What kind of spider?

  • Jakob
    Keymaster
    Rogers
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    August 24, 2009 at 5:33 pm #1264107

    Never seen one this big. Anyone have an idea of what kind of spider this is?

    mossboss
    La Crescent, MN
    Posts: 2792
    August 24, 2009 at 5:35 pm #799920

    Don’t know, but I had a very similar one in my garage last summer, and wondered what it was as well.

    chris-tuckner
    Hastings/Isle MN
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    August 24, 2009 at 5:36 pm #799921

    A dead one if it was me taking the picture.

    walleyebuster5
    Central MN
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    August 24, 2009 at 5:38 pm #799925

    Quote:

    A dead one if it was me taking the picture.


    Exactly!!

    Jakob
    Keymaster
    Rogers
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    August 24, 2009 at 5:41 pm #799928

    Will will just refer to it as “creepy”

    farmboy1
    Mantorville, MN
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    August 24, 2009 at 5:44 pm #799933

    It would be a lot easier to determine the species if you could get a picture of it on your arm.

    Jakob
    Keymaster
    Rogers
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    August 24, 2009 at 5:47 pm #799934

    You know I was sitting next to that thing for a good 20 minutes before I realized he was sitting next to me. Thats when I almost went in the lake jumping up.

    Jakob
    Keymaster
    Rogers
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    August 24, 2009 at 5:49 pm #799936

    A little lake in Chaska

    chris-tuckner
    Hastings/Isle MN
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    August 24, 2009 at 5:52 pm #799939

    Great. Now I gotta start packing spider repellent along with my snake repellent.

    Do they make bird shot for a .40?

    Jakob
    Keymaster
    Rogers
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    August 24, 2009 at 5:55 pm #799940

    lol

    andyb
    Farmington, MN
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    August 24, 2009 at 6:11 pm #799954

    Ive seen those in rivers before, thought it was some kind of water spider or something

    alumanator
    New Hope, MN
    Posts: 346
    August 24, 2009 at 6:25 pm #799964

    It looks like a dock spider to me. They get really big and they are always by water.

    jeremy-liebig
    mpls
    Posts: 1455
    August 24, 2009 at 6:40 pm #799970

    Yep. A Dock Spider. They are pretty common on lakes up North. Saganaga has some monsters if you want to go Dock Spider hunting!

    jeff_jensen
    cassville ,wis
    Posts: 3053
    August 24, 2009 at 6:46 pm #799973

    My bad, it does look like a dock spiders

    Wolf, dock ,whatever, they’re all creepy

    chris-tuckner
    Hastings/Isle MN
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    August 24, 2009 at 6:48 pm #799977

    Whew!
    They only call for a 9mm.

    mossboss
    La Crescent, MN
    Posts: 2792
    August 24, 2009 at 7:25 pm #799998

    Wolf spider is what was in my garage. Generally spiders don’t bother me, but picking up a backpack to have that thing hanging on it scared the beejeezus out of me. Let me tell you what, they are FAST too. It was gone before I could get a foot on it!

    stuart
    Mn.
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    August 24, 2009 at 7:50 pm #800012

    Please capture and return to cabin #9 Everts resort.
    Small reward offerd.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
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    August 24, 2009 at 11:28 pm #800065

    I think the more common name is fishing spiders. I sat next to one once too. Didn’t see him until he reeled in a 20# flathead.

    I saw them one year up at the cabin. Those suckers get BIIIIIG. Careful when moving the tire tread around on your dock if you use them as bumpers on your dock.

    mossydan
    Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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    August 25, 2009 at 12:39 am #800077

    Those things fish too??? Especially when they crawl around where ever they want to go and you can’t hear them and you never know where they are. They climb unheard and jump from limb to limb or limb to ? Ever walk into a big spiders web in the middle of the night and you can hear the web stands breaking?, now thats a spider. Snakes don’t bother me much but spiders are sneaky and you can’t hear them. WOAH!!!WOOOAH!!!

    jtimm
    Mora,MN
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    August 25, 2009 at 12:56 am #800083

    Yep, fishing spiders or dock spiders will make me run on water! They can run on the waters surface, or go under the water! They are Mega fast, and nasty looking! I’ve seen them in Canada, and around here.(quite a few on the Snake river) I’m not a fan of spiders, and these things are bye far my least favorite. I almost put my hand on one a couple times. Once in Canada on a rock, and once on the river on a branch! My heart is still beating fast from thinking about it!

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
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    August 25, 2009 at 1:01 am #800088

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    (quite a few on the Snake river)


    I saw mine on Knife lake, so they must just love the area! The weird thing is one year we saw them on a retaining wall hanging out and the we noticed them on the tires. However, that was the only year so far that I have seen them up there. Maybe they were passing through.

    sliderfishn
    Blaine, MN
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    August 25, 2009 at 1:03 am #800090

    Quote:

    Please capture and return to cabin #9 Everts resort.
    Small reward offerd.

    jakeh
    White Bear Twp
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    August 25, 2009 at 1:53 am #800103

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    A dead one if it was me taking the picture.

    Exactly!

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    August 25, 2009 at 2:09 am #800104

    Quote:

    Quote:

    A dead one if it was me taking the picture.

    Exactly!


    What are you guys talking about. They eat all the little 1# fish so the rest of the population has enough to eat and grow!

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