Spider - pet

[MoBoost]

My tarantula cage has been occupied by a bark scorpion for month - but today he had to move to a smaller cage. Here is the new occupant! (yes, it's a quarter!!!)

I've never seen wolf spider that big before. At first I thought it was a tarantula because of the size, but closer inspection showed otherwise It was hiding under a rag in the shop - not a good or safe place.

 

[z06man]

I caught one last year a little smaller than that. Still bigger than a quarter. The wife didn't appreciate her at all.

 

[_CY_]

nice pets!

kept a Huge black widow spider once inside a large jar alive for about a year.
found her on a large clump of grapes at the supermarket.

 

[nofearfactor]

Me and my kid are catching them left and right and feeding them to my Emperor scorpion. Some of them are really big too, almost as big as a small tarantula, but theyre no match for the scorpion- she just mangles them. Seems like we have alot more of them running around our place this summer than we ever have (we're not catching the ones I come across out in my garage/shop because they eat the brown recluses and other smaller spiders out there, we're only catching the ones we find padding thru the house or out on the patio along with some large black spiders). She seems to like them better than the crickets and other larger insects that I raise in another tank to feed all of my critters. I only have 2 large tarantulas now down from the 5 I did have, besides several reptiles.

 

[dowmace]

I haven't seen any wolf spiders quite that big at my place yet, but thats probably because our cat eats them when he can't find mice to eat.

 

[DanB]

I'll never forget being excited about my grandparents pool when they draied it to repaint it years ago. I ran down the steps into the pool. About that time I realized I wasn't alone. hundreds of wolf spiders. If not thousands. Several large ones found a good place on the vertical section of the stairs. Did not see them running down the stairs. I think I only touched one stair on my way out of the pool.

The field behind their house was usually good to get random critters in their pool.

 

[mavrick]

Do they really eat the fiddle backs?

 

[Kozmos]

Not a big spider fan but I came across this girl a few years ago in Texas right after Hurricane Ike. Watched her for quite a while and snapped a few pics...

 

[rebelracer79]

I need to snap a pic of the Black Widow that is in my dad's garage before I smash it...

 

[338Shooter]

Do they really eat the fiddle backs?

I hope, I let them be and have very few fiddle backs. I have some big ones running around, but I move them outside because they still freak me out when they run across the kitchen.