any spider experts?

**isubeatle** · 03-20-2011, 10:25 PM

i was doing some laundry and i grabbed a pile of cloths and threw them in the washer and on top of a shirt there was a brown spider. i kinda freaked and got off the shirt and smashed it.

Do wolf spiders and brown recluse spiders get mistaken for each other a lot? it's pretty unidentifiable now but i'm thinking it was a brown recluse. Mainly due to the fact that wolf spiders are usually pretty quick and it's hard to catch one. This one was slower or average speed i guess for a spider. there's a chance i may have slightly hurt it as i was grabbing cloths and tossing them around, not sure though.

Anyway, if it was a brown recluse, i guess i feel pretty lucky that i didn't get bit.

*edit
After doing some searching, it looks like it might be this guyTrachelas. i really remember the reddish-brown forelegs a lot and the dark head. at first i thought it was holding an egg sac, but it as just the black head.

**dualthreat** · 03-20-2011, 10:27 PM

do you have a picture of it?

**ISUAlum2002** · 03-20-2011, 10:29 PM

Need to look for the "violin" on their back for it to be a brown recluse:

**crash_zone** · 03-20-2011, 10:30 PM

Brown recuse spiders are pretty easy to ID - look for the fiddle on their back (I have one somewhere stored in alcohol).

**cyclonedave25** · 03-20-2011, 10:32 PM

I don't know why I opened this thread. Those pictures make my skin crawl. I have a very severe case of arachnophobia.

**isubeatle** · 03-20-2011, 10:35 PM

no i don't have any pics. i got squashed and then washed down the sink drain. i know dumb. just glad i didn't get bite

**isubeatle** · 03-20-2011, 10:39 PM

Originally Posted by ISUAlum2002

Need to look for the "violin" on their back for it to be a brown recluse:

took me a second or two to see the fiddle. i'm pretty sure it didn't have that. thanks!

**SC Cy** · 03-20-2011, 10:55 PM

Gonna be tough sleeping tonight now...I was hoping for a Richmond thread!

**cstrunk** · 03-20-2011, 11:03 PM

Originally Posted by cyclonedave25

I don't know why I opened this thread. Those pictures make my skin crawl. I have a very severe case of arachnophobia.

Ditto.......

**Cyclonepride** · 03-20-2011, 11:20 PM

If I see something like that, I'll stomp first and look for the fiddle later.

**M3MEPLEASE** · 03-20-2011, 11:25 PM

I'll state this for the millionth time, I freaking hate spiders.

**baller21** · 03-20-2011, 11:28 PM

Originally Posted by cyclonedave25

I don't know why I opened this thread. Those pictures make my skin crawl. I have a very severe case of arachnophobia.

than you'll love this.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRV4d9LCawU&feature=related"]YouTube - Big Spider Attacks Daddy[/ame]

**cyclonedave25** · 03-20-2011, 11:42 PM

Originally Posted by baller21

than you'll love this.

YouTube - Big Spider Attacks Daddy

If that happened to me, I am certain that I would have a heart attack. I know people say that line a lot, but I'm serious, I would have a heart attack. And if I couldn't find it, I would either move or burn my house down.