Indoor spider identification anyone?

[CRUZTAKER]

Anyone hip to indoor spider identification?
I want to ask here before I move on to a forum dedicated to spiders.

I also have an exterminator to inquire with on Monday.

This however...is bugging me mad!

I will attempt to take a picture later, but it is going to be difficult.

These tiny black spiders are the size of a poppy seed. Approximently 1 to 2mm. They are not fast runners, and have been found merely sitting motionless. If touched, they will move, but not fast, and not far.

They have become apparent over the last few days in small numbers within the house on floors on the first floor of the house. We do not have carpeting, but all hardwood, ceramic, and vinyl flooring, which makes them easy to spot. We have a basement, dry, and clean. I am thinking this is the origin, and they are passing through the openings in the hardwood floor slats.

We have had exterminating service for 8 years. However, with the recent birth of Elliot in February, we have blown off several visits this summer. Probably not a good idea afterall.

I have found nearly a dozen, and captured two for further identification on Monday.

Any thoughts?
The general web search has been futile.

[KillJoy]

Did you just bring a bunch of wood in?

:dunno:

KillJoy

[ImpalaSlayer]

you saying the body of the spider is the size of a poppy seed?

maybe a poppy seed spider :dunno:

[CBT]

you saying the body of the spider is the size of a poppy seed?

maybe a poppy seed spider :dunno:

LMMFAO!! Man, you just can't buy the kind of free help offered here!

[Blk Mamba]

Did you just bring a bunch of wood in?

Good thought.

[Aren Jay]

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[O's Fan Rich]

at shape is it?


crab like?

http://entomology.unl.edu/images/spiders/xysticus1.jpg

[O's Fan Rich]

or a more bulb like end?

http://entomology.unl.edu/images/spiders/Steatoda_borealis.jpg

[TooManyFords]

http://people.msoe.edu/~gormand/canihavemyspiderbackot3.gif

[ImpalaSlayer]

lmao at TMF :laugh:

[KillJoy]

http://people.msoe.edu/~gormand/canihavemyspiderbackot3.gif


:rofl:

THAT MADE ME LOL...... THAT Post is CLASSIC!!!!

:rofl:

KillJoy

[Mike]

LMMFAO!! Man, you just can't buy the kind of free help offered here!

True, how very true :lol:

[justbob]

That was hillarious!!!!!!!!!!!!I'll have to try that.

[Hacklemerc]

Are you sure they are spiders? Could they be crotch crickets that are merely falling out of your pants and once they hit the ground lose the will to live?

[CRUZTAKER]

Damn you....I knew that thread was coming back the moment I hit enter.:P


Ironically....they look very similar to that!


HOLY SHAT!!!!

Jessica just found the source. Pictures to follow tomorrow.
My god, one of the tropical plants I brought in a few weeks ago is absolutely covered in them!!!

I treat all the plants with diazanon (sp) and spray the leaves with Volk before I bring them in every year. These critters must have been immune.

I am hauling this one out on the porch for a surely death now....

[knine]

I think I know what kind of spider you have. Don't panic, just get up, very very slowly, then RUN LIKE HELL AND DON'T LOOK BACK. BURN THE HOUSE. FORGET THE POSESSIONS, SAVE YOURSELVES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CRUZTAKER]

Well....one of my older schefflera plants had the source.
What really sucks is the 7' eleven year old ficus that sits close to it had a few as well. They also found their way to just about every nook and cranny on one end of the living room.

The cats apparently tracked them into the other rooms. Atleast now I know why I was finding them, and had spent the entire day cleaning the other parts of the house. Their are likely a few stragglers here and there...they are so damn small. Hopefully the exterminator will rid the remaining few that the windtunnel missed over the last 4 hours.

In the end...sadly...I just pushed all of my tropicals out onto the porch into a foot of snow to die a slow death over night. :(

We're beat...and full of the heabie-jeebies.
Don't look at the pics if you are easily heabie-jeebied.;)

http://www.mercurymarauder.net/showcase/files/6/2/6/spiders001.jpg

http://www.mercurymarauder.net/showcase/files/6/2/6/spiders002.jpg

http://www.mercurymarauder.net/showcase/files/6/2/6/spiders004.jpg

[justbob]

No way to save the plants?

[CRUZTAKER]

Not at 1:30 in the morning and it being so cold outside.
Normally I would mix a batch of malathion and spray them down.
But that stuff stinks so bad it would kill all of us if I did indoors.

[TAKEDOWN]

WOW, those are A LOT of spiders there... kinda thought you were exaggerating, but I can see you're dead serious. I'm sure the plants will make a come back, hopefully just without the extra critters.

