itsy bitsy spider

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There is possibly THE largest spider (other than a tarantula I saw in Cozumel) I have ever seen in person camped out on the wall next to my bed. I looked up spiders online and I don't think it is any of the 4 poisonous ones that live in the US. But, it is giant. And very aggressive looking. Like the type of spiders that hunt rather than spin webs.

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Really? I'm always like, if I smash and miss, I'm in trouble cause it may get away and then come back and get me!!! You sound way more practical than me. :) This one would leave a nasty stain on wall or carpet tho... it was BIG. :P

But... I just got back from a successful capture and release mission. The spider walked down onto the carpet and I was able to capture her in a glass, then slip paper under her and carry her outdoors. I put her across the cul de sac from my house, lol!!! :) Deliberately NOT in my back yard! (I'm such a wussie!)

I think she was a wolf spider. Maybe.
(Though I read this great web page about identifying spiders and they were like -- "Forget it! You know nothing! Don't even pretend you know the smallest thing about spiders! You need a dozen books and microscopes and a PhD! AMATEUR!" I thought that was hilarious.)

loooove the icon :)

[scubawoman]

Just so you know we get alot of spiders from other countries here from importing produce. When I volunteered at the zoo, they were sending someone over to Wegman's a few times a year to get black window spiders that would come in on fruit.

So your big boy may not have been from around here.

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Uuuuuummmm... that doesn't make me as happy for a lot of reasons. But especially now cause I set her freeeeeee. And I'm kinda sorta sure (i.e., not really (AMATEUR!)) that it was a female from what I read online. So, even though I didn't notice an egg sac or anything, I could have put some crazy Borg spider species out in the land to assimilate the other spiders. :(

But, I'm also glad you told me this AFTER I did my capture! =)

It def wasn't a black widow though. Wrong body shape. Looked way more like a scaled back tarantula, which is why I'm thinking "wolf spider" though WHICH KIND of them, no clue there. Had stripes on the legs and was mostly dark. :P CLUELESS... :)

[mdmhvonpalj]

We use a hand-vac dust buster here in insect land ... works great. Of course, Jacob is the 'squish first, quantify later' type of kid.