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Bullheaded sac spider is my guess. Nice light brown body with a few dark markings near the rear. The legs were an orangey red color.
She (guessing it's female due to the m/f ratio) came in through the front window that I had opened for fresh air and crawled into my crochet work.
She is also BIG and probably a bit old. She struggled to hold onto the notepad I grabbed her with, and didn't bolt or get aggressive like most spiders do.
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- Submitted: Dec 1, 2021
- Photographed: Dec 1, 2021
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
its a woodlouse hunter, just if you see it again set it outside
Yes, you got it. Her scientific name is Dysdera crocata. She has specialized fangs for hunting Woodlice. Woodlice are also called Pill Bugs, they curl into an armored ball in self-defense. This spider has fangs that wrap around the spherical shape and pierce through the weak points at the sides. She can use her fangs to flip and pierce – like a longhorn bull. They are pretty big and this one is probably female, like you, poobinald, said because female spiders usually live longer into the year than males. Supfool has the right idea, this critter isn’t going to find… Read more »