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A cute little wolfie with sac photographed at me local creek, probably a Pardosa something.

Just to clarify, no, hobo spiders and brown recluse are not closely related. Hobo spiders are in the tegenaria group, the same as the house-spiders and grass spiders that make the sheet webs with the funnels at the end, and have not been definitively linked to any life-threatening bites that I...

I was down at the creek the other day experimenting with a new macro photography setup, and I encountered several specimens of both D. tenebrosus and D. scriptus. D. tenebrosus subadult females (they have boxed palps but most subadult females seem to for some reason) D. scriptus...

Could be a dark morph of D. tenebrosus. I mean, they can be quite dark in the first place, and I've seen dark cool-brown, dark red-brown, and dark gray in different regions.

Other than widows, Yellow sac spiders can be unpleasant occasionally, sort of like a lesser brown recluse bite.

Usually the spiders marketed as "south american fishing spiders" are ancylometes, which are only distant relatives to dolomedes and quite a bit larger. Search "ancylometes" in this forum and you'll get a lot of information.

A friend of mine recieved a painful but inconsequential bite from one of these when we were young. I haven't even seen one in about a year. :(

I haven't kept any for longer than a year and a half. I tend to keep them in big empty fishtanks, with water in the bottom as a substrate, and lots of rocks to rest on/hide under. Change the water regularly, drop small moving things in regularly, it's happy. ...well sorta. The ones I get are...

Hmm... breeding larger latrodectus... ?

I've managed to keep wolf spiders of the same species together in large containers for a short while, always female, but sooner or later one of them's going to bite the dust. I wouldn't recommend it.

I was inclined to say Pisaura, but the abdomen's not in the right proportion. The Tibellus people seem to know what they're talking about, though.

I'm not so sure they're male.. the palps are enlarged, but I believe the females of some species are known to reserve the sperm sacks they get from the males in their own palps for a while, in case they get a better offer, making them appear to be males based on the palps? I've certainly never...

Not dangerous, no, although some bites can cause little necrotic lesions (same venom type as loloxceles or however you spell it, but not as powerful). Bites hurt, anyway, but not dangerous. There are members of the genus pretty much spanning the continent, reaching the sizes you describe... a...

Definitely D. tenebrosus. They like to eat just about anything that moves. Spiders, bugs, tadpoles, whatever. She won't be doing any eating while she has that eggsack, however. She won't let go until it's ready to hatch.

I agree with the ID as a trapdoor, I just have to wonder about it being a male. The pedipalps are long, but there's no bulby thing. Do mygalamorph males lack those? Anyone?

It looks like a Tegenaria species, but it seems reminiscent of an Aglaenopsis, and sometimes I wonder why I remember why I remember these names but not what I came down here to do... Anyways, it's a sheet-web spider from either of the two genus listed above, looks like a female from the...

It's a joke related to a topic in the watering hole, and the other joke venom made is in reference to another topic right here in the good old True Spiders forum. Fun, huh. BTW, it can quite definitely be narrowed down to Steatoda. The banding on the legs and what LOOKS like a light stripe or...

There are native funnelwebs in the USA, just a lot smaller and less dangerous than the Australian species. Funnelwebs typically have very long spinnerets, so I suspect that this is a trapdoor instead.

Kukluxklania, of course, unless, though it's unlikely, that it could be a Steatoda. ;)

After working with D. Tenebrosus for several years, the inclination when someone posts a pic of a dark fishing spider is to state, simply, that it's a Dolomedes tenebrosus. I guess that can be frustrating though, due to the occasional posters who ID everything as a hobo, recluse, or widow...