HOME | DD
AtFirstPlush — November Nightmare
Published: 2013-12-02 01:42:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 394; Favourites: 7; Downloads: 0
Redirect to original
Description
(yes, that's a penny) I don't know how something this BIG can get INside my home. She was hanging out on the wood molding of my sons doorway. We got a new roof 2 years ago, then, new windows last month. We don't have a chimney. We had the house inspected for leaky drafts, and other energy saving pointers, but these THINGS still get... IN! 8(I decided not to kill it, or vacuum it up, or to generally NOT 'do away' with it. I'll pitch it out into the woods tomorrow and leave it to nature to decide it's fate.
I thinnnnnk it's a female. She's SO big, my husband was afraid to deal with her. I know someone who might be able to tell me what species she is, and a little bit about her, and her habits etc.. I hope he'll comment below.
I simply call these spiders, "rock spiders" because that's where I used to see them in Maine, and they were BIGGER, and dressed in gray camouflaged to blend in with the granite boulders.
Related content
Comments: 25
That is TRULY disgusting (I have a phobia of spiders...), and now I had to turn around and check my bed for spiders. Never had spiders in my room since I moved, but a month ago or so, I had one crawling over the sheets as I was still in the bed myself! It was a small one of the big one. UGH!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
AHHH! We got into bed 2 summers ago, and had a medium one IN the bed too! It was very UN-nerving!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
At this point I would evacuate the house and live in a hotel for six months.
A spider this big would give me a heart attack.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
I believe that's a nope nope nope spider. As in I'm sayin nope nope nope as I head the other way!!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Man, I wish I could like comments on here!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Dolomedes tenebrosus it appears based on eye pattern and abdominal design. Although called "Fishing Spiders" they frequently live away from water.
Here is a site with almost an identical example ento.psu.edu/extension/factshe…
And thanks for caring.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks so much for the info!! and for the watch!! I enjoy your photography immensely. And through it, have finally been able to know and identify the REAL names of many of the same species we've both photographed. You've been very helpful to me. ... I'm more of the butterfly 'expert.'
In Maine, my father finds the Fishing Spiders under his dock about 10 inches above the water line. And they are a tad bit 'beefier' up north. As for the dock, it's pretty much in the shallows. My father knocks them off because they can be seen by his grand kids while they swim, and the kids freak out when seeing them. lol So, he brooms them off and onto the water when he finds them. And they seem quite adept at being able to 'walk' on water at high speed. I've seen them skitter across the waters surface or concrete like a 'face hugger' would skitter across the floor from the movie Alien. But they don't seem to be able to have the energy to do it for long distances. They are quite docile, but their sheer size is what's so off-putting. I'm not that scared of them that much any more. But they still startle me.
The biggest one I've ever seen was here in TN. My husband broomed it off of our house from above the area where we were sitting on our porch one summer -while company was over. Chairs were knocked over in panic by our Wisconsin guests when they b-lined off the porch because the spider was that daunting. It must have been a mature female. She was HUGE, about the size of my palm, (think "Thing" from the Adams Family") and BIGGER than the one brown-ish one I captured last night. The spider we broomed off the porch and was shades of gray like the ones I've seen up north and clearly exhausted after 'running' about 10 feet. We got her on the brush of the broom & took her 20 feet away from the house & shook her off into the woods.
The link you provided does in fact say that they do get into homes that are in their habitats. And it must happen frequently enough to a LOT of people for the writer to mention it. LOL And your so right! The provided image is piratically the same in appearance to what I captured.
And we are not only in a heavily forested area in TN, but pretty close to the TN river, and have our hand dug pond out front. I wonder if our pond is an attractant?
I just wish I knew where they were getting in! This is not the first one to get inside over the last 11 years either. I must have had 5 inside this past summer alone, but this November visitor has to be the biggest one of the year. lol
a couple of other 'tenants' that got in
atfirstplush.deviantart.com/ar…
atfirstplush.deviantart.com/ar…
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I will do my best. I usually relocate them, but sometimes, doom comes to those things I don't understand. Inside, they are on my terf, outside, I respect their space. If I'm in a feeling kind mood, they will get carefully put out to do their insect eating job. But I will take a moment to think of you first, before I dare do any more in. I promise.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
LOL - good one. Thank goodness they don't do that. LOL
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Having eight limbs wrapped around ya can me fun....just saying!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
sounds like some sort of mating ritual gone wrong lol
... I prefer the human variety of limbs personally. They come in pairs. 
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I didn't identify the limbs as anything other than human...
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
just trying to be funny.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
wow i have caught spiders since i was little but huntsmans an other small ones those legs and her but are a "bad" shape.. but i think someone more qualified then i should say
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Yuck! Spiders are intriguing but not when they're unexpectedly crawling around the house. No thank you!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
I'm pretty sure thats either a wolf spider (Hogna aspersa) or a running crap spider (Philodromus spp)
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Well she's quite pretty! Spiders freak me out and fascinate me at the same time.
I found an extraordinarily large spider this summer... Way larger than I'm used to at least... And I snatched it up and dried it out. It was either that or kill it because I was too freaked out at the size to try to save her haha I should post a picture of it sometime. I used a quarter for size comparison on mine... The spider was bigger.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0