For about a month now, there has been a little spider above my bed, in my room. Me and my friend didn't bother to kill it, or put it out side either. We decited to just leave it alone, and then we named it Milton lol! It has been feeding of lady bugs that crawl in my room, and sometimes moths, when I forget to close my window.
It's back & about the size of a lady bug(or overall the size of my nail). It's a brown color with black spotish-line things on it's back. It's legs are brown with black stripes. It looks pretty tiny and harmless. Does anybody know what type of spider this could be? I would like to know if it is posiones 'er not. Thanx!
2007-11-13 11:54:27 · 6 answers · asked by Bree 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
I live in Virgina-USA where it is recently fall. The spider is about the size of a lady bug(not inluding is legs)
2007-11-13 12:07:53 · update #1
It's web.
Theres nothing speial about it's web. It's looks like white cotten candy in the form of strings, randomly everywhere.
2007-11-13 12:10:09 · update #2
Lady bugs are noxious to most birds, mammals and other insects - so I find it rather strange your spider is eating them.
Also - spiders are not "poisonous" - they are "venomous." And *all* spiders are venomous; some just don't have fangs large enough to be capable of breaking human skin, some venoms aren't powerful/potent enough to have any significant effect on us besides slight irritation that of a bee sting or ant bite.
Neverless, it's probably just a common house spider/cobweb spider :)
Brown Recluses are called so for a reason - they're reclusive; often found hiding within wood piles, corners of basements, attics, garages, sheds, etc. - not in the ceiling corner of a well lit bedroom above your bed.
(Though I *have* had them in boxes UNDER beds before.)
2007-11-13 12:15:24 · answer #1 · answered by nixity 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Without a photo it can be difficult to ID, but it certainly is consistent with a common house spider, Achareana tepidareorum. This little guy lives almost anywhere, likes to spin its messy tangled cobweb in corners and wall junctions, and eats almost anything that gets entangled in the web. It's got a very globular abdomen with variable light and dark markings in the form of streaks and spots; it may be dingy off-white to charcoal gray or anything in between. The legs are thread-like and delicate and it prefers to hang upside-down in the web because it doesn't walk very well. If that sounds like your guy, then you're fine. Actually, I think you're fine anyway, because your description is very unlike any of the unpleasant biters in our area. Still, if you're concerned, try to get a photo (even a fairly poor one should be enough to tell what kind it is) and put it on one of the photo services like Flicker.
2007-11-13 13:21:25 · answer #2 · answered by John R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What type of web if at all, has it built. When you say tiny, give a reference, the size of a pea? What part of the world, country are you? you could look it up on whatsthatbug.com
2007-11-13 12:00:46 · answer #3 · answered by paul 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do hope for your sake, it is not a brown lacrosse. If it is, and it bites you, the skin will rot to the bone until a doctor can stop it. It is really bad, It can cover a very large area of skin. I know they are very small brown spiders, and look a little like a black widow. I don't know about their legs......
2007-11-13 12:20:03 · answer #4 · answered by TARZAN'S JANE 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They run around in packs ?? You need to watch Harry Potter, then you'll know that they have a giant cousin hidden in the forbidden forest.
2016-05-23 01:37:54 · answer #5 · answered by marti 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why dont u show us this think, i mean, if u wanna we tell u what kind spider is it, well i must to see it.
2007-11-13 12:05:52 · answer #6 · answered by Nando 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