the spider

[louise]

this spider has set me back on the 'i can handle the spiders here' scale. i was doing so good. spiders live in the bars in our porch and i wouldn't let anyone break thier webs or kill them. one was here since i moved here and now it is gone but baby spiders are in its web. for people who dont know me...i almost left GA cause their was a trap door spider in bretts house andi was home alone and found it. i called mark and kat and begged kat to come and get me and take me back to MI. i was shaking and crying. when brett got home he seen me on the phone shaking and a horrified look on my face. i had beat the spider so bad that the broom broke in 3 places. then i got bit by my worst spiders at bretts...the dreaded wolf spiders. i got bit 2 times in a week. i have always been horrified of spiders.

well anyways tonight i am home alone and i went into the garage to smoke and a huge black spider was in there. i freaked out and grabbed my roommates shoes. she has like 6 pair out there. the fourth shoe connected and i had another break down. i threw my cigarette away and ran in. i have felt dizzy and shaking since. but the terrible habit of smoking finally won and i went back out to smoke. i got a few pics. i have this awful feeling it is a wolf spider. i dont think i want to know they grow this big in GA.







i cannot wait for my daughter to get home cause she is even more scared then me

[John_E_Dove]

Could be a Hobo or a Wolf, hard to tell, but I think it is dead.
My wife was like you when we married, she could take spiders unless they suprised her.
Now the last time she killed a spider was roughly 2 years ago when she squished a Hobo that was hiding in her shoe and she put the shoe on. She would not have known it had it not bitten her toe. Last summer she had a little Orb Weaver living on her lamp and stunned flies to feed it until it vanished last fall.

[louise]

i have an orb web spider on my porch and i leave it be. this one was just so tall and huge and scared me to death. i was horrified it would get in the house. i am still scared to go back out and smoke. i did go back out but i was horrified the whole time. is a hobo spider a wolf spider???? i never knew wolf spiders could get that big.
seriously at work there was a black widow who was there for a long time but she never bothered anybody and i stopped the manager from killing her cause all she ever did was poke her head out from the crack of the wall. this thing just really freaked me out bad. i stopped killing spiders unless i see wolf spiders and i kill them cause they go out of their way to bite you. i hate them.

[louise]

but I think it is dead

it is dead alright. when i went back out i poked it with the broom to make sure it didn't move. i stood as far as my body would stretch and poked it with the broom and i was shaking the whole time.

[louise]

i just looked up hobo spider and it wasn't that. dear god it was a wolf spider *shudders* i didn't know they got that big.
http://severinghaus.org/pictures/nat...nscaled_sm.jpg

[LukaTisus]

Wolf spiders, as far as I know, are harmless.

It's the hobos and the Brown Recluse you have to watch out for, their bites are NASTY. But that bugger'd be an unrecognisable splat on the bottom of my shoe. Lol.

Of course, I say that, as I've got a baby B.Smithi five feet to my left.

[Jane]

Little spiders bother me way more than big spiders or tarantulas, which I love. Don't get me wrong, I like all spiders but if a big one's nearby, or on you, you're much more likely to know it.