Anyone from Mississippi? What is this?

[Crash2510]

I would like to know if anybody knows what kind of spider this is.





thanks in advance

[RodKirby]

BIG and fugly

[Thom2]

BIG and fugly

I'm with Rod on this one!!!!!

[Alex Franke]

Looks a bit like a nursery web spider... If it has two eyes bigger than all the others it may be a wolf spider.

[sparkeyjames]

The following was hoisted wholesale from the spiderzrule.com web site. The picture on that web site shows the type of spider in your post.

Nursery Web Spider in the Pisaurina genus

These spiders resemble the Wolf Spiders (Lycosidae), but have a different eye pattern. Pisaurids have their eyes arranged in 2 rows, the posterior row slightly recurved, the median eyes in the second row slightly (if any) larger than the others. (Wolf spiders have eyes arranged in 3 rows). The egg sac is carried by the female under her prosoma, held there by her chelicerae and pedipalps. Before the eggs hatch, the female attaches the sac to a plant and then bulds a web around it -- and stands guard nearby. The Pisaurids forage for their food and build webs only for protecting their young.

[Alex Franke]

My next guess would be the rare and elusive Greater Mississippi Death Spider, also called the North Central Ohio Spider of Terror -- they typically domicile in the Southern Shrub of Peril and are know to take joy rides on the ends of returning tape measures.

[lcm1947]

Whatever it is it's too darn big to live. Kill it!

[leehljp]

Being from Mississippi, it looks like a normal spider to me!

I am surprised that our Texas friends haven't claimed it yet for its size, unless it it too small for them!

[lrogers]

If I found it in my yard, it would be a dead spider.

[DaveS]

Whatever it is it's too darn big to live. Kill it!

NO!!! Do you have any idea how many mosquitoes that thing eats a day? Send him to live in my yard.

I have gone to great lengths to teach my kids the difference between "good" bugs, and "bad" bugs.

[Black wallnut]

If I found it in my yard, it would be a dead spider.

Mine to! I'd stomp it twice just to be sure. I'll leave the skeeters for the dragon and damsel flies!

[jwaterdawg]

I don't like spiders, but I prefer not to kill them. Only exceptions are recluse and widows.

Just imagine if people would snuff you out just for looking big, scary, or creepy?

[Hellrazor]

Geez... its a spider. What a bunch of wimps...

[Crash2510]

Thanks guys for the good hints; I know Im looking down the right path for what this is. I was just tired of showing people and them saying what is that?

I do not know, a big ugly spider.

[gad5264]

My next guess would be the rare and elusive Greater Mississippi Death Spider, also called the North Central Ohio Spider of Terror -- they typically domicile in the Southern Shrub of Peril and are know to take joy rides on the ends of returning tape measures.

Now that is tooooo funny.

Crash, just how close are you to North Columbus? I don't want you bringing that thing to my area to drop it off.