Originally posted by antipigopolist
cybertroy is correct...it is a cellar spider.

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Pholcus phalangioides. These are common and widespread spiders, harmless enough, unless you are another spider of course ...

That's a great picture too you found there too antipigopolist.

My daughter was bitten by a spider a few weeks ago and the picture of the bite looks exactly like her bite did.
She had to take strong antibiotics for 2 weeks and alot of dr office visits. She's ok now but we were worried for awhile there.

MagicaRose, sorry to hear that, My family has been pretty fortunate in not getting bit by one of these guys, I have heard that the venom can kill a small child, I think newborn to 1 year? I will have to see if I can get more info on that.
I try to keep the house protected as much as possible from all the bugs we get up here in the hills, really bad carpenter ant infestation last summer, hate those guys, probably been chewing on my house since '79.

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[edit on 5-2-2006 by Toadmund]

I thought it might be a Cellar Spider.

Troy

Does it bob up and down if you disturb it? Or does it just run off? If it does the former, I think it's a cellar spider, otherwise it's prolly a daddy long legs.

Originally posted by dirtyrat5000
its a daddy longlegs. i got one above my computer now. it looks the same as the photo. also they can penetrate the skin with there fangs, they did a thing on mythbusters showing that they can although there bite is fairly weak.

I saw that episode and i'll vouch to daddy long legs but the fact that there is a web kind of turns off the DLL possibilty because for the most part they are hunters that stalk prey.

Ugh I can't stand spiders and I had no idea those quick moving spiders you find in your house had a name (agressive house spider). They're agressive alright. The wolf spiders we get around here(southern ontario)...which are probably just funnel web spiders(agressive house spider), are extremely slender and also move quick, but are much smaller than most wolf spiders. I swear those spiders can move at mach 1 at least!

Originally posted by DustintheWind
Not sure if this is where I post this at but I need some help in identifying this spider I found while crawling around under my house, There were tons of webs but only a few of these buggers, I have looked at lots of sites but cannot seem to find any info. I would like to know if it is these that are biting us at night while sleeping.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Here is a photo I snapped of it....(the best I could get)

I'm a 110% sure that's a cellar spider. Real common over here in southern California. They look like daddy long-legs (which are arachnids but NOT spiders), but daddy long-legs don't spin webs and their physiology is quite different upon close inspection.