Spiders...

[jarrat]

I've had a problem with these wolf spiders in my place.. My wife and I have been seeing about 1-4 a week. Usually the size of a nickle. Well recently we found one a bit bigger then the one I caught tonight a week ago.... (See picture). I'm kinda getting creeped out that there that big in our place, and I think I've had enough... niether of my cats don't want anything to do with them either...

Any recommendations on WTF to do on getting rid of them? We are plannin on getting sticky bug traps, and sealing up any holes leading to the outside.. but other then that.. I dunno....


suggestions?




Thats a quarter!!!
http://www.members.shaw.ca/jarrat/spider.jpg

[4Lo]

As creepy as they are they do feast on other bugs that may be millin around your home.

I see one of those buggers at least once a week in our kitchen sink in the morning. One night I slept on a foam piece on the floor and outta the corner of my eye b4 falling asleep I see this shadow on my pillow. Flip the light on and it was a wolf spider. Not sure really what you can do to deter there presence. They don't bother me so I have not googled a way to get rid of em.

[c0nspire]

spiders are a sign of a healthy ecosystem/enviroment. Just let them outside. They wont bite unless they are seriously provoked

[4Lo]

On that note...daddy long leg spiders are the most poisonous spider in the world. Find yourself a 1/2 doz of them and let them loose where te wolf spiders are most commonly found. With a little luck they will poison them if they bite them. If not then you have an even bigger spider problem.:laugh

[4Lo]

spiders are a sign of a healthy ecosystem/enviroment. Just let them outside. They wont bite unless they are seriously provoked

That's what I do but I let them loose near my nieghbours garage door.:redneck

[Lone Ranger]

Man, lucky you - thats a little fella! The resident rodent cat around here used to hunt them and eat the all the time, now she won't have anything to do with them and its getting to the point that she's the one being hunted :cwm36: Which means we're next I guess.. Mu dungeon's just about complete now, monster wolf spiders and daddy long legs everywhere.. Next I gotta find some bats somewhere.

I like having them around personally. LR

[c0nspire]

wolf spisders generally range from 1cm-8cm's i believe.

[TUNABOMBER]

food for thought

if spyders were the size of cats we would be #2 on the food chain

and ya thats a baby

[c0nspire]

On that note...daddy long leg spiders are the most poisonous spider in the world. Find yourself a 1/2 doz of them and let them loose where te wolf spiders are most commonly found. With a little luck they will poison them if they bite them. If not then you have an even bigger spider problem.:laugh

urban myth, brown recluse spiders have the same fangs but contain medically significant venom. daddy long leg spiders (Pholcidae family) commonly eat other spiders, but they arent dangerous.

[Lone Ranger]

wolf spisders generally range from 1cm-8cm's i believe.

Legs included? I'll have to move some shat around and see what I can get some pics of. The ones here are around 4 - 5 cm, rebuilding pools I've seen several in the 8 cm range. Big enough I've almost considered hunting them with rifles.. LR

[c0nspire]

Legs included? I'll have to move some shat around and see what I can get some pics of. The ones here are around 4 - 5 cm, rebuilding pools I've seen several in the 8 cm range. Big enough I've almost considered hunting them with rifles.. LR

if memory serves thats including legs. up to 4cm body? they eyes reflect light very well so they are fairly easy to distinguish with a flash camera or a flashlight.

[4Lo]

Get yourself one of these


http://www.youtube.com/v/hEEUGJG53r8&hl=en

[4Lo]

urban myth, brown recluse spiders have the same fangs but contain medically significant venom. daddy long leg spiders (Pholcidae family) commonly eat other spiders, but they arent dangerous.

They are dangerous to other insects that they can bite. They are not dangerous to humans because of our thicker skin.

[4Lo]

they range in size. 1.5 - 2 inces so yes 4-8 cm. I am speaming over all size. not body size lol.

[c0nspire]

They are dangerous to other insects that they can bite. They are not dangerous to humans because of our thicker skin.

thats the myth. the brown recluse has the same fangs as a daddy long legs. same size/length, yet a brown recluse spiders bite is very very danergous.

