wife's Tahoe out.

Laying under the vehicle on my back on the garage floor with tools all around me and a drop light wire strung about
not able to move very far or very fast and I notice movement about a foot away from my head, kind of up and back a little.
Turn my head and here comes mr. wolf spider truckin right toward me.


I think I've seen too many movies.
He met the business end of my rubber mallet.

 

[Tin Cup]

Sleep, we'll keep an eye on things for you while you nap.

Yikes, get the 12 ga a have a new target to test my new Turkey choke.

 

[6mm Shoot]

Guys the big ones are girls. The guys are little things.

A couple years back the wife and I were walking back to the woods and on the side of the path there was a spider that had a body the size that a mouse would have been proud of. I told the wife, "Look at the mou--. Holly crap! Look at that spider." That was the biggest spider that I have ever seen in the wild. I have seen the big spiders in the pet stores. They are bigger than it was, but not by much. I have no idea what type it was. I know she had a egg sack on her back and I cleared out the area she was living in. Have not seen any more her size.

 

[bradmedic04]

Necrobumptastic! Simply fantastic!

Seriously though, this thread needs a flamethrower. Both my wife and I (before marriage) received Black Widow bites while sleeping in our first apartment in southern California. Her experience was decidedly worse than mine, but I have to say I was "tripping balls" as the kids say. I can elaborate if anyone is interested, but now I have the ickies and need to bathe in bleach and cry quickly.

Don't recommend it.

 

[silentvoice71]

Nut up mangina and share lol. I opened up a smoker to get it goin and in the belly of that thing was spidersaurus rex. I hit it with a rather large stick and all it did was get pisses.....you know their big when you hear them trying to escape.....well once I noticed the stick was just pissing him off I ran and turned around and I kid you not I could see the tall grass moving as he was running away. To this day I am almost certain I'm gonna wake up one night and see him watching me from outside our bedroom window. Waiting.....stalking

 

[JetGirl]

I could see the tall grass moving as he was running away. To this day I am almost certain I'm gonna wake up one night and see him watching me from outside our bedroom window. Waiting.....stalking

 

[spencer rifle]

Guys the big ones are girls. The guys are little things.

A couple years back the wife and I were walking back to the woods and on the side of the path there was a spider that had a body the size that a mouse would have been proud of. I told the wife, "Look at the mou--. Holly crap! Look at that spider." That was the biggest spider that I have ever seen in the wild. I have seen the big spiders in the pet stores. They are bigger than it was, but not by much. I have no idea what type it was. I know she had a egg sack on her back and I cleared out the area she was living in. Have not seen any more her size.

It was a wolf spider:

 

[silentvoice71]

Jetgirl......no gtfo! I've got spider ptsd lol