Found one in my pool. It's always so hard moving one of these. Should the mother spider feel threatened it will put out a signal that tells all the baby spiders to jump off and run away. So yeah, moving one of these isn't easy.



Extra large picture. You can see all their legs aaahhh





Found a second one today:





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One of them popped off and went and sat on her face for a bit

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

I concur with booberslug.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

That's pretty sweet. About how big is it?

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

What do the spiders do whilst clinging to her? Is it just for a lift/protection or does she secrete something...

They can get to be about 8 CM long, tops.

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Just lift/protection.

I heard those things can take down a 250 Pound guy in one bite.

You get all the awesome critters, i get angry squirrels.

Hurr, that's scary.The Mist-scary

Are Wolf Spiders venomous or not? I'm pretty sure they are but I'm not 100% sure.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

I've been bitten by a wolf spider once before when trying to get it out of my pool's filter. It's just a pinch, nothing more.

Oh ok, that's good to know.

You must have one hell of a nice camera to manage that second shot.

Spiders are fascinating creatures.

What annoys me is when people say 'who would win a spider (tarantula) or a scorpion', or in some cases, video spiders fighting other animals.

The reality is that spiders were designed for stealth hunting and not merely pulling prey to pieces on the spot. Sure spiders are tough, and in some cases may well win against other creatures in a straight up fight, but different animals were built for different purposes of hunting, and thus it's stupid to really pit them against eachother if one surpasses the other in the circumstance. (i.e. the scorpion is designed to grab prey and sting it, not stealthily attack/ensnare them with a set up trap like a spider)

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

Postal, are you sure you live in The Everglades and not an insect/snake reservation in The Everglades?

When I go there all I see are tiny brown lizards.

HOYL FUCKING SHIT

Don't baby spiders eat the mother after birth?

Or is that only in certain species?

Do these sort of things ever make into your house?


oh yeah HOLY FUCKING SHIT

You don't look hard enough.

I live in Mississippi and I chop up like hundreds of those per day with a weed eater. ( Not purposely, I just weed eat for my uncle in his orchard. )

I saw a praying mantis today and tried to catch it, but it was too fast and I found out they can jump very well!

How can you sleep at night?
I'm asking this seriously, not a shitty joke-post.

I have at least two wolf spiders that live in my house. They take care of all the beetles and such that make it inside, so I leave them be.

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Yeah not this species.

They're harmless to my understanding and I have never seen them inside of homes.

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Nevermind..

DON'T YOU EVER ORGANIZE A POOL PARTY

EVER

Holy shit that's kinda scary..

holy fucking... shit?

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

this isn't getting old that really is fucking crazy

:uhoh:

SHIT, RUN.

And again.
I'm really never scared of any little insects/spiders etc, still not 'scared' of this, but it is pretty unnerving seeing all these tiny animals in one place.

Even so, they're fucking awesome.

Awwww, that's so cute! :D

Very cool photo, great details and all.

What the FUCK man it's coming at you like a billion miles an hour and you say it's cute. Whenever you crawl into bed at night imagine 33 of them in there with you!

That sounds very cute too. I want to hug them.

They are all crawling up your leg as you slide into bed. You hear the sound or 27 more come into your room....Blackout

Mothership-spider

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

My legs feel wierd now.

that's so fucking disgusting.
but coool

Doesn't the babies eat their mother when they're ready to go out in the world?

At least some spiders do.

looks like it's gettin ready to SPAAACE JAAAM

God damn.