My daughter texted me a pic of this spider by the door of the tack shed at the farm and wanted to know what it is. Location is east Tennessee if that helps in the ID:

Hmmm, was thinking Wolf but no dice

Fishing spider?

Fishing spider

http://www.spiders.us/species/dolomedes-tenebrosus/

Awesome...Thanks! SigForum knows all!

How about some feeder fish from the pet store for that dude?

I like her camouflage suit. You did leave her alone, didn't you? (Or is there a SWMBO who has a different view?)

flashguy

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Its the OHSHITT!! spider.

Sometimes if you don't startle them...you can catch them holding their fishing rods...they like 6# test line (which they spin themselves)

I've always called them garden spiders. Big and fast! I guess they are the brown variety.

Outdoors, I call them non-smushy kind, indoors they are referred to as dead.

That's one of those T-111 panel spiders.
When you walk into one of their webs, they enable you to get 20 minutes of cardio in 5 seconds when they skitter across your face. YMMV

Face Leaper?

Spiders are hard to identify as to the specific species, even for spider experts.

I hope you told her that it was "Clive" and he's been a.w.o.l. in your shed

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Originally posted by jhe888:
Spiders are hard to identify as to the specific species, even for spider experts.

Nobody wants to get close enough to ID their eye arrangement.

Seems like one of the "wolf" spiders of the Lycosidae family,genus Hogna. They are common, sometimes seen in daylight because they are voracious hunters. One in your house, even on an outside wall, is unusual.

They are generally harmless, not usually biting people even if a person sits on one, bare skin, obviously. If they do bite, the result can be painful, like many other insect bites. It would hurt more than a mosquito, and swell up more and last longer. Few people would suffer more than that unless they were allergic.

They are good friends to us because of the large number of other bugs they eat.

Nearly all spiders you see are female. They produce the eggs, requiring significant nutrients. Hence, they are the hunters. The males of many species are small and often difficult to see. Few actually hunt because they would be competition for the females. They serve only one purpose, to fertilize the eggs. Usually, they die shortly after.

Last week I was staying in a park near Vienna, IL, and it seemed as though there were a hundred different kinds of spiders, including several species of the wolf spiders. They entertained us by their lightning dashes through the grass.

That's a nope spider.