"pholcid spiders do have a short fang structure (called uncate). However, brown recluse spiders also have uncate fang structure, but are able to deliver medically significant bites."

[Lone Ranger]

Our house was built in '48, renovated and extended in '84 and backs on to about 1/2 acre of ravine and bush.. Makes it a haven for lots of interesting insects around here, not for those who are arachnophobic. I've grown up with bugs around, and thankfully they've never bothered me. I miss being in Mexico, damn we used to catch some good ones there: scorpions, brown recluses, black widows, you name it. LR

[Lone Ranger]

Thats a cool vid. LR

[Dan]

On that note...daddy long leg spiders are the most poisonous spider in the world.

Unsubstantiated myth, but I'm sure you know that already

Snopes http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.asp

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae

University of California http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html

Mythbusters http://mythbusters-wiki.discovery.com/page/Daddy%E2%80%94Longlegs?t=anon

[waltman]

I've had a problem with these wolf spiders in my place.. My wife and I have been seeing about 1-4 a week. Usually the size of a nickle. Well recently we found one a bit bigger then the one I caught tonight a week ago.... (See picture). I'm kinda getting creeped out that there that big in our place, and I think I've had enough... niether of my cats don't want anything to do with them either...

Any recommendations on WTF to do on getting rid of them? We are plannin on getting sticky bug traps, and sealing up any holes leading to the outside.. but other then that.. I dunno....


suggestions?




Thats a quarter!!!
http://www.members.shaw.ca/jarrat/spider.jpg
That's tiny compared to the ones my brother and I used to capture, throw into a large jar and feed (keep as pets) They are harmless and the ones I've seen in my place have been as big as a silver dollar and even bigger. I don't usually bother them, unless they are seen by one of my kids or end up where my kids might see them, then I'll either squash them or take them outside.

On that note...daddy long leg spiders are the most poisonous spider in the world. Find yourself a 1/2 doz of them and let them loose where te wolf spiders are most commonly found. With a little luck they will poison them if they bite them. If not then you have an even bigger spider problem.:laugh
Daddy long legs. You mean the bugs with the round body and legs that fall off if you even blow on them to hard?

http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/photos/daddy%20long%20legs.jpg

I find that really hard to believe. You must be talking about something different

[Lone Ranger]

I saved a tarantula once in the dorms at the orphanage where we were living in Mexico, but unfortunately the women there killed its mate before I could save it. I used to walk around all over the place and it'd sit happily on my shoulder, very incredibly gentle creatures. I had to release it when we left but I would love to get another. That one was maybe 5 or 6" I guess (been a long time), but they are neat to handle. LR

[Flex]

And for the record the large spiders that every one is calling wolf spiders, some call them hobo (recluse) spiders, are not what they seem. The huge spiders you are seeing are generally the species "giant house spider"

http://greennature.com/gallery/spider-pictures/giant-house-spider.jpg

[Lone Ranger]

Oh don't worry, there's no lack of wolf spiders around here, "giant house spiders" dont look as aggresive as them. Growing up I had a basement room that was partially under the stairs, tons of cobwebs and lots of spiders in there. I'd be constantly waking up with wolf spiders on me and always had spider bites, sure was happy to move upstairs then. LR

[c0nspire]

waltman-
that picture you posted of a daddy longlegs, althought that creature is called one, that isnt a spider. That one is an arachnid it is not a spider

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones


flex-
hobo spiders and recluse spiders are different, hobo's are native to our region and are a class of funnel spider (like the giant house spider and domestic house spider) whereas the recluse is native to southern west usa down to the gulf of mexico. the spiders are from two different families of spiders, studies thus far have been unsucessful in prooving that hobo spiders venom is dangerous to a healthy human.

i used to like spiders when i was a kid :cwm36:

[gavman]

Around our house the spiders are all lifted on running 44's:laugh:laugh:laugh
I love the wolf spiders though, caught one last year and kept him in a huge vase for a couple of weeks and fed him wasps, would kill one every two days....

