O.K., what kind of creepy crawly spider is this? 2nd one within days, inside

[UTUSN]

Nobody is more aware of my hypocrisy than I am: I subscribe to all-creatures-and-rocks-being-equal, but something able to crawl on and bite me goes BOOM!1 Where there's ONE (two), there's MORE!1 Did you know that ticks, like what I guard my dogs from, are related to spiders?!1

[femmocrat]

1. It looks like a jumping spider, a common house spider.

http://www.repticzone.com/forums/Spiders/messages/1669989.html

Or google "identify spiders". It depends on what part of the country you are in.

[UTUSN]

3. Gawsh, there are lots of spider-lovers inside that link!1 Everybody saying how cute and fun they are

"Jumping" spiders sounds even worse to me. I like the tag for the site, "Look who's dead now!"

[Hell Hath No Fury]

6. I was visiting Texas --

and was in my sister's living room when I casually noticed a spider crawling up the leg of coffee table my feet were under. When that spider JUMPED onto my leg I freaked out completely. What the FUCK did that spider just do??? Where I grew up and live we don't have them and I never even knew they existed. That was also the trip I walked into her backyard barefoot and stepped into a fire ant colony. I don't like Texas.

[UTUSN]

7. One morning, I reached for my trou hanging on a chair

Put a leg through and felt something fuzzy inside and yanked them off, to find a TARANTULA in there. I must say that the ones I've seen have been fairly torpid and that I've seen some people handling them, fascinated in watching them barely crawl up their arm.

[Skittles]

9. heck, here in Texas I had a scorpion drop out of a light fixture onto my shoulder

I don't ever think I have moved that fast in my entire life

[rug]

2. Be glad it's not this.

[pinboy3niner]

4. That reminds me of that Karen Black movie

[rug]

5. That's one I missed.

[Skittles]

10. WTF

I AM GOING TO KICK......WHATEVER THAT FUCKING THING IS I WILL KICK ITS HAIRY ASS; yes INDEED

[rug]

12. It's a peacock spider.

Watch out though, it's got eight legs to kick back with.

[WovenGems]

8. The truth

All spiders in the house are named Boris and asking for a reading lesson.

[Laffy Kat]

11. You sould have put a dime or penny down beside it so we could figure size.

My son could identify but he'd want to know the size.

[MikeW]

13. if your near the carolinas

Id say thats a small trap door spider ... cant really tell without the size.

[Kali]

14. looks like a sick male tarantula

is it pretty good sized? hard to tell the scale, but this is the time of year the males wander around looking for females in their burrows. they CAN bite but if you move slow and handle them gently they won't.