Monster Spider

Ok, I asked for it: I had told my family to tell me when they see a spider. But this was almost too much! I was having my morning coffee, reading the paper when my hubby walks in the door with a tennis ball tube in his hand and a "little" present inside. I thought I had pretty much overcome my phobia, but this guy was huge and creepy! I set him in a pyrex pie form and took some pics anyway . It is amazing how easy it was once I looked through the viewfinder and concentrated on what I was doing . Having my husband right next to my with a stick in his hand to protect me was definitely helpful.

I have a lot more/better pics in my flickr account, it was difficult getting under 100k.

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Ooh what a handsome spider- lovely pics Bea. Spider definately looks puzzled
Brian V.

about how big was the spider? He looks like a wolf spider...

Thank you Brian and cgratti

This spider was really big, a lot bigger than a quarter from "toe to toe". The body was at least 1/2 an inch!

This spider shot is really cool
Jose

dazzlebea wrote:
Thank you Brian and cgratti

This spider was really big, a lot bigger than a quarter from "toe to toe". The body was at least 1/2 an inch!

1/2 inch!! ............... I'd want more than a 'spouse with a stick' to protect me from that! I'd want Clint Eastwood with a Colt 45 in each hand!

Excellent pics, Bea. Not a trace of camera shake!

Great captures , is it a House Spider ? ...

Mike Bell wrote:
1/2 inch!! ............... I'd want more than a 'spouse with a stick' to protect me from that! I'd want Clint Eastwood with a Colt 45 in each hand!

Excellent pics, Bea. Not a trace of camera shake!

LOL, you don't know my husband !

Thank you so much for your nice words. In the beginning I used a tripod but soon found it too limiting and so I removed the camera. By then the tranquilizers I had taken had kicked in .

Action_Man wrote:
Great captures , is it a House Spider ? ...

Thanks Gordon! Do House Spiders live on tennis courts?

Thanks, Jose! Glad you like it

I think it is a relative of the European House Spider but a lot more aggressive, its probably a Hobo Spider ...

http://www.pestcontrol​mag.com …articleDetail.j​sp?id=2616

Awesome captures, detail and compo are wonderful, oh, look at those eyes, looks like hes wanting to be your friend

Nice shots Bea, interesting. It does have eight eyes (some spiders have only six or 4), they are arranged in a 4 small, 2 large and 2 tiny formation. I'd say it's a juvenile wolf spider myself, the closest I could quickly find was this one:

http://bugguide.net/no​de/view/12884

Probably a male, but it's hard when they're a juvenile to be 100% sure. At only half an inch from toe to toe, it's tiny! I'm about to process and post some spiders of a baby male huntsman hehehe, he's a baby and like nearly an inch from toe to toe :P

Dave

dpastern wrote:
Nice shots Bea, interesting. It does have eight eyes (some spiders have only six or 4), they are arranged in a 4 small, 2 large and 2 tiny formation. I'd say it's a juvenile wolf spider myself, the closest I could quickly find was this one:

http://bugguide.net/no​de/view/12884

Probably a male, but it's hard when they're a juvenile to be 100% sure. At only half an inch from toe to toe, it's tiny! I'm about to process and post some spiders of a baby male huntsman hehehe, he's a baby and like nearly an inch from toe to toe :P

Dave

Wow, thanks Dave! If this one was a juvie I don't want to see him when he is grown up. But I think you misunderstood: the body is about 1/2 inch, from toe to toe he was somewhere between 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 inches, depending on how stretched out it was. It was freaky, I can't believe I was that crazy

hidden forms wrote:
Awesome captures, detail and compo are wonderful, oh, look at those eyes, looks like hes wanting to be your friend

Oh well, he can totally forget about that!!! But I'm glad you like him