The wolf spider
Last night at my partners place, before going to bed, I saw a spider unlike the usual I have seen. The raised height, colours and just everything was different. It looked similar to the one in the picture below, but a lot more black with the lighter colour on top and black underneath.
So it had run under some things on the ground which I told my partner, having her tell me to kill it in which the mighty shoe would slam down onto the hiding spot. Suddenly... an explosion happened and a bunch of baby spiders spurted out!
Imagine black versions of these and them being all over the ground.
So we had to keep the dog at bay while I got ye ol' bug spray to kill the little bastards before lifting things up to check for the mother which, she was dead, yay! After some thinking I realised it was the wolf spider, a species that carry the young on its back.
None bit us but even if they did, they are not poisonous with just some itchy, irritated skin for a bit, or at a low chance, some other problems like some swelling etc that can easily be treated.
Moral of the story, if you see a new spider with raised height or looking weird, get the bug spray just in case it is one of these bad mothers. Neither of us dreamed about spiders which was a bonus! Just one of my dreams had a snake coming out of my mouth like a power or something.
I've experienced this twice. I hate spiders and this literally increased my fears of them. Imagine if you didn't see it, and all of those baby spiders were crawling around your house right now...
Yup! You would hate to have them crawling over you in your sleep. ;)
Not gonna lie this made me sad :(
Aww there there
I saw the image of the mother wolf spider and thought this was going to be a different type of "encounter" story with macro photos of her and the babies. It ended up reminding me of when I saw the Lion King as a kid and Mufasa died, except he had hundreds of babies on his back.
LOL!
To each his own really, I just love spiders and thought this was going in a different direction. :)
Wow. This I haven’t heard or seen before. Everyday we see organisms that occupies this earth with us and this is an amazing one seeing this species of spider today.
You see I hate spiders cause they are tiny little creatures almost looking ignorable but most of them are lethal and one wouldn’t think a tiny thing like that could kill a full grown man . Glad you killed it and the children lol
Damn man, this looks like a horror movie scene :D
creepy.....
You shouldn't have done that shes just a girl... jk but killing anything because of a fear of it or someone elses is bad mmmk. Great post otherwise.
P.s i would have loved to see them macros, spiders are badass.