Found This In My Laundry Basket This Morning

[dgridley]

I still had a few clean clothes in the laundry basket this morning and reached in to take them out when I heard this hit the bottom of the basket... I'm not sure if you can get the scale, but it was pretty darn big (over 2 inches or so)! I looked on the web for common Missouri spiders and couldn't find any that looked like this...

EDIT: Found it: Rabid Wolf Or Striped Wolf Spider

 

[.X.]

We had them last year Dave, They multiply fast.

 

[Achaias]

If I'm not mistaken that looks like a species of Wolf Spider. Atleast similar to the ones we have in SC.


Edit: I just saw your edit. They are rather harmless, and the bite feels something akin to a bee sting if that. This species is good for getting rid of other insects as well as other spiders so a few here and there aren't so bad.

 

[rjmlar]

It looks like a common wolf spider. Most spiders are harmless and are good neighbors so I hope it's still alive.

 

[dgridley]

Yeah, it's a Rabid (or Striped) Wolf Spider.. I did let it go as I try not to kill any bugs unless I have to. I tossed it out on the patio outside and it was big enough when it hit the concrete the neighbor's tomcat took off running.

Funny because I was just in Walmart yesterday looking at a kid's toy called a Backyard Safari Bug Vac, thinking I could use it to vacuum up and capture alive all the spiders, crickets, grasshoppers, and beetles I find in the apartment! I didn't get it because it was $15 but now I may go back!

:sold: :lol:

 

[Barrucadu]

Urgh... Spider...

 

[gjvblack]

Lol harmless or not, many people would freak out if they saw that!

 

[johname]

the bite feels something akin to a bee sting if that.

if it bites like a bee then i am stepping on it like godzilla

 

[dgridley]

I'm allergic to bees...

 

[Bill]

I hate spiders - I've never seen a spider that big before!

-Bill

 

[dgridley]

First one I've seen that big around here anyway.. I'm not big on spiders either.. they make me squeamish!

I know they can be beneficial but I don't want them in the house, sorry!

I hate spiders - I've never seen a spider that big before!

-Bill

 

[Mike]

It's a quit pro quo:

They don't live in my place, and i don't live in their holes, or eat their food or hang around in their webs. Works out just fine thus far.

M.

 

[dgridley]

If Spiders Ruled The Earth.. what a place this would be.

It's a quit pro quo:

They don't live in my place, and i don't live in their holes, or eat their food or hang around in their webs. Works out just fine thus far.

M.

 

[Mike]

If Spiders Ruled The Earth.. what a place this would be.

...why am i thinking "Planet of the Apes" references now?!

M.

 

[Phoebe_]

That's nothing compared to what I have in the ceiling:D

 

[Achaias]

That's nothing compared to what I have in the ceiling:D

Hmm I'm trying to think of other eight legged things that could be worse than having a oversized spider in the house.

http://www.peterbe.com/plog/interior-octopus/octopus.jpg

 

[liquidcherry]

Hmm I'm trying to think of other eight legged things that could be worse than having a oversized spider in the house.

http://www.peterbe.com/plog/interior-octopus/octopus.jpg

A nice pet you have there in your house, lol

Cheers

Frank

 

[Phoebe_]

^ lol nice Frank... giant OCTOPUS!!!:D

 

[dgridley]

Listen.. leave pics of your wife outta my thread! :p

 

[wierdo]

Listen.. leave pics of your wife outta my thread! :p

Haha, nice one.

We have those, and that big too. I'm not scared of them, but it does make me jump a little when I see one that big within a foot or two of me, before I recognise it.