A picture of the spider is on the following site:
http://s180.photobucket.com/albums/x245/vrooom911/
I live in Houston, TX and keep finding these orangish spiders in my bathroom. They don't seem to jump much and aren't very fast. Please let me know what type of spider this is and if possible some helpful websites for spiders as I cannot find a picture of these anywhere. I don't think they are posinous, but it is always nice to be certain. Thank you
2007-07-22 07:02:55 · 8 answers · asked by Vrooom 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
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2007-07-22 07:06:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Very nice! By one of those "even a stopped clock is right twice a day" moments, the Brown Recluse crowd is closest to this one. This is a Spitting Spider - see the big old hump on its 'front part' (the cephalothorax)? That houses the enlarged venom glands (as I recall). They're slow, sedate, leisuurely and sluggish. No running or jumping here! What they do is, when they see a fly or some likely prey nearby, they gradually approach it until they're close enough (but not close enough to scare it away), then start spraying sticky "saliva" from the fangs in zigzags that lay down on the fly and stick it to the surface.When it's proerly stuck down, they amble up and eat it. They're not dangerous to humans and very, very neat to watch.
2007-07-22 16:36:18 · answer #2 · answered by John R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It looks like a cellar spider of some kind, probably a long-bodied cellar spider (genus Pholcus). They're not dangerous; I have several (I think) in my house and they help keep the scarier-looking house spider numbers down.
People "want" to see brown recluces in every brown spider, but the long legs and small rounded body make it very different.
2007-07-22 11:14:56 · answer #3 · answered by candy2mercy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I found a spider lookalike searching google. The site said it was a male commom house spider. On the site below if you look it has the picture I found at the bottem. I also asked my father-in-law about it and he said he has seen blackwidows that are orange or red (he was a bug man).
2007-07-22 07:13:53 · answer #4 · answered by b_it_chbb 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
they are probably fruit spiders nothing to worry about but, i would get the house sprayed just to be sure.after looking at those pics it could very well be a brown recluse, sorry my first answer was probably wrong, to tell if it is a brown recluse when you kill one see if there is a dark fiddle shape marking on its back that means it is.
2007-07-22 07:07:33 · answer #5 · answered by Marcus M 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What do you mean, "you can't find a picture of them anywhere"? You put a link to pics in the question . . . . .
2007-07-22 07:08:33 · answer #6 · answered by Say What? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its a harris county tollroad authority spider
harmless just leave a quarter out for him
2007-07-22 07:17:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
ge trid of them quick. they seem to be brown recluse spiders..very poisonous
2007-07-22 07:06:51 · answer #8 · answered by Alli 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