[physcofreerider]

A couple years ago i found a giant house spider / wolf spider . I fed it twice a day all summer, by the end of august i got really uncomfortable going outside to the drain pipe it was so big. However, if you have a spider problem, get some mud wasps. they hunt spider, i've watched one fight a spider in it's web, kill it then fly away carrying the spider to it's mud nest. They put the spiders in the nest, lay the egg / larva then plug the hole. I guess while the larva is growing, the spider is there for the larva to eat it. They aren't aggresive either, go near them, they fly away, go near the nest, they fly away.

http://www.afpmb.org/pubs/Field_Guide/Images/originals/Fig.%20120.jpg

Or just go to a hardware store and pick up the aresol spider poison that you spray around your house at the base. It's supposed to have an effect of 2weeks. that might help.

[lornix]

I live in an older home with about 3 acres of bush at the back so we also see some friggen HUGE spiders in the house around this time of year, and any other time it rains for a while. The cats won't eat the big ones either and the really huge ones they won't go near at all. Friggen cowards.

I just kill them on sight .. problem solved and one less huge spider walking around my house. Some of these things cast a shadow when they walk across the rugs and you can see the hair on them from 15 feet away!

I have been killing one a day for the past week or so.

[bobby b]

I used to live in a old house/basement suite, spiders were HUGE there. They cast a shadow across the floor too ( light from the tv ). Once I was sittin' watching a flick when this giant dropped down from the ceiling and just froze into this 'ninja spider' pose as soon as it realized it was an inch in front of my face, scared the livin' crap outta me!!:eek:
Never did like spiders.

[iroc22]

seems that wikipedia states that the reason people think the daddy long legs is the most poisonous is because it kills other spiders such as the black widow

[iroc22]

I always thought trap door spiders were pretty cool, they make sweet webs and are super fast

[Bushpiggy]

napalm Jerod.....might want to cover the little one with an asbestos shield first.

[kore]

i live in a basement suite and have seen some giant spiders in here. the biggest was about 6cm, and it scared the living ****e out of me.. i left my sweater on the couch overnight, then rolled out of bed and put the sweater on. then the giant spider crawled out the neck of the sweater onto my shoulder, i screamed so loud my girlfriend though somebody was in our basement trying to kill me!!! i had just woke up, needless to say i was really awake after that and on edge..
lately i have seen about 2 a week, i hate spiders. i hit them with a golf club, or use an old ski to hit them. one time we caught one in a tupperware container and taped the container to the hood of a car, i dont know why but it was really funny at the time.

[bulldozer]

I grew up in a 40s built house also, lead paint,asbestos the works, I sti stii stilll think I'm normal thou... The spiders there would wrap their legs around 2x4s and hang on as I tried to catch them. After being bite so many times I began to shoot them with my pellet gun loaded with darts. I would then place the carcasses around and under my bed to ward off would be attackers, seemed to work. Thats nu nu normal isn't it?
Just saw a show this week on those recluse spiders, 60minutes I think where a guy almost lost his leg from a recluse spider bite.

[Devorak]

get a bunch of chestnuts and put them in every corner you can find that those little buggers might like to hang out in. a friend of mine has a basement that is just perfect for large spider breeding, but he has chestnuts everywhere and i have never seen a spider in his place. he tells me that they dont like the smell of them or something... not sure if hes just BSing me or what... but the proof is there and it seems like a cheep fix for a spider problem.

Brian

[desteurm]

get a bunch of chestnuts and put them in every corner you can find that those little buggers might like to hang out in. a friend of mine has a basement that is just perfect for large spider breeding, but he has chestnuts everywhere and i have never seen a spider in his place. he tells me that they dont like the smell of them or something... not sure if hes just BSing me or what... but the proof is there and it seems like a cheep fix for a spider problem.

Brian

I've heard of this too, supposed to work great!

[4Lo]

Here is a cool video that gives you a closeup of how a wasp kills a tarantula...

http://www.youtube.com/v/p_cL4ZiE81E&hl=en