THIS is how fast a wolf spider is.

[Jamastiene]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEq1gSccItU

[ThomCat]

1. Imagine if Spiderman had been bitten by one of those!

Whoosh! :P

SpiderFlash!

[Jamastiene]

3. He probably would never know what bit him.

He would see a blur. Whoosh!

[flvegan]

2. Why WHY did I watch that??!!!

Nightmares, I'm gonna have 'em.

[Jamastiene]

4. Maybe this one will calm you down.

It's so sweet and precious. Think of it as a baby birth video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93VJ4838SoY

But, whatever you do, don't watch this one. It's what you see in the yard here where I live. When you shine a flashlight out in the yard at night, you see dozens of sets of little tiny lights shining back at you. They move FAST too.

This is what it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AbqrfC64YE

It's why I don't go out at night too much except in the fall.

[flvegan]

6. I'm not clicking that.

Once bitten, twice shy. And you bite.

[Jamastiene]

10. It's kind of cute.

Just don't click the second link, unless you want night terrors. When I first moved into this place, it's what I saw when I went outside one summer night. At the old place, I could go outside at night and I knew whatever eyes I saw were cats or something cute and fuzzy. Here, it ALL bites or stings or watches you menacingly as you walk past it (the triffids) and waits for a chance to get you with its thorns. It's a jungle out there.

[ThomCat]

7. That is really cool, and even kind of cute.

:)

But not if you have a phobia of spiders.

[Jamastiene]

12. I can't help but feel at least a little bit of "awwww" when the babies are born.

They are kind of cute.

[petronius]

18. These are great! I had no idea that spiders actually cared for their young - I thought they were

in the 'have a million babies and scatter them to the winds' school of thought...

We have wolf spiders in the house pretty frequently, and I like to see them because I figure that ever spider is a dozen fewer bugs. I just make sure they aren't black widows, then leave them to their business...

[Blue Diadem]

28. My son told me about their eyes when you shine a light, I thought he was exaggerating.

He had them in his basement when they first moved into their house. I really thought he was joking around about seeing their eyes.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

8. +1

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. That's the kind of spider that stalked me one night...

It was the middle of the summer, and hot as hell. We had no air conditioning, and it was way too hot for anything but the birthday suit. I got up in the middle of the night to pee, and Mr Giganto Spider ran across my foot. I looked around for him so I could catch him and put him outside, but I couldn't find him. So I went back to bed. Next thing I knew, he scrambled across my bare butt.

That was my limit. Found the spider and fed him to the killer fish.

[ThomCat]

9. I'm glad you were able to finally find and catch it.

:wow:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. So was the fish.

:rofl:

[Jamastiene]

11. They are ferocious and FAST too.

I'm torn between revulsion and admiration for them. I don't know whether to run and hide, do battle, or try to video tape them. I tend to freak when any of them get ON me. That always freaks me out.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. I've never been bitten by one...

...and I've seen a good many in our garden. But taking a promenade on my naked person was more than I could stand.

[Sigh Sister]

17. Several years ago, I saw one of these in my kitchen

I screamed at the top of my lungs and grabbed a box of wipes with the intent to kill it. It actually reared up at me prepared to do battle. I dropped the box of wipes and ran into my bedroom and hide. :scared:

[Jamastiene]

30. You have to watch them. They are also incredibly smart.

They are formidable foes in battle. They will actually lure you out from a safe hiding spot, then turn on you when you are out in the open. They do that so they can get the upper hand in battle. I had witnessed them using that tactic, firsthand.

I had one do that to me one night when we first moved here. I was standing in the foyer with the broom and the spider was in the kitchen, just around the corner. It moved away from me just far enough that I couldn't reach it any more. I had to go in the kitchen to try to chase it down. Then, when I came out of the foyer and went into the kitchen, it turned around, came back toward me and reared up to fight me face to face.

[Sigh Sister]

34. I'm glad I'm still in my bedroom then

:scared: And I'm not coming out!!

[Mythsaje]

13. I prefer to pretend spiders don't exist unless they touch me.

Then I freak the flock out.

[stewartcolbert08]

14. I HATE HATE HATE THEM!

In NM where I grew up we had these HUGE wolf spiders, they were insane stalkers with only one goal in life! To stalk and kill me! I am telling you I hate them!

[Jamastiene]

31. They are fierce.

I could not get over what it was like to just try to kill one of them. It turns into a long drawn out battle just to try to kill them. When they sense you have a weapon and are going to kill them, they rear up on you and draw you into a full fledged battle. They go down fighting too.

[Danger Mouse]

19. Spiders don't bother me. Now if it's WASPS, that's a different story.

:scared:

[Jamastiene]

32. Once a wasp is onto you...

It will hound you in every way imaginable until you escape by running inside or immersing yourself in water. If you anger a whole family of them, you're in for a bad bad day.

[siligut]

20. With spiders I am the live and let live sort.

When I lived in Florida, I had wolf spiders in the house, I left them alone. The kitteh however did not, and she was pretty fast herself!

[JustJeking]

22. oh god - there's wolf spiders in FLORIDA?!

*whimpers* I deluded myself into thinking they only existed in the west coast. Never got over my run-in with one in California.

[Jamastiene]

35. They are all up and down the east coast.

I'm in NC. They are the state animal or something for SC.

[jeff30997]

37. Snakes,spiders...After much reflection (0.5 seconds) ...

I prefer to freeze my ass 9 months a year up here
thank you very much! I hate those things! :scared:

[Jamastiene]

33. Sunday Girl came running out from under the bed one night.

A wolf spider was CHASING her. It was serious too. She doesn't run from much of anything. This certain one must have done something that scared her. They don't give up easily. I know that much. You must have super kitty if they can outsmart a wolf spider.

[Sigh Sister]

36. It chased her?!!

OMG...

[Jade Fox]

21. I couldn't not watch that, could I......

Hate Spiders

[Arugula Latte]

23. I ain't clickin. Fucking spiders.

:scared:

I know, I know. Spiders do good things ... blah blah blah. I still hate them.

[JustJeking]

24. Okay I've been trying to convince myself

to click on the link to watch the video - but can't do it. Just can't. *shudders*

[quakerboy]

25. So it can sprint

but how is it in a 10k?

[Stump]

26. I shouldn't have looked...

I hate freaking spiders! I just couldn't resist however...

[insanity]

27. I've seen and done battle with a good number of them

I've got no problem with spiders outside because I have encroached on their domain, but those fuckers tend to be mean when they are inside. If I can I'll try and lure it outside, but if not I have no qualms exercising my natural bred superiority as a killer... humans are the top of the food chain for a reason.

[Jamastiene]

39. I cannot get over how they fight you indoors.

It's weird. Outside, they run to get away from you. Inside, they do some serious battle for new territory or something. It's like they develop an attitude about being in your house. :wow:

[Forkboy]

29. Yeah, but I bet it doesn't weigh 30,000 tons.

[BreweryYardRat]

38. Beats dealing with thumb-sized (or larger) roaches.

Shit, I'd be happy to introduce a couple wolf spiders to the house if I thought they could survive the cats.