a- its not creepy if one know arachnoids.-
this species of spider eat fly and moths, also,
i have oberved them eating silverfish, when they were present or presented.

b. they stay away from humans and they are not deadly.
It hurts if they bite, but it is like a mosquito bite.

chart here
http://www.termite.com/spider-identification.html


c.- they eat a lot of bugs, and they have eaten black and brown widows, in my observations.
have a spare cup and a magazine about to catch and release.
i know- you wanna squish it, but, if you do- 45% of those babies will escape, and grow to adulthood.
sleep well

your mileage may vary.
if you are ,unfortunately bitten by a wolf spider or any spider you should call 999 or 911 if you have any symptoms of death.
just saying is all.

ThisIsNotSubtle: Wolf spiders may have a harmless bite, but that particular trick is weapons-grade heart attack fodder if you ask me.

indeed. thats why i advise they be left alone.
but, i wasnt planning on going there.
catch and release= no wolf spider grenades

DammitIForgotMyLogin: Errrrrrr


and One of you folks got it. thanks mate.

I was putting things away in the rafters of my shed once when I noticed a rather large wolf spider, spread out about 4". It was about four feet away from me on the wall. I wanted to get a better look at it, so I shined a flashlight at it.

Apparently, wolf spiders are one of the few species of spider that have tapetum lucidum, the layer of tissue in the eye that causes eyeshine. I twitched.

Let me guess, it's fark second favorite spider, the wolf spider.

http://www.fark.com/comments/6458143/Female-wolf-spider-with-babies-m a kes-entire-area-a-no-fly-zone

http://www.fark.com/comments/5044404/Afraid-of-spiders-Then-do-NOT-cl i ck-on-this-link-Were-takin-a-spider-covered-with-a-gajillion-tiny-spid ers-they-are-moving-like-those-things-from-Cloverfield

http://www.fark.com/comments/4372042/Thanks-to-global-warming-hairy-m e at-eating-wolf-spiders-of-northeastern-Greenland-are-getting-bigger-In -related-news-there-are-spiders-meat-in-northeastern-Greenland

Maybe I'll click the link and I'll be lucky, it will just be subby's mom with a spider pattern crop circled into her butthole hair.

click

Sigh, it's a wolf spider.

These gave me the jibblies

Frankly, I was disappointed.

I expected to see a wolf spider mom cradling a screaming spiderling while pushing a stroller filled with grocer bags.

Interesting--check.
Unusual--check
Horrifying--erm, no

/ZOMG slashies!!!! ! !!
//the horror
///the horror

These little buggers love to float in my pool, riding around on the creepy-crawly hose or just doing a little body surfing in the wake. I remember my first time also. Very weird but kinda cute.

Mom?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE!

Clown car

Carries babies like subby's mom - down on all 8's w/100 kids on her back

You know, if you squint just right, the spider in the first pic of the article looks kind of like a deformed skull.

You don't typically see human mothers carry their babies on their backs. Usually it's only when they are in competition with another mother for the last pack of Walmart brand cat food they subsist off of, they drop down to all fours to traverse the aisle at a higher rate of speed necessitating the child travel on the mothers back. I figure it will become more common place as the fastest Walmart quadrupeds will gain a distinctive advantage in resources over the slower ones, natural selection and all.

CSB:

My room was in the basement of a rental house while I helped my parents build a new one. Spiders AND garter snakes kept getting into the basement. It didn't bother me, though, because they ate the thousands of farking crickets down there.

/CSB

my tarantula died so i'm really sad outta these replies. :(

AnubisMan: You don't typically see human mothers carry their babies on their backs

Visit Asia. This is all.

Dismantled a very old (60+ years) deteached 3 bay garage this past summer. There were, by scientific calculation, about 2.6 billion spiders living in that structure - about half of which were wolf spiders - the spider on spider carnage rate must have been horrific.

Didnt bother me much until a ceiling tile broken apart above me as I was tearing out part of the wall and hundreds of pieces of insulation/bird feathers/bug corpses and probably just a couple spiders rained down on my head. In the split second that happens its REALLY freaking hard to convince yourself that everything hitting you is not a spider - I'm sure the dance I did was hilarious.

Yo Dawg, I heard you liked spiders, so here's a spider covered in spiders.

Will not send link to wife. She has a T-shirt: "We have nothing to fear except fear itself ... and spiders."

