I was carrying the woods as I was building the chicks pen. I was wearing my sandles shoes. I walked and I stood up and looked down and I jumped and screamed and grabbed a stick and killed it. I hate spider and I am so panic of it.
GROSS!!!
It was about 2 inches long and wide. Big Spider!!
Hi Mini,
it is a wolf spider. The round fuzzy thing on the side were/are her babies. When the babies hatch they ride on moms back. Wolf spiders eat many other bugs that bug you. They are quite common here.
Yes that what she was carrying the fuzzy round when she walked . I dont know why I hate spider.. I know they are good spider to kill others..
Do they bite you and does it make you sick if bite? Just wonder..
ACK never seen this before me too hate spider. I am freak out.
Boy it is so big!
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I can handle alot of things, blood, vomit, other end stuff, and picking up after my dogs but I scream like a big ole sissy when it comes to big spiders, the little ones I can handle, I get them on a paper towel, roll it gently and put it outside. Then I shake my hands like it got on me. EW, cant handle em.
http://www.ento.okstate.edu/ddd/insects/wolfspider.htm
I went and search and found this. I guess this is good spider!
Thank for Hyperlink so if I see this will leave it alone.
If you keep killing things that repulse you and scare you there won't be much left on God's green earth. If you think you are intimidated by them just imagine how scary you must look to them.
I'm queasey about spiders too, but leave the Wolf Spiders to catch the other bad bugs. We get big ones in KY too.
This looks like a Tarantula to me,it must have escaped from one of the exhibits from your local zoo.
I love spiders! Especially tarantulas.
What do you wanna bet that BugFreak is a male?
LOL.
Any bets anyone?
Oh, it's a Wolf Spider allright...they get _big_. We've got tons of them. They will startle you when you see them, but are one of the 'good guys'.
I've found that the wolf spiders have a nasty habit (from my point of view of course, smart from spider's) of posting themselves right at my front door, for the bugs coming to the light, of course. But I am intensely repulsed by spiders, not rational I know.
There's no way I can just ignore one there. What? I'm just going to calmly step over it? Spiders seem to have a tendency to jump on me, I don't know why! Or, it might be scared and escape inside the door when I open it! I can't live in a house with a spider in it!
And there's no way at all I'm going to try to collect it and put it back outside!
Call me a wuss, I don't care. I'm not afraid of snakes like that though. I respect them and keep my distance, but they don't make me shudder uncontrollably. Buh-h-h-h-h-h-h!
I am glad to see that I am not alone! I can't stand spiders! Actually, I can't stand anything with more legs than me (besides cats, dogs, frogs, butterflies, catterpillars). I don't know what it is, but I have always suffered from arachnaphobia! It might have been an incident when I was young -- a couple of friends and me were moving lumber, and huge black spider scurried up the board that I was carrying, crawled up my arm, around my neck, and then down my back; this thing was a cruiser -- must have been moving 20 mph or more. It freaked me out so bad, I am to this day, scared to work around my wood pile.
Where I live, we have a big Garden Spider (bananna) problem. You guys know, those big fuzzy yellow and black spiders. They make these huge webs between the ground, the house, and the electrical lines coming into the house from the pole. The minute I see them (the spiders), I run and get the broom to knock them down; I try not to kill them, but if they are in my house, Raid to the rescue!
In the house we used to live in, we had a bad Brown Recluse problem. Those suckers died instantly. I can't afford to get bitten by one of those puppies! My dad was once bitten by one on his knee, and he ended up in the ER, and off his feet for a week. Give me a snake, no problem, but spiders are definitely not my friend! I can't even look at the tarantulas in the pet store. I had nightmares for days after watching "Arachnaphobia".
I'm with JudithI! -- Call me wuss, but everyone has there fears, and Spiders are mine! :)
I'm with you! Keep on with that spraying, stomping, whatever!
My dad grew watermelons. I went to the field to bring back one, picked it up, it was large and heavy. So I sort of hugged it up to my chest with my arms tight around it.
I happened to look down at what had been the bottom side of it, now the outside to me. There was a black widow spider on the bottom! It was shiny black, with the red markings on it.
Needless to say, I dropped the melon and ran like crazy back to the house. (I was already an adult at this time, not a kid!
Those nasties can kill you!! I never picked up another melon without checking it all over first!
After reading this thread...I am grateful for my zone! :D There are no black widows here (or brown recluse, or banana spiders)...there are Daddy Long Legs, a much, much smaller variety of wolf spider and none with a nasty bite. Our usual snake is the garter (the rattler is situated closer to the Dakota's) ....we may get temps that go down to -55F
(and colder with windchill) but the creepy crawlies are very tame here. I'll take the cold and enjoy a shorter, but safer, summer. ;)
Lilypon, I am jealous! But here is a bit of useless knowledge: The Daddy Long Leg Spider has actually got a venom that is more potent and more toxic than the Black Widow. They actually classify this spider as one of the most deadly, but the amount of venom that they carry isn't enough to harm a human.
I don't know how true that is, but I read it somewhere a while back. I'd rather deal with DDL's than the infamous BW.
So would I kc81cw...I've never had a DLL bite me and I used to pick them up alot when I was a kid (until the day that I took a close-up look at one). :b
As much as I detest all forms of spiders, I think that the feeling is not mutual. They seem to like me!
I was told by my grandpa not to worry about DDLs as they were harmless. But, I have found that, if there is one in the area, it manages to wind up ON ME!!!!! In my hair, crawling up my arm ------- Ewwwwwww!
You'd think they would understand that I don't like them! I've never been bitten by a spider that I know of, and I surely don't want to start now!!!!!
