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[bassexpander]

Any idea what this is? This thing crawled into our kitchen, which sent my wife through the roof. She was cooking and I was half-asleep. She started shreeking, which ripped me from my nap in a hurried daze. I thought there was a fire or something, only to find this thing dashing back out the patio door. I managed to smash it with a bottle of fabric softener. It's actually quite a bit bigger with its legs stretched out.

Any idea what kind of spider this is?

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd16/bassexpander/spider.jpg

[Jeff's Cigarettes]

A dead one.

[yingwenlaoshi]

It's a dead spider. What?

[Janny]

It looks like the regular type of spider I saw (and squashed) many times back in Canada. They can get pretty big and hairy...but are harmless. But I agree about ALL spiders...what IS it that makes us freak out so bad? I can handle worms, centipedes, ants, beetles...no problem. But even a small spider shakes me up inside.

[vampirepirate01]

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[Draz]

Whatever it is, it's way smaller than I expected when I read the post.

[PeteJB]

My mum always said it's unlucky to kill a spider, and well, while I don't buy into all that old wives tale stuff, I do stop myself from killing them. I pick them up and put them out safely. Shame on you!

[moosehead]

[bassexpander]

It's not a small spider, given that it was found in the center of a cement jungle. No, it's not one of those larger green and black garden spiders like they have in Korea, but it's not tiny by any means.

[yingwenlaoshi]

[Cheonmunka]

I found a spider the size of at least four of those 100 won coins crawling on my pillow near my nose in Australia. Didn't kill it, but put it out. Strangely it didn't freak me out as much as some smaller insects.
Actually, as far as bites go, the most dangerous and potent ones are from smaller spiders, a little smaller than your one ... maybe if not the breed, then, pubescent spiders seem to be quite potent.
My daughter got a tumor (non-malignant thank gawd, (no thanks yah bastard for putting me thru that in the first place)), anyway, from a very, very tiny ant, of a breed that is so virulent, here in Korea.

[D.D.]

When I moved to Aus I had Huntsman spiders the size of my hand walking on the walls.

I once had my swimming shorts outside on a chair and after putting them on I watched a redback walk out of them and down my leg.

As the other guy said it the small ones that you worry about. Also Korea is not a place where I worry about spiders.

[bassexpander]

It looks like what we'd call a wolf spider in the USA.

[MrRogers]

I don't know the type of spider, but I understand your wife's shrieking...

when I lived in the rural south these past months, I saw incredibly large spiders everywhere - it made one think that perhaps they were mutants that survive all the toxic spraying that is constant everywhere - and for which no variety of birds or animals seem to survive...

however, humongous spiders were thriving everywhere - there were many over the doorway to the building where I lived - attracted by the street light and insects there hovering - at one point there was one that was as large as my hand - looking like it was ready to pounce on anyone who went through the doorway - I was lucky to ask a Presbyterian minister who lived across the street and who was fascinated with it scientifically, and took a insect net and knocked it down and took it away - my lucky day in SK

but yes, huge spiders everwhere - on shrubs, in woods, etc.

[XAdamX]

I think it's a 거 미.