I just showed my 8 year old daughter the pictures - she LOVES it! She loves wolf spiders and plays with the ones that are in our house.

I just think they're pretty darn cool looking.

The babies are awfully cute...

I expected to see a spider cradling a tiny spider in it's front legs.

alienated: your mileage may vary.
if you are ,unfortunately bitten by a wolf spider or any spider you should call 999 or 911 if you have any symptoms of death.
just saying is all.

So when you say 'symptoms of death' you mean like.........death?

madcan34: alienated: your mileage may vary.
if you are ,unfortunately bitten by a wolf spider or any spider you should call 999 or 911 if you have any symptoms of death.
just saying is all.

So when you say 'symptoms of death' you mean like.........death?

Don't worry, medical science has advanced enough that we have cures for almost all but the most advanced forms of spider-related death.

Fizpez: I'm sure the dance I did was hilarious.

Probably made funnier by the little girl shrieks you made.

_{/been there
//at least I didn't soil myself}

jlt: I just showed my 8 year old daughter the pictures - she LOVES it! She loves wolf spiders and plays with the ones that are in our house.

I just think they're pretty darn cool looking.

The babies are awfully cute...

There is no arachnid cuter than a jumping spider.

Nope.

jlt: I just showed my 8 year old daughter the pictures - she LOVES it! She loves wolf spiders and plays with the ones that are in our house.

I just think they're pretty darn cool looking.

The babies are awfully cute...

Yep, count me in with the camp that loves the little guys.

years ago, when I was working as the cook of a summer camp for overprivildged children, one of my self appointed tasks was saving the wolf spiders from the feet of the children. especially after one particular child went into a new life time of Arachnophobia when they discovered the spider grenade effect.
caught the little guys in jars, explained the anatomy of the spiders to them, and how they were harmless to people but did double work to rid their cabins of the bugs that did chew on them.

The cabin of the youngest kids took on a pet wolf spider and would bring it bugs to eat as it stood guard over their cabin.

Also, many breeds of scorpion also display this behavior.

As much as I like spiders, that particular trait of wolf spiders even gives me the creeps.
When I was a kid I'd keep a black and yellow argiope (garden spider) in a bird cage each year. Every day I'd stuff a grasshopper or cicada or something into its web. They'd be so huge and fat by the end of the summer they wouldn't fit through the bars of the cage anymore.

/was a strange kid

alienated: a- its not creepy if one know arachnoids.-
this species of spider eat fly and moths, also,
i have oberved them eating silverfish, when they were present or presented.

chart here
http://www.termite.com/spider-identification.html


You bastard! One of the spider images on that page is set to twitch periodically and evacuate the bowels of whosoever is looking at it!

Spiders are proof that God loves us and wants us to fear Him.

Ha! That's interesting. That identifies the spider that exploded into a million babies when my dad stomped it.

Also, Nursery Web spiders will carry the eggsac in their jaws.

GIS: Creepy Spider.
Result #1

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It's not that scary, I certainly wouldn't kill it. I think people who kill spiders have something wrong with them.

I don't kill any spiders, not even the brown widow I found on my sunchair the other week.

ThisIsNotSubtle: One fine afternoon, I glanced down to discover a fairly sizable spider on my sleeve. Startled, I did the whole flail and sling routine. The spider hit a wall, and from the angle I was at, I swear it looked like one big spider exploded into a brazillion tiny little ones. It was like some sort of horror movie. For a split second, I half expected to see them scuttle back together into a big damned spider again, like Spider Voltron From the Hell Dimension or something.

Wolf spiders may have a harmless bite, but that particular trick is weapons-grade heart attack fodder if you ask me.

Many years ago, my mom was waiting up for my dad to get home and only had one light on in the room, when she heard something faintly scratching on the floor. She looked around and didn't see anything, but then saw a spider nearly the size of her hand slowly crawling out from under the TV. She swatted it with my dad's shoe, and then found out it was a wolf spider, and all the little baby spiders exploded out everywhere. She screamed and ran out of the room and wouldn't come back in there until my dad had checked it out when he got home.

At least we didn't have a lot of insects in the house that year.

Thanks in advance for that insomnia, creepymitter

Type40: It's not that scary, I certainly wouldn't kill it. I think people who kill spiders have something wrong with them.

I don't kill any spiders, not even the brown widow I found on my sunchair the other week.

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