Big *** Spider

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Here's a pretty one that was on my trash can yesterday...

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Here's a pretty one that was on my trash can yesterday...

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Don’t see them often, but we have them here. Usually we them under the front porch ceiling where they really stand out on the white. They get pretty big too. Have seen well over 2” long. Not much others here that get bigger. Daddy longleggers , but they don’t count...
 
This is the giant wolf spider we call “Charles”.

It is about the size of a 50 cent piece and it builds a web cross our slider door every night. The web is around 3’ x 4’ in size. Every morning it is gone and rebuilt the next evening with Charles settled in the middle. He is using the light from the porch light and the slider to his advantage to capture prey.

Yeah...it’s probably a female, but my daughter named it “Charles” and that’s what we are going with.

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This is the giant wolf spider we call “Charles”.

It is about the size of a 50 cent piece and it builds a web cross our slider door every night. The web is around 3’ x 4’ in size. Every morning it is gone and rebuilt the next evening with Charles settled in the middle. He is using the light from the porch light and the slider to his advantage to capture prey.

Yeah...it’s probably a female, but my daughter named it “Charles” and that’s what we are going with.

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That's not a wolf spider, they are on the ground. That's a barn spider. Probably reddish colored. Look it up. One fell on the back of my neck 30 or so years ago and bit me. Caused a reaction and I still have the scar.
 
That's not a wolf spider, they are on the ground. That's a barn spider. Probably reddish colored. Look it up. One fell on the back of my neck 30 or so years ago and bit me. Caused a reaction and I still have the scar.
Nope. It is a wolf spider.
 
Not going to argue with you, but you're wrong.
Wolf spiders don't make webs. Google both what I said and you'll see.
Yeah, they do make webs. Wolf spiders have different habits in different parts of the country and there are a dozen sub species of the genus named “Wolf Spiders”.

This particular one was positively identified by a friend who is a Ph.D. Entomologist working for the University of Pennsylavainia.

Don't take offense if I take his word over yours...or Google.
 
It's that time of the year here
The orb spiders are big now and one insists on her web being right in front of a car I need to move around.
Don't have the heart to wreck Charlotte's web every time.
Will have to though

Big orb spiders means fall is near.
Yippee.
 
Along about the first rain of the year in the fall the tarantulas head for higher ground. It makes for an interesting motorcycle ride on the back country roads. Kinda like running over a big glob of Crisco :steering:
We saw a grip of them in Texas one night. F'n wild sight. They were all crossing the road, like 50 of them in as many feet. Dad got out in the headlights and ran through them while mom was screaming at him to get back in the car, funny time. We get pretty fat spiders making webs between the cars, trash cans, anything less than 5 feet across usually has a spider in the fall morning. Have to be careful wakling out to the truck in the morning. Don't like 'em at all. I see 10 black or brown widows a day in my phone boxes. Almost every one has one in it or an egg sack.
 
I had a damn velvet ant in my driveway the other day. I was going to do some work on Rikki's car so I stomped him so I wouldn't get stung. I lifted my foot up and he carried on like nothing happened.

So I stomped him again.

Same reaction.

At this point, I knew my shoes were pretty slick on the bottom but I thought maybe he was getting lucky and landing in a tread groove or something, so I stomped, and then ground him out. Lifted my foot to find....

nothing. He disappeared like a David Copperfield trick. I looked all over, under my shoe, everywhere, and never found a corpse or an ant. I've been looking over my back ever since. Supposedly, these can reach an inch and a quarter long? No thanks!

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I had a damn velvet ant in my driveway the other day. I was going to do some work on Rikki's car so I stomped him so I wouldn't get stung. I lifted my foot up and he carried on like nothing happened.

So I stomped him again.

Same reaction.

At this point, I knew my shoes were pretty slick on the bottom but I thought maybe he was getting lucky and landing in a tread groove or something, so I stomped, and then ground him out. Lifted my foot to find....

nothing. He disappeared like a David Copperfield trick. I looked all over, under my shoe, everywhere, and never found a corpse or an ant. I've been looking over my back ever since. Supposedly, these can reach an inch and a quarter long? No thanks!

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Now there's a mad *** ant looking to get you...
 
I had a damn velvet ant in my driveway the other day. I was going to do some work on Rikki's car so I stomped him so I wouldn't get stung. I lifted my foot up and he carried on like nothing happened.

So I stomped him again.

Same reaction.

At this point, I knew my shoes were pretty slick on the bottom but I thought maybe he was getting lucky and landing in a tread groove or something, so I stomped, and then ground him out. Lifted my foot to find....

nothing. He disappeared like a David Copperfield trick. I looked all over, under my shoe, everywhere, and never found a corpse or an ant. I've been looking over my back ever since. Supposedly, these can reach an inch and a quarter long? No thanks!

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The sting is like nothing else in this universe. Even amputation without anesthesia.






 
Here's one that I saw in the forest preserve today... My camera wouldn't focus when I zoomed in real close...

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Here's another one that I saw outside my garage a few years back...

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I had a damn velvet ant in my driveway the other day. I was going to do some work on Rikki's car so I stomped him so I wouldn't get stung. I lifted my foot up and he carried on like nothing happened.

So I stomped him again.

Same reaction.

At this point, I knew my shoes were pretty slick on the bottom but I thought maybe he was getting lucky and landing in a tread groove or something, so I stomped, and then ground him out. Lifted my foot to find....

nothing. He disappeared like a David Copperfield trick. I looked all over, under my shoe, everywhere, and never found a corpse or an ant. I've been looking over my back ever since. Supposedly, these can reach an inch and a quarter long? No thanks!

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Cow ant , have had more than usuall here , dam hard to kill !
MY AUNT GOT STUNG/BIT ON THE TOE BY ONE WHEN I WAS A KID , DIDNT KILL HER .
 
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