Creepy spider!

I still have vivid early childhood memories of my dad smashing a wolf spider in our garage in Tucson AZ and babies scurrying off everywhere.

Figured I should put this here since some folks would be freaked out by pictures of hundreds of snakes.

Garter snakes coming out of hibernation and gathering into a mating ball of tens of thousands, in southern Manitoba, Canada

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Huge Underground Hornet's Nest

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Umm...really curious to know the scale of that picture.

Nevin73 wrote:

Umm...really curious to know the scale of that picture.

I think I'd rather not know...

Mixolyde wrote:
Nevin73 wrote:

Umm...really curious to know the scale of that picture.

I think I'd rather not know...

I'm guessing that guy is probably a foot long. Eats birds. And faces. Probably mostly faces.

But BABIES! Cute, little, face-eating babies!

I visited my nephews last weekend. They have something of a menagerie at their house, so when they said they had a pet spider I wasn't too surprised. I was, however, surprised to find that their 'pet spider' was a random orb weaver that made its home on the clothesline and they've just been feeding it regularly.

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10” scolopendra Gigantea from Venezuela.

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Not a spider 1/10.

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Bigass wolf spider in the shower today.

Aren't wolf spiders usually hairy? That one looks like something from the set of Alien.

It was in the shower! Its hair was wet. It will style it when the shower is over.

I think it's not a wolf spider... might be a trapdoor spider of some sort... I mix them up a bit but reddit's what is this bug or more specifically https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisspider/ helps me learn.

Nah, definitely a wolf spider. I looked at the trapdoor spiders for my area and none of them look anything like this. Meanwhile, it looks a lot like a wolf spider, especially the light stripe down the middle of the head.

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I know that wolf spiders are harmless to humans, but if I saw one in my house I would burn the entire f*cking town to the ground.

Meanwhile, the tiny jumping spiders and dime-sized I-don't-know-what spiders I'm totally fine sharing my house with.

NSMike wrote:

Nah, definitely a wolf spider. I looked at the trapdoor spiders for my area and none of them look anything like this. Meanwhile, it looks a lot like a wolf spider, especially the light stripe down the middle of the head.

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Seems I was wrong... I was looking at the big abdomen... it's probably just full I guess.

This definitely belongs here.
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Shortly after the Preston Innovation Lab was set up at Rice University, graduate student Faye Yap was rearranging a few things when she noticed a dead curled-up spider in the hallway. Curious about why spiders curl up when they die, she did a quick search to find the answer. And that answer—essentially, internal hydraulics—led to delightfully morbid inspiration: Why not use the bodies of dead spiders as tiny air-powered grippers for picking up and maneuvering tiny electronic parts?

Sweet, they could redesign one of those crane machines in arcades to grab prizes.

Very small, light prizes, perhaps caps or processors for Raspberry Pis? Hmmm... Demo at DEFCON lol?

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Robear wrote:

Very small, light prizes, perhaps caps or processors for Raspberry Pis? Hmmm... Demo at DEFCON lol?

Bigger spiders.

It's spiders all the way... up, young man?

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Can't wait until I see the Spider Necrobot in that Mecha Dark Souls game.

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