There's a milimeter-long, red arachnid around where I live (St. Louis).  What is it?
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Contact this guy, "the Bug Man".  You can send him a description of the bug--even better, send him a photo.  He'll let you know what he thinks it is.
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Charlotte. Since it's the "spider's web"
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It wasn't a black widow spider which are poisonous.They are dark black and shiny not hairy with white stripes on the leg. They have a red hour glass shape on the belly.I believe it might be just an ordinary jumping spider found in most homes non poisonous.
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i think it is a used spiderweb, which just accumulated a lot of dust over a period of time. hence that heavy look.
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If you are asking about the Sydney Funnel Web spider, found in Australia, yes, it is a kind of tarantula. Its appearance more closely resembles a trap door spider, with it's hard carapace and shiny black/brown exterior, but the similarities lay in the orientation of its fangs. "True spiders" have fangs that contract from the side on a horizontal axis. A tarantula's fangs thrust downward in a vertical motion, as do the Sydney funnel Web's. The Sydney Funnel Web spider (Atrax Robustus), is only found in Australia, especially distributed in the city of Sydney and areas of close proximity. Like a trap door spider, the Funnel web builds a lair in the ground and lines it with silk, catching prey as it ventures by. This is true of the females, who are larger than the males and spend most of their lives under ground. People often mistakenly dig them up in gardens. The males are more apt to wander, searching for prey and a mate, and are especially active after a rainfall. Both the male and female funnel webs are very aggressive spiders, and the male is more dangerous both in potentcy and because it often wanders into human habitats. The Funnel webs have huge fangs that are capable of piercing a fingernail. When threatened or provoked (not a hard thing to do to a funnel web), it will rear up and expose its fangs, often letting drops of venom form at the tips as a warning. Their venom is a neurotoxin, which affects the nervous system, and depending on the dose of venom, age of victim and their health conditions at the time of bite, the resulting symptoms vary. Death caused by a bite is rare in this day and age, thanks to an anti-venom, developed in 1980. Hope this helps.
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Black widow I guess. Not alot of spiders in Utah.
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Sounds like a water strider:\nhttp://www.cirrusimage.com/bugs_water_strider.htm\nThese guys are very common in freshwater everywhere - even in salt water in mid-ocean. They might nip you if mishandled. \n\nIt might also be a whirligig beetle or another one of the aquatic beetles:\nhttp://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/wetland/wildlife/wild1.htm
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My daughter found one in her apartment in Milledgeville which backs onto a wooded area.  I found this information for her.  She was not pleased about the part where they fall on the bed at night!\n\nScorpions \n\nPrice, Terry. Forest Health Guide for Georgia Foresters. Georgia Forestry Commission. Fall 2001.\n\nScorpions are nocturnal and are rarely seen by people unless they invade the home. Scorpions often invade houses built in wooded areas. The little southern devil scorpion is a common species throughout the South (Figure 210). It is not a dangerous species but it can be very annoying by invading attics, closets, cabinets, and vacation cabins and utility buildings. Reports are common of scorpions falling from ceilings at night onto beds with sleeping people.\n\nScorpions can be discouraged from taking up residence \ninside homes and rental cabins by keeping the yards and areas adjacent to the buildings clear of wood piles and other debris. Most stings from scorpions usually occur when people walk barefoot through the house at night or working outside without gloves.\nStings from scorpions in the southeastern U.S. are not life threatening and usually require no medical attention, unless the victim happens to be sensitive to the venom.
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I can't see your images (it says I am forbidden/don't have permission to view the site), but from the description it sounds like the spider is likely a spiny orbweaver or spinybacked garden spider (Genus Gasteracantha).\n\nHere's some pictures of spiny orbweavers http://www.floridanature.org/species.asp?species=Gasteracantha_cancriformis\n\nhttp://bugguide.net/node/view/1982/bgpage\n\nThese species are harmless, even beneficial garden spiders that build typical spider webs to capture flying insects, including flies, mosquitoes and other nuisance species.\n\nThey do possess venom, but their venom is formulated for effectiveness against insects, and is not very potent against vertebrates, even if their bite was strong enough to break human skin (which it may not be).\n\nThey are not aggressive, and would only bite if the spider were injured or undergoing extreme harassment.\n\nUnless you were allergic to the toxin (unlikely, but remotely possible) the bite would probably be no worse than a mosquito bite, at worst it would be similar in pain and severity to a wasp sting.  Annoying, but certainly not life threatening.  The greatest danger would be infection caused by scratching the wound with dirty fingernails.
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I am looking at two spiders of different species (I don't know which two, but I think it's a brown spider and a more exotic type) right now in the corner and the exotic one has been trapped in the other's web.
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bats spiders and rats
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It sounds like spiders. \n\nspray it with water & vinegar to wash it away.
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Sounds like a butterfly caterpillar, or maybe a coleopteran larva. Could you provide a photograph, or a more detailed description?\nDoes it look at least similar to this:\nhttp://www.artcrawl.com/cgi-bin/artcrawl/ac.sla2?ai=4068*41290\nor this?\nhttp://www.ent.iastate.edu/images/coleoptera/curculionidae/0669.12cloverwlarva6in.jpg\nOr none of the above?\n\nI'll check back :-)
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A really BIG one.  Stinger might be up to 1/2 inch long!  OUCH.....!!
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It may have been a harvestman (related to spiders, but included in order Opiliones). \nCheck this page, it has photographs of different types of Chelicerates and some identification tips:\nhttp://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/InfoNed/The_spider.html
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spider\n???????????????
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Yes y am familiar with this kind of spider.y am from Romania and we have a lot of them around.it is called the metal spider.yes is poison es but it is very slow but he can camouflage itself very well.