I was weeding in my day lilybed and reached down to pick up what I thought was a pine cone. NOT!!! It was the biggest damn spider I have ever seen that was not behind glass at the zoo. And all those yellow things on it's back are BABIES! Which means potentially MORE of these things lurking in my garden, or gasp, what if they get in the house???!!!! I'm not particularly squeamish about such things, but I definitely wanted this bad boy OUT of circulation. I know it's hard to tell, and we're all too freaked out to let it out of the jar it's in to place a size comparison next to it, but this spider is almost 2 inches long and 1 inch wide. sssshhhiiiiivverrrr
I was weeding in my day lilybed and reached down to pick up what I thought was a pine cone. NOT!!! It was the biggest damn spider I have ever seen that was not behind glass at the zoo. And all those yellow things on it's back are BABIES! Which means potentially MORE of these things lurking in my garden, or gasp, what if they get in the house???!!!! I'm not particularly squeamish about such things, but I definitely wanted this bad boy OUT of circulation. I know it's hard to tell, and we're all too freaked out to let it out of the jar it's in to place a size comparison next to it, but this spider is almost 2 inches long and 1 inch wide. sssshhhiiiiivverrrr
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Ack! Another reason why I don't do that gardening thing.
OMG! ewwwwwwwwwwwww... and the babies on the back?? that's just plain weird. They're supposed to come out of eggs... ok, now I need to get that image out of my head!
Oh. And it's still a cool find, but I'm also still grossed out :)
Yikes!!! I really am not fond of large crawly things and as you know we have lots of them here in Florida.
Keep that one up there with you :-)
That is so cool! Don't kill it, release it, far far away. Have you found out what kind it is?
EW! Are you sure those are babies on its back? It looks like he just rolled in some sprinkles or got hold of a bedazzler gun. LOL!
Is it a Wolf spider? We had one in our house when I lived in California. I stepped on it and babies went EVERYWHERE!! It was disgusting, like something out of a horror movie. I'm usually into saving things, but I don't know about *that*. :-P
You know what's crazy....we haven't even looked up what kind of spider it is yet! I'm a bad unschooler mom, bad! As for releasing it, well, that's not happening :) Ella, who has watched movies that are way scarier than this spider and never had nighmares, woke up two nights running after having had nightmares about the spider getting out of it's jar and being free to inflict harm on us unsuspecting humans! It is survival of the fittest in this case, and I am apparently more fit than that nightmarish ghoul of a spider! mmwwaaahhhh :)
I so prefer the Wolf spider (we had one on our wall a few years ago, now I remember) to the bugs it kills. We let it live. We all have different fittest pyramids, don't we, we who can kill small things? Mine has rodents at the way bottom.
OK WHY THE HECK DID I COME READ YOUR BLOG TODAY???
This is going to give me nighmares for a month.
I am so scarred of spiders that I can have a heart attack looking at one like that.
I don't like to kill them thou but I am just like Ella and would be terrorized of those babies going everywhere!
Maybe you should re-read Charlotte's Web? ;)
I don't know how I'd react if I came across something like that. I think *I* would go far, far away!
They eat lots and lots of bad bugs...we always let spiders live. I had one that looked just like it in FL complete with millions of babies on the back. I'll have to go find that picture now...it IS pretty bizarre looking isn't it?
I recall looking it up at the time and it was harmless and useful. Can't remember what it was now....
I just discovered your blog and am really enjoying your journey. We get these spiders all the time, wolf spiders. And they are so less scary when the babies are gone, they look about 1/2 the size. They like to jump in the pool, then the babies scatter and it takes a while to fish them out and set them on their way.
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