Has anyone seen a Sun Spider, I get em all the time in my house and today we finally looked em up to see what they were. Sun Spider
Its a good thing they arent poisonous! The Sun spider is toward the bottom, check out hte Pseudoscorpion and the Giant vinegaroon, Mastigoproctus!
here’s a more betterer link…
that’s pretty creepy. I don’t like spiders… they scare me. ):
you gave the samelink
YEs it worked i manually made it bigger and diferent color
yeah they freak me out, I had one of the jumpin spider breads jump on my chest while i was sittin on the couch hte other dayI screamed and ran out hte room tearin my shirt off it sucked. but those vinagaroons look evil and the sudoscorpio things aaaaahhhhhhhh I would not want to be in the same building with one of those beasts!
an even better linkSun Spider
Is it just me, or has that spider got too many legs? If 2 of them are claws (like a scorpion) is it still strictly a spider, or is it a type of scorpion? It also looks like the body is too long, again like a scorpion without the extended tail. Bizarre. Plus is mouth is like an alien from a really rubbish movie. Again glad we don’t get scary house spiders in the UK, usually we’ve got 2 to choose from, the good old house spider , or the daddy long legs spider, which I think is different to the US version, you call a different spider the DLL.
Loose.
Actually i think the wolf spider exists in the UK aswell, it’s the only one which can actualy harm you (it gives a very small bite).
Dave
THeres some spiders here that EXPLODE when you smash em.
whats with the color?
The picture doesn’t make clear that pseudoscorpions are really small, only a few millimeters long. They’re harmless and actually kind of cute.
Wolf spiders are everywhere. Here are two views (.gif anim) of a honkin’ big one that I found in my parents’ garage in Wisconsin. It’s posing for me on the gravel driveway.
Ewww! Spider! Ecch! Ack! (insert gagging sound here)
I’ve trained my cat to eat spiders. When he sees one he can’t reach, he’ll do a “Lassie” impersonation: come to me and meow, then lead me to the spider so I can hoist him into position. He one-paws the spider straight into his mouth and eats it straight away, knowing there’s a tidbit of tuna as his reward 
Now if I can teach him to vacuum I’ve got it made!
Awesome pictures! Last week we found one of these on a school field trip. All the girls were freaked out. 
Maestro8: And what if your cat meets a black widow and it fights back?
Why don’t you teach him to catch TUNA and give him SPIDERS as a reward. It would be lot more beneficial.
(By the way, did you put me on the ignore list on MSN?)
Luckily black widows aren’t so common in / around my house. But there isn’t much of a fight, like I said, it’s paw-to-mouth and that spider’s history!
My cat isn’t very patient, so teaching him to fish would be quite difficult. He eats more tuna than I do, so he’d be the only one reaping the rewards there… I’ll ask him what he thinks.
(I put you on a different MSN list… my buddy list!)
Lots of sun spiders in Arizona. They totally creep me out. With their huge, sharp mandibles I bet they can give one heck of a painful bite. I’ve never known anyone who’s been bitten though. Sun Spiders are wicked fast too. We have lots of wolf spiders too, and vinegeroons, and pseudoscorpions, and real scorpions, and black widows, and the even deadlier brown recluse. I hate spiders. Why do I live here? 
BTW. That’s sick.
My cat does that with moths, spiderds, houseflys, bugs, anything that wont eat her first.
They are really commin out now, ive seen a few in tha past couple o days, I caught one in my hallway last night, those things are wicked fast! if ya want i can take a pic o him…
Actually the pics were of the second and slightly smaller of two spiders that I found in the garage within a few days of each other. I have a pic of the other one on my infrequently maintained album page (look for “Lycosid Spiders” in the “Older Images” section). There’s no good size-reference in that pic either, though you can still tell that it’s a whumpin’ big spider.
We don’t have anything quite as cool as Sun Spiders around here though. If we did, I would probably keep one as a pet… My favorite local crawlie is the House Centipede (Scutigera), which skims across the floor on a thicket of legs in a highly creepy sort of way. There’s a good picture of one here:
At the last place where I worked I would catch these things from time to time. Anyone bothered by spidery-type creatures is guaranteed to be freaked by the House Centipede. I always took them out the back door and let them go out in the weeds.