Spider identification?

Gahh!
I find these guys on occasion hiding in redwood duff, or under rocks & logs...

I've been stung by a scorpion at my old place in Lompico, like 10 years ago.  It wasn't any worse than a bee sting.

I generally like spiders, but take care of the black widows I see. Don't want the kids to be reaching into dark corners and coming back with a nasty bite!

 

I was bit by a Brown Recluse that was in my boot I left in the garage.  One fang got me good, the other barely nicked me.  Necrosis of the local bite area killed the nerves and it never really hurt.  Just looked like it.

You uh...waxin them suckers Jerry? 

I live in a mixed conifer forest, and with that comes a variety of different spiders.  The most fearsome of them all is what locals call a "wood spider".  I keyed them out to be Callobius severus.  They're nasty, evil-looking SOBs that can inflict a painful bite.  A few years ago, I caught an exceptionally large one while pulling apart an old wood pile that was loaded with them.  I put Callobius in a Tupperware and she sat on my desk at work for several weeks.  Every now and then I'd drop a carpenter ant or some other little insect in there, and she'd immediately attack it and tear it to pieces.  I eventually released her outside the office and watched her scurry underneath the building.

Spiders are spiders.

These are the ones that I don't like finding in my shoes!

That there is what's called a wind scorpion. One of the fastest critters on the planet for their size.

I think it is a common brown spider
]http://bugguide.net/node/view/542887]

they aren't really dangerous that I know of, but are creepy as hell.

we get them all over the house in the summertime. My wife hates them.

Terminate with Extreme prejudice! My weapon of choice is usually a paper towel. which can be tossed into the fireplace.

"we piled the carcasses and burned them...as is our custom"

You must be some kind of JRRT weirdo. Guess it takes one to know one.

Fuck spiders.

I think it is a common brown spider
]http://bugguide.net/node/view/542887]

they aren't really dangerous that I know of, but are creepy as hell.

we get them all over the house in the summertime. My wife hates them.

Terminate with Extreme prejudice! My weapon of choice is usually a paper towel. which can be tossed into the fireplace.

"we piled the carcasses and burned them...as is our custom"

You must be some kind of JRRT weirdo. Guess it takes one to know one.

 guilty I'm glad someone noticed the full quote

I like using wet toilet paper to nail 'em.
Toss it at the spider, splat, flush.
Haven't done it since this morning.

Who cares what kind it is. Just kill the fucking thing!

I leave most of the spiders alone except for the widows. My fav are the jumping spiders. Last September ran into this male tarantula at los vaqueros along the shoreline.