This little beastie just about made it into my camper riding on a Halloween prop while I was packing up to leave from Great Lakes Fright Fest last Sunday. It is a beautiful spider, but I must say it made my skin crawl to think where it might have ended up. Does anyone know what kind of spider this is?
Monday, June 6, 2011
Almost a stowaway...
This little beastie just about made it into my camper riding on a Halloween prop while I was packing up to leave from Great Lakes Fright Fest last Sunday. It is a beautiful spider, but I must say it made my skin crawl to think where it might have ended up. Does anyone know what kind of spider this is?
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A damn creepy one, if I say so!
ReplyDeleteEw. Ew. EW. Make it die.
ReplyDeleteLa frog queen won't be happy about this.
I don't know what kind it is, but good gravy, thats a gorgeous spider!!!!
ReplyDeleteWoah. Between this guy and the bat, you really collect the creepy creatures! I have no idea what kind of spider that is, so be careful with it!
ReplyDeleteOMG, you are lucky because that's a highly verminous Michigan Striped Thrashback spider indigenous only to Southern Michigan......na..just kidding, no idea what kind of spider. Sorry we didn't make it to GLFF this year, hope you had fun.
ReplyDeleteLook at that...I screwed up my comment with a typo..should have read venomous.
ReplyDeleteWhile it sounds cute, it looks like your spider is a Nursery Web Spider (very close to a Wolf Spider). And it's probably good you didn't know this before, but they can JUMP! A good 5" to 6". Their bite can be painful, but otherwise not dangerous.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's great to know: they jump AND bite!
Rich
jumping, biting, crawling, skittering...tending to thousands of spiderlings in a mass of sticky silk.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info Rich ( and the nightmares)