Wolf Spiders
We keep finding these wolf spiders in our garage right near the house door (North Carolina). I’m terrified they’ll make into the house someday. They’re HUGE and don’t die easily with Spider spray. That body is as long as my pinkie!
UPDATE:
I may never go in the garage again.
I googled “Wolf Spider” images to confirm what we kept finding. Somehow, I ended up searching “Wolf Spider BITES” pictures. Very bad.
I learned that Wolf Spider bites aren’t fatal, but they are poisonous.They are agile and fast-moving ground predators and will bite if they are provoked. They can see at night and want to eat me. (OK, I added that bit, but I know it’s a fact.)
I also saw this picture. So maybe I should be thankful for my version of spider…?
Oh em gee! they are HUGE!
I would cry if I saw one of those. Ick! My husband found one in our house (or similar) in Arizona. I’m so glad I wasn’t home at the time. My girls still talk about how Daddy squealed like a little girl while he was killing it, and that was 5 years ago!
Eek, those things are huge. I haven’t seen anything like that around here. I’d be terrified if I did.
That looks a lot like a Taranchula, not that I know anything about spiders! Get some wasp spray, that is what I kill all spiders with because it shoots so far, so I don’t have to get near them.
Egads!!! That thing is massive and creepy looking. Ugh, I have the heebie jeebies now! I’m assuming you have great zoom on your camera, because there is no way I would get THAT close to a spider that big! LOL!
I think I would move!
That is scary! I don’t know how you had the guts to take that close up picture! LOL EEEEK!!!
Just think of them as…all-natural Halloween decor?
Look like a wolf spider, we have them here too and the first one I killed with spray almost used up the entire can. They are poisonous, not sure how much so be careful.
Here is a link to a Wolf Spider, I googled Spiders in your area and found this-
http://www.carolinanature.com/spiders/spider50025.jpg
Oh, here is a good chart too, maybe you can identify it and find out if it is poisonous- http://www.termite.com/spider-identification.html
OMGosh!!! I can’t even fully look at the pictures!! It makes my heart start to beat faster. I get major heebeejeebees!!
While I can’t see the very top set of eyes (it looks more like eyebrows in your picture) your spider looks very much like this one: http://bugguide.net/node/view/83159
And, I couldn’t even IMAGINE finding those spiders like in the second picture!
I actually photograph spiders and bugs often, but they still creep me out!
Arachnophobia is real!!
AAACKKK! Where did you get that picture?!?!?!? I’ve seen the kind you are getting here in Texas too. I had one in my house…but not the house I live in now. I made short work of it, believe me. BUT that THING in the other picture….EWWW! I know it’s probably over seas, and I’m sure they have it right up in the camera…you can tell the size by the pliers they are holding it with…but STILL…it’s big, and very scary. I thought the orb spiders we had here in our back pasture were bad.
I know! Isn’t it scary?
I think you’re all right about it being a Wolf Spider. Now that I know exactly what it is, I’m still scared. 😉
That second spider looks like a prop from a sci-fi movie. I would have a heart attack and drop dead on the spot if I encountered one of those! It was listed as a Wolf Spider online, but I can’t imagine it’s related to my garage friends…
Oh my gosh, that may be the ickiest spider ever. I just came across this, maybe it could help you. http://sewsweetbabyblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/natural-spider-deterrent.html
Oh dear god, I would die. I would scream, start crying, and probably pass out. I can not handle spiders, not even tiny ones, and that think would do me in. Oh I’m so grossed out now!
The last picture is actually two dead arachnids together, not one whole animal. They’re called Camel Spiders sometimes, and are not poisonous. They’re from the deserts of the Middle East. They’re no less freaky than other spiders, but that picture is misleading because it makes them look to be double their real size.
Thank you! I’m still TOTALLY freaked out by them, but love finally knowing what’s in the picture.
How’d you know that, btw?
Thanks, Ken! 🙂
I had one of those trapped in my bathroom. I tried spraying it with bug spray and it just jumped at me. I threw the can at it and missed. Ended up running outside.