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I'm surprised you managed to get the quarter next to it o.o;

It involved moving the quarter around and coaxing the spider around with a long paintbrush.

AHHH!! Scary! ... and pretty in a way O_o

Cute lil' guy. So that's not a brown recluse? Had sommat similar wandering around the residence some weeks back. :)

Recluse spiders are very different looking.

They're not quite as furry (Although they do have hair if you get up close) and they have only six eyes.

Gotcha. Well, next time you get a happy snap of a recluse, pass it on for reference, neh? :)

Unfortunately, I've yet to find one. I don't think they live here. I'm outside of their normal range, but people claim to have seen them.

Then again, people see a small brown spider and just think they've seen a recluse.

I know people who say they were bitten by them here, but I'm skeptical.

(nodnods) Well, I'll try and snap the next one I see, and see if you can ID it. :)

wow! he -is- tiny! i still wonder if those hairs are sharp... xD

these creepy things are cute ;-;

why am I afraid of them then? ;.;

If you figure out why, let me know...so maybe I can figure out why I'm afraid of them.

Thank you SO much for IDing that for me!!! I know you didn't mean to, but we've got these little guys all over the house (much to my mate's dismay lol) and I had no clue what species they were. ^_^

I have to agree that I think this is a male, as I've seen both (a mated pair in fact) in the same web. It was quite amusing to watch. She was running about the web fixing pieces that had been disturbed, and he was sort of just huddling on one of the strands. Well, evidently he pissed her off because she crossed the web to him, and smacked him with one of her forelegs twice. He cringed for a moment and then scampered off as she raised her leg to do it again. I would assume it was a message of "If you aren't going to do anything productive, go hunting!!" So he did.

I've been questioning myself lately on if this is actually Genus Hogna, but I know it's Family Lycosidae so it's for sure a Wolf Spider.


You saw one of these in a web? Are you sure? Wolf Spiders don't spin webs. The only ones that do are a couple species that make funnel like retreats.

well by web that's what i meant. my best friend had a colony of them in his on cupboard and they had hammock like webbing strung up all over the place. It was fascinating as I'd never seen so many of them in one place before. But it was all the same type of spider and they appeared to follow the directions of the female I mentioned before. She was I'd say somewhere around the size of a silver dollar, or a little bigger.

Interesting. Doesn't sound like wolf spider behavior. Spiders don't tend to be very social, but sometimes groups form together.

Wolf spiders aren't often found in cupboards, but I wonder if they're Agelenid's instead. They can have a similar size and shape to the spider above and they make themselves quite at home in houses.

There is also a group of cobweb weaver's from Genus Anelosimus that are actually truly social. They share meals and their young rarely leave the web they were born in.

Hmm. could be then...it's still funny, and quite interesting. He swore up and down that they were wolf spiders, but he may have been wrong.

I do know that we have a good many of the spider that you photographed above hanging around the house.

Hehe, wolf spiders are quite common pretty much everyone. All different sizes and colors too.

Wonderful little predators they are. And perfectly harmless!

I know! ^_^ I spent the better part of this morning watching one track an ant in my bedroom. And if you're positive this "little" one is a wolf spider then I *know* the one I was watching this morning is. It matched this one perfectly, right down to the tiny hairs.

This photo is definitely a wolf spider. Their distinguishing feature is their eyes.

Well, without a magnifier of some kind I wouldn't have been able to count (we'll say her) eyes, but she definitely had those markings, and was about that same size and shape. So, I would assume she was a wolf spider, as she was also obviously stalking that ant. Everywhere it went she followed. Almost like a bloodhound tracking a fugitive. It was quite entertaining.