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Spider identity Iron Man !4gwlqtupE.
I need help finding out a type of spider I saw that I can't even find on wikipedia.

Its body was a bit smaller than my fist, but its legs were thin and bent.
Solid black.
Aggressive little bastard, it actually -chased- me. I tried spider killer spray, it didn't seem to have any effect. I had to crush it with my boot. Twice.
Even then I wasn't sure if it was entirely dead.

Was living out in west NC at the time, out in the woods... we had other weird shit there too. Had a banana spider in my shower once, and black widows on my porch. Not to mention the time a neighbor discovered baby scorpions in some deadwood down the hill behind our houses.

Don't have a pic, and I don't even live over there anymore... So here's a picture of one of my cats instead.

Also bonus round: Weird fire-ant/spider hybrids in Jamaica. I saw an infestation of these at a either Sandals or Beaches down there, weird as hell. Bright red-orange little spiders. Hundreds of them in one little area.
>> Anonymous
I'm glad you got out alive, it sounded like a deathtrap to me.
>> Iron Man !4gwlqtupE.
>>269217
It was. Kinda neat, though.
Except the banana spider incident. I now have to check showers for a good 10 minutes before stepping into them.

That and I don't put shit on porches after the black widow infestation. I didn't know they weren't that deadly back then, so when one scurried out from a broken stone gargoyle and onto my hand... I nearly shat myself in terror.
>> Anonymous
>Aggressive little bastard, it actually -chased- me. I tried spider killer spray, it didn't seem to have any effect. I had to crush it with my boot. Twice.
>Even then I wasn't sure if it was entirely dead.
Wao you sure had a close call. It must have been some new species of poisonous North American spider that hunts humans, hitherto unknown to science.

>Don't have a pic, and I don't even live over there anymore... So here's a picture of one of my cats instead.
Thanks, that should help us identify the spider.

>Also bonus round: Weird fire-ant/spider hybrids in Jamaica.
Yeah, gotta watch out for them Insecta/Chelicerata hybrids. Hybrids within one genus are bad enough, but when you get 'em crossing class boundaries... whoa mama.
>> Anonymous
http://www.petbugs.com/caresheets/H-carolinensis.html ?
>> Anonymous
>>269357here

Also, there are types of spiders that look like ants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mimicry#Spiders
>> Anonymous
>Weird fire-ant/spider hybrids in Jamaica. I saw an infestation of these at a either Sandals or Beaches down there, weird as hell. Bright red-orange little spiders. Hundreds of them in one little area.

I had one of those fall off my ceiling and onto the book I was reading. Good thing it was tiny... It still scared me enough to squeak and throw my book across the room. xD
>> Iron Man !4gwlqtupE.
>>269357
Fatter than that.
It was like...
Imagine the body of a mouse spider with the legs of an orb weaver.
Didn't really look furry, looked kinda smooth.

It still weirds me out how aggressive it was, though. I'm not familiar with spiders that actually go after humans. Even the black widows seemed more afraid of me than I was of them, but this one fat black spider decided he was Rambo and charged at me.

Myrmarachne plataleoides looks to be the Jamaican spider, though. Wonder how they got to Jamaica.