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I'm Afraid To Use My Front Door! 1 Attachment(s) Seriously, can anyone identify this spider?? Attachment 352197 This thing is huge! Normally, I just leave spiders alone, but she's right next to my front door and she scares me to death! I've tried googling, but I can't tell if she's a wolf spider or a funnel web grass spider or something else... |
Oh me! I am terrified, yet intrigued of spiders. I don't recognize the type of spider that is. I would either call a man in to kill it or be finding some way to transport it to somewhere else out in the woods. I hate to squash them, but if it's terrifying me.... |
If I could transport her, I would, but she hides in the siding every time you approach her. You can see the window in the left of the picture. What you can't see is that my front door is to the right, just outside the picture. Seriously, my skin won't stop crawling!!!!!! |
I love how you call it her! Haha. If she hides when you go near her, let her be... She will move on in a day or two. I am terrified and intrigued also by spiders! I'd be using another door! Lol |
Ew! I'm sorry, I'm no help either. |
Oh me, I feel your pain! They make my skin crawl too, but it's so weird how they fascinate me at the same time. Any time Brandon (that's my hubby) see's one that he thinks I would like to see, he will call me out to see it. It's really silly. I even have a old VHS that my Mom was throwing out of her classroom from National Geographic called 'webs of intrigue.' LOL. It's so weird that I'm scared of them. I wonder if you might could get it to crawl on a stick. Like a long stick and poke it between the crack she keeps hiding in? And then take the stick elsewhere? LOL. You can see I'm usually not the spider killer in our house. Brandon always gets tissue and squashes them for me. And I'm so weird, I actually make him 'flush' them so that they are out of the house. |
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I'm starting to think she might be a funnel web spider. Her web even looks funnel shaped, right? If that's the case, she can stay because they're harmless. I guess she'll keep unwanted guests away, huh? |
I would guess A Wolf Spider, as you live in the USA. Funnel Web Spiders live in Australia. Not that it's impossible, but least likely... They are very fast, but if you take a longish type stick and mess up the web everyday, she'll probably move on her own. Just keep in mind all spiders carry venom, it's how they eat... Funnel Web Spiders are highly venomous and deadly in Australia.... |
Me again...LOL. I asked the resident spider killer (Brandon) and he said it looks like a wolf spider to him. Do you know if she has a egg sac in there? Most wolf spiders are very protective mothers. After there babies hatch, they cling to the tiny hairs on her backside and travel everywhere with her. So never squash the spider if it has the babies clinging on....little spiders will go everywhere. This happened to us once when we squashed one on our carport. |
1 Attachment(s) Be careful if her web is funnel shaped she could be a hobo spider if so she is dangerous. Ive attached a pict of one. |
Ewwwww! Yucky spiders! I would FREAK out if I saw her at my door! :eek::eek: Time to yell for DH to come take care of it! Lol. Or at least that is what I do! |
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There are the funnel web spiders that live in Illinois. If you look at the link, there's a picture of a wolf spider right above the funnel spider. I think the wolf spider's abdomen is much more rounded, while the funnel web spider's abdomen seems more elongated, like my new friend on my front porch. |
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IDK but ever since I watched Infested on Animal Planet and that hobo spider was on there I freak out at any funnel weds lol! |
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