Riff wrote:elbowmacaroni wrote:Looks kinda like a large wolf spider.
Nice spider Tooly....I guess......
Speaking of wold spiders...... Years ago when camping in the woods I woke up one morning and put my boots on without knocking them out first.......WILL NEVER DO THAT AGAIN. I kept feeling something tickling my toes in one of my boots......I finally took it off and knocked it out and a HUGE F'ing wolf spider fell out......I was NOT pleased.....I SURE learned a lesson though....LOL
Brown/black and hairy describes 90 percent of spider species guys. They all look like wolf spiders! The easiest way spot the difference between the two without a microscope is in color pattern, the size/thickness of the limbs and abdomen, and alot of identification is in posture and behavior. You can get relatively accurate telling lycosa from dolomedes from a glance, but they are closely related unless you are out looking for them the difference between large wolf spiders and fishing spiders is relatively insignificant... Once they come indoors they are all house spiders anyway
I like the little dudes, which is why I was thrilled to play host to a textbook perfect example of dolomedes
tenebrosus, the largest fishing spider of it's genus. I said scriptus, but that was a lie.
Riff, you put on your shoe, and you didn't get bit right? There was enough room in there he wasn't getting squished, because actually being squished is what it takes for most spiders to bite. They need venom to eat, so wasting it is a last ditch. I have caught alot of
big spiders in my hands. I don't recommend it, but I've lost enough big boys running to get a container that it has effected my brain. Have I been bitten? I think that goes without saying... is it consistent with the number of times I could have been, not even close. Which is why spiders are cool with me, but not bees. Fuck bees! All types and sizes. I hate them, and I want them to die...