'Here's Looking at You Kid'

I saw one of those things catch a housefly once. That was pretty sweet.

 

"Interesting"???? Well, that's one way of looking at it, I guess. If I find a spider in the house, I take him outside to do his thing there. I'm a softy like that. But if the thing has hair and is big enough to eat me? All bets are off.

 

jumpers are the coolest spiders, very inquisitive

 

i think they're fun to watch too

does anyone know if the small ones and large ones i see are the same species, just different ages or are they different species? i haven't looked closely enough to recognize/see patterns

 

i have seen many different patterns and sizes out here, but not like these 2.

in my yard the most common one i see, is about 1/2" full grown with varying amounts of black and orangey-red colors.

 

They are cool to watch. Spastic lil f'ers.

 

"Spastic lil f'ers" - potty mouth

 

Nope, just my regular mouth!

 

that's tru - my bad

 

yeah, i was bitten by a much larger one in the jungle near iquitos, peru.

went blind for 18 months and was confined to a wheelchair for two years

but they are cool looking.

 

jungle spiders have no class

 

i've heard that they have very toxic venom but wow

 

I saw one here the other day that captured and killed a raccoon.

 

this looks a lot like the one that bit me. it wasn't the venom, btw. i contracted some jungle virus through the bite.

http://www.awesomespiders.com/album1_093.htm

it's the one on the left.

 

I was moving some concrete blocks today.
Glad I was wearing gloves!
The second block to be moved, was housing a black widow spider, and 4 egg sacks! FOUR!

They are kind of common here, and that red hourglass on the bottom is a sure sign. Still, FOUR egg sacks. That's a healthy spider!

Well, it WAS a healthy spider.
I squished it, and it's egg sacks.

 

Man... black widows with egg sacks are mean little bitches. Glad she didn't jump on you and attack you.

 

i had to wrestle one just this morning, the bottom of my shoe finally won me the tussle. it was touch and go there for a bit