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Jbay

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anyone know what kind this is?
 

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tarantula (sp?) That thing looks big enough to grab you and toss you around if you tried to step on it.
 
David at Crooked Creek said the fireants get the tarantulas

this thing had a greenish body and black orange banded legs, wasnt furry

they were all over the trails :eek2:
 

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Looks like a Brown Recluse except for the coloration. Just keep it away from me.:eek2:
 
When I was a kid in the 60's and 70's we called them corn field spiders. They would string their webs across the rows of corn about 4 to 6 feet high. When we would play in the corn fields, running between the rows, you would not see them until you ran right into the web and had a face or chest full of spider.

As we got older and started hunting in East Texas, we would find them about the same height with their webs strung between two trees fairly close together. Same scenario, walking stealthfully, looking for our prey and then, BAM:eek2: Someone would be screaming and jumping around like a cat with tape on its feet, trying desperately to get the spider off.

Not really sure what the scientific name is but we called them, Corn Field Spiders.

http://www.bugsinthenews.com/spiders_in_the_fern_bluff_mud.htm

Is it one of these
 
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