Friend or foe? (spider)

General General Discussion
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This isn’t a recluse, is it?

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I can come to your room and kill it if you want…

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looks like he’s missing a few legs .

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I’d call that one “friendly.” Brown recluses from what I understand don’t have any markings on the abdomen. YMMV

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Dude, last time. Stop trying to get into my room. I’m not judging your lifestyle, but I don’t want to be part of it.

Sissy. I’m not scared of spiders.

Necrotizing venom, on the other hand, I can do without.

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I’m saying a Cautious “Friend”

Looks like maybe a Hobo Spider or immature Wolf or possibly even a Funnel Web Grass Spider, hard to say…just basing it off leg structure and coloring(s).

http://www.termite.com/spider-identification.html is a decent little “run down” on the good and bad on those 8 legged bastids.

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I stomp the shit out of the spider…

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I think MD is too far north and east for true brown recluse spiders.

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I was thinking it looked like a Wolf Spider with the mange:p

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I’d stomp it like a pneumatic hammer. :cool:

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Excellent.

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That chart isn’t exactly accurate. I see brown recluse spiders all the time in central NC.

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FWIW, the pic was taken in Moyock NC.

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Moyock, eh? Only one thing I know is out that way besides swamp…lol

Being in Eastern NC then I’ll def lean towards it being a Wolf spider. I kill about 2 every month in the summer (and I’m a far stretch from the Moyock area, as I’m in Goldsboro).

Not so much for my personal safety, but cuz I’m trying to stop the dogs from investigating how a Wolf spider tastes…

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…damn, I mean just DAMN…I’m all for diversity and all but…damn.

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Doing some training with Blackwater- I mean Xe?

I seem to remember someone in my unit getting bit by a brown recluse at Ft. Bragg, but I have no idea what you have. Just kill it.

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Seconded. We had a guy initially miss a deployment out of LeJeune (Jacksonville, NC, coastal) because of a recluse bite. His ‘boys’ swelled up to the size of a large grapefruit and it ate about a quarter of his ass and upper right thigh before they could stop it.

They’re here in VA, as well. Probably an outdated map.

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Nuke it from orbit.

It’s the only way to be sure.