what's the point?

I REALLY hate the spiders.

I found a spider with reddish/pinkish or orangish
legs and upper body, but the abdoman is gray or pale brown. Abdoman is oblong and smooth, not hairy. Got good sized jaws on it. Spider is about the size of a wolf spider but not long legs. What is it? It was in my garage.

Like I said in the post, this is no real resource. I know about as much about spiders as you do probably. Mostly that they hang out outside my apartment and build webs large enough to catch birds.

I was just looking online to figure out what this brown recluse-like, but too fat and bold(as in not reclusive) spider that I found one morning, is. It, of course, was waiting in the shower for me, right behing the shower head. I was most vulnerable and unsuspectingly washing my hair when I turned around to see a huge, dark, and not so handsome stranger crouched and waiting to ATTACK! I swear it was about to be a re-enactment of a scene from the movie Arachnaphobia. Upon researching house spiders in Oregon, I stumbled upon this site, the unofficial Spider site with now real info. about Spiders in Oregon. The previous comments gave me a "chuckle" so I decided to throw my 2 cents in and just say how downright rude it is for Oregon's abundance of spider's to go apparently unresearched. Meanwhile, I could be attacked by another one of these huge brown, beady-eyed pursuers while peacefully sleeping. And to think it could have all been prevented if I could have just located a picture and a little info. on an Oregon Spider! I say we start some sort of petition! Ciao'

I am trying to find a good website that will show all of the spiders of oregon. so far i have gathered that there are the black widow and the brown recluse. Yet i know there are more. I see them all the time...If anyone knows a good site to go to..please contact me..its important thanks patsy

I must agree, there is almost no info on oregon spiders. Anyway, when i was young i caught a small trantula like spider, pearly white fangs, i remember it tapping its fangs aginst the glass jar, i just a had a dream about those damned spiders, so i thought i see what te hell it was, but no such luck. Well, you wanna start a petition to get a website about oregon spiders, you got my e-mail adress. Lachdannan___@hotmail.com

it is absolutely insane that there are no sites where you can go to identify a spider. I was subjected to spider juices after accidentally (and unknowningly)smashing one with my finger. I later (about five minutes) touched my eye. It swelled up inside and out. My eye-ball was blistered. Gross. I'll probably never know what kind it was.

saw the same thing as jessica this morning in my bathroom. LAYING EGGS. The brown recluse/wolf spider but darker colors really freaked me out and if anyone knows what it is could you please tell me i need to know if i should be worried about my 9 month old son getting bit by these things... or anyone else in my family. thanks for any info.

I too am looking for info. on spiders in Oregon.One with pictures would be nice.A page with thumbnails to click for info........OK, I'll start saving any info. I come across (w/pics. of course) and maybe with others doing the same we can post 'em and learn!Good luck majk2000

Check out arachnology.org!

I found a spider that is about the size of a nickle including the leggs and it's abdomen is twice the size of its head and the markings on its abdomen are whitish-yellow and only on the top of the abdemen and it has an arrow like this < on it only pointing toward its head. Can anyone help me find out what type of spider it is. Thanks.

there are no brown recluse spiders in oregon only in the mid west. but i did catch a spider that was about the size of my hand in my garage

I just killed a spider that had built a web in the grass under a tree in my yard. He crawled out of a hole in the ground and I swear it was the biggest spider I'd ever seen. I think it was one of the few poisionous spiders we have here in Oregon. My mom thinks it's called a hobo spider. I just moved out here to Wilsonville from Portland and have never seen such an abundance of spiders. I have 7 of the spiders in the above picture taking up residence in my garden. Does anyone know how to control them.

We are living in oregon and had come up on a spider and want to find out what it is but having trouble finding a web sit that will show just Oregon spiders so if you are able to help us out that would be great!

Okay, well I am NOT a spider lover either and have also been looking for a way to identify spiders in OR. and yes, there are brown recluse here in Bend. However, the one I'm interested in is currently lurking above me in the corner ewwaaaahahhhaaa...it is rusty brown color and rears up on it's hind legs I swear! The first one found me in the bathroom twice before we killed it. Did the rearing up thing too. Scary and I don't know what kind it is. Any help?

Oh and the crazy striped spider, might be what my friend call a cat spider because if you look at it right it looks like it has cat ears. We get them here and if you knock 'em to the ground they explode. So gross!

