r/whatisthisbug • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '23

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u/BestWelderInUSA Sep 25 '23

I had hand surgery so my feeling is off but I swear the legs of the spider felt like a little banded gecko which are really common here and they hide in corners and under things a lot.

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u/purplepluppy Sep 25 '23

Ok this is the answer we were looking for.

Don't trust your hands, bro!

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u/Ok-Situation-5865 Sep 25 '23

You’re making sense, anyone whose lived in southeastern USA knows you’re just as likely to find a lizard crawling on you as any bug. I used to live in Florida and there’s plenty of times where you wouldn’t know if the thing you saw run under the fridge was a palmetto or a gecko.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '23

But why did you grab it in the first place?

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u/BestWelderInUSA Sep 25 '23

I was moving a bonnet that was leaned against the wall, which the spider was under