This afternoon we were greeted with this lovely creature…a GIANT wolf spider with about jillion babies on his back. (total body shudder) I don’t hate spiders, in fact we have no less than a dozen yellow and black garden spiders all around the flower beds, but things like this do a number on me. When we first spotted the huge-mongous arachnid, we were awed simply by his size, and then we realized his body was fluid. After taking a closer look, we gasped as we saw all the little babies moving around.
I have the heebie jeebies just typing this.
As any mother should, I squealed, grabbed the kids and ran inside–leaving the garage door open to the outside, and sending our dog to take care of the problem.
The husband/dad of the house is out and about hunting and gathering on this first day of dove season, so we were left to fend for ourselves.
As of this second, I haven’t seen the creature again, but I’m not at peace just yet.
(again, total body shudder.)
Oh goodness. Don’t kill it in the house…babies will be everywhere!!
I have killed about 5 of these spiders, with babies this past month….use wasp spray, it kills them on contact and you can spray enough to get all of the babies before they scatter…eeww, I feel itchy!
They were in our garage btw…not in the house…eeek!