While digging out footings for my raised bed garden, this spider was down in the dirt, under some rocks, mostly likely:
Poking around with an internet search leads me to believe that it was a mouse spider.
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I found a Mouse spider in my garden 2 years ago (and also identified it myself). I’d never heard of them, but what I learned sure freaked me out! I live in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, where I thought we had no poisonous spiders. In what part of the world do you live? (Everything I’ve found says these spiders live in Australia and New Zealand only.) Wish I’d taken a photo of mine and had it ID’d by someone official! Did you?
No positive ID on my spider. This is in the Little Rock, AR area, so not quite native habitat. I’m waiting on an arachnologist to come by and give me a positive identification. Stay tuned- it could happen!
It’s a trap door spider..Not a Mouse spider..
I think we have a winner! That seems like a pretty plausible answer. Thanks, Eric!
It looks like both trap door and mouse spiders and i know a place in the woods in castle rock washington that is littered with them. The whole few hours that im in the woods im digging down on my knees using my hands most of the time and they have never been aggressive in any way to me they pretty much mind there own buisness as far as i can remember .
It’s a folding door spider antrodiaetus pacifius. all over the pacific north west coast.