dime sized spider at most .its legs were short but not skinny i thought they pretty thick for how small the spider was. it was a pretty symetrical dark black spider

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" while i was laying on my driveway i noticed a line of spiderweb in my face and knocked it off then i felt something on the back of my head and hit a spider off. now theres an ich and a small hole in the back of my head where the spider was "

its only a mosquito type ich

what kind of spider could this have been?

if i don't feel this in the morning should i just ignore it?

could i be in danger right now?

8/13/2007 2:31:26 AM

just try not to scrch the ich too much

8/13/2007 2:57:01 AM

yea dont bother getting it looked at, then we can be rid of you forever.

dude, if you get bitten by a spider GO TO THE FUCKING HOSPITAL.

8/13/2007 3:04:13 AM

Its the new AIDS spider. Was just invented last year by the Japanese. You are going to die.

8/13/2007 3:10:03 AM

This is on our back porch.

8/13/2007 3:24:33 AM

I hate spiders

8/13/2007 7:29:42 AM

^^

8/13/2007 7:58:11 AM

there's only two poisonous spiders in NC.

The black widow could be what you described, but if so, it's a male, which are either venom free or have far less venom in their bites (i can't remember which) than the females, which are quarter size. Also, I seriously doubt a black widow would be on a web in your driveway. That's not the type of place they generally hang out.

8/13/2007 8:15:05 AM

^^^^garden spiders are the shit...fun as fuck to feed

8/13/2007 8:19:36 AM

^^^^^ is that in NC?

8/13/2007 12:27:49 PM

Those guys (garden spiders, the black/yellow thing pictured) are around here. Big and scary looking, but pretty much harmless.

8/13/2007 12:31:41 PM

feeding spiders is always cool

8/13/2007 12:40:59 PM

i'm a puss and can hardly even stand looking at spiders... snakes are cool tho

8/13/2007 1:07:47 PM

why were you laying on your driveway?


if the wound is necrotic (flesh eating hole) then go to the doctor fool

8/13/2007 3:41:57 PM

One of my pals found a black widow in his son's stroller in Charlotte last week..... Scary crap....

8/13/2007 3:44:21 PM

one of my parent's clients died not even two months ago from a Black Widow bite. Got bit, didnt think about it, woke up the next day and went to the hospital in terrible pain and died the day after that.

8/13/2007 3:53:43 PM

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"^^^^^ is that in NC? "

The picture is pretty deceiving. The spider is pretty big for run-of-the-mill spiders that you see, but it's only about 3" or so in diameter.

It seems to share a web with 2 other tiny spiders though that flank it about a foot away on each side, but on the opposite side of the web. Kind of an odd arrangement...

8/15/2007 10:20:24 PM

8/15/2007 11:57:28 PM

^ we need captions.

start a LOLSPIDERZ internet meme.

8/16/2007 4:23:28 AM

8/16/2007 4:35:12 AM

havent been able to sleep for the past couple hours b/c of a fucking spider. got caught off guard by it when i groggily went to the bathroom at like 2. when i saw it i had no idea wtf it was and thought there was a decent chance it could be a brown recluse so i was pretty reluctant to attempt to kill it, especially w/out shoes on.

so after sitting at the comp in my room for a few minutes, the damn thing crawls in under my door, and it's fucking fast as hell. i finally ended up hurling a textbook at the thing to kill it and i caught it (after it was dead lol) in something in case i need to have it ID'd. i also took pics of it before killing it, in the event that the thing got away so i could still use those for reference.

i did a bit of research after the fact, and i feel like it's probably doubtful that it's a brown recluse and think maybe wolf spider or something like that instead, but i really have no idea.

here are a couple pics if anyone that knows something about it wants to take a look and give their $.02




and yes i know i'm a pussy. i've just always be terrified of spiders.

[Edited on August 16, 2007 at 5:27 AM. Reason : ]

8/16/2007 5:25:39 AM

^harmless

8/16/2007 6:19:30 AM

ok

any idea what kind it is? wolf spider?

8/16/2007 7:31:06 AM

yeah it looks lke some wolf spider or some shit. but still scary nonetheless

8/16/2007 7:42:16 AM

Brown Recluse spiders have a violin shaped marking behind its head. pretty distinctive on adults but harder to spot on young ones. I saw more than I liked when renting a place that was full of them. Adults can get as big as a quarter.
Talk about living in fear I never got bit but my roommate did and ended up in the hospital 4 times.

