Need help with spider ID

[madmax908]

I found this thing in my garage in a Home Depot bag.
Its got a 1/2" body with the legs its about 3-4" long.
I'm leaning torwards grass spider, except this is all brown with no real markings.

I don't want to loose my man card, but I've seen first-hand some nasty spider bites.
Anyone know better? Brown recluse?

 

[billspit]

Looks like a Brown Recluse to me. Look on the top of the thorax. It will have a little fiddle shaped marking on it.

I can't zoom in enough to see it.

 

[azspray]

In Arizona we call that a wolf spider. They are pretty damn fast when you try to hit it with a shoe!

 

[madmax908]

Better quality pic uploaded

 

[BooUrns!]

In Arizona we call that a wolf spider. They are pretty damn fast when you try to hit it with a shoe!

We call them wolf spiders up here too. Let him go and help keep your garage bug free (well other type of bug free).

 

[madmax908]

Hmmm.

They are pretty damn fast when you try to hit it

This guy just sorta sat there and never moved much (until I was brave enough to shake him once in the container).
From what I can find on the net, Wolf spiders tend to have darker color accents.

 

[Uncle Buck]

If he is much bigger than the dia of a quarter I would have to say he is not a brown recluse.

 

[Gary S]

Wolf Spider? If so, keep him. Wolves eat rodents. Maybe he can eat your squirrels and rabbits.

 

[hetkind]

looks like a wolf spider to me also, wolf spiders are good things to have around, they eat black widows, and don't build webs. They bite, but do not have venom. Our lab and cats loved to chase, catch and eat them. The mud dapper wasps think they are tasty also.

Howard

 

[burleymike]

I saw a lot of wolf spiders as a kid in Colorado. I don't have much of a spider problem because we have a snake problem. The snakes like to eat the spiders and any other bugs that get into the house.

 

[Ceezer]

looks like a wolf spider to me also, wolf spiders are good things to have around, they eat black widows, and don't build webs.

They're not doing a very good job here... My garage is usually full of Black Widows.

I also thought Wolf spiders were darker in color, and also more hairy.

 

[Shocker]

I don't think it is a wolf spider either. The legs are too thin. Wolf spiders are more burly and compact. Legs are shorter.

 

[Shocker]

Ok, after some research. I think that is a Yellow Sac Spider. Very common spider in the NE.

It is one of the very few spiders in North America that their bite is rather poisonous to humans. The venom has a necrotic effect and causes severe blistering. It doesn't appear to be systemic like the Black Widow.

I appears that many bites that are attributed to the Brown Recluse (which is not as common in the NE) are actually caused by the Yellow Sac Spider.

 

[bmwpower]

Pet him and see if he is friendly.

 

[arusty28]

Screw that! Man up hell. Several times a year, I bug bomb the **** out of my garage. I usually bring home five or more "project" cars a year and have had the nastiest crawlies suddenly appear while I'm working out there. A co-workers wife almost lost her entire nose to a spider bite so I say kill em all and let the broom sort em out!

 

[mhm993]

black widows in your garage?

 

[Romanova]

If my garage was infested with bugs, I'd get pie-eyed drunk and burn it to the ground and move to Norway.

I spray my garage with Orthomax liquid insect murder every other week. Does a great job of keeping out roaches and spiders, both of which I hate.

I believe the brown recluse is southern states only...

 

[rocketman]

NOT a wolf spider.

Wolf Spider

 

[rocketman]

Family:
Tetragnathidae
Scientific name:
Metellina segmentata
Common name:
Autumn spider

 

[merlinpro]

I hope you wern't charged extra for that spider!

Dont know what they are, but I have a few of the same exact ones here and they seem to like it outside better than in!

Still freakin' creepy though...with those legs they look 10 times bigger than they are, and i can say they do move very fast!

 

[Monte406SS]

Not sure the name, but looks like the little guys that float on the top of my pool in the summer. If you try to skim them out, they dart off the skimmer and dive right back in. They just float around at night. Of course some of them aren't the brightest as they must get tired and sink to the bottom for me to clean the next morning

I remember being in the pool one night and my wife and I saw one floating, I hit it with the skimmer. Thing got pissed and started kicking it's legs and coming for me.

 

[General Lee]

I can say it is definitely not a brown recluse or a wolf spider.

 

[RobSmith]

Wolf spider ? They're called a grass spiders here in Australia. Black widows are called Red Backs and I've counted six in my shed this week. Leave them alone and they don't bother you. I've noticed they eat small lizards too. Their body is about as big as your little finger nail for average size. Some get bigger. The one to worry about is the Funnel Web. This little mother lives under ground and his hole has a funnel shaped web around the entrance. The trouble with them is...when it comes to breeding time ( near winter when it gets wet ) the male comes out and looks for warmer ,drier places...shoes etc.
These mothers can kill a horse with one bite. They are in the southern areas like Sydney so you don't worry too much. Just bump the boots and shake em out before you put them on. no worries !

 

[malibu101]

I believe the brown recluse is southern states only...

No, I was bit by a brown recluse 2 years ago and I never left Pennsylvania. I captured the type of spider I suspected gave me a nasty infection on my leg and it was confirmed to be a brown recluse. Not real common in this state I was told by thr doctor, but, they are known to be here.
I don't want to get into the nasty ordeal that the bite was. Let's just say I now go out of my way to kill any bugs around the house and garage.
By the way, the BR's were on a car I was dismantling that had sat outside for a year before I got to it.

 

[C6mongoose]

First pic does resemble a brown recluse (fiddle back), very common here in Georgia. They are very innocent looking and love to hide in dark corners of unused spaces and crawl into shoes. I was bitten by one in our basement and WOW it was painful and made a big scar. The bite itself was not painful, but very soon there was an awful throbbing ache and I could hardly lift my arm. The bite turned into a huge, about 2-inch across blister that filled with fluid. I sought medical attention at once or it would have been worse; even so, it was still a long process of healing even with antibiotics and ointments. I have seen bites that were untreated and they caused deep tissue damage. I now make it a practice to step on every spider I see (sorry PETA).

 

[BooUrns!]

Wow, I guess that's the upside to living north of the 49th. There are very few poisonous things around here. I guess it's too cold for the creepy crawlies to diversify enough to becoem all that threatening.

I know they get a few rattlesnakes further south, but the only snakes we get this far north are garter snakes (anitfreeze in their blood). I've heard of spider bites as minor irritants but never as something to really be concerned about.