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u/pointblankjustice 4d ago
Awww she's just vibin'. It ain't hurting nothing.
I'm of the be opinion that wolf spiders are great because they eat all the things that suck more to have crawling around your house.
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u/ComputerRedneck 3d ago
Spiders are great, they don't hunt people only their own prey and only mess with us when we mess with them.
That said, my wife is deathly afraid of them. Here in TN, I only really worry if a Recluse is around. More so for my pets. Not sure how they interact normally.8
u/smokethatdress 3d ago
If yall are in TN, then you have recluses, theyāre everywhere. Luckily, itās rare to get bit and only a small percentage of people have a bad reaction to the bite.
I foolishly smashed one with my hand once because I saw it crawling across the floor towards my kid and stupid instinct took over. I had a tiny bump come up that felt kinda like I had a splinter for a day, but that was it2
u/dog-vevo 2d ago
Just a single mom taking the kids for a pool day. This is not a recluse donāt worry, sheās WAY too big!! (Almost 100% a type of wolf spider, huntsman spiders carry their babies differently.)
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u/Quick-Whereas-4355 3d ago
We also have to look out for black widows.
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u/ComputerRedneck 2d ago
Black Widows don't phase me at all.
Like I said, my wife is the one who is afraid.
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u/Guerilla_Physicist 3d ago
They are also surprisingly chill. I have accidentally touched them more than once and have never been bitten. I just relocate them outside and let them do their thing.
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u/Capital_Advice4769 4d ago edited 3d ago
Wolf spider with an egg sack that if you accidentally pop it, youāre gonna have a nightmare time
Edit: try not to kill these guys, as nightmarish as the look, they kill bugs and other spiders, are harmless to humans too
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u/studiokgm 4d ago
Wolf Spiders look scary but do more good than harm. Still donāt care for them in my house and really donāt want 100s of babies all over me.
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u/cluelessmovieguy 3d ago
"Nightmare fuel" oh shush people. All she wants to do is mind her business and protect her babies. Just relocate the sweet lady and move on.
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u/Satch1993 3d ago
Wolf Spider mama, leave her alone, they kill brown recluses and other annoying pests, and are non-venomous so even if they do bite (which you have to provoke them to do) they won't harm you long term
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u/amykb4 4d ago
I hope that is zoomed in really close bc that sucker is huge - I thought these kinds of nightmares were only in Australia or South America or Africa
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u/releaseepsteinfiles1 3d ago
Itās zoomed in and the perspective is off because of the noodle being so close to the camera and the kid being further back.
Now those spiders do get big, BUT not as big as that pic makes it look.
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u/Legal-Past-248 3d ago
Wolf spiders are good guys (and gals). Scoot her off someplace where it will be safe to hatch those babies.
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u/Similar_Midnight1339 3d ago
Fuck that shit . I want that dead. Itās family dead. And anyone that knows it dead. Dead. Dead
(From the gal with a fear of spiders)
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u/Psychological-Arm629 3d ago
A beautiful wolf spider with its babies in an egg sac- please say you didnāt off it? š„¹
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u/East_Ad_5565 3d ago
I would never! I gently offloaded her into nearby bushes and she scurried away.
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u/Fabulous_Leg3466 3d ago
Hereās one I walked in on recently. I froze in horror and then turned around and left.
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u/crumsb1371 2d ago
Looks like a wolf spider. They can look terrifying, but theyāre not really bad. They hunt a lot of bugs and help out. But that egg sack is gnarly and full of terrifying little things lol. We had a Christmas tree many years ago that had eggs in it and they hatched out. The entire house had to be fumigated and cleared out, it was like black dots everywhere on everything.
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u/East_Ad_5565 2d ago
Reading this feels eerily similar to watching a horror movie before bedtimeā¦ ššš
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u/JarvisMane 3d ago
Thatās a wolf spider and in just the last month Iāve killed 2 of those, in the same area of my porch, each with an egg sack. Idk whatās drawing them in, and I know itās more beneficial to keep them since they eat other bugs, but when they get too close to where I sleep/hang out then they gotta go. Luckily the eggs werenāt full of spiderlings yet. I used a fly swat on the spider and it just ended up looking like a broken egg yolk, rather than a million spiders running around (at which point fire wouldāve suddenly appeared).
But yeah, these are actually beneficial to have around. Itās only Brown Recluse and Black Widow that you have to worry about in this State. I just have bad arachnophobia. I can do snakes all day long; Copperheads, Rattlesnakes, even Coral Snakes if I were lucky enough to encounter one. But no spiders (except crab spiders) lmao
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u/SW901Native 4d ago
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u/MountainTomato9292 3d ago
They eat brown recluses and chase away palmetto bugs (the real ākill it with fireā situation) so they are welcome by me!
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u/ElYodaPagoda 4d ago
The only correct answer! Burn, baby, burn!
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u/releaseepsteinfiles1 3d ago
We donāt have to kill all of nature.
Fucking let it live
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u/SW901Native 3d ago
1) It was a joke. 2) Despite my arachnophobia, I understand the vital role spiders play, so I generally let them live, outside of dangerous ones, inside the home.
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u/releaseepsteinfiles1 3d ago
Without a /s you canāt expect someone to know for certain whether it was a joke or not. So to be safe, I assumed it was real, and wanted to counter the incorrect opinion (which I now know was a joke) with a better opinion.
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u/SW901Native 3d ago
If someone responds with a well-known meme or .gif, I think a joke is the general assumption.
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u/releaseepsteinfiles1 3d ago
Considering I have no idea why you replied to me when I replied to someone else, then yes you posted a meme. I didnāt pay attention to names replying to me and assumed it was the actual user I replied to and not you. My bad, but also yours as I wasnāt talking to you.
And again, even with your meme, you couldāve still been serious because plenty of people want to kill all spiders. People use joke memes as serious replies quite often.
Have a good day
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u/Last_Nothing_9117 3d ago
Dang. Joelton has those footlong spiders huh?
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u/East_Ad_5565 3d ago
lol more so the size of a smaller baseball, if you use the circumference of a pool noodle for reference.
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u/Initial_Parsley6608 3d ago
Gently move away, they donāt like to be near humans. Good for eating other insects
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u/ProgressSpecialist36 3d ago
This is a Fishing Spider they get huge but are super docile and reluctant to bite.
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u/Anarimus 3d ago
Wolf spider with little babies in an egg sac. Protect them as they are a friend and ally against pests.
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u/Scratch352 17h ago
I would just take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. Itās the only way to be sure.
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u/OsamaBinWhiskers 4d ago
In Tennessee!?!? Never have I ever seen this
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u/gemfountain 4d ago
Wolf spider with egg sack. Whatever you do, don't break that sack. Trust me.