Found this at my house last night in southern MI. Any ideas? Didnt see anything just like it online when I looked.
Looks like a variation of a wolf spider (dotted) or a grass spider, very pretty (in a creepy sort of way). It's lighter than normal and the dark spots are more pronounced but same body type.
Yea your right Brent, looks similar and pretty cool in a creepy sort of way. I killed it tho... I hate spiders and my property is covered in them.
I did what was called a bug drive, kind of like a deer drive I guess. Washed the siding with my hose and they came running from every crack!
You need to go buy some Ortho Home Defense and spray around the perimeter of your house...inside and out...floor and ceilings and around windows. You will get rid of the spiders and it lasts a few months!
I don't like spiders either, but they have free reign outside. In the house they usually die. Outside, the only ones I kill on sight are black widows unless I'm doing a major clean up. I did just clean out our hay barn last weekend. I broke out the shop vac and I'd bet I vacuumed up around 1000 to 1500 spiders of varying sizies and species. I had webs all over me and found a few crawling on me. Unless you're an insect they're harmless. Except for those creepy, twitchy, black fuzzy ones that move from side to side and act like they're going to eat your nose off your face. They creep me out.
I let wolf spiders be. The brown recluse die on sight. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk 2
That is the infamous and extremely deadly Zebra spider.... rumor has it just getting too close can make you sick, contact means instant death.... I'm with T-fox though, I let em live short of the recluse and we have a TON of them around my house, they get an immediate shoe to the head
I'm going with some sort of pale wolf type spider. I never liked to kill spiders, even in the house. Sometimes I'd catch them and put them outside but usually I left them alone. I lived in an old farmhouse and I figured if the spiders were finding enough to eat in the house, I should let them have at it. K occasionally sprayed the basement but with stuff that was supposed to kill spiders but it didn't seem to work. It was more of a cellar than a basement. If you were afraid of spiders... you didn't want to go down there. There were some definite Boone and Crockett specimens living there. There are tarantulas out here. Haven't seen one yet but I did see a funnel web tunnel going into the ground that was big enough for a hamster to call it home. :D I think I might have seen a black widow in the outbuilding but it skittered off before I could check it out. I also saw a tarantula hawk. Neato.
