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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These pictures suck and most of them don't even load, but for some reason tons of people are reading this. So here's the new ones



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.

That is the most fucking awesome thing I have ever seen!

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!

Put it into the water

I'd freak the hell out if I saw one of those in/around my house.

Afterward I'd nuke it from orbit.

I lol'd.

I hate myself, I know stuff like this will creep me out but I always look.

Goddammit.

Good that my spider phobia is almost gone

if not I would have

So many legs...

:uhoh:

Not a fan of big scary spiders.

I do have to say tarantula's are kind of cute though. I would feel disgusted to squish a really big spider. I would rather run away (even though I know it's harmless)

jeez Postal you live on a farm or something :uhoh:

HOLY FUCKING... COMBO BREAKER!
Wild-looking thing. Freaky too.

What country are you in? I'm from the UK and we don't get anything like that here!

EDIT: I would add to the combo, but last time I did that in a post i got slightly owned

Where the hell do you live?

Oh my fuck.
I am an arachnophoboic by the way.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

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What does Charles Barkley have to do with this lol.

HOLY SHIT I HATE SPIDERS!


All spiders are venomous by the way.

I'm getting chills just looking at this shit.

I once had one of those spider things fall from a tree onto me, i think i cried for a week.

HOLY SUCKING FHIT

Postal is secretly raising an army of spiders, with which he will use to dominate the planet.

Am I a bad person for finding it just a little bit cute?

Amazing, just amazing.
The one I found was a male then, or it had no babies.
I'm trying to find some cool spiders but I just find small ones that I can't figure out the species of.

Postal, were you ever scared of spiders? Have you always liked them so much?

Makes me want to puke but still awesome.

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OHAI

Just wait till the day where those 2 spiders feel like having babies. Your house will be overrun :wooow:

I bet i was the first one who :vomit:

I didn't throw up but I'm youknow, I feel unnerved by lice and mites and all little things that live everywhere. Well, most animals, dogs, mice, rats, hamsters, everything is scary sometime. So This is actually quite not-very-nice for me to see, but I'm feeling surprisingly non-scared right now. Might be that they snuggle so nicely.

That's just fucking cool.

OH MY FUCKING GOD?!?!



Dude, WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU LIVE!

He lives in the Everglades

If you've never taken Geography before, then that means he lives in Southern Florida

WHAT THE HELL.
HOLY SHIT.
I came.

AHHHH WHAT THE FUCK!

Imagine how two would crawl into your ear and have sex there. POP POP POP POP POP POP POP

Postal, ever thought of moving a bit away from the jungle areas at the equator ?

HOLY SHITTING FUCK!

Haha now I remember what this pic reminds me of

This is so cool! I'd like to have one like this with all the little babies!
But instead of buying a spider, i bought a snake that lives in water, so in my pool, there's a snake, not a spider :P

Florida is nowhere near the equator...

I've been fucking freaked out of spiders ever since I saw a movie when I was four about a huge infestation of spiders that killed everyone living in this one house. they came from everywhere... the shower head, the sink, the walls. *shudder*

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Oh, and when I lived in Alabama for a while, we had a sliding glass door to the back yard, and black widow lived right in the space the door slid into, so we couldn't use it, and it freaked me out knowing we had a huge spider just sitting right there all the time.

I find them fascinating, and creepy at the same times. I have tons of stories.

Oh my god, it's a non-banned moderator!



They live in almost every region of the world. I get them too up in west coast Canadianland.

POSTAL! RUN BEFORE THEY MUTATE AND EAT YOU WHOLE :uhoh:

I found a second one in my pool a few days later, and another one that was fucking half the size of the one in the OP carrying around it's egg sac. Was rad.