The creepy crawly thread.....

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I was terrified Vic.
A4K, he's on the antenna ball so that will give you an idea of his size and they do have a venom that leaves a knot about 1/4 the size of a mosquito bite. It can be painful like a bruise. I worked on the car for about six hours and it never moved except when I disturbed it.
Your wright Wayne " It's MINE, ALL MINE, YOU HEAR, ALL MINE, I FOUND IT, IT'S ALL MINE!

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shot Aaron.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

A friend of mine brought me a COOL surprise today. He got her at work and every one else wanted to kill it. He remembered that I liked spiders and brought her to me. She is a Mexican Wolf Spider. I don't know how long she will survive but I put her out in the flower bed. I dropped some water on a leaf in front of her and she sucked it up and took off under the azalea bush where I got this shot. She is just a little larger than a silver dollar and she is not feeling to zippy just yet.

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shot!

 

[GrauGeist]

Good looking spider, Aaron...but I'm wondering, what's a Mexican Wolf Spider doing in your neck of the woods?

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Probably the same as Aussie Red Backs at Warton aerodrome, Preston, England.. ..............they hitched a ride in a container.. ........................sealed the whole airfield off in case they escaped............

Great picture Aaron, love'em in the wild, but not the house.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Good looking spider, Aaron...but I'm wondering, what's a Mexican Wolf Spider doing in your neck of the woods?

My friend works at Paramont Manufacturing here in town and they got a shipment in from Mexico the other day.

 

[GrauGeist]

Ahh...there ya' go...

Sometimes those hitch-hikers are just a novelty, other times they can wreak havoc...like the Japanese borer-beetle out here on the west coast. They're devestating our forests

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I don't think she will be much of a problem. There are not any American Wolf spiders out here in this area so breading is going to be a little difficult.

 

[GrauGeist]

Since that Wolf Spider is new to the neighborhood, it's probably going to end up as food for one of the local critters...

I've tried to get some Macro shots of our local Wolf Spiders, but either they see thier reflection in my lens and attack it or they don't like the idea of some huge idiot human creeping up on them with this big one-eyed monstrosity and flee...

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

We had a Wolf spider in the house when I was growing up and she kept the crickets down to a minimum. She got rather large. About the size of the palm of your hand.

 

[Wayne Little]

wouldn't last 60 seconds in my house Aaron! I would catch it and send it packing....

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I dislike crickets because of the noise they make. Tends to keep one up at night and the Wolf Spiders will stay to themselves for the most part.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Whilst I was fishing today I found this little fart. It's about the size of a golf ball and when it grows up it's going to be mean.

 

[RabidAlien]

Yeah, he's sitting there, memorizing your face...."gimme two more years, punk, and your toes are mine!"

 

[B-17engineer]

I'm up for a good fight.....bring it on!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Not familiar with this fellow, what is it.....................

 

[Gnomey]

Snapping turtle?

Nice shot all the same.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Not familiar with this fellow, what is it.....................

Vic, it is the infamous snapping turtle as Gnomey guessed.8)