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help on identifying this spider
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Posted by bobalo (My Page) on Thu, May 27, 10 at 20:06
Hello!
In the past few weeks i've had enough spiders in my flat.
I don't know where are they coming from but I want to know their species , are they dangerous and what do they want from me? xD
I really hate spiders , and i removed atleast 8 of spiders in the past 2 weeks and they all look the same!
Did they hatch inside my house? I have a balcony just where my room is so maybe thats where they're coming from but i can't be sure.
Here is the image :
http://team-excellent.eu/img/spider_003.jpg
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RE: help on identifying this spider
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| Looks like a clubionid spider. Can bite but, as with other spiders, don't deliberately attack people. Spiders are part of the environment, both indoors and out. Overall, they're considered beneficial because they help limit insects. |
RE: help on identifying this spider
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| Looks like a European spider, "you see it and your a peeing!" lol just kidding, I'm not sure, but it looks almost like a brown recluse without the fiddle. jean001 is probably right on what it is. Spiders usually don't bite unless you accident get them in some kind of bind between something like clothing and skin. |
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Yeah it does look more like brown recluse spider rather than clubinoid spider.
But I think they're gone now :D so I can sleep safely :D :D
Thanks for the posts guys! |
RE: help on identifying this spider
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| Not a brown recluse. The markings of the brown recluse are considered a key identifying feature. In your location, there might be relatives of the brown recluse or something entirely different. Is there some agency in your country that can help with the proper identification of spiders and insects? |
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I don't really think so thats why i posted here.
And yeah i didnt mention before , I live in croatia , europe.
So yeah i did asked on croatian forums but nobody had a clue |
RE: help on identifying this spider
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| Spiders are limited in their range only by environmental conditions. They are great travelers. They have been observed spinning a filament of web, catching an updraft and riding the jet stream thousands of feet in the air. With that mode of transport they can pop up anywhere the conditions allow them to survive. |
RE: help on identifying this spider
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The image you posted is most definitely NOT a Brown Recluse.
The well defined spinnerets at the tip of the abdomen are those of a spider that is a "web user". I don't mean it spins a beautiful, elaborate web (can't tell that from a single picture) but it certainly has the complex spinnerets needed to spin out the multiple types of webbing that "web using" spiders employ. Web users are much more abundant than "non-web users".
Brown Recluse have simple, rudimentary spinnerets because they do not employ web silk in the capture of prey. I don't even think Brown Recluse even lay down a "drag line" as lots of web users will when traversing a vertical surface. I have seen many Brown Recluse climbing up, down, or across vertical surfaces when surprized at night (by suddenly turning on a light) and sometimes they panic and try to run, but fall or jump, and I have never seen one "catch itself" or lower itself on a drag line of silk as is so common with real Jumping Spiders.
It is my understanding that Brown Recluse limit web use to "sewing themselves in" when they select a lair in which to hide and rest, and the female creates a "maternal web" in which to deposit her eggs (which she will remain in and guard until the eggs hatch). To add to hoodat's offering, the practice of spinning the strand of web to catch a breeze is called "ballooning". http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-947-s&va=brown+recluse&sz=all |
Here is a link that might be useful: Brown Recluse (or not)?
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