Brown recluses come out at night to forage. The most common way to get bitten by them is to roll over on one in bed at night. They crawl through your sheets forages for bed mites and other small insects. Or they'll hang out in your clothes or shoes in dark closets. They don't spin typical webs and hide out in dark places.

Brown Recluse bites are NASTY. The bites start off as white blisters, swells and then turns into a lesion showing the deteriorating flesh below. lots of other side effects too.

8/16/2007 8:41:19 AM

My cat DESTROYED a spider last night. She ripped it's legs off. They were scattered on my bathroom floor when I woke up this morning and she was just purring like nothing happened.

8/16/2007 9:15:53 AM

that's a wolf spider. my roommate lives in the finished basement and has constant issues with them in the winter. i have to put half a dozen outside each year, cause he gets freaked out by bugs. they are fast as hell and scary looking, but i've never had any issues.

8/16/2007 1:42:33 PM

yeah, im just glad it's not a brown recluse or something. definitely hate spiders, but i can deal with it if i know it's not a bad one.

8/16/2007 1:55:12 PM

Thanks XCchick, seeing as I basically have arachnopohia and all, you have effectivley prevented me from sleeping for at least the next 2 days. lol

8/16/2007 3:02:16 PM

ftw

8/16/2007 3:20:54 PM

could be MRSA

(or lupus)

8/16/2007 4:31:18 PM

PEOPLE! PEPOLE! STOP THIS NOW!!!

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"there's only two poisonous spiders in NC."

There are NO poisonous SPIDERS in NC. There are also NO poisonous SNAKES in NC.


Poison is ingested, venom is injected.

clorox is poisonous, alcohol can be poisonous.
spiders and snakes are venomous.

8/16/2007 7:53:36 PM

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"yea dont bother getting it looked at, then we can be rid of you forever."

just needed to be repeated

8/16/2007 7:58:29 PM

^^bitch

one a further note....garden spiders are also called "writing spiders"....they write your name in the web and you'll die



oh and wolf spiders are the devils spawn

8/16/2007 10:29:46 PM

HAHAHA LOLSPIDARZ

8/17/2007 8:10:27 AM

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"here are a couple pics if anyone that knows something about it wants to take a look and give their $.02"

yeah, clean that nasty ass place.

8/17/2007 10:29:51 PM

place is clean

we just moved in actually

8/18/2007 5:00:28 AM

the cheeseburger spider up there looks like a cartoon walrus if u look at it long enough

8/18/2007 8:45:16 AM

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"oh and wolf spiders are the devils spawn"

Yeah. I used to live in an apartment with a wolf spider infestation. Ohhhh how I hated those fuckers.

8/19/2007 10:40:58 AM

thanks you fuckers, now i'll be checking my sheets for the next few weeks

8/21/2007 10:53:22 AM

I enjoy punching spiders.

You have to wash your hand off afterward, but it really makes me happy.

I only do this when they are out of reach of my foot though.

8/21/2007 1:45:26 PM

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"Poison is ingested, venom is injected."

So what are they when you eat one.

8/22/2007 12:08:34 AM

then you are effectively the libertarian of blood-toxin study

8/22/2007 12:14:25 AM

Brown Recluse spiders are pretty uncommon in this state. Bite reports are dramatically overstated. Doctors routinely misdiagnose them simply because they see necrosis. Go check out the spider page at UC-Riverside (big recluse buff there who goes on and on about the myths of brown recluse).

8/22/2007 12:40:58 AM

my brown recluse bite wasnt overstated :x almost died

8/22/2007 12:57:02 AM

FYI for whoever thought the wolf spider was a brown recluse. Brown recluse are TEENY. So are black widows in comparison to all those big web weaving spiders. They have huge abdomens and little spindly legs and hang out in really dark places, like under trash cans and sheds. So, if a big fuzzy spider is just wandering around in your bathroom, it's probably not one of those.

That said, my chinchillas love to torture spiders and slowly rip all their legs off.



[Edited on August 23, 2007 at 1:05 PM. Reason : pic]

8/23/2007 1:04:32 PM

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"Thanks XCchick, seeing as I basically have arachnopohia and all, you have effectivley prevented me from sleeping for at least the next 2 days. lol"

her thread about brown recluses and her roommate a few years ago was horrifying.

8/23/2007 1:20:39 PM