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Fishslayer
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Wolf spider. Those are her babies out for a walk.
Harmless.
Harmless.
Damn Yankee
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fat tom
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If I show this pic to my wife,she will hit me with the nearest heavy object. 
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I had a cockroach run across the garage floor when loading 30-06 ammo. Got the Browning 1885, primed cased, splattered roach. More fun than trap shooting. Wear your ear muffs.
Sure miss having a garage.
Sure miss having a garage.
captorquewrench
Member
Wolf spider. Those are her babies out for a walk.
Harmless.
Beats pushing that many strollers.
belairdave
Member
Only got one shot of her! It was biggest I have seen here. See whats on her back? Crazy...
That sucker is butt ugly... Later, Dave
gunlovingirl
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I KNEW I shouldn't have looked at this! I don't like spiders, and that picture gives me the shivers!
Bob R
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We had one of those in a back room several years ago. The wife figured she would just stomp the life out of it. Wrong...as soon as she hit the thing with her foot there were tiny spiders going everywhere. I have never seen her feet move so fast. Of course I nearly died laughing, probably not the thing to do at the time.
Now days all she does is get out the can of raid if she sees a spider. She isn't taking any chances.
bob
Now days all she does is get out the can of raid if she sees a spider. She isn't taking any chances.
bob
scooter123
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Having once been bitten by a Brown Recluse I have a policy to immediately dispatching any spyder with Extreme Prejudice. However, now that I'm aware of a species that transports mulitudes of minatures on their backs I'll have to revise my technique.
mwtdvm
Member
Like Bob R's wife...
I did that and then did my impression of a fat male flamenco dancer trying to get all the little buggers as they scattered. Glad no one else caught that act.
I did that and then did my impression of a fat male flamenco dancer trying to get all the little buggers as they scattered. Glad no one else caught that act.
The Last Standing Knight
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Personally, I think the mama spider with her babies is adorable! Then again, I'm not scared of any spider and have been known to feed Orange Arigope Orb weaving spiders (the big ones with the big circular webs in gardens) and kinda make pets of them.
I find the occasional wolf spider in the garage, but not carrying the babies out for a stroll. I pretty much leave them alone as they will eat other insect pests. I really despise those big Florida palmetto bugs. Even though I rinse out the beer bottles before they are put in the recycle bin, those big roaches are always hanging out for a swig of beer, not matter how dilute.........Hot tip!...........a quick blast of Brakleen ends their forays.
LAKOTA169
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Interesting creatures.
RobertJ.
Member
Here's one I saw in Hawaii, it was about 3" from leg tip to tip. It really made me realize I'd better be paying attention to what's between me and where I'm going! They're actually cool little creatures, their only crime is being creepy. And no, I didn't kill this one.
truckemup97
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For some reason, this thread is making me itch. Kind of like something tiny is running all over me.
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I can't stand most spiders. Recluses and widows #1 on the list.
But I actually kind of like these things.. These patrol my recreational
living center up in Oklahoma. I snapped these last fall. I saw these
two a day apart, and at the time I thought it was the same spider
that just moved a few hundred feet. But after looking at the pix, I
could tell they are different critters. They have different markings,
and one has darker legs than the other.
These things are fairly harmless, so they don't bother me like some
of the others. I still wouldn't want one crawling on me though.. :/
Couple of short videos of them tromping around.. They generally
move pretty slow. Trying to run over these on the highway is
a sport in itself.. Almost as popular as "noodling" up there. chortle..
I remember when I was little, we would see huge ones out on
the highways back then. If they were in our lane, my dad would
usually try to take em out..
http://home.comcast.net/~disk100/t1.wmv
http://home.comcast.net/~disk100/t2.wmv
But I actually kind of like these things.. These patrol my recreational
living center up in Oklahoma. I snapped these last fall. I saw these
two a day apart, and at the time I thought it was the same spider
that just moved a few hundred feet. But after looking at the pix, I
could tell they are different critters. They have different markings,
and one has darker legs than the other.
These things are fairly harmless, so they don't bother me like some
of the others. I still wouldn't want one crawling on me though.. :/
Couple of short videos of them tromping around.. They generally
move pretty slow. Trying to run over these on the highway is
a sport in itself.. Almost as popular as "noodling" up there. chortle..
I remember when I was little, we would see huge ones out on
the highways back then. If they were in our lane, my dad would
usually try to take em out..
http://home.comcast.net/~disk100/t1.wmv
http://home.comcast.net/~disk100/t2.wmv
