“I like to escort wolf spiders out of my house. I put a cup over them then slide a piece of paper or cardboard under the cup and carry them outside,” wrote Terry Mayer, Pinehurst, North Carolina. I won’t kill them I catch and release them. In fact, they can be beneficial, eating up all the other bugs in your home. Others had a more level, rational take on the wolf spider, which arachnologists would be quick to point out, are harmless.
Apparently, one of them hitched a ride home with me,” wrote Karen Hanscom of Arlington, Virginia. When I returned home from camp, a giant wolf spider ran out of my suitcase. At night, we’d stare up at the spiders from our cots and try to convince ourselves they’d eat mosquitoes and bugs so it was actually good to have wolf spiders in the tent with us. “When I was a Girl Scout at Camp Potomac Woods, wolf spiders would gather inside our tent, near the top, and out of our reach. I cannot remember how many times I was bitten but I know I was sick for three days from it,” wrote Spencer Marker of Centreville, Virginia. I swatted at it and the spider fell down on me with all its babies, which seemed like hundreds of them. – “Back in my younger days, when I was at Goshen Boy Scout camp, I was lying on my cot inside the tent and I saw a big wolf spider directly above me on the tent wall. The spider was so heavy I heard it hit the wall with a thud! The next morning, I found it and vacuumed it up,” wrote Elizabeth Cobb of Casanova, Virginia. I grabbed it with my hand and threw it across the room. – “I woke up in the night and discovered a giant wolf spider was on my neck. Here are a few of the stories I received, lightly edited: I quickly learned that many of them have interesting and creepy wolf spider stories. I polled my friends on Facebook to find out how many have encountered this oversized spider. Ultimately, my eye was fine, but I haven’t received my super-spidey powers yet. I will always wear eye protection when weed-whacking in the future. I flushed my eye with water, never feeling like I got it all out. Gooey, liquid spider spread across my eyeball. A big, sloppy hunk of spider hit me square in the eye, and no amount of swiping with my fingers or shirt could remove it. Wolf spider bits sprayed everywhere, including into my face. I was weed-whacking in late September along the front of my house when I spotted what I would classify as a giant specimen on the brick at grass level.īefore I knew it, the weed whacker hit the spider, which instantaneously exploded. Like many of us in the Washington area, I have a horror story involving the wolf spider. The bottom row has four small eyes, the middle row has two large eyes, and the top row has two medium-size eyes. E-Pilot Evening Edition Home Page Close MenuĪ wolf spider has eight eyes arranged in three rows on its large head.
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