Giant House Spider

Hi fire.add.water. I enlarged your photo and zoomed in.(Then deleted it) I believe KerryHawkins and ShannonB are correct. It looks like it might be a Huntsman. Removing my suggestion. Your spider has really crazy legs, like the pics here in wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsman_spider

Hi there fire.add.water and welcome to Project Noah! I don't think you have a Giant House Spider - the Giant house spider is indigenous to north western Europe and is introduced in the Pacific Northwest of North America. I think Kerry's huntsman ID is probably correct. Hunstmen are the 'Sparassidae family' if you want to add a scientific name, but I don't know what species you have there.

Probably a huntsman and a big one!

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