I have had 3 spiders bown with spotted legs hanging on my porch and im worried they maybe brwn recluse?

Question

its about the size of a qaurter and only spotted on legs like a leopard.

Additional Details

it has long skinny legs body is oval in shape brownish in color on the body and spotted legs if anyone can tell me what kind that would me great. i live in maine and found no results on the web. also if it is posionious to cats please tell me. thank you for your answers.

Answer 1

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ID it here so you can be sure -

http://www.spideridentification.org/

http://www.usq.edu.au/spider/index.htm

http://www.arachnology.be/pages/Identifi…

Answer 2

i would call an exterminator or kill em yourself

Answer 3

umm i suggest you spray them with something to kill them.

♥hope that helped♥

Answer 4

Call the insect guy

Answer 5

could you retype that question. it's quite hard to understand the way you wrote it.

Answer 6

no most likley they are orb spiders...
the ones you are thinking they are, are super rare and like really dark places!

Answer 7

Not a brown recluse. Not counting the legs, they are much smaller than you describe and have an odd shaped body kinda' like a violin and as the name implies, they are reclusive and would never hang out on the porch in the open..

Answer 8

I've heard that lighting a citronella candle helps keep them away, or spray the place down with Raid.

Answer 9

no, their are no spots on brown recluses. and they are usualy slightly larger than quarters.

Source(s):

personal exp.

Answer 10

In the mature brown recluse spider as well as some other species of recluse spiders, the dark violin marking is well defined, with the neck of the violin pointing toward the bulbous abdomen. The abdomen is uniformly colored, although the coloration can range from light tan to dark brown, and is covered with numerous fine hairs that provide a velvety appearance. The long, thin, brown legs also are covered with fine hairs, but not spines. Adult brown recluse spiders have a leg span about the size of a quarter. Their body is about 3/8 inches long and about 3/16 inches wide. Males are slightly smaller in body length than females, but males have proportionally longer legs. Both sexes are venomous. The immature stages closely resemble the adults except for size and a slightly lighter color. Whereas most spiders have eight eyes, recluse spiders have six eyes that are arranged in pairs in a semicircle on the forepart of the cephalothorax (see close-up view). A 10X hand lens or microscope is needed to see this diagnostic feature. In order to determine the exact species of Loxosceles, the spider's genitalia need to be examined under a high-power microscope. This requires the skills of a spider expert.

Brown recluse spiders generally occupy dark, undisturbed sites, and they can occur indoors or outdoors. In favorable habitats, their populations are usually dense. They thrive in human-altered environments. Indoors, they may be found in attics, basements, crawl spaces, cellars, closets, and ductwork or registers. They may seek shelter in storage boxes, shoes, clothing, folded linens, and behind furniture. They also may be found in outbuildings such as barns, storage sheds, and garages. Outdoors, brown recluse spiders may be found underneath logs, loose stones in rock piles, and stacks of lumber.

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http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/20…

Answer 11

Your description is lacking, but based on it, no, not brown recluse. Also, you wont find the recluse hanging out on a porch. You should have included your location. You see the brown recluse is found is the southern USA.

http://www.brownreclusespider.org/

Answer 12

Brown recluse tend to make their home in low lying ground ares like under bushes where they wont be disturbed and its darker.If youre in an area where there ma be another kind of poisonus spider call a pro to get it. If not, Grab a broom knock it down.

Answer 13

I would need more info to identify, a picture would really help, but brown recluses do not have spots on their legs.