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  • @counterclockwise123 actually there are close to 5 poisonous spiders in Canada including; the hobo, black widow, brown recluse(sp), and brown widow spider.

    PS- the wolf spider and hobo spider look barely a like. Different sizes, markings, attitudes, and much, much more.

  • @ctswright wolf spiders and Hobo spider are quite different and this video was bad quality.

    You see, wolf spiders are mainly brown and much larger then hobo spiders.

    I live near Toronto too and we get them every year in my house.

    Another way to see them is hobo spiders have a thick whiteish line down this body and stripes of the same colour of the legs, large fangs, and long legs.

    Hobo spiders live in funnel webs however the. Common brown house spider or the garage/dock spider don't have l

  • bear grylls would eat those up in no time. hes like chuck norris to the insect world.

    but im thinking, FLAME THROWER THAT SHIT!!!!

  • what kind of spiders are these?

  • In tornonto, I found one of these in my bed. I ran to find a broom and kill it but it was gone when I came back. I didnt sleep in my room for a month after that.

  • you do realise what these spiders can do and your just happily videoing them? i live in scotland so we dont get them here,we get house spiders and garden spiders that cant bite or anything,and i cry when i see one,are you serious? spiders are my biggest fear,i could never live in canada,i would commit suicide if i saw one of these beasts!

  • holy shit, how large is large exactly?

  • if i seen those spiders i would probly shit bricks, then make a brick wall

  • this pisses me off. how exacle are we suppose to live our lives wih these things crawling around in this God loving world. :(

  • Thanks fellow Torontonian ! Inadvertedly, you have convinced me to issue a "kill on sight" policy for cleaning my house.

    That was meant to be humorous, I've already been doing that for years.

  • Fucking great, im going on a trip to Toronto right now

  • No spider is poisonous

  • @JensTwn Thank you. It's amazing how few people know the difference between venomous and poisonous.

  • I've been bitten by a venomous spider. Funny, people will put up with: bedbugs, mosquitos, black flies etc., but spiders - do us more GOOD than harm. It is when we have those rare accidental encounters.

    Good video by the way.

    I was bitten by a northern Black Widow: I got very ill and had a high fever, but I survived it. YOU will get bit 1000 times in your life by mosquitoes, black flies and other parasitic insects. Despite my unfortunate encounter, I respect these arachnids.

  • I am seriously going to put a bunch of these in my stepdad's bed

  • I got bored and looked up poisonous spiders

  • whoever dislikes this video probably thought Hobo Spiders is like a bad a joke because the spiders are just chilling there like two hobos... fucking kids

  • are you sure they are hobos? they are only found in the pacific northwest - they came here from western europe via a ship to seattle in the 1930's and have spread as far east as idaho and as far north as vancouver and as far south as oregon

  • @dcombz

    lmfao ur one of those people that are actually funny :P

  • Nobody wants a hobo living under their roof.

  • @DCombz You sir, made me laugh.

  • it looks a lot like a wolf spider....how can u tell the difference?

  • @ctswright Their eyes are like antennae versus on the head like other spiders.

  • @ctswright it has to be a wolf spider. the only poisonous spider in Canada is the Black Widow. but just to be safe im going to go kill the one in my porch right now

  • @truennthereaper hobo spiders are poisonous. When I was a kid my brother and I were playing with one and it bit him, and the poison cause tissue and nerve damage to his hand...very dangerous! and poisonous!

  • Glad I live in Ireland, where the spiders are small and harmless towards humans.

    Except for that time I heard that a tarantula escaped in the capital.

    Ugh, I hate tarantulas...

    When I was 8 or 9 I saw one in a pet shop and I fricken' jumped and almost screamed. =P

  • Creepy

  • i hate spiders, but dude spiders aren't poisonous, they are venomous!!!! sounds worse doesn't it

  • Dude you gotta fuckin infestation man get a flame thrower and burn those fuckers.

