What kind of spider is this?

[zer0netgain]

When I can see a spider in the pale moon light, you bet I want to know what it is....

Sorry for the quality...took it with my iPhone in the dark.

[Carbonero]

Hard to tell for sure. Looks like a wolf spider.

Painful but harmless bite. Fast. Fairly aggressive but prefers to duck and run.

Here's a pretty clear picture of one:

[caasland]

Yep, wolf spider. We have then all over the place. Instead of building webs they run down their prey. Every year we find a few larger ones in the house (1/2 long body) which the cat chases and eats. Outside we've found a couple guarding the grill, 3/4 long bodies.

[Scratch33]

I remember as a kid we had those in the basement.  I'd catch 'em in a glass jar, then take 'em upstairs while mom was doing dishes or something and say "Guess what I found?"

After the screaming stopped she'd make me take 'em waaaaaayyyy down the road and let 'em go.  I told her they had excellent homing instincts.  

[ConPilot1]

I thought grass spider, but when you said pale moonlight, my vote goes with Wolf spider which are noctournal hunters, and from the leg size/structure.

[Giaka]

Female wolfy.  

[rgbeard]

If a spider is big enough that it could be shot...... it should be shot.

 

[caasland]

The grill it is guarding is not acceptable collateral damage.

[tbzep]

In our part of the country, if he's brown, he's cool....unless he's got long spindly legs and a smooth satin abdomen.  And he plays the fiddle.  Then he's a brown recluse and you don't want to squeeze him.

[scottzilla]

Sure that isn't a Gopher snake?

[Carbonero]

In our part of the country, if he's brown, he's cool....unless he's got long spindly legs and a smooth satin abdomen.  And he plays the fiddle.  Then he's a brown recluse and you don't want to squeeze him.

Is it weird that out of all the things in the world to truly fear, that is probably number 2 or 3 on my list...?  

[ConPilot1]

Is it weird that out of all the things in the world to truly fear, that is probably number 2 or 3 on my list...?  

Rightfully so when one can cause flesh-rotting and necrosis on a scale far beyond your wildest diseased zombie dreams.

[TuffguyF4i]

That is the kind that should be killed.  That thing is freaking HUGE!!