GET AWAY FROM ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My idea of the ideal place to live for bugs is AZ or South America. I would to move to either of these two places just for the bugs. Maybe the tropics of South America for both bugs and plants. When I'm old and gray this is where I'll be living out my years. Maybe Brazil or Costa Rica or even Malayasia for that matter. It's pretty neat how different things drive us all. The same strong passion for different things.
I've always been something of a bug-lover myself, and have read that, yes, the DDL is more venomous than the black widow, but they are unable to bite through our thick skin.
I pretty routinely hand-carry spiders out of the house to let them go, but I guess to be safe, I should probably catch them in a glass or something. So far, though, so good.
Bug freak -- in my wild youth I bummed around the Amazon for a while. Biggest bugs you can imagine! Go for it! I have often fantasized about running a butterfly farm in Costa Rica -- too bad I only have one life to live. (I should become a Buddhist -- then I can keep coming back! So many things I wish I had time to do!)
Hey! I hand carried a spider outside today too. (After making sure it wasn't a brown recluse of course).
We have all sorts of critters in our gardens. We have lizards, skinks, spiders, toads (lots), green tree frogs (lots) and even ant lions and cranes. We even have crabs that make their way inland from Santa Rosa Sound. Hermits and fiddlers. I try and tip toe around every one of these critters avoiding them in a way that makes them think that I don't see them. I think that they contribute to the beauty of a garden as much as blooming plants do.
Patricia,
Keep comming back is right. I know what you mean. There's not enough time to do all the things one wants to do. Costa Rica would be ideal for something like a butterfly house. There was one in in Denver that I got to see and it was amazing. I can only imagine what one in Costa Rica would be like. All the gingers, heliconias, tropical vines and orchids mixed in with the butterflies all with minimal care. Bugs are what kind of got me started on plants. Trying to find host plants for certain insects that I used to have etc. I love macro photography. Especially with insects and plants as subjects.
Yuk I will share this earth with Gods creatures and spiders as long as they are a long way from me and not in my house. We were told when we moved in we had nests of brown recluse around our house foundation. It was our exterminator that also treated for the termites. I stay far away as I still see them working in my plants. I think banana spiders are beautiful as long as I see their web first, I will leave them alone. But if in the way of what I need to do they got to go.
My DS loves spiders,when he was 4 he put one on me, I beleive this was reason for abuse, but I was freaking out to bad to beat him. I sure yelled at him alot. A few years ago Jo-anns at Halloween ,which I don't celebrate, Had these giant rubber spiders around a foot long. They looked real, so I bought him one. When I got home I took it from the bag and tossed it on the floor to see what my 2 doxies would do. Nothing of course, but every where I went I had to pass by it.
I got the shivers and could not stand even this rubber one.
It had to go. Put it out of site till I gave it to him to take home.
Call me sissy but they can live outside unless they get too close and when they are in my house it is not big enough for the two of us.
You've got that right!!!!! I've threatened to stay at a hotel until I personally see evidence that a large spider in the house is dead, dead, dead, safely deposited inside a tightly closed thick plastic bag, and off the property!!!! And I still worry that it might have brought friends!!
The first night, when we first moved to FL, a really scary, huge one was on the wall in our laundry. It was, without a doubt, the largest spider either I or my DH had EVER seen, and he had lived in Panama and been in Vietnam twice! We concluded that it must have been inside one of the boxes that the new washer or dryer was delivered in. But at the time, all I could think was, if this is what I have to contend with in FL, I'll stay at a hotel tonight, and call the movers in the morning to move us back to GA. Better the enemy that you know!
Get your flashlight out at night and shine it across your lawn... you should see many many pairs of eyes. They're wolf spiders.
I looooooooove spiders!!! :-)) LOL
OH please.. We lives on our own 18 acres of land.. SHould I get flashlight and shine it across all over the land.. I afriad I will see thousand out there! OH I hate spiders...
It's really fun! Their eyes glown green I believe. :D And yes, probably thousands!
You are sooo cruel crimsontsavo! ;)
:-)) heheheheheh!!!! read in the pets forum about my "new pet". :-))
I'm going to try the flashlight thing. I love my critters. The toads are so smart. The sit on driveway around the lamp poles to collect the bugs that fly around by the light. The green tree frogs are too. They climb up the house walls (like spiderman) and stay around the lamps and windows to collect the bugs that are attracted to the lights. Around this time of year their mating calls are loud and clear throughout the night from the woods behind us. I always mow the lawn a few hours past noon. That's when the frogs take refuge from the hot sun. By doing this I can avoid killing them with the lawn mower. I also don't use chemicals or poisons where I can avoid using them.
Some spiders are fun. We have big black fuzzy jumping spiders that love to bask in the sun waiting for a victim. I have seen them leap at a bee and catch it then eat it right in front of me. My kids have even held them... they only got bit once when they tried to hold two at once. I think the spiders were upset with each other and bit my daughter. We have even fed them flies on the end of a toothpick.
The only spiders I don't like are the ones that try to attack me. I found a big shiny one in my bathroom that was making a run for my big toe! Even when I am in the garden I don't mind the spiders and they don't seem to mind me... although it is a little freaky when they run across your hand or foot... they don't seem to know the difference between my foot and a rock... LOL!
Anyway, I don't think that a person's affinity for bugs is gender specific. My daughter can't stand the thought of me killing any bugs, even the bad ones. We bought a chart that shows which bugs are good for our garden and which ones aren't but she still refuses to be the one that kills any of them. It is also important to know which bugs are poisonous when you have a little bug lover in the family.
Here is one of our Australian Wolf Spiders, the Garden Wolf Spider (Lycosa godeffroyi). It doesn't have a scaly, hairy back. It is a female, carrying her large family of spiderlings on her back.