  • hobo spiders aren't poisonous

  • Wrong they are poisonous I just watched a video where a firefighter was talking about common poisonous spiders that you may encounter and he said they are poisonous. I kinda believe him because he is a firefighter and knows about what to do with diff spider bites.

  • yes they are

  • NO WAYY THOSE COCKSUCKERS are in toronto?? I LIVE THERE  fkkkk no wayy i never knew there were posinous spiders in toronto, even canada :(:(:(

  • I HATE SPIDERS!!!

  • EHhh hobo spiders,

    I had a couple encounters with those spiders at me dads house in albany Or.

    We couldn't sleep on the floor in that house because those things were always crawling out of under the couches at night

  • LMAO hobo spiders

  • Nasty little fuckers, those things are. I was bitten on the back of my leg in my sleep in my parents' basement in Spokane, WA a few years back. The area turned dark blue, and red streaks ran down my leg.

    The wound eventually turned into a crater that took two months to heal. And I have no feeling in the skin immediately surrounding the scar where I was bitten because the spider's venom destroyed the nerves in that part of my leg. So when I see one of those things, it gets killed.

  • I live in Bremerton WA and i see these spiders during the summer all the time they get fucking huge...!

  • Hobos are not the vicious Hell-spawn that everyone makes them out to be. There bite has only been linked to one death up here in the Pacific Northwest. The guy that kind of sits still is very much a Hobo with his skinny "ass", the other is probably like dude said just another spider. Take into consideration these are the disposals of the "bug" world; I'd rather have one of these in my house instead of a bunch of flies or better yet yellow-jackets. Don't kill them just move them outside.

  • while you make an excellent point...i LIVE in the pacific northwest....these spiders arent the kind harmless spiders you make them out to be. if you find one in the house.....and you try to kill it....i LITRALLY starts "running" towards you. it basically attacks you. the last thing you want to do is handle such a venamous spider. they have a right to live......but so do humans and when you handle such agressive spiders its dangerous.

  • OMFG! I get these in my bathtub ALL the time! I HATE IT

  • lol dude just got out of the bath with one dead in it LOL Gross

  • ew, are you sure it was dead? they always look dead and then they start making a bee-line for escape *shudders*

  • You bumbling idiots making comments on here are tops. If you take the time to actualy look at the spider and it's markings, it is clearly nothing more than a reagular "garden variety" grass spider.

  • nope. its a hobo. did you see (what i like to call) the boxing gloves on the fangs? hobo. deffinatly a hobo spider. and also the lighter brown line going virtaclly with the abdomen? hobo. and they are evil.

  • well you are naming characteristics of a hobo spider but there are other spiders that share the same characteristics as hobo's like the "boxing gloves" pedipalps on the male spider and the "vertical line pattern" on the back. the brown house spider looks nearly identical though. and not all hobos look the same some even have different patterns. youre right though hobo spiders do have patterns like that, but so do other spiders

  • thats where they keep their sperm all male spider have those in the breeding season

  • You shouldn't call the people on here idiots when we've some of us have fuckin seen these spiders nearly face to face and did our research. Maybe you should do yours before you start calling names.

  • i have one of those as a pet im getting a tarantula to =) i cant get the tarantula outta the wild cos im in ireland.

  • I'd probably put them in a glass jar with holes at the top and keep them as pets for a while. I used to keep spiders and other insects as pets when I was a lil kid and I like snakes and all those things, so this type of thing does not freak me out...

    I actually just read on the city news website that there are/were Black Widow Spiders spotted in the GTA around Mississauga, Bolton and likely other areas. I bet there are many folks in those and other areas freaking out now.

  • why the hell wouldnt you kill them !

  • Spiders clean your house. They eat flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, and other bugs that cause diseases.

  • your piont? fly swaters, jars, even insect killer! hobo spiders are to dangerous...

  • Um, just how dangerous are they...? :(

  • from what I've read, the bite wont be too bad...with medical help...the bites are treated the same as a brown recluse bite and the brown recluse is pretty bad...they can be deadly...

  • Not very at all.

  • shit dude that sucks

  • vaccum them! :D

  • no spider hobo no

  • I always see those spiders in my apartment. One bit me 3 days ago and it looks nasty.

  • DID YOU NO this is a real fact and that in your life tinme while you are asleep you will eat 7 spiders < but youwont no about it !!! lol thats a fact that i found on google

  • hell no...

  • 1. this video is PROOF that spiders look dangerous, and at least icky.

    2. i doubt there's ever been a human being alive that hasn't killed a spider out of fear at some point in their life.

    3. Kill spiders, roaches, some ants, etc etc

    4. that is all.

  • I agree but spare the ants!

  • Not fire ants!!

  • agreed

  • 1: There is NO proof that Hobo Spiders are dangerous at all to humans. 2: Hobo Spiders are NOT particularly aggressive. They do not stand their ground when threatened, and will flee, often towards the threat instead of away from it. The sudden movement leads predators(including humans)to think that it's attacking, making them move out of its way most of the time, allowing it to run for cover. Some of you people need to crack open a text book once in a while....at least use Google, or something!

  • I breed spiders and I know something about it.

    But your comment looked too narrowminded.

    People have kids and as far as most of them know spiders are poisonous. So they prefer killing it instead of risking their children's healthy. People have beliefs. It's not their fault. Cultures put that on people since the beginning of ages.

    Or you are gonna tell me you ALWAYS act reasonably when you feel threatened?

  • I don't know how you can say my comment was "narrowminded", when you apparently didn't even read it properly. One: I never said anything about people killing spiders. I was talking about the idiots who claim that they were "chased" by Hobo Spiders. Two: Individuals are just as much at fault as their cultures. They don't bother to educate themselves and they allow the media to brainwash not only them, but their children as well.

  • If by "acting reasonably", you mean "not freaking out", then yes, I do act reasonably when I feel threatened. Given, as a child, I didn't, but as I grew older I found that freaking out gets people killed. I've been working around animals since I was 5 years old, I'm a hunter, and I'm a herpetologist as well. Out in the field, I've encountered everything, from Brown Bears, to Nile Crocodiles. At times like those, I have no choice but to act reasonably, otherwise I'm as good as dead.

  • In that case, sorry about the misunderstanding. = )

    But I keep my point about acting reasonably, not freaking out. Just because you do, it doesn't mean every people do. Actually, people who face fear reasonably are the minority.

    Cheers!

    Sorry about the delay hahaha!

  • Ok so I am not the only one who got chased by one. One of those things came running at my foot last night but I happen to be my bed then saved from getting bitten! Vancouver here.

  • those are hobos 4 sure,I kill those fuckers on the daily here in,Idaho.We have them bad,and there hella agressive,ivehad them chase me several times.

  • smush them please

  • omfg in toronto??? AHHHHH i like there..i bet their going all the way to the arctic circle to do something

  • like-live*

  • like-die

  • im gonna die in toronto??? ima wear 10 layers of clothing when i go to my basement to be safe

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  • omfg dont tell me they are going to live in canada now

  • they always did.....ere in the uk too i found out!

  • argh UK NOOOOOOOOO i hate spiders.....

    im gonna put 1 of those massive plastic balls around me and run 4 my bloody life aaaaaaaaa

  • Whoa they look like hobos!!!

  • just punch em with ur fist like i do

  • lmao

  • Omg these spiders are devil spawn. You need to burn them, and not just them, you need to set the whole house on fire to be sure you get them. And you better do it soon, they'll brainwash your children. Next thing you know they'll be dealin and drive byin. Burn the house, just be sure to burn the house and get them all! You know, for the kids!

  • best comment ever omfg :D

  • lmao

  • i used to have those things in my house kill them they are bad spiders..

  • OMG KILL THEM T___T

  • those arent hobo spiders, if anyone can tell me what they really are i would appreciate it, ive been finding these around my house and its scaring the shit out of me.

  • Actually if you look them up on the internet, the hobo or brown recluse or fiddleback spider (all the same by the way) looks exactly like the common house spider which these probably are. They are incredibly difficult to tell apart and it usually takes a powerfull magnifier to do it.

  • Hobo spiders and fiddleback spiders are NOT the same thing. Fiddleback spider is another name for a recluse spider (genus Loxosceles.) A hobo spider is of the genus Tegenaria, the same as giant house spiders and domestic house spiders (a.k.a. Barn funnel weaver.) What we have here could be any of the four (similar appearance, low resolution), but least likely is a brown recluse (or fiddleback.)

  • I didnt say they WERE the same I said they Look thes ame, all the research I have done on the net says they all share the same body types and all can have the same markings. I agree that its impossible for the general public to tell what the spiders in this pic are. If you are afraid f them catch one in a jar and take it to your local college. I live by the U of O here and they will identify them for free.

  • KILL THEM WITH FIRE

  • Dude kill them!

  • I wouldnt advice you to feed them your dog or give them steroids.....LOL...

  • holy shitt.

    im gonna go sleep in a plastic bubble. tonite..

    these things scare the crapp outta meh!

  • dude thats freaking huge

  • i get those in my house too. quick little bastards!

  • now if you would do some dusting that would never be there

  • get a flamethrower and be quick about it!! those are HUGE!!!

  • so u get massive spiders in canada or just the rare biggie??! plz tell me as im on my way over there for a year and im shit fucking scared of spiders

  • youll only get a big one every once in a while most, of them are pretty small here.the biggest ones you will find are maybe an inch or two including legs

  • You need to cure your arachnophobia then.

  • is the poisen enough to kill sum1?

  • u need to nuke those things

  • i have a deathly fear of spiders. I cry when i see them. what got meh scared of them was like 2 yrs ago when i lived in an apartment theree were black widows literally surrounding meh! and i was wearing sandals! i was crying so much and no one was with meh!

  • i hate thoes ass hole spiders

  • well all i have to say is if a spider get in ur speaker somehow jus turn up the volume and kill it

  • they're not really poisonous are they?

  • at first i was like

    "wtf hobo? thats funny."

    but those look exactly like the ones i have been feeding in the corner of my room 0_o

  • omg im scared i live in utah =/ omg save me i dont wanna get bitin

  • ohhhh very ugly O_O

    

    i think u should clean better your house ;)

  • dude u should like seriously think about cleaning ur house up

  • It's just a dumb spider.There are spiders all over the place. Your house probably has hundreds of them.Anyway I keep spider quadruple the size of that.

  • if i had a big spiders i would make sure its in the house and burn the bitch i am a giant wuss went it comes to any kind of spiders

  • but again some bites from hobo could be mistaken as the brown recluse bites and effects are skin necrosis which could take months to heal

  • The spider you are saying is an agelenidae species or funnel weavers and are harmless and not agressive but i should have seconds thoughts abou these, may be you are right but should be careful cause they can be mistaken and hobos are considered dangerous. Probably it is better to get bitten by a widow cause it probably take two/three days for full recovery but with skin necrosis this trouble can last for months.

  • I'd rather take a swan dive into a poisoned lake then look at those things. Twitch creepy.

  • i hate spiders soo much! their fucking creapy and if i see one ill run formy life!

  • burn the mother fucking house

  • lol

  • There are those yellow spiders, golder orb and yellow garden that are reported to be harmless and non-toxic but damn they look horrific, even more horrific than these two

  • all spiders seem dangerous to me! I will rather have cockroaches than spiders in my house!

  • Okay folks, here's the deal: Definately NOT brown recluses. They ONLY live in the mid-southern to southeast US. This dude is in friggin Canada. These are NOT hobos either..again wrong place. Also the web is dead give-away. These DEFINATELY funnel weavers aka grass spiders. Harmless and can help you keep out other bugs that are much ickier! Leave 'em be. They're the good guys.

  • hey i live in canada and my ulcle got bit by a brown recluse in chillawack or hope i forget the venom will eat at ur flesh and leave holes or dimples in ur skin where the bite was abd its not pretty trust me i've seen it i live in armstrong (also in b.c) and these things are in my fucking basment

  • If it was CA, it was not a recluse. End of story.

  • I live just outside of Toronto and yes we do have brown recluse and also the northern black widow. Our climate is the same as the Carolinas.

  • Sorry man Im in Oregon (theats the NORTH west by the way) and we DO have Brown Recluse epiders! Do some research

  • Those are just funnel weaver spiders, a male and a female. (NOT funnel web, please don't start jawing at me)

  • Aren't those brown recluses?

  • maybe you should research them dumbass then you'll find oput there poisonous

  • Those aren't dangerous at all... They're lazy spiders that just come out to look for food sometimes, I've never heard of anyone get bitten by a hobo spider.

  • one of those r actually a brown recluse n thats the second most poison is in the united states

  • WHAT??? WTF? They are VERY dangerous and venomous. Found only in Pacific NW, sometimes in Canada north of Seattle. These are NOT hobo spiders...they aren't found in Toronto. And they're too big and round.

  • those look more like brown recluse spiders than hobo

  • Yes, Hobos' legs lay out flatter and skinnier.

  • get the flame thrower out

  • chillflood. to get rid of them when they go to the gravel catch them or get rid of gravel. lol

  • they sure do look like hobos....

  • Hey um i have a hobo spider problem in my area. theres normally some hobo spiders living on the cement side of my house and anyone have an idea on how i can get rid of them? or atleast how to tell if its a hobo spider cause im not sure if they're hobo's or giant house spiders =\

  • get a can of axe nd a lighter nd burn them its cement so it shouldnt burn :)

  • Yeah those look like hobos.. not the giant housespiders most bozos are posting on youtube.

  • get ze exterminator my friend zey are very powerfull

  • ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i hate zem

  • hey pls stay away from those freind they will kill you in secounds

  • gives me the kreeps

  • those spiders are dangerous stay away from them they could kill you.

  • wolf or not wolf THAT SHIT Is BAD

  • cute

  • tho-thouse are in CANADA HOLY SHITTY POO KILL THEM KILL THEM

  • torch em

  • those are brown recluses...KILL THOSE MOETHER FUCKERS BEFORE THEY KILL YOU!!!!!

  • holy shit, i wouldve shitted my pants if i saw those things on my house

  • me too all over the place

  • woah that's trippy

  • fucking kill those things!!!!

  • ok people wolf spiders dont use webs to hunt so those arent wolf spiders, i dont claim to know what they are but i know they arent wolf spiders.

  • Wolf spiders do not resemble the brown recluse. I've killed both many many times, they look nothing a like.

  • lol hobos

  • those things are quick

  • The ironic thing is that Hobo spiders very closely resemble Tegenaria duellica, which is everywhere in the UK and is totally harmless. If I went to the states I'd probably kill myself trying to pick up a hobo spider...

  • Those are Wolf Spiders. Most common everywhere and often resemble the infamous Brown Recluse. They are very fast, have great eye sight, and are the best of hunters. However they are completely harmless.

  • I am the world's top entomologist.

    Those are not hobo spiders.

    A true hobo spider wears a black tooth grin, carries a knapsack on a stick and reeks of day old stoggies.

    Go back to college and learn your insects.

    Geeezzz people

  • all i can say is

    ew

  • well that must be scary

  • those arent hobo spiders i live in oregon usa and we have em everywhere every night i find atleast 2 in my room attacking eachother cuz there population shot up this year

  • a big ass spider like that landin on ur forehead is funny???

  • let these live in your house. they will kill all the other bugs. while sleeping one night one of these landed on my farhead,then i woke up and squatted it on my face along with the blood and guts. lol