I remember a bush outside my window with the spider in it. Green body, orange legs... I watched her build a web all summer. One day there was an egg in the web. After a while, the egg hatched and hundreds of baby spiders came out and ate her.
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Well this took a turn.
sounds like sharks and their siblings
First time I saw this was on the beach late on a moonless night. This was before cell phones, so I had to get close in the dim glow from a street light half a block away. They started sprawling.
happened in our garage when a roommate stepped on a fat spider trying to kill it. mini spiders everywhere!
My condolences
So I'm like 13 years old, climbing a tree at a friend's house. It's a bit of a shimmy up the trunk, I'm well in the air, hugging the tree. I look down at my feet to make sure I have footing before lifting a hand above my head to reach for a branch.
As my head is going from looking down to looking up, just as I am grabbing the branch and hanging from it, I realize that my nose is almost touching a big old wolf spider mama, fully laden with all her children.
DROP
I never climbed that tree again.
Are they venomous or otherwise dangerous to humans?
One climbed onto my foot while I was brushing my teeth once and I launched myself into the wall behind me pretty hard which hurt. Other than that I don't think so.
Nope. Also, if you coax a momma into your hand, you can throw it at your enemies for a spectacular spider-bomb.
🏌️🕷️ ——––-----___🎯👤
Spider-Bomb, Spider-Bomb
Does what ever a… AH! GET THAT THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!
To add to what nougat said, because that’s very much the appropriate answer…
All spiders are in fact venomous- it’s part of how they feed. Many species, the venom is not harmful to humans, or only very weakly so. (Wolf spiders qualify as “very weakly so”)
That said, you try keeping a reasonable head when you suddenly come eyeball-to-eyeball with a wolf spiders qualify and her kids.
Yes, all spiders are venomous, but only few have venoum which are dangerous for humans and also only few capable to inject it under the human skin. Dangerous are only few species and not necesarly the biggest ones, eg, the Australian Huntsman is not. https://www.britannica.com/list/9-of-the-worlds-deadliest-spiders
Did the comment above get edited? It look like you're just repeating the same thing stated in there.
Yes, all spiders are venomous
Almost all :)
All spiders are in fact venomous
Are there any exceptions to this? And what about non spiders like daddy long legs?
So, true spiders digest their food externally by injecting the venom. They then slurp it up. So the answer to that is "Yes". Some true spiders may also eat the more solid bits, but that's in addition to. but again, many- most- spiders are essentially harmless to humans.
harvestmen (daddy long legs) are not venomous and lack the mouth-parts necessary for injection, but they're not true spiders.
harvestmen (daddy long legs) are venomous and lack the mouth-parts necessary for injection, but they're not true spiders.
Harvestmen do not possess venom glands.
Dammit I need to be more careful when posting on mobile. Meant to say not, lol. Thanks for the correction
When they get spooked they launch their kids everywhere to overwhelm potential predators. Imagine if you squashed a spider and suddenly you were covered in hundreds of tiny spiders?
SC2 swarm hosts is probably based on this.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/wolf-spider-bite
Seems like it's not even as bad as a bee sting. Spiders are really not very dangerous at all, generally speaking. They're going to leave you alone unless you're fucking with them.
No, they are spider bros. They kill brown recluses, black widows, and other things that are dangerous. Typically do not mess with humans unless seriously provoked.
I get the sentiment, but black widows (and Theridiidae in general) are quite proficient in taking out wolf spiders and other prowling spiders, not the other way around.
TIL, it's not so much that we step on them as they they throw themselves under our footsteps...
Try to keep wolf spiders alive but if you must kill, watch they don't have the hundred babies on their back. If they do....it's nightmare fuel
Had a smoke detector going off randomly one night and I pulled it down only to have mama crawl all over my hand as the babies were running around like maniacs, some casting off. Mama still had a bunch on her when I got the smoke detector outside.
You throw them at your enemies. Spider-bomb!
Walking back home from work at night I cross some fields, I see dozens of them. They are super easy to spot with a headlamp, their eyes shine like tiny glass shards or water droplets.
Since spiders get drunk on caffeine, she's doing a Starbucks run.
Given THC the active ingredient in marijuana, the spider didn’t build a web, but a hammock. Where it would lay all day and watch the caffeine spider go.
Don't make me stop this thorax