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I saw something skitter across the floor and trapped it under tupperware. Can any of you tell me what this is? It's big, has some pointy mandibles, and I let it loose in the woods.



Anyone know what kind of spider this is?

Quotemander Prime said:

I saw something skitter across the floor and trapped it under tupperware. Can any of you tell me what this is? It's big, has some pointy mandibles, and I let it loose in the woods.

Anyone know what kind of spider this is?

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Great, you've DOOMED US ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go back and take better pictures of it.

Wife: So when are you gonna kill it?
Me: I'm not going to kill it.
Wife: ... why?
Me: There's no reason to kill it.
Wife: It's a BIG FUCKING SPIDER. It has scorpion tails for a mouth!
Me: I'll just let it outside.
Wife: Oh God ...
Me: See? He's secure.
Wife: I'll get the door. Now go FAR AWAY.

SAW THREAD TITLE. KNEW DAMN WELL WHAT IT MEANT. CLICKED AWAY.

BRICKS SHAT.

Quotemander Prime said:

Anyone know what kind of spider this is?

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Tried to clean it up a bit:


I'm guessing it's a male Hobo Spider thanks to some hasty Googling around the shape of its mouth parts.

--Patrick

It's really blurry, but it looks like a brown recluse.

It looked more like the hobo spider from what I looked at in-person than the brown recluse. Sorry the photo wasn't better--he was a quick little sucker.

Either way, it appears I should've killed it after all. Terrific.

Quotemander Prime said:

It looked more like the hobo spider from what I looked at in-person than the brown recluse. Sorry the photo wasn't better--he was a quick little sucker.

Either way, it appears I should've killed it after all. Terrific.

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KILL EVERY SPIDER. IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE.

Careful there, Quote. I hear those things can grow to be pretty big.

That would be a Venezuelan Leg Eviscerator, known to bite holes in human legs and feet in which they deposit a clutch of their brood, to burst and skitter forth in less than a week's time.

GasBandit said:

That would be a Venezuelan Leg Eviscerator, known to bite holes in human legs and feet in which they deposit a clutch of their brood, to burst and skitter forth in less than a week's time.

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Do you see what you have done, Quotemander?! Do you see the horrors you have unleashed upon the world?!

That's Roger! Oh his wife Rachel is going to be so pissed that he doesn't come home tonight, And with her being so late in her pregnancy and all. Shame what a shame.

HCGLNS said:

That's Roger! Oh his wife Rachel is going to be so pissed that he doesn't come home tonight, And with her being so late in her pregnancy and all. Shame what a shame.

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Someone mentioned Hobo Spider, knew you'd show up.

Also, there's really little purpose in releasing an indoor spider outside. Indoor spiders tend to adapt to desert-type survival habits, where food and water are scarce, but so is outside predation. Releasing them outside is just putting them into an environment they don't know how to handle, and will likely starve to death or get eaten by something else.

My Hobo Senses are tingling! I sense poutine!

Ravenpoe said:

Releasing them outside is just putting them into an environment they don't know how to handle, and will likely starve to death or get eaten by something else.

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Or freeze.

I found a good-sized wolf spider in a highway rest area during an Autumn trip. I knew he would get smushed if he kept running around where people could see him, so I picked him up* and put him outside in one of the bushes, whereupon he promptly stopped moving, fell over and curled up his legs as he started to slip into torpor. So I had to pick him back up and release him back inside so he'd at least have some chance.

--Patrick
*with my hands. Yes, really.

Visual aid: Wolf Spider

Really, it was more like this:



--Patrick

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Look, it was either die inside or have a chance outside where I've released all the crickets that keep getting in here.

My hands are clean.


Because I didn't pick it up with my hands.

I usually hit spiders with a hammer.

That's overkill. And it leaves dents in floors, walls, and appliances.

1) It's not too hard to hit something with a hammer without damaging the walls and/or floors

2) I don't care if it's overkill. I would drop a Buick on them if it was feasible. That's the penalty for entering my home with more than four legs.

Tress said:

1) It's not too hard to hit something with a hammer without damaging the walls and/or floors

2) I don't care if it's overkill. I would drop a Buick on them if it was feasible. That's the penalty for entering my home with more than four legs.

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What do you have against my OctoDog?!

The absolute worst feeling in the world:

*see's giant spider*

AAHHHH! Spider!

*grabs something to kill it with, turns back*

.... Where'd it go?

That's why it's handy to have a rubber mallet. That way you can rear back and



without worrying (much) about dents.

GasBandit said:

What do you have against my OctoDog?!

*snip*

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--Patrick

Stuff like that is why I love local news.

And stuff like this (not spider related)

What's wrong with OctoDogs?
Funy looking food but nothing bad there.

From Sunday's paper:


--Patrick

Oh my.

That's a real movie.

--Patrick

PatrThom said:

Oh my.

That's a real movie.

--Patrick

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Nice! Read the cast list.

Chaton Anderson ...Girl with the rack