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The spider was about maybe an inch or a half long in total and was really fast moving. We even flushed it down the toilet after my brother hit it with a broom and my dad found it trying to climb back up the inside of the toilet. Any ideas of what this could have been. It wasn't aggressive.
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- Submitted: Feb 15, 2025
- Photographed: Jul 24, 2022
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Springfield, Louisiana, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
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I’m glad you got a photo to find out what it was. I’m pretty sure it was a White-banded Fishing Spider. They can float and swim. Air bubbles form on the hairs of their bodies as they go underwater. That helps them float. I guess that makes them difficult to flush too. https://bugguide.net/node/view/1985 The link is to info about Fishing Spiders on Bugguide.com. They’re also a volunteer ID website, They have more info than we do. Your spider wasn’t dangerous. The only ones with potentially dangerous venom in the US are the Recluses and Widows, and those aren’t as dangerous… Read more »