Late Night Visitor
Last night I was doing laundry. After I took the clothes from the dryer I turned to get the clothes from the washer and the I saw IT.
OMG I do not ever recall seeing a spider so big. I did not know what to do first. Kill it or take its picture.
Needless to say I had to run and get the camera first while praying that it did not move. If it wasn’t there when I came back I would have had a heart attack.
Thank goodness it was still there.
What the @$#&!!
What would you have done?
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Posted on May 3, 2016, in Animals and Insects, Photography and tagged animals, bugs, Macro, nature, new jersey, photography, spiders. Bookmark the permalink. 31 Comments.
Reflections for my Soul 
Yuck! Yuck! Spiders are my kryptonite.
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That’s huge! If I were in your place I would have lost all my cool…
I admire your courage.
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I had to put on my big girl pants….lol
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Uggh. I would have called my wife… she’s the spider killer, I take care of the earwigs. Yes, I’m a spider wimp.
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Lol I totally understand. Little spiders I can handle and Daddy Longlegs I will even pick up…not for long. But monster spiders like this makes you wonder if you should just move
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Yes! We have some mighty big ones here in Virginia. Some of them jump!
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OMG I don’t think I would l work in my garden if I knew there were jumping spiders in the area. So if you know they are here in NJ don’t tell me…lol
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I’m sure you’re safe. I’d never heard of such a thing until I moved here. But please always wear gloves when gardening. (My in-laws have told me spider stories… enough said.)
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Thanks. ..I have a pair.
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🙂
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We have his partner hanging out in our bathroom at the moment. We’re now regretting not “relocating” it when we first saw it as it seems to double in size each day!😳
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You are a brave soul. It would have been relocated or worse when I initially saw it. I know we need them but outside not in my house.
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I was kinda hoping the dust bunnies would take care of him, or at least scare him off but thus far he’s proving way more resilient than I gave him credit for. 😩
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Lol I think it is time to throw it out to the world. Especially sine it is not intimated by the dust bunnies.
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It looks huge. About how big was it?
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It looked as big as my hand. Too big for my comfort.
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My goodness. That’s not big — that’s gigantic!
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Yes he was. Tom (in an earlier comment) said it is a wolf spider.
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just kill it, only good spider is a dead spider, they creep me out
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Lol thank you Julie! But I had to photography it first I have never seen one so big before.
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Photograph it and then try to get it and release it back to the wild. Spiders are good – they eat the flying bugs buzzing around!! Spiders deserve to live – just didn’t get bitten by one!
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I know that they are good for the environment but the outside environment only… once inside it’s them or me.lol
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I simply yell for my husband who sometimes drums up enough courage to put a jar over it, trap it with a piece of card and then relocate it in to the woods. Sometimes if it looks like it’s a runner of the Usain Bolt variety it gets whacked with a slipper. I have a complete phobia of them. The most cowardly way to get them of course is to creep up with the vacuum cleaner nozzle. That’s kept for life -death situations – as in me having a possible heart attack!
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The vacuum is a great tool/weapon. Years ago there was a spider walking along the floor at the edge of an area rug. I dropped a book on the spider but because of the rug I did not smash it and it had a million babies spiders on it. They went everywhere! I think I did have a heartache. I started screaming for the kids to get the vacum. After much vacum I think we go 90%of them.
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The same kind of wolf spider visited me as I husked corn on our front porch! I don’t mind spiders at all! They are nice, little creatures! 🙂
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Outside I can deal with them. I will just move since I am in their domain but when they enter my world all I can think about is then crawling on me in my sleep. And it becomes them or me.
Thanks for providing the name of this monster spider.
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Spiders we let live. They compete with the scorpions. So I’d rather have spiders than scorpions. Got stung by a tiny little scorpion a few weeks ago… 😦
After years in Africa, this was the first time a scorpion stung me. Darn…
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This was a monster spider I don’t think anyone would want this to live in their house. If it wad outside I would leave it alone. I understand spiders vs scorpions but luckily I don’t have to chose. When I was in Arizona scorpions were a concern. How did that happen? Glad you ates ok.
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Thank you. We’ve had scorpions in the house since we moved in. Small and large. All we can do is fumigate once a month and be careful. This little one was in my bath robe, and stung me as I steeped out of the shower… (You lived in Arizona? How exciting)
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