Saw this in my driveway last night...

[witchy]

NOw that is really creepy, and it's the size of your hand!!! Eeeewwww!!!

[Midnight Witch]

Bllaaakkkkk! Is that one of those Wolf Spiders? You know the ones that carry their young on their back. so when you smack them, 1000 baby spiders scatter !!!

When I was kid I stepped on a black and yellow spider, then there were a lot of baby spiders running out of its mother spider!

Woa. Creepy spider.

[OctoberChill]

I'd never heard of wolf spiders before. They said they're normally 1 to 2 inches. Mine was waaay bigger than that. The spider forum expert said "Yeah I'd say the one in your pic is about as big as they get." Yay for me...

It's funny, we had put fertilizer in our yard a couple weeks ago, like <deleted> fertilizer cause a lot of our new sod wasn't taking, so I'm wondering if somehow it mutated him

[iHaunt]

OctoberChill,

Why don't you do it next time when you kill it and take it to the animal control center to examine it? Maybe to your own local zoo? That's my suggestion to you, man! Because I'd like to know about this giant spider!

[Murfreesboro]

That's some spider! We don't kill spiders at our house, unless they are truly poisonous (brown recluse, black widow). Everything else gets a pass from us. If they are inside, we catch them and put them outside. We have lots of wolf spiders around here, but we consider them harmless. I've never seen one as big as that, though.

We have those big black and yellow spiders outside in the fall. My husband calls them banana spiders. I think they are gorgeous. They are also orb web spinners, which I love.

[Spookymufu]

any bug in my house either gets sprayed, squished, or the cats kill it.......no passes for bugs in my house!

[Spookymufu]

The apocalypse is upon us. The end is extremely f-ing nigh. In the four and a half billion years the earth has been around, this has never, ever happened before:

I agree completely with Spooky.

it was bound to happen, and now that you are over that hurtle, you'll find your self doing it more and more

[MacPhantom]

Yeaahhhhh......... Noooooooooo. No, I don't expect that will happen.

[OctoberChill]

If it's as big as my face, it dies. That thing was just too big to let live. I have a wife and a cat and I'm not taking any chances with a mutant spider around the house.

[Spookymufu]

we have these.....

[Andybev01]

AAAAAAAaaaaaaa.......!

[iHaunt]

We only have indoor spiders and outdoors spiders which are not poisionous.

All they do is bite you, and you will feel itch... you will have a small red spot of your skin for 2 or 3 days. Maybe you will feel like a sick for only a little bit.

But.... if we do see a "black widow", then you'll be died immediately!

[Spookymufu]

We only have indoor spiders and outdoors spiders

yeah, thats all we have here too

But.... if we do see a "black widow", then you'll be died immediately!

why does that sound familiar to me.....oh yeah, I read a letter from a Nigerian scammer that read similar to that "I make you dead!"......LOL, sorry

[iHaunt]

True.... we didn't see any black widows here.... But if we do so, then we will stomp them at once!

Anyway, we do have regular toads and frogs here

[shanda]

We have those big black and yellow spiders outside in the fall. My husband calls them banana spiders. I think they are gorgeous. They are also orb web spinners, which I love.[/quote]

We call those writing spiders. They have a scribble of webbing inthe center of their web. I love those! I had one on my porch all summer one year. It stayed in the same spot. Around the middle of October it made an egg sack and died right there. Quite sad.