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I was bit by a similar appearing spider (although looking through the plastic container it surely isn't the same species). Reached into the pool skimmer to clean out leaves and felt a sting similar to a bee sting. Turned out to be a male tarantula that hadn't drowned by the time I encountered it. Male tarantulas are longer, slimmer and have a smaller abdomen than the female. So I trapped it in a jar and headed off to the ER. The triage nurse said it was a good thing I came in and brought the spider with me. They identified it and found it wasn't particularly venomous, but gave me a tetanus vaccine injection anyway.

The nurse said it isn't a good idea to ignore a spider bite, she recalled her friend, also a nurse, was bitten by a brown recluse spider. She didn't have it looked at until symptoms developed. First they cut out a large portion of flesh around the bite, then they amputated her leg below the knee, then the entire leg, then the poor woman died. Seems the spider's bite can also cause necrotizing fasciitis, so if the venom doesn't get you the infection will. The park I managed was home to black widows and brown recluse spiders, one had to be careful lifting a manhole cover, one manhole contained at least 200 black widows. It had to be fogged with insecticide before rodding the line.

When it comes to large dangerous spiders, kill 'em all.

..... We kept at it until a nice big one like yours came up, took her up to the house and made a pet out of her. They tame right down and tolerate handling pretty well but ya gotta watch out, VERY fast runners.

Set it up in a terrarium, feed bugs to it. Use a coffee can lid or similar with a piece of sponge for water. They can live several years in captivity.

Lucky it wasn't on your roof. Could have ended up looking like this!!!



Hilarious!!!!

Love his daughters comment right at the end!

OH I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We kept at it until a nice big one like yours came up, took her up to the house and made a pet out of her. They tame right down and tolerate handling pretty well but ya gotta watch out, VERY fast runners.

-They can live several years in captivity.

Boy, I hate spiders, and they freak me out. I'd be so freaked out no way in hell I'd even be able to think about stepping on a spider that size. Shovel....maybe, foot smash.....hell no!

LOL.

Maybe you'll like this better.

Late last summer I found a nice big preying mantis and set him up as a pet. AH jr and I caught and tossed all sorts of things in there as food items but one of the best was a fairly large wolf spider.

I thought two predators both large in this area among insect and arachnid worlds, both aggressive hunters with good vision, both excel at chasing down and catching food, etc, that this should be a very interesting encounter.

Nope.

Mantis crawled down a twig, slowing the last couple inches to do the jerky walk like a leaf in the wind, and grabbed up the spider in one pincher. He crawled back up to the top and spun that spider in a full circle, snip, snip, snip, in about 10 or 15 seconds biting off all the legs and dropping them to the floor, then ate it up all gone.

This is how you handle a spider.


https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthread..._Encounter_with_a_Wolf_Spide#Post3413093

That's awesome!

And when talking about spiders - we can't forget about "Spiders on Drugs"! A definite classic.....