Per the sift's resident arachnologist (aka hubby), those are not spiders.

Now, now Greogory, troll is convenient label for all manner of folk who use the internet like crack cocaine....

I must concur with the spider not playing a pivotal role in the bio-train. If this project were halted by otters, snakes, owls, mice or beavers I could understand the fuss....Hell, even fleas or mosquito threatened would be cause for major alarm but a rare species of fucking arachnid?? Stomp that squishy, worry about the karma later, and build the fucking bypass!

....unless some arachnologist can find a biochemical compound it produces that cures cancer maybe....or maybe repairs livers "I dunno, JUST DON'T SQUASH IT!!"

>> ^laura:
>> ^lucky760:
Yikes. That looks like a Brown Recluse spider, one of the most poisonous and deadly.

um, actually lucky, we have brown recluses around here. They are small, and are always hiding in small places.
http://www.brownreclusespider.org/brown-recluse-spider-identification.htm
I'm no expert, but that guy in her shower looks like a tarantula of some sort...way too big & hairy for a recluse. Also, recluses aren't necessarily deadly, but they will cause the tissue around the bite to become necrotic if not treated.
Also, nothing phases ya after you've been exposed to one of these guys (Goliath bird-eating tarantulas!).


That is a Sparassid and its true that it really looks nothing like a brown recluse, not that identifying a brown recluse is easy. Identifying a spider to species is usually very difficult unless you're a trained arachnologist!