What spiders are these?

[marco79]

On saturday I killed the 2 larger spiders in the pics. Yesterday I seen the little ones and killed most of them. I sprayed insecticide into the whole in my security door where the little spiders came out and a huge spider like one of the bigger ones came out. I also splatted it.

What kind of spiders are these?

I've had similair looking black ones like these in my garage and under the carport the other side of my house a few months back. I'll put some pics of the black ones up shortly.

 

[CL-West]

Kill it!!! Kill it with FIRE!!!

I have no idea what it is, but I would not want to find out!!!

 

[AstroTurf]

They are called dead spiders.

 

[Beachless]

Some sort of brown button spider maybe?

 

[karnuffel]

Looks like a brown widow/button spider

 

[GreyBush]

Move.

 

[VetVis]

Yip Brown Button Spider.

I have loads of them near my swimming pool pump.

 

[nicbst]

Holy crap...I would consider fire... Few things are as cold-shivers-inducing as 'knopie spinnekoppe' Had a lot of black widows on the farm and yea, they are quite scary.

 

[Creag]

The important part of this conversation is that they chose to procreate in the wrong place. Period.

Had a similar experience last week. Sitting at my computer in my dungeon at night and had this thing drop onto my head. Then another. And another. Went to get a torch and when inspecting the ceiling, there were a bazillion these critters spreading across the room with some of them dropping down with their web onto me.

The short and sweet of this experience is:

(1) they were doomed, and
(2) I need intensive therapy the next day to get over this traumatic experience.

 

[koffiejunkie]

There are things I miss about South Africa, but dealing with these 8-legged horrors is not one of them.

 

[AlphaBravo]

I too have suddenly got a brown button spider infestation together with some black widows. I killed 11 black widows and 14 brown buttons in the last 8 days. Where the funk did they suddenly come from? I don't usually care to kill spiders but these things mist DIE!
My hunting method: Becuase they hide so well during the day I choose to spray some doom in the area of the web, monsters appears or drops, take stick and squash big butt. Next!
At night they hang in the middle of their webs and drop to the ground the moment they are touched, then impale with said stick.

 

[koffiejunkie]

When I lived in Randburg we were in a brick face house - the black widows LOVED it! I regularly applied the Kirby to the gaps and under the window sills and anywhere they can crawl in.

 

[Y'all Qaeda]

I too have suddenly got a brown button spider infestation together with some black widows. I killed 11 black widows and 14 brown buttons in the last 8 days. Where the funk did they suddenly come from? I don't usually care to kill spiders but these things mist DIE!
My hunting method: Becuase they hide so well during the day I choose to spray some doom in the area of the web, monsters appears or drops, take stick and squash big butt. Next!
At night they hang in the middle of their webs and drop to the ground the moment they are touched, then impale with said stick.

I take an aerosol can and lighter.. Spiders don't like fire.

 

[longboy]

Picture from Cambodia... they eat those things there.


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[GreGorGy]

in before grant....

Kill it!!! Kill it with FIRE!!!

I have no idea what it is, but I would not want to find out!!!

...but not before fire.

Leave them alone.

 

[marco79]

This morning I destroyed this.



What are the chances that there are 2 female spiders in close proximity to one another? This egg sac was about a meter away from where the baby spiders were.

 

[Indigogirl]

Wow! Talk about a serious over-reaction! We have LOADS - and I mean LOADS of these critters, as well as some black widows in our garden. We leave them alone, and only move them if they perchance come into our house. I do mean move them too (to somewhere out in the garden) - not kill them. I have even put my hand on them by accident (on several occasions, e.g. picking up a plant pot) and have never been bitten. Our kids know to leave them alone and we quite simply do not slot them. They may well be brown widows, but there are also other members of the comb-footed spider group that are pretty harmless that resemble these too.

 

[GreGorGy]

Wow! Talk about a serious over-reaction! We have LOADS - and I mean LOADS of these critters, as well as some black widows in our garden. We leave them alone, and only move them if they perchance come into our house. I do mean move them too (to somewhere out in the garden) - not kill them. I have even put my hand on them by accident (on several occasions, e.g. picking up a plant pot) and have never been bitten. Our kids know to leave them alone and we quite simply do not slot them. They may well be brown widows, but there are also other members of the comb-footed spider group that are pretty harmless that resemble these too.

/respect

 

[Y'all Qaeda]

Wow! Talk about a serious over-reaction! We have LOADS - and I mean LOADS of these critters, as well as some black widows in our garden. We leave them alone, and only move them if they perchance come into our house. I do mean move them too (to somewhere out in the garden) - not kill them. I have even put my hand on them by accident (on several occasions, e.g. picking up a plant pot) and have never been bitten. Our kids know to leave them alone and we quite simply do not slot them. They may well be brown widows, but there are also other members of the comb-footed spider group that are pretty harmless that resemble these too.

I have used aerosol cans with lighter, air rifles and paintball markers to fsck this evil spawn up.. I will not be adopting your method of dealing with these, things.

 

[Indigogirl]

I have used aerosol cans with lighter, air rifles and paintball markers to fsck this evil spawn up.. I will not be adopting your method of dealing with these, things.

Ag shamepies man - one day, really hope you get the plot.

Me, I am far more worried by flies and mozzies - they ARE dangerous (disease, etc.) and I love that spiders - "this evil spawn" (as you so bizarrely call them) - chomp away at flies and mozzies. Spiders are seriously cool creatures - I have all of the four spider species in SA that can hospitalise humans (black and brown widows, violin spiders and sac spiders) living in my property - am I worried? Nope. Do I use poisons - nope - not a single can or bottle of any poison on the property. We have a family of rain spiders living in the house and garden - those ones we don't even escort outside - they are simply moved to a shelf or top of a cupboard if likely to get squashed. Here is one of the rain spiders on the curtain in my office: