Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: what kind of spider is this, 1 by ibbjamin

ibbjamin wrote:
while moving into my new house and getting the garage set up, I moved an old oil canister in the corner that had obviously been there a while. a nice sized black widow was lurking behind it. took it out to the road and continued moving in a bit spooked.

moved one of the boxes that had not been settled for more than a couple days and on the backside of the box was a pretty large spider that I'd never seen before. It was very docile and cooperated as I moved it and placed a quarter next to it. It seemed as if it was almost playing dead or pretending I couldn't see it.

Any help with identifying it?

This message was edited Nov 5, 2009 9:40 AM