GEEKS!!!!!!!!!!

That's an orb-weaving jumping spider. There's a few living under my house, they're pretty common in our part of the world :) Not very aggressive and not poisonous but they CAN and WILL bite if you annoy them enough, and it doesn't feel very good.

And hell, most peoples' gut reaction upon seeing a spider is to kill it. Used to be mine. But think of it this way:

1) You are 6,400 times the size of most spiders.
2) You weigh 10,000 times as much.
3) You are smarter than they are.
4) The spider doesn't know you're there.

Thinking of it this way usually drives people to feel sorry for the spiders, and the spiders happily go on your way. Though if you find a nest of brown recs in the house, I will excuse you if you want to get rid of it.

Jumping spider??? I wish I would have known that before I smashed it with my shoe!! I probably would have sprayed it with some hairspray first if I had known it could have jumped on me!!!

Why is it so damn big????

Thanks Mandy!!! I saved it for you in a little baggy. This might be the perfect opportunity for us to meet since we are so close!!! I'm sure you'd love to have a dead jumping spider right?

:)

Years ago I house sat for a musician friend of mine who had an estate....way out in the rural country. My bedroom was new and gorgeous...but in the basement (I HATE basements).

Well...we had an infestation of spiders the size and likes that this suburban/citified girl to this day has still NEVER seen.

One day..I had just done my laundry. And I looked on the floor, and THOUGHT I saw a HUGE black ball of lint about the size of a fist. I reached down to pick it up...and just before my hand touched it...it SNAPPED at me and ran away.

I Screamed SO LOUD I was shaking. After that, my friend came over and we FOGGED the whole house with Bug spray. Oh MY God!!!!

Hello, I am sorry to butt in but I have to disagree with Mandy, that does not look like any jumping spider I have seen, but it does look VERY close to the Wolf Spider..

http://www.qmuseum.qld.gov.au/features/spiders/spiders/WolfSpider.asp

http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/biodiv/spiders/Lycosa%20sp.htm

http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/CritterFiles/casefile/spiders/wolf/wolf.htm

and so on... I am a collector of Tarantulas and a Spider lover myself and when I saw this thread I did my own research.

I shall now slip back into my retirement, have a good day

That Carolina Wolf spider looks EXACTLY like what I killed today. See that tan line that goes down the middle...that looks exactly like it.

Thanks for that pic Mike!!!

This looks exactly like what I killed before I killed it. Trust me I know what it looked like before I killed it bc I paced around in front of it for a minute or so wondering how the hell I was going to kill this huge thing.

http://entomology.unl.edu/images/spiders/schizocosa2.jpg

Pffft! That doesn't look so scary. We've got bigger ones than that over here.

And I'm only stood on this chair because I am about to change a lightbulb.

I like spiders. Mind you, we only get daddy long legs in our house and they're good because they eat the flies.
Rats, however, now those are things I don't want in the house.

The only good spider for me is a dead one.

Mr.Jingles79 wrote:

The only good spider for me is a dead one.

spider killer!!!

Oh man..do I hate spiders..*shudders*
One time I was in my mom's kitchen, and there was this huge brown spider. Well, I got the bug spray and sprayed, ran, and screamed, of course... It scurried off, but underneath it were dozens of ITTY BITTY baby spiders! This confused the hell outta me, cause on Charlotte's Web, they just fly out of the egg sack on their own. ;-) What's up wit dat? Didn't know there were spiders that took care of their babies...weird.

That Carolina Wolf spider Mike mentioned before has an egg sack she carries around with her when she has babies. When the babies hatch they stay on her back for a bit of time. I can't remember exactly how much time but it's long enough until they can hunt on their own.

You live in one of the Carolina's Erin so I'm sure you see plenty of these boogers. I'm taking this dead one over to one of our highschools. There is a teacher there who is nuts over spiders. I'm sure he's mad it is dead but there is no way I am brave enough to catch a live spider. They are so fast too!!!

I'll let you all know what he says.

Wolf spider...must've been why it was furry..*Yuck* :-p

Barry © wrote:

Seen as this is a spider topic.

If of a nervous disposition do not look.

http://img38.echo.cx/img38/5250/pirtelo1ge.jpg

I can't really see those pictures, they are too small.

Lisser wrote:

I can't really see those pictures, they are too small.

Think Spider Milkshake

EWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!