What kind of spider is this please?
Aug 22, 2012 22:23:34 #
Need to know what kind of spider this is. Don't know if I should kill it or let it live. If it's harmless I'll let it live, if not it's gone. I have young grandchildren. Tried looking it up and can't really find it.
Aug 23, 2012 00:19:22 #
Aug 23, 2012 00:55:47 #
Guessing just from the markings (can't see the eye pattern), it looks like a member of the Larinioides genus. Could also be one of the Araneus genus but both are members of Araneidae family.
Most spiders are poisonous (can inject venom when they bite), but very few are dangerous to humans. The majority of spiders can't bite through human skin. Only a few spider families are not poisonous.
Most spiders are poisonous (can inject venom when they bite), but very few are dangerous to humans. The majority of spiders can't bite through human skin. Only a few spider families are not poisonous.
Aug 23, 2012 01:11:08 #
I do not recognize the dorsal pattern, and the web looks too disorganized to be an Orb Weaver (family Araneidae).
Very, very few spiders are dangerous to humans, and most of them prefer hiding to confrontation. Certain spiders bite when surprised, like a black widow hiding among tools in a garden shed. No spider in North America actively seeks to bite anything outside of its food source, which are moths & crickets.
Very, very few spiders are dangerous to humans, and most of them prefer hiding to confrontation. Certain spiders bite when surprised, like a black widow hiding among tools in a garden shed. No spider in North America actively seeks to bite anything outside of its food source, which are moths & crickets.
Aug 23, 2012 01:36:38 #
woman44004 wrote:
Need to know what kind of spider this is. Don't know if I should kill it or let it live. If it's harmless I'll let it live, if not it's gone. I have young grandchildren. Tried looking it up and can't really find it.
I'm not positive.. I found one of these in the woods and just stayed away... I don't think it is an orb weaver.. that is a kind of garden spider I think... I am not sure what it is... I just got a spider bite and my foot is swollen, slightly bruised and the joint hurts so spiders are not my thing.
Aug 23, 2012 02:41:09 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
I do not recognize the dorsal pattern, and the web looks too disorganized to be an Orb Weaver (family Araneidae).
Very, very few spiders are dangerous to humans, and most of them prefer hiding to confrontation. Certain spiders bite when surprised, like a black widow hiding among tools in a garden shed. No spider in North America actively seeks to bite anything outside of its food source, which are moths & crickets.
Very, very few spiders are dangerous to humans, and most of them prefer hiding to confrontation. Certain spiders bite when surprised, like a black widow hiding among tools in a garden shed. No spider in North America actively seeks to bite anything outside of its food source, which are moths & crickets.
Except for a Brown Recluse when it bites you and you slap it off of you.
:mrgreen:
Aug 23, 2012 03:28:56 #
saycheese wrote:
Are you speaking from personal experience, or urban legend? Except for a Brown Recluse when it bites you and you slap it off of you.
Seems everybody knows a friend, whose sister's boyfriend heard a story about a gardener that got bit by Brown Recluse.
Brown Recluse bites are so rare, that they are always medically documented, and the skin damage is photographically documented over several days.
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/spider_bite_brown_recluse_spider_bite/article_em.htm
http://www.ascendedhealth.com/brown-recluse/bite-picture.htm
(From a medical photographer, once responsible for documenting truly venomous insect & arachnid bites in Los Angeles County)
Aug 23, 2012 05:39:30 #
Aug 23, 2012 06:00:08 #
woman44004 wrote:
Need to know what kind of spider this is. Don't know if I should kill it or let it live. If it's harmless I'll let it live, if not it's gone. I have young grandchildren. Tried looking it up and can't really find it.
Spiders are our friends................ :thumbup:
Aug 23, 2012 07:58:37 #
It's Deadly - Actually looks for grandchildren. It's named the SilentButDeadlyGrandchildKiller.
KILL IT.
Sarge
PS: Nice photo
KILL IT.
Sarge
PS: Nice photo
Aug 23, 2012 08:00:35 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
quote=saycheese Except for a Brown Recluse when i... (show quote)
There many bites here in tennessee. i go to chemo with a wownen who lost part of her foot from one.
Aug 23, 2012 08:40:44 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
quote=saycheese Except for a Brown Recluse when i... (show quote)
My nephew got bite by a recluse a couple years ago, it was terrible, it took a lot of treatments and he was left with a huge hole on his leg. It just kept eating at away his skin(the poison).
Aug 23, 2012 09:40:44 #
Aug 23, 2012 18:22:48 #
Kyty759
Loc: Brick NJ
This is a orb weaver ( garden orb). The web looks like its taken a few hits. Have quite a few in my back yard. Have a large female that builds one on my sliding glass door nightly. She takes it down in the morning and then at dark she rebuilds.
Aug 23, 2012 21:01:38 #
Kyty759 wrote:
This is a orb weaver ( garden orb). The web looks like its taken a few hits. Have quite a few in my back yard. Have a large female that builds one on my sliding glass door nightly. She takes it down in the morning and then at dark she rebuilds.
ty, I looked her up and she will live to see another day
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