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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ASH" data-source="post: 1424161" data-attributes="member: 1823">I live in Iowa.. Its a wolf spider, or some off breed of it. I have seen a few different colors and sizes of these things, they are almost always hairy, but I have seen a black one before. It probably will not hurt you, but they are creepy and if its truely that big..I would not want it in my house either...I grew up on a pig farm and there were always a bunch of wolf spiders in the barn and pig unit. They are ruthless hunters, I have seen them hunt before and its very much like a wolf hunting its prey. Creepy...Brown Recluse spiders are not the kind to come out in to the open. They usually hide from you, somtimes in shoes and behind waterheaters and such. They are not very common in the midwest, although they are found here, and I dont know if i have ever heard of one that big.  The posion from a brown recluse can be known to cause skin and muslcle to become paralized and decay. I had a girl that I knew from college that wore a cast for 12 weeks because she had a tiny bit on her leg that was not treated for the first 24hrs. To kill spiders and pretty much anything else in your home get cockroach spray. Cockroaches can with-stand a nuclear attack, so if you find something that garuntee's to kill them, it will kill a spider with out a problem. To be safe, I always put a shoe on my hand, spray and smoosh...But thats only for the icky spiders, they do kill other bugs.. I dont mind spiders as long as they dont crawl on me, I HATE centipieds.. I HATE bee's, wasps and hornets... Centipieds i can kill, IF i have too...If I see a bee, wasp or hornet I run screaming.. My husband thinks its cute...Unfortunetly, he hates centipieds as much as me..thank god we now live in an apartment that has the orkin man come every three months no matter what.</blockquote>

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