knary
looking for a coal mine
blip-ity-do-ba-bing-bong.......what the hell is that thing??? i'm not a fan of your west coast bugs. i had to deal with 7" millepedes on my friend's glass doors in monterey. put a penny or a thimble or something next to that guy. i don't want you faking me out with camel spider depth of field trickery. i need to know exactly what i'm dealing with should i end up on the left coast any time soon
A little searching has revealed that it's the icky Dysdera crocota, the Woodlouse spider aka Sow Bug Killer. They all over the place here and very mean looking, but harmless - unlike the black widows that we do see on occasion (though usually on the other side of the mountains), or the hard to distinguish brown recluse or the dreaded hobo spider or...