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Old 08-02-2017, 10:24 PM   #1
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Default Calgary Spider - Scary or Not?

Hopefully there are some arachnologists among you who might find the this short clip interesting (personally, I'm arachnophobic and this thing had me freaking out a bit)

https://youtu.be/zpRQEmf92gI

After a half hour of googling my best guess is it's a Brown Widow - the dark colouring on the legs, overall body morphology and light body colour match, but I haven't seen any other pictures of Brown Widows with black ventral hourglass markings. It's body is the size of a large blueberry and with legs extended it could touch the outer edge of a quarter, maybe even a loonie if fully stretched.

My concern isn't just academic as I have small kids and I don't want to deal with venomous spider bites... all comments and suggestions welcome (e.g. what is it, how to eliminate/relocate it).

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