Spider Identification

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Pest Identification

Spiders & Scorpions

Female 3/4", male 5/8". Best identified by web. Usually dull brown,
often striped on back. Similar to wolf spiders but have a pair of very
long spinning organs at end of abdomen.
A grass spider's flat web is not sticky, but if an insect happens to
land on it, the spider can dart swiftly out of a tunnel-like hiding
place and seize its prey. The tunnel is more than a hiding place; the
back end is open, and if anything dangerous shows up, such as a
spider-hunting wasp, the spider can slip quietly out the back door
and disappear into the surrounding vegetation. Females hide eggs in
fall in silken cases under bark or in vegetation, not in web. Eggs
hatch during winter or in spring, and adults mature by late summer.
Recommended products: Suspend, Tempo

Female 1/4", male 1/8-1/4". Bulbous yellowish-brown abdomen
with grey and black streaks and long banded legs. The "cobweb" of
this common indoor spider seems to be disorganized, but it is really a
sophisticated trap for snaring insects that walk under it. The
threads attached to a shelf or wall are sticky and elastic, and when
an insect blunders into them, they break and hoist the victim up into
the web where it can't grab hold of anything to pull itself free.
Eggs are placed in brown, hanging cocoon in web. When young
hatch, they swarm about the web for a few days, then leave to
start small webs of their own. Male and female often live together
in the same web.
Recommended products: Tempo, Kicker, Suspend, Delta Dust

Common House
Spider

Grass
Spider

1/8" to 1-3/8". Rather flat, nimble spiders with long, hairy legs.
Usually seen running on ground. Variously colored, usually blackish
or dark brown.
Since she doesn't live in a web like most spiders, a typical female
wolf spider must carry her eggs around with her in a ball of fine
silk. She is a devoted mother, and her young ride on her back for
several weeks or months after they hatch. But when the time
comes for the spiderlings to fend for themselves, they had better
leave in a hurry because she may forget they are her own young
and pounce on them as if they were prey, a fate that probably
befell their father after mating.
Recommended products: Tempo, Suspend, Delta Dust

Female 3/4 to 1-1/8", male 1/4 to 3/8". Black, body marked with
yellow or orange.
Most spiders are timid and wear concealing colors, but an Argiope
on her web behaves as though she actually wants to be seen. She
sits in the middle of her web, upside down, on a swatch of white
silk. She may even bob up and down if you come too close. To
deceive predators out hunting for spiders, she confuses the issue
by wearing yellow and black - the colors of a yellow jacket.
Female places eggs in large, round sac at edge of web; eggs
hatch in fall and overwinter in sac. Young leave web in spring. Male
often lives in smaller web at edge of female's.

Black & Yellow
Argiope

Wolf
Spider

Black Widow
Spider

Brown Recluse
Spider

Female 3/8", male 1/4". Female has spherical abdomen; glossy
black with red hourglass shape, on underside.
This venemous spider gets its name "widow" from a trait that is
common among spiders: Once mating has taken place, the female
kills and eats the male. Although this seems cruel to us, the male
is useless after mating, and the best thing he can do to insure the
survival of his young is to porvide a hearty meal for their expectant
mother. The female hangs upside down in her web, enabling you to
see her red warning signal.
Female produces as many as 3 pear-shaped egg cases in web;
young desperse after hatching.
Recommended products: Delta Dust, Tempo

1/3 to 1/2"; overall size of 1 inch in diameter. The body is yellow
to dark brown and has a rather distinctive darker brown
violin-shaped mark on the top of the cephalothorax.
The brown recluse is a soft-bodied and secretive species found in
homes and other outbuildings. The brown recluse can also inflict a
very dangerous bite. The initial pain associated with the bite is
not intense and is generally less troublesome than a bee sting.
Within 8 to 12 hours the pain becomes quite intense, and over a
period of a few days a large ulcerous sore forms. This sore heals
very slowly and often leaves a large, ugly, and disfiguring scar.
Recommended products: Delta Dust, Tempo, Delta Dust

Female 1/2 to 3/4", male slightly smaller. The body is strikingly
patterned, with stout bodies, short legs, and a very large pair of
eyes on the front of the face.
The jumping spider is an active predator, usually hunting during
daylight. They have very good eyesight, and some species can leap
10 to 40 times their body length; however most of the time the
jumping spider will stalk to within a few body lengths of the prey,
crouch, crawl slowly forward, and then lift its front legs and
pounce. It accomplishes its spectacular jumps by means of muscular
contractions in the body fluids into the legs, causing the legs to
extend rapidly.
The female lays her eggs in a silk-lined shilter under stones or bark,
and will often guard the eggs and newly hatched young.

Jumping
Spider

Common Striped
Scorpion

Slightly less than 1-1/2". The common striped scorpion is widely
distributed in the southern United States. It has two broad, dark
bands extending the length of the back, on an otherwise yellowish
brown body.
Scorpions feed on small spiders and soft-bodied insects. They
have poor eyesight, so they do not stalk or chase prey but lie in
waiting to grab it with their pincers. Small insects are eaten
immediately, but larger prey are stung and eaten after they cease
to struggle.
Recommended products: Delta Dust, Tempo, Suspend

World of Pest Control

Spider Identification