Georgia Spider ID?

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rwmullis79 Hampton, GA Apr 28, 2009

Anyone have a clue what the heck this spider is. Makes me want to move.

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Apr 28, 2009

This is a large female wolf spider (family Lycosidae), and you'd have to move a very long way (say, Antarctica) to avoid them, as they have essentially a world-wide distribution. They are voracious predators on any other small arthropods that they can capture, and thus quite useful pest controllers. Although a specimen this large could give you a painful bite if you handled it carelessly, they otherwise are harmless to humans.

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cedar18 Lula, GA(Zone 7b) May 02, 2009

rw - speaking of painful bites, put on some shoes around that big boy!! I see those sock feet back there....

Suunto - is that an egg case she's hauling around?

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LadyAshleyR Oakland, MD May 02, 2009

Wow she's gorgeous!

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV May 02, 2009

That certainly appears to be an egg sac - female wolf spiders carry their egg sac attached to the tip of their abdomen, whereas their close relatives, fishing/dock spiders in the family Pisauridae, carry theirs up front with their chelicerae.

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