[ctrlraven]

http://people.msoe.edu/%7Egormand/canihavemyspiderbackot3.gif

I posted this for a thread a few weeks ago lol.


So what you want to do is get some Lemon Oil (NOT JUICE but Oil) and put it in a small spray bottle mixed with some water. Actually anything with Lemon scent like Pledge would work fine and you need to spray it around the edges of inside your house or just directly on the spiders. Lemon Oil clogs up a spiders pores so they can't breathe and they hate the smell of Lemon.

These are some of the spiders I've dealt with lol.
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a164/ctrlraven/house%20spider/DSCF23961280x768.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a164/ctrlraven/house%20spider/DSCF23971280x768.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a164/ctrlraven/house%20spider/DSCF24041280x768.jpg

YaY Black Widow
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a164/ctrlraven/spiders/DSCF2323Large.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a164/ctrlraven/spiders/DSCF2325Large.jpg

[Hacklemerc]

My Moms house has an infestation of Brown Recluse spiders. She has sprayed and had exterminators come out and they just keep coming back. She caught one the other day that was bigger than a quarter. She's been bitten once and lives in complete fear of being bitten again.

I hate spiders.

[ctrlraven]

Brown Recluse spiders are about as nasty as they come. Tell your mom to get some Oil of Lemon and Oil of Mint (doesn't mater what kind of mint) mix it up with some water and a little bit of white vineager in a spray bottle and go to town with spraying it along all the floorboards, corners, dark areas, warm/moist areas of the house. The last house I lived in had black widows and brown recluse spiders, sprayed that mixture of stuff all inside of the house and outside of the house very 2-3 months and spiders went away.

[CRUZTAKER]

Brown Recluse spiders are about as nasty as they come. Tell your mom to get some Oil of Lemon and Oil of Mint (doesn't mater what kind of mint) mix it up with some water and a little bit of white vineager in a spray bottle and go to town with spraying it along all the floorboards, corners, dark areas, warm/moist areas of the house. The last house I lived in had black widows and brown recluse spiders, sprayed that mixture of stuff all inside of the house and outside of the house very 2-3 months and spiders went away.


Dude...THANK YOU for this home remedy.

Living in this century home we have just about every critter imaginable that has found it's way inside. Hell...we have two cats and the mice still are caught by them and my traps in the rafters

The spiders were basically under control with regular orkin service.
This outbreak was entirely my fault. I brought them in by not entirely treating the underside of one large clay pot. I have done this for years with only a handfull of mite and white fly incedents.

I'll be much more carefull from now on, and definately use your home remedy for the house spiders that occur naturally.

[Hacklemerc]

Thanks for the remedy. We'll try that and hopefully get these things under control.

[TJCOX]

Try the WD 40 on them and see if that works!

[ctrlraven]

Dude...THANK YOU for this home remedy.

Living in this century home we have just about every critter imaginable that has found it's way inside. Hell...we have two cats and the mice still are caught by them and my traps in the rafters

The spiders were basically under control with regular orkin service.
This outbreak was entirely my fault. I brought them in by not entirely treating the underside of one large clay pot. I have done this for years with only a handfull of mite and white fly incedents.

I'll be much more carefull from now on, and definately use your home remedy for the house spiders that occur naturally.
Oil of Mint is also good to keep mice away. The whole downstairs of my house smells like wintergreen now. Already caught 3-4 mice. Another good thing is take a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Sponge put peanut butter on it and toss it in wherever the mice are or come from. THEY LOVE IT and it kills them, just make sure to keep it away from other animals.

[CRUZTAKER]

.... take a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Sponge put peanut butter on it and toss it in wherever the mice are or come from. THEY LOVE IT and it kills them, just make sure to keep it away from other animals.


Wow...I got a bunch of those as stocking stuffers last year.
I'd a never figured. :confused:

I am going to try that in the attics.
Beats filling the traps every few weeks.

[Hacklemerc]

So did the plants live or die? Don't leave us hanging....

[CRUZTAKER]

They died within 5 hours that night.
It was 25 degrees that evening.

Now I did bring the 7' ficus back in after 9 hours...but it is in major shock.
I am sure the top thin branches froze and died. If the root ball survived, I am sure most of the top is dead and will need cut back.

We'll see...

Thanks for asking.;)

[Black_Noise]

wow!!

the spider email picture as payment, classic hilarious!

Thanks for the good laugh

[Mike Poore]

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http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a164/ctrlraven/house%20spider/DSCF24041280x768.jpg




Good lord! It's Shelob, and she's got poor Frodo! :eek:

Um, and thanks much for the Lemon Oil home remedy.....way cool!