What kind of spider is this: I see spiders in my house every now and then: jumpers and sometimes a baby tarantula but I've never seen this one. I did a little research and got a bunch...

tramsey Loc: Texas

I see spiders in my house every now and then: jumpers and sometimes a baby tarantula but I've never seen this one. I did a little research and got a bunch of wrong answers; one even said it was a wolf spider, no not hardly. So what is it?

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Scary!

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Whatever it is, please tell me that's an extreme close-up, or maybe a macro shot. Otherwise.........

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

I did the right-click, "search Google for images" (Chrome browser) and amazingly, it ID'd as being in Texas! Here is a site it suggested:
https://spiderid.com/locations/united-states/texas/

You could post to UHH's true macro forum also.

tramsey Loc: Texas

Linda From Maine wrote:

I did the right-click, "search Google for images" (Chrome browser) and amazingly, it ID'd as being in Texas! Here is a site it suggested:
https://spiderid.com/locations/united-states/texas/

You could post to UHH's true macro forum also.

That was one of the sites I looked at but I didn't want to go through 586 images. I went through the first couple of pages with no luck. I Googled 'tan spider in Texas' and got weird answers. That was the site that someone said wolf spider; another said it was a nursery spider. I took a look at nursery spider and it's not even close, wrong color, wrong shape, wrong body structure not even close.
Maybe I will have to go through 586 images; not really what I wanted to do today.
Thanks for the come back. You are one of the members that I use to set my goals on my pnotos. I haven't come even close to your standards yet. Thanks for all your posts.
Ted

tramsey Loc: Texas

Cany143 wrote:

Whatever it is, please tell me that's an extreme close-up, or maybe a macro shot. Otherwise.........

Just a regular shot using a little telephoto with my handy dandy Nikon P510.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

tramsey wrote:

I see spiders in my house every now and then: jumpers and sometimes a baby tarantula but I've never seen this one. I did a little research and got a bunch of wrong answers; one even said it was a wolf spider, no not hardly. So what is it?

It's a 200 lb spider (that's the smallest ones). ;)

Ok thats not an answer but I thought I would try to add some levity to the thread.

I thought perhaps it was a brown recluse, but according to wikipedia, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider) the brown recluse has 3 eyes and it does not appear that your spider has three eyes. So I guess we can rule that one out.

FYI - It would help if you check the "store original" box when you attach the image.

Dave327 Loc: Duluth, GA. USA

Looked for it, but confusing. My first gut quess was a brown recluse, which has a poisonous bite. Some pictures resemble some of the features in the photo, particularly the legs. They are known to inhabit dark places such as crawl spaces under homes.

silverwren Loc: Alabama

We call that a grass spider down here. Don’t know the scientific name. They are all over the place and occasionally get in the house.

krl48 Loc: NY, PA now SC

Looks surprisingly like this image:

http://arachnoboards.com/threads/spider-id-wolf-spider.81855/

Incidentally, the arachnoboards picture was posted over 11 years ago.

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

Dave327 wrote:

Looked for it, but confusing. My first gut quess was a brown recluse, which has a poisonous bite. Some pictures resemble some of the features in the photo, particularly the legs. They are known to inhabit dark places such as crawl spaces under homes.

Don't brown recluse spiders usually have a distinctive pattern on their thorax, hence the common name 'fiddle back'. Yes, they are nasty if you get bitten: https://www.google.com/search?q=brown+recluse+fiddleback&num=10&client=firefox-b-1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiAu8Cy3urbAhUG7qwKHT6fCqAQ_AUICigB&biw=1620&bih=927#imgrc=FqUNjgQbpgS4NM:

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Dave327 wrote:

Looked for it, but confusing. My first gut quess was a brown recluse, which has a poisonous bite. Some pictures resemble some of the features in the photo, particularly the legs. They are known to inhabit dark places such as crawl spaces under homes.

The Brown Recluse looks a little bit like this one but the brown recluse has 3 eyes this one has two. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider

krl48 Loc: NY, PA now SC

tramsey wrote:

Just a regular shot using a little telephoto with my handy dandy Nikon P510.

Did you take that picture almost 12 years ago, looking to ID it then?

http://arachnoboards.com/threads/spider-id-wolf-spider.81855/

They sure look like the same picture.

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

tramsey wrote:

That was one of the sites I looked at but I didn't... (show quote)

I think it’s much faster to narrow down and identify if you put in its coloring first, number of legs next then followed by its song!!!

SS

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

SharpShooter wrote:

I think is much faster to narrow down and identify if you put in its coloring first, number of legs then followed by its song!!!

SS

"Itsy bitsy spider"?