What is this spider?

[sys]

anti pointless, thoughtless killing.

[Asteriskhead]

Fair enough, I figured that was most likely the case.

[Tobias]

brown spiders mess with me.  i get a little "close out my shift and make it home safely to my family" with them because I'm too stupid to discern recluses

[Kat Kid]

anti pointless, thoughtless killing.

It was crawling around kid stuff (stroller, bike etc.). 

[wetwillie]

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looks like a fair fight

[XocolateThundarr]

We have those outside of our house.  Pretty sure they are a breed of tarantula.  http://www.kansas.com/news/article1126557.html

I don't mind them as much as the brown recluse spiders we encounter in our house from time to time.

[sys]

It was crawling around kid stuff (stroller, bike etc.).

there is no mechanism by which it could have harmed your child(ren).

[Asteriskhead]

brown spiders mess with me.  i get a little "close out my shift and make it home safely to my family" with them because I'm too stupid to discern recluses

oh my

[pissclams]

i had a tiny little baby jumping spider in my bathroom the other day, it was cracking me up.  i said hi to it and shushed it out of my bathroom and into my office/study.

[Emo EMAW]

I've always enjoyed the little jumping spiders.  I don't know why but I've always called them crab spiders.  Anyone, one of them bit me on the neck a few weeks ago!  Stung like a bee sting, swelled up and was red and itchy.  eff those things now.

[halfEmpty]

From a cursory examination, it looks like a common wolf spider.  Nothing to really worry about.

They look really nothing like a brown recluse which has thin spindly legs and often times look more tan than brown.  Kansas is thick with them though.  I've been bitten twice by recluses (both in woodshop class in high school).  The first was really bad, necrosis in my leg, bad swelling and blood poisoning from just above my knee down.  Reflecting on it later I realized I'm lucky to still have a leg.  That being said, I grew up in a farm house that was full of them and was never bitten once while on the farm.

Still don't like em.

[slackcat]

Looks like a wolf spider.  Found a tarantula last year, dead, in a funnel spider(A.K.A. grass spider) web.  Poor guy.

[Kat Kid]

sys was right.  I woke up with an adrenaline rush last night and thought I had a spider on my face.  no way to know for sure if I did.

I think I may try to give the wolf spider a proper burial tonight and see if that helps my spider hauntings.

[steve dave]

it laid eggs in your ear

[Asteriskhead]

it laid eggs in your ear

lulz

[Reboulet]

The KSU Insect Diagnostician will tell you for free

IMAGES (sent to [email protected]):

Digital images may be used for specimens to be identified. In some cases, pictures of live specimens are preferable. Many caterpillars and soft-bodied insects lose their natural color or become dark when they die, even if placed in a preservative. Because identification manuals use color patterns to help distinguish different species, pictures of live specimens are often better than pictures of dead ones. Active specimens can be slowed down by placing them in a freezer or refrigerator for a short time before taking pictures.

In general, specimens that are less than 5 mm (1/4 inch) are too small to be identified from images using common digital equipment. Use judgment on specimens that are small but larger than 5 mm.

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Most require other views:

    For most larvae (caterpillars, beetle larvae) side and bottom (ventral) views are important as well as the head capsule.
    Beetles should be shown with top, bottom, and head (front) views.
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http://entomology.k-state.edu/extension/diagnostician/submitting-samples.html

[sys]

I think I may try to give the wolf spider a proper burial tonight and see if that helps my spider hauntings.

very wise.

[Gooch]

A ritual sacrifice of some sort could hurt either.

[hemmy]

anybody else get really fast, really small spiders? They have a sixth sense when you are about to swing and are very hard to kill. When i miss I fear the spider starts plotting revenge on me until I can kill it.