I am enjoying photographing a large spider in my garden. When researched it turns out to be a "Yellow garden spider". I found a good web site in Missouri which described them, their habitat and diet. Here is a link. http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/nathis/arthopo/mospider/kinds.htm

most recluses hang out in the midwest--sometimes hitching a cargo flight to other regions, but on these rare occasions, only stay in your luggage or the guest house. Hobo spiders do live in Oregon though and are almost as venimous, leaving an ulcerated spot on your skin with its poison lasting up to 3 years! Great huh! The good news is they have an enemy, the ever larger giant house spider, yes that's its true name and it lives up to it just look for some pics of it on the net. We can thank the English Cargo boats for that one. My grandma always said, if the web is disorganized looking and feels like cotton candy if you poke you finger into it, (not recommended but it happens, just listen for that cottony sound, if you hear it WATCH OUT!) more than likely the web is built by a venoumous spider. Of course I don't know if there is a lot of truth to it. From Missouri though, both recluses and black widows have this type of web. So who knows, I personally stay on the safe side. Lastly, I have a 5 month old baby myself, so I don't like spraying a bunch of poisons, you can get Catchmaster's Glue Board, a non-poisonous alternative, really works! stick it in the dark corners of the house and bugs of spiders alike will surely stay put and out of harms way. PS get rid of the bugs and you get rid of the spiders that feast on them. Good luck!!

I found 3 HUGE very dark almost black spiders in the last 2 days (2 in one day in the house!) I did some research and found it may be a HOBO aka:aggressive house spider. All signs point to this nasty thing accept the color, can Hobo's be really dark? also put a trap 6 inches below the 3rd one I found outside and he won't go near it so I'm not sure the sticky traps work to well.(they are supposed to have some scent to attract the spider) Thanks Pam

I keep seeing these HUGE orange spiders with black stripes, like a tiger, on it's legs. They have from trees, outside my windows...I swear these things are coming in at night and biting me. I have 4 bites and each bite has two little pinpoint marks. Like fang marks. I live in Clackamas, Oregon. Has anyone else seen these spiders?

I noticed a spider outside my front door about a month ago. It has atleast tripled in size. It's got a fat body that's about as round as a dime, but it's very, very fat. It's probably half an inch thick. It's brown with black lines on it's back. It's got a very tiny head and medium sized legs. Does anyone have a clue?

You can type in your search and put spider pictures and urls will come up or type in spiders in ohio it will show you all types of spiders theres also a ohio spider webpage whether you live here or not it will show you the brown recluse and tons of other spiders pretty dang scary i found a brown recluse in my house and a wolf spider pretty freaky

I copied this info from a California site on spiders at www.opb.org. This guy bites more people than any other creepy-crawly (spider, that is). I personally do not care for many spiders and feel that if I find one in the house, it has had plenty of time to get out before I find it (bloop-bloop, game over). However, there is one that I will escort out---the jumper. They look intimidating but they are VERY unlikely to bite humans. They are those furry little guys with the big eyes and quick movements. They are kinda cute in an ET sort of way. Another thing about web makers (the outdoor kind) is that as long as they have food, they won't wander. "If you feed them, they will stay." I figure if I know where they are, I don't have to worry too much about them. Conversely, keep the bugs out of the house and they won't have a reason to live inside.
Ok, so that's my 2 cents.
Also check out www.arachnology.org (like one of the previous posters said).

Yellow Sac Spider
The common house-dwelling agrarian sac or yellow sac spider, Cheiracanthium inclusum, is a small spider that spins a silken sac web in the corners of ceilings and walls, and behind shelves and pictures; it is also commonly found outdoors in shrubbery. This spider is light yellow and has a slightly darker stripe on the upper middle of the abdomen. The eight eyes of this spider are all about equal in size and arranged in two horizontal rows.

Yellow sac spiders can be seen running on walls and ceilings at night and quickly drop to the floor to escape if they are disturbed. Bites usually occur when the spider becomes trapped against a person's skin in clothing or bedding. It is estimated that sac spiders are responsible for more bites on people than any other spider. Typical symptoms of a bite include initial pain, redness, and sometimes swelling. A small blister may form, often breaking, leaving a sore that heals over a period of several weeks. Soreness near the bite may last for a few days to several weeks or may not occur at all, depending on the individual.

I really hate spiders but my dad loves them a lot

i was wondering why in Oklahoma there are not many tarantulas like the years before and i was wondering where you guy's live because mabye you have tarantulas down there
of course this question is for my dad someday
i hope to find one for him from constancio

It would appear this site is growing and I too stumbled onto it looking for a resource for various spiders found in Oregon.

