Hi it's me AGAIN!
This one is different from the first one I posted - however it seems to be a bigger version of the second one I tried to show everyone but the pictures were really terrible. Hopefully these pictures are better, if you need more I did take some more.
Let me know if you know what this is! And thanks in advance - I think he's cute and I've NEVER been a fan of spiders.
~Mandy
Ok here's one straight on... his eyes looked like two eyes and a nose - yeah I caught myself calling that crazy thing cute :)
Last one - I thought it's markings on it's back were interesting so I took one from behind as well.
This could be a spitting spider (family Scytodidae - see http://spiders.ucr.edu/images/Is_or_Isn%27t_recluse_files/Spider3.jpg). Like recluse spiders, they only have six eyes, arranged in three dyads as in your photo. They capture prey by 'spitting' a glue-like 'web' (see http://faculty.vassar.edu/suter/1websites/spittingspider/); they are harmless to humans.
You say they aren't harmful to humans, but can they bite humans at all? I seem to remember that some spider's can't due to the size of their mouths. However, I have read of other forums where people say that they do bite and they leave a pretty nasty scar.
Are spitting spiders known to be around the coast of North Carolina?
I am unaware of any documented case of this spider biting a human. As for its distribution, you already appear to have that information from the Nearctic Arachnologists' forum. It is a sad fact that the distribution of many arthropods is poorly known, perhaps caused in part by declining numbers of specialists studying them.
As an aside, all spiders (with the exception of the family Uloboridae) are venomous, but only a few are capable of inflicting serious injury.
Thanks for the info!
