Any spider people here?

[liberalnarb]

My cousin came across this. What kinda spider is this monster?

[Cirque du So-What]

1. It's a...

STOMPTHATMOTHERFUCKER.

[sharp_stick]

2. I'm guessing Wolf Spider

but that assumes you're in the NE US.

[liberalnarb]

7. Yes, Philly suburbs.

[Skittles]

19. wolf spiders are awesome

they don't build webs and when confronted they sometimes raise up on their hind legs like they are ready to do battle....awesome!

[woodsprite]

28. I live in New Castle Co., DE and in the fall

If you come across one in the woods, you can hear it skitter in the leaves. The largest I've seen in our house had a 3" diameter leg span. I'm a horrible arachniphobe, but I did bring one up from the basement to look at under the microscope with the kids. I doused it with spray. All I can say it that a spider is too damned big if you can "ping" it's fangs with a paring knife without using a magnifying glass or the microscope!

[Skittles]

35. I saw one in the kitchen and it ran really fast under the fridge

right into a huge dust bunny - he came out all tangled in it, just fighting like crazy - so I picked the whole thing up and put him outside....he freed himself after a minute

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Whatever it is, it seems to have an abnormal number of legs.

[Laffy Kat]

4. You're right. It's got ten legs.

And I was not counting the pedipalps.

[flotsam]

6. I believe he is on a mirror

or a highly reflective surface.

[pansypoo53219]

13. i still remembered about pedipalps from a nature doc eons ago.

[Laffy Kat]

16. I think it was one of my oldest son's first mutli-syllable words!

He liked spiders so we read a lot of baby books about crawly things.

[Skittles]

20. if it is a wolf spider

(I googled) .....the wolf spider also has an additional two tiny leg- or arm-like appendages (pedipalps) extending out front.

[Laffy Kat]

5. I think someone is pulling one of your legs. nt

[Solly Mack]

8. Looks like an orb weaver to me. Not sure which type though.

[Laffy Kat]

9. Now that you mention it, it does look like that.

Still super creepy.

[Solly Mack]

10. Could be a cross spider orb. Common in Philadelphia.

I'd have to see all of it to be sure.

[Laffy Kat]

11. Orbs are amazing.

I had some sort of orb weaver on my side porch a couple of summers ago that built the most amazing webs. I loved to watch her....from a distance. I love them but I have a phobia.

[Solly Mack]

12. I think so too. Love their webs. I had 3 on my porch and front walk a few years back.

Some people wouldn't come on my porch because of the spiders.

[Coventina]

21. haha! I wish I had those. It would keep the JWs away.

We have a Kingdom Hall a few blocks away, and we get knocked up several times a week.
Despite the NO SOLICITING sign prominently displayed.

*sigh*

[Solly Mack]

27. People would stand on my walkway and holler for me.

I'd stop on the porch and tell them to come on up. I loved my porch at the time. Lots of flowers and small trees. All kinds of bugs for the spiders to eat. Along my walk were more flowers, another orb weaver, and a massasauga rattler in the hedges. It fed on the moles. I kept hanging baskets and birds nested in them all the time.

I'd sit on the porch and watch the life happening around me.

The snake stayed hidden most of the time. I didn't bother him and he didn't bother me. The landscapers finally removed him - alive. We had a community herpetologists that wanted him.

[Coventina]

29. That sounds so beautiful!

I've always wanted to have a habitat like that at my house.

It's just so darn hot here, not much lives (or so it seems).

I have bird feeders in my backyard that attract all the local doves and quail, along with our one exotic feral species: rosy-faced lovebirds. (they are gorgeous and fun to watch!)

We do have a squirrel who lives in our backyard, she raises a litter of kits under our shed every spring, but we very seldom see her. (She's very shy).

I put up one of those pollinator houses, but so far nothing of interest has taken up residence there. Just a few small spiders. I know we have leaf-cutter bees around, though, because they like to use my rose bush!

I don't mind that at all, it's only cosmetic damage and I know they use the leaves to build nests for their babies. I just haven't been able to find out where they are living. Definitely not in the box I put up for them!

[Solly Mack]

31. I live back in the south now and I can't seem to get the right mix for the heat either.

I've got a lot of hummingbirds, lizards, tree frogs, and toads.

But I haven't hit on the right flower/plant mix yet. Well, not one that also suits my taste. I got the front going strong but I usually sit out back. I fight with my dogs are flower beds out back. One wallows in them and the other two have to dig.

I do get some incredible crab spiders now!

I love attracting wildlife because animals are a pleasure to watch.

More so than a lot of of the two-legged kind.

[Coventina]

32. Desert Southwest here.

Agree with you about watching wildlife.

It's one of my favorite things!!

Even "little" things, like the spiders this thread was originally about!!

Did you see the lovely post in GD about raising butterflies? It brought tears to my eyes.

[Solly Mack]

33. I loved the butterfly post! Almost magical.

[Arkansas Granny]

24. A couple of summers back I had a spider that built a web on the porch every evening and took it down

every morning. She was quite accommodating. She always made it between two of the posts that I didn't have to pass between so I never got spider web in my face.

I have a thing about spiders. I've always told people that if I get spider bit it won't matter if it's poisonous or not, I'm gonna die.

[Laffy Kat]

25. Yes! Mine would do that too.

She would build up then break down her web. So much work and it was beautiful.

[NewJeffCT]

14. I've narrowed it down

Either Aragog or Shelob. Definitely not Lloth

Aragog



Shelob


But, not Lloth

[TexasProgresive]

17. Beat me to it.

[Laffy Kat]

18. ...

[liberalnarb]

34. First two were heart attack material.

[TexasProgresive]

15. Shelob just kidding

I really don't know.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. Here's a spider person. Maybe she can help.

[Canoe52]

26. NO!

[AJT]

30. aaaaahhhhhhhhh.....

oh, I just regained consciousness.......what were we looking.......aaaaaahhhhhhh