I think I have answered Pam Sweet's inquiry to the 'huge black' spiders she is referring to: We live in the Salem area and I have seen them on occaision, in the dirt, nearby a tunnel like hole in the ground. Large shiny body, short thick legs and a purplish abdomen...first time I saw one I could'nt make sense of the size and at first thought is was a cricket or beetle. Grim looking things...My wife saw one near the door and it spooked her so bad she literally called my neighbor over to get rid of it...

Through some research (not many resources), it appears to be in the family of a trap door spider. That is all I could find out.

I found an agency in Salem that handled various questions on garden variety insects, recently. I asked if they had seen such spider and they stated no, but they would sure like to see specimen...

...hmmm.

Maybe a website on spiders of Oregon is the ticket.

MY HUSBAND CAPTURED A PRETTY LARGE SPIDER IN OUR DAUGHTERS ROOM.IT HAS 8 LONG LEGS WITH TWO SHORT ONES BY ITS HEAD.IT ALSO HAS FANGS.IT HAS A SOLID BLACK HEAD WITH A BLACK TORSO,ON THE TOP OF THE TORSO THEIR IS A BROWN MARKING ON IT.HIS LEGS START OFF BROWN THEN TURN BLACK.I WAS WONDERING IF YOU COULD TELL ME WHAT KIND IT IS AND IS IT DANGEROUS,LIKE I SAID I FOUND IT IN MY DAUGHTERS ROOM. ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED,TY.
OH BY THE WAY WE LIVE IN OREGON.

I've been looking for info on a spider I found outside my kitchen window this fall. It had an orange body and was about the size of the palm of my hand...I didn't stick around long enough to really look at it. I was leaning over the railing of my porch at the time and didn't see it at first until it was about 6 inches from my face...still have nightmares about it.
I found a some what useful site that could help identify some of the spiders around Oregon and what to do to get rid of them and treat bites.

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7442.html

alright so i got this spider that is a little bit bigger then a silver dollar and has huge fags. i found it at work and i want to knwo if it is venomous. damn.... no info ... so what gives eh??!! anyway.. this site is great...!!!!

hey im from oregon and i just cought this huge spider it has a very larg abdamen gray black and brown and it has hair all over its abdamen sortove like a tarantula but i know its not that its about the size of a half doller

In the garage we have a bowl of water for the dog.Recently while on a freezer trip,I looked down to see 5 of the biggest,blackest most yucky spiders I have ever seen.Did'nt check to see if they were still kicking but they were'nt all shrivled into a ball as most dead spiders are.I now avoid the garage at all costs.

OKay so I've been searching the web and I can't find anything that fit's the description of the spider I found in my house...or that found me rather. It was about the size of a silverdollar it was either dark brown or black, had a long flat body, and these big long legs...it freaked me out so I didn't get close enough to look at it, it chased me onto a chair. I feel so stupid being afraid of spiders, but I seriously have this major panic attack anytime I see one. So I'm trying to figure out what the heck kind of spider this is, I live in oregon. I've encountered two in my new home so far, they're majorly freaky...any idea what the stupid thing was?

we recently found a large amount of brown spiders in our garage we thought at first that they were brown reluse's but we live in oregon so that can't be. I think now that they are Hobo spiders but I am concerned if we and our four dogs are in any danger. There was probably about 40+ that we could see. Anyway ideas?

Lots of fear of spiders at this website, not much more. Lots of people killing things they can't identify. Spiders function to keep the insect population in check. Please don't let ignorance and fear carry you away. Spiders do not prey on humans but SOME may bite WHEN DISTURBED. Scoop them into a container, place a paper over the top, and take them outside if you don't want them inside! Of course spiders live outside; what are you going to do, try to kill everything you encounter? WOW! Evolve!

We think we have found a nest of black widow spiders in our garage about 4 or 5 adult females - after finding one in my kitchen!. I thought they were somewhat solitary except when mating and caring for their egg sac. Does anyone know is it common to find more than one in the same area? Why is there so little info in America about these creatures? By the way we live in Central Oregon

First off to coment on a few from above.. there are Brown Recluse spiders here in Bend Oregon... My father in law was bitten and almost lost his leg to one, and there were many more fond in the area that he was living in many different homes. However.. the real reason i write.. is there are spiders in my home that are drivingme crazy.. I want to know what they are. I see and kill at least one a day.. they are very dark brown in color... and with legs they are about the size of a quarter. they seem to be semi slow moving and I have not seen much web at all. Any help here?