So, remember the FUN ROOM? Well, it is at the back of our house, adjacent to the screen door than leads out to our deck. And earlier this week I noticed that a very industrious spider had built a beautiful, giant web in between the screen and the glass. It was pretty impressive, but I didn’t see said hard-working spider until later.
And when I did see it, I screamed bloody murder and jumped back four feet, even though I was inside the house and it was out. Because THIS is my newest tenant:
(Sorry, due to the fact that it’s sitting on it’s web on clear glass, I cannot seem to get my camera to focus on it. And if I get too close, it moves and when it moves I WET MY PANTS IN FEAR BECAUSE OH EM GEE IT’S FRICKING HUGE AND TERRIFYING!)
It’s big fat body that you see there, is about the size of my thumb. Ugh. I just shivered in fear while I was typing that.
So what is this thing? A heartless human-killer, or just the kind that kills other icky bugs that I should welcome to my window, or is it the kind you put a leash on and take for a walk around the block?
I wish it was the kind that LIVED SOMEWHERE ELSE.
Cause it is freaking this little wimpy girl OUT fer realz. Who wants to come over and capture it for me??
Mrs. Duggar says to grab a can of that trashy hair spray you use to get all gussied UP, and spray the little mother off the screen, then stomp ot with your Pradaesque Pumps!
And, UP says, until you’ve killed 2 Copperheads in the yard in one Summer, you can’t bytychabout no spider!!!
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Shouldn’t there be an app for that? To identify creepy crawlies and stuff. That would be an awesome app.
I’m pretty sure there is one! Or maybe it’s for flowers. Something like that.
It looks like a wolf spider. Usually the bigger spiders aren’t the ones to watch out for. My husband has deep deep acrophobia, but they actually don’t bother me…
Count your blessings, girl. We’ve got black widows out here. And they are wicked-fast and nearly impossible to kill. I have taken to literally frying them with my long-handled lighter. I bought Spectracide with a nozzle gun to shoot from a distance, too.
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I am so so so with you on this one Jenny! I think spiders should only be able to live in a home where they pay rent and are welcomed. I saw a spider much like this in our shed yesterday! I ffffureeaked out and ran to my back porch, where, a pleasantly scarrrrry little snake awaited me. I really felt that God was telling me to just stay inside that day! Needless to say, I think that it must be the season for the spider. It was almost as big as a baseball. Only hairy, and fast, and ugly, and unpredictable. I can’t step on the spiders because I am too afraid they will eat through my shoe and bite my foot. (Jeremy tells me that they are wolf spiders and that they can get as big as a hand. He tells me that they cannot harm me, but they can give me very bad dreams!!!!)