[brac]

Anybody know what kind of spider it is, I sometimes find them on my dock 4" and bigger...

 

[The Soap Pixie]

That isn't a recluse is it? or Hololena?

 

[Wyldbee]

I recently saw a spider like this in my garden. My kids and I looked it up in National Audubon Society' field guide. We think it to be either a Rabid Wolf Spider or Forest Wolf Spider.

 

[Bens-Bees]

That isn't a recluse is it? or Hololena?

Definately not a recluse, but I don't know what the other one is or looks like.

recluses have solid colored abdomens and a fiddle design on the back of their thorax.

 

[the.hines]

I recently saw a spider like this in my garden. My kids and I looked it up in National Audubon Society' field guide. We think it to be either a Rabid Wolf Spider or Forest Wolf Spider.

Your kids are right it is a wolf spider. Yes probable a Rabid wolf spider because of the area that it was in and the pattern on his back. Hey a bee hive is free food for that guy.

I am sure that they keep all kinds of bugs off your hive as well.

I found this site.

http://www.duke.edu/~jspippen/arachnids/wolfspiders.htm

 

[Denise]

Oh man, Im so not a fan of spiders. Gives me the willies!!!

But we have wolf spiders here, and they get pretty big but are much darker.

Creepy creepy, good luck!!