Not for the faint of heart (Arachnophobes beware)

[pourcyne]

Caught this beauty on film last night in an Iowa basement... Does Iowa have tarantulas now? After the photo shoot, did a successful catch-and-release and put her outside so that she could hitchhike on up to where you guys live. Anybody know what kind she is? (no, her real name, already nicknamed her "Shelob")

 

[NWICY]

Well not really but I'll post the mandatory "Kill it with Fire"

 

[AdamJGray]

Catch and release? You stomp that mother ****** with the bottom of your shoe!

Good pic though!

 

[1100011CS]

Caught this beauty on film last night in an Iowa basement... Does Iowa have tarantulas now? After the photo shoot, did a successful catch-and-release and put her outside so that she could hitchhike on up to where you guys live. Anybody know what kind she is? (no, her real name, already nicknamed her "Shelob")

What the hell is wrong with you?

 

[RyCy04]

Looks like a wolf spider. Good job on the catch and release.

 

[3TrueFans]

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Catch and release? You stomp that mother ****** with the bottom of your shoe!

Good luck with that. It would just laugh at you and possibly make fun of your choice in shoes.

 

[Clone2Dbone]

Looks like a wolf spider. Good job on the catch and release.

Was it howling? Seriously, I thought it might be a wolf spider also.

 

[dtISU]

Looks like a wolf spider. Good job on the catch and release.

AKA the NOPE spider.

 

[ISUagger]

I think that is an escaped pet.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

You guys are SUCH wussies!

Catch & release is perfect. Spiders eat bugs. Like mosquitos. Of the two, I'd much rather have spiders.

 

[Clone2Dbone]

You guys are SUCH wussies!

Catch & release is perfect. Spiders eat bugs. Like mosquitos. Of the two, I'd much rather have spiders.

I agree with your sentiment, snakes and bats get a bad rap too. I wouldn't want any as pets, but I don't harm any of them.

 

[bosco]

Need time put that on your hand so we have reference for size.

 

[pourcyne]

Need time put that on your hand so we have reference for size.

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Just gonna have to take my word for it that the squares outlined in gray on the floor in this pic are 3" x 3".

 

[NickTheGreat]

You guys are SUCH wussies!

Catch & release is perfect. Spiders eat bugs. Like mosquitos. Of the two, I'd much rather have spiders.

I have a deal with any spiders in my house. If I see them in the unfinished parts of the house, I let them be or move outside.

Finished part of the house, they get squished.

Rodents get squished anywhere I see them :twitcy:

 

[RotatingColumn]

Looks like a wolf spider. Was the house near a river?

 

[ImJustKCClone]

I have a deal with any spiders in my house. If I see them in the unfinished parts of the house, I let them be or move outside.

Finished part of the house, they get squished.

Rodents get squished anywhere I see them :twitcy:

That's why we have cats.

We live in the middle of three acres of woods, on a hillside with a creek running along the bottom of it. Bugs and mice are simply a fact of life for us. We deal with them however we can, but the house will NEVER be bug/spider free.

My DIL's and several of my granddaughters are kind of squeamish, and we always have to make sure they sleep in the "safe" rooms upstairs, even if it's more cramped. I figure that's their problem (and don't point out that the mice & spiders & ants have also made it upstairs on more than one occasion).

 

[ImJustKCClone]

I agree with your sentiment, snakes and bats get a bad rap too. I wouldn't want any as pets, but I don't harm any of them.

I've only seen three snakes in the nearly 13 years we've lived here, but they're around. The undergrowth is too thick to see them, and they don't use the mowed footpaths.

We have a few bats; one of our "to do" projects is building a bat house to encourage more of them to come live around us and chomp on the bugs.

 

[pourcyne]

Looks like a wolf spider. Was the house near a river?

No, and it's pitifully hot and dry down here in SE Iowa...the corn looks like pineapples. Maybe this guy came up the drain looking to sit out the desert climes outside.

I think you're right though, looks very much like this guy, only mine seems to have been lifting weights.

 

[GTO]

Catch and release just means that it will turn around, return to your house, and kill you in your sleep.