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So as a general rule it seems that web-building spiders all tend to be pretty docile. By "web-building" I mean a full web, not a burrow or similar structure, which serves as the spider's singular form of catching food. Orb weavers, funnel weavers, common house spiders, these are spiders you...

Interesting, thanks guys. Any ideas on how to get a pretty spider like her out of the glue trap in the future, if it so behooves me? The recluses stay put, as I don't want them walking around all night, but she was quite the specimen.

So earlier I noticed that a big wolf spider was caught in one of my glue traps meant for recluses. I thought she was a little too big and beautiful to be stuck there, so I endeavored to get her out with some vegetable oil, which I've used to dislodge mice and skinks and whatever happens to...

This little guy was already doing said behavior before I got there, that's how I noticed him, just hanging there by a strand underneath the light fixture over my sink (which he apparently got stuck in this morning so I let him out). And I should clarify, whenever I blew a puff of air at him, he...

I will consider what you have said, however since I will be dead within the week, I am leaving all my possessions to the spider! Relatedly, I've hit serious Stockholm syndrome when it comes to spiders because of these recluses. I saw a small brown spider in the bathroom at work today and...

So! Let me first complain about having recluses in my apartment! >8[ Phew, okay! So I noticed this guy hanging out on my cabinets (sorry for the cruddy picture, iPhone and whatnot). Every time I disturbed him by blowing on him or something, he would find a spot, hang an anchor silk...

I love having jumping spiders around the home, but they're usually the bigger salt and pepper-colored ones (I don't know the name of those, they're larger than zebra jumpers), I've never seen this little guy before.

I dunno, man. I hear more stories about yellow sacs being irritable than otherwise.

She was already gone when I went back out! D:

It's kind of funny, as I was walking out of work, I saw a tangle web not 10 feet away from where I saw her. It seemed like a perfect place to catch food...maybe the poor thing was just at her end.

Could she have just laid her clutch of eggs, maybe? Also, is it common for black widows to have red markings on the BACK of their abdomen?

Nashville. :)

Found this on the wall outside my place of employment this morning. At first I was like, "oh great, now we have black widows in addition to brown recluses," but then I took a harder look, and saw I was mistaken (I think I'm mistaken?).

Thanks guys. :)

I was just doing some casual reading on Sicariidae species (specifically our friends the brown recluse and sicarius), and as we all know there is no antivenom to counter the effects of a necrotoxic bite. But I got to thinking, "well...why not?" Obviously we have antivenom for a variety of...

They're not so bad. They just seem to love divebombing close to my face and then disappearing again. 8[ There's a lot of strange critters in Nashville, including GIGANTIC pholcids.

Yikes, sorry I didn't check back. And yes, they look exactly like that. There's a small nest right above my front porch. 8(

My uncle's house is constantly under attack by these strange wasp-type creatures that are colored distinctly orange. Okay, they don't actually really ever bother us but they're annoying as all heck. I tried looking up anything I could find on them but the only thing I could find was something...

Nashville currently.

o_O Like, leg spans of three inches. It's insanely creepy, how big are these things supposed to get?