Help... what kind of spider is this?

Should we be afraid?

My daughter is FINALLY cleaning up her room, so naturally, we've found a couple multi-legged devils in there. Problem is, one of them looks more dangerous (read that, 'scary') than the normal house spider.

Does anyone know what kind of spider this is and if we should be concerned? I tried to research this online but all the poisonous spiders featured there scared the sh*t outta me.

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/9085/p1010005vf3.jpg

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/9568/p1010018eq5.jpg

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/2019/p1010016hi0.jpg

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2235/p1010012bx6.jpg

http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/1440/p1010010wc2.jpg

That's the same spider in all the pictures. The clearer shots are the actual color of this thing. The pics where it looks brown are taken through a photographer's photo loop so the color is a little off. Just wanted to get a close up of those antenna or whatever and the markings on it. Creepy, yes?

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!

I hate them!!!!!!!!

All insects!!!!

I just got back from the store and saw in front of my door huge cockroach :S
!!!

I ran and called my brother to come down and open the door :/

What kind of spider is it?

It's what you call a captive spider.
Being held by some hysterical human who for some reason fears it even though it never means any harm towards them.

How about opening your front door, finding a plant and gently letting the spider down onto it so that it can do it's job of doing it's part of keeping the eco-system in balance.

Thank you.

It's probably one of those dangerous and poisonous spiders from China that was hiding in a recent purchase, possibly a small appliance.

Or maybe it came in on the banana boat.

If you release it into the wild, it could then take over and dominate all other "normal" spiders.

(just kidding - but it does look scary)

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Knute wrote: [/QUOTENAME]What kind of spider is it?

It's what you call a captive spider.
Being held by some hysterical human who for some reason fears it even though it never means any harm towards them.

How about opening your front door, finding a plant and gently letting the spider down onto it so that it can do it's job of doing it's part of keeping the eco-system in balance.

Thank you. [/QUOTE]

See, now, I figure it this way - it scared the crap out of me, so I can scare the crap out of it, maybe even torture it for a while just for fun then laugh as my shoe slams down on it.

Or... I could do as I did, wiseass, and capture it in a glass, take it's picture then set it free.

Thank you.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Donna13 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
(just kidding - but it does look scary) [/QUOTE]

Thanks Donna13. I knew when I saw you'd posted that I'd have a chuckle. Much appreciated. And it did indeed look scary.

Well there are only two species of poisonous spiders in North America.

The Black Widow of course, and the other is the Brown Recluse.
That spider is neither, so nothing to worry about.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]magicalfreddiemercury wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Knute wrote: [/QUOTENAME]What kind of spider is it?

It's what you call a captive spider.
Being held by some hysterical human who for some reason fears it even though it never means any harm towards them.

How about opening your front door, finding a plant and gently letting the spider down onto it so that it can do it's job of doing it's part of keeping the eco-system in balance.

Thank you. [/QUOTE]

See, now, I figure it this way - it scared the crap out of me, so I can scare the crap out of it, maybe even torture it for a while just for fun then laugh as my shoe slams down on it.

Or... I could do as I did, wiseass, and capture it in a glass, take it's picture then set it free.

Thank you.
[/QUOTE]
OWNED. XD

"...I can scare the crap out of it, maybe even torture it for a while just for fun then laugh as my shoe slams down on it."

Maybe we should all do that to Knute.

[Thank you.]

Ew,
It looks weird...
Scary if I saw it other than in a picture...
but because it's a picture it's cute =p

reminds me of something from Spongebob Squarepants =p

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Knute wrote: [/QUOTENAME]What kind of spider is it?

It's what you call a captive spider.
Being held by some hysterical human who for some reason fears it even though it never means any harm towards them.

How about opening your front door, finding a plant and gently letting the spider down onto it so that it can do it's job of doing it's part of keeping the eco-system in balance.

Thank you.[/QUOTE]

Having a phobia of spiders is not something one can help, so don't try and make someone look stupid if they have a genuine fear and don't want to go near one.

Thank you.

And another thing.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Knute wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
(A bunch of bullshit)...Who for some reason fears it even though it never means any harm towards them...(And here's some more bullshit)
[/QUOTE]

http://www.e-bug.net/pests/brownreclusebite1.jpg

Thank you.

Wow. Even if he's not poisonous, he's got his boxing gloves on so I'd watch out...

Creepy one indeed. I like little fat hairy spiders. These skinny evil-looking ones freak me out too*


*same with humans, minus the hair

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[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Freya is quietly judging you. wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]

Oh noes! I r gunna die.