Saw this in my driveway last night...

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Saw this in my driveway last night...

Post by OctoberChill » Sun Jul 18, 2010 1:12 pm

It was about as big as my hand :shock: I got a few good pics before I killed it. That was my first scare of the year. Needless to say I'm not going outside barefoot again anytime soon.
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Re: Saw this in my driveway last night...

Post by iHaunt » Sun Jul 18, 2010 3:53 pm

Its creepy! This is my first time seeing this big spider!! :shock:

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Post by Andybev01 » Sun Jul 18, 2010 5:02 pm

How did you kill it, with a shotgun?
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Post by Spookymufu » Sun Jul 18, 2010 5:28 pm

eeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Saw this in my driveway last night...

Post by OctoberChill » Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:17 pm

RAID :) We have a ton of smaller garden spiders all around the house so we bought the spray for when they stray inside. As soon as I started spraying it the thing ran at me. Maybe not on purpose, but I felt like it was. The sucker was fast. I probably looked crazy to the neighbors running from it and spraying it at the same time.

I posted the pic on a spider forum and one of the experts identified it as a female wolf spider. He said their eyes are super reflective hence the "cyclops" look. I guess they're venomous, but not lethal. My spider props aren't gonna look quite as cool come Halloween after seeing that thing.

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Re: Saw this in my driveway last night...

Post by sueluvshalloween » Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:40 pm

That thing is HUGE! I remember the giant white moth that was flying outside my window one night.

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Re: Saw this in my driveway last night...

Post by shanda » Mon Jul 19, 2010 1:06 am

Bllaaakkkkk! Is that one of those Wolf Spiders? You know the ones that carry their young on their back. so when you smack them, 1000 baby spiders scatter !!!
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Post by iHaunt » Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:50 pm

shanda wrote:Bllaaakkkkk! Is that one of those Wolf Spiders? You know the ones that carry their young on their back. so when you smack them, 1000 baby spiders scatter !!!

When I was kid I stepped on a black and yellow spider, then there were a lot of baby spiders running out of its mother spider! :shock:

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Post by Andybev01 » Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:27 pm

I thought it might have been a wolf.

Google for pics of what their bites can do to people flesh...disgusting!
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Re: Saw this in my driveway last night...

Post by Morticia » Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:43 pm

It looks like it's got it's own spotlight on it's head. LOL!
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Post by Spookymufu » Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:42 pm

my 13yr old looked at the pic said "thats a wolf spider" and walked away....lol
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Post by iHaunt » Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:00 am

Spookymufu wrote:my 13yr old looked at the pic said "thats a wolf spider" and walked away....lol
So, it is a really spider wolf? Does it carry poisonous? :?

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Post by Spookymufu » Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:06 am

OctoberChill wrote:I posted the pic on a spider forum and one of the experts identified it as a female wolf spider. He said their eyes are super reflective hence the "cyclops" look. I guess they're venomous, but not lethal. My spider props aren't gonna look quite as cool come Halloween after seeing that thing.
iHaunt, read OctoberChill's post ^^^^^
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Post by iHaunt » Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:21 pm

Spookymufu wrote:
OctoberChill wrote:I posted the pic on a spider forum and one of the experts identified it as a female wolf spider. He said their eyes are super reflective hence the "cyclops" look. I guess they're venomous, but not lethal. My spider props aren't gonna look quite as cool come Halloween after seeing that thing.
iHaunt, read OctoberChill's post ^^^^^
:oops: Forgive me... I forgot! :? Sorry I didn't pay any attention at all. :lol: Venomous, but not lethal. Well, I really don't know about that kind of spider because this was my first time seeing it in the pic. ;)

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Re: Saw this in my driveway last night...

Post by MacPhantom » Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:06 am

That is gonna give me nightmares. :shock:

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