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beth wallbank
10-12-04, 05:46 PM
Sitting quietly at my computer, coffee in hand, and enjoying the fact the house was quiet with the kids gone to school, this fricking thing made its presense across my keyboard. Needless to say, I wore my coffee, and my chihuahua is now traumatized by the howls I made. Enough said...........WTF is this?

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/66MVC-037S-med.JPG
beth wallbank
10-12-04, 05:47 PM
ps.........that is a Canadian loonie if anyone is trying to figure out size.
arkuden
10-12-04, 06:07 PM
ive seen that before in the states mostly northern. Although that one is quite larger..... sorry i cant help but the ones that look like that here are harmless aside from maybe a small bite.
leoncurrie
10-12-04, 06:07 PM
looks like a crab spider on steriods. *&^*&( that's big
Artemis
10-12-04, 06:08 PM
ACK! At least it was the keyboard and not your hands! Poor beth, I'd probably have a couple extra greys after that myself!
pcw_phoenix
10-12-04, 06:10 PM
it's this spider

:D:D:D

http://www.ojibway.ca/spiders.htm
Vanan
10-12-04, 06:32 PM
Looks like some kinda wolf spider. Interesting specimen. Didn't know the wolf spiders up here got so big.
bighillreptiles
10-12-04, 06:56 PM
It's a northern wolf spider lots around in the fall trying to get all the food they can befor winter sets in ,nice size on her
nita
10-12-04, 06:56 PM
No clue but it would have been squished if it was in my house!! LOL..... I am considering a tarantula but it would never, never come out of its cage!! I know wolf spiders get pretty darn big, no clue what they look like but my friend out at Muriel lake says she gets them there big!! Another friends DH works up on oil rigs and happened to bring two small ones home in his backpack by accident and my friend found them while emptying it out to do laundry.... all his stuff was thrown outside until later that evening when he got home and she made him wash his own stuff that night!! LOL, she is terrified of spiders and snakes, she doesn't come visit me either.
reptile boi
10-16-04, 06:03 PM
Hey, my friend found one just like that but a little bigger 2 months ago while we were herping and he thought it was a tarantula lol.



Thanks,
Ben
reptiguy420
10-16-04, 06:14 PM
yeah its a wolf spider.....they like to tyr and act like tarantulas here in Michigan.They like to rear up, they also bite doesnt really hurt but man i hate spiders..eeewww!!!!!
Oliverian
10-17-04, 01:41 PM
Man, i find them really mellow.

I also find them frog food. :p
-TammyR