Texas Gardening: Spider ID help please, 0 by von219

von219 wrote:
Definitely a wolf spider. It went through this with about 5 of these ugly looking things in about 10 days a few months back. One was so big about half way up my wall one night, just as I was getting ready to go to bed. It was sprawled out about 4 inches across, it scared the daylights out of me, I don't think I've ever personally seen one that big. The others were about 3 inches wide.

I researched and research and everywhere I went and found what it looked like, they called it a wolf spider. You better get rid of it before the babies hatch....they'll come through those holes. While outside the other night, one was on the side of my house, I recognised it to be a Wolf Spider with a lump on it's back, it was kinda dark and didn't realize the babies were already out of the sac....man, when I hit it, it seemed like thousands of them scattered everywhere in an INSTANT.

They are SO TINY when they are first born, I promise you that they will NOT stay in the jar.

The link above says they are not harmful to people but the articles I read said that they don't search out humans to bite but should one bite you that they are poisonous.

Your photo is kinda blurry, does it look anything like the one below.

This message was edited Nov 6, 2008 12:31 AM