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I seem to find a lot of these spiders around the house.
They are fairly large (about 2-3 inches) and have yellow markings on their legs & body. Hard to kill them since they seem to stay in the middle of their large web.
Anybody knows what type of spiders are they and if they could be considered dangerous to my kids & dog?
Looks like a zipper spider, sometimes called a writing spider. Not poisonous, and very beneficial. Just leave it alone. If it's in an awkward spot, you can use a stick to knock down the web and it will relocate.
Looks like a zipper spider, sometimes called a writing spider. Not poisonous, and very beneficial. Just leave it alone. If it's in an awkward spot, you can use a stick to knock down the web and it will relocate.
Excellent advice.
Just after I bought my house, there was a huge web spanning two of the posts that support the ceiling over my front stoop, off to one side. Like many people I seldom use my front door, but I'd look out there frequently to see the big colorful spider doing it's thing. Then I forgot about it.
Until one night when I went out to check the mail, and used the front door. The web had moved.
It was now spanning the front door. I must have looked like I was on fire, trying to get the web, dead bugs, and what now had become a man-eating spider off of me. I yanked off my shirt and t-shirt, and used it to wipe off the web, all the while jumping around and shouting in terror.
The old lady across the street saw me, and avoided me for months. I don't blame her.
I never did see the spider again, but am damn near phobic about looking for webs.
Thanks for the advice, I'll just destroy their web if too close to house entrance or walking area.
Even the "friendly" spiders are no fun when one walks into their web...
Because contrary to popular belief they are not an endemic species. Necrotic wounds are not necessarily indicative of a BR. Other spiders can cause necrosis to an unlucky few
. . . Just after I bought my house, there was a huge web spanning two of the posts that support the ceiling over my front stoop, off to one side. Like many people I seldom use my front door, but I'd look out there frequently to see the big colorful spider doing it's thing. Then I forgot about it.
Until one night when I went out to check the mail, and used the front door. The web had moved.
It was now spanning the front door. I must have looked like I was on fire, trying to get the web, dead bugs, and what now had become a man-eating spider off of me. I yanked off my shirt and t-shirt, and used it to wipe off the web, all the while jumping around and shouting in terror.
The old lady across the street saw me, and avoided me for months. I don't blame her.
I never did see the spider again, but am damn near phobic about looking for webs.
LOL! That has happened to me a couple of times.
I once witnessed a spider building a web spanning a 6' gap from the patio umbrella to a wall. I was amazed at how quickly she weaved it! (This was a stocky dark-orange spider measuring ~3/4".) I wanted to show the web to my wife the next morning, but by then it was gone.
Continuing with creepy-crawly stories: Yesterday, I found a daddy-longlegs (aka harvestman) in the kitchen. Luckily there was just one because they sometimes congregate in the hundreds!
Because contrary to popular belief they are not an endemic species. Necrotic wounds are not necessarily indicative of a BR. Other spiders can cause necrosis to an unlucky few
Ok thanks for explaining I was bit by one up in triad 15 years ago on palm of my hand. My hand swell and had to go to hospital. I still have the scar.
Because contrary to popular belief they are not an endemic species.
Not sure what you mean by this. BR's are not endemic to NC, as they are found in a number of other states. But there most certainly are BR's in NC; they're just not very common (and limited mostly to the western part of the state.)
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