Wolf Spiders

[Admin]

Do you guys have wolf spiders where you live? Holy crap do these fricken things creep me out. My cabin is the only place I have ever seen them and there are tons of them there. They don't hang in webs like other spiders so they are impossible to eradicate. They are transient and wicked fast. I have attempted to swat at some and have them zip out of the way and run like holy hell. They are big brown and hairy and look like mini tarantulas. I wish I knew of a method to keep them away. some of these bastards have a leg span of about 2 1/2"

Little spiders don't bother me much but these things creep me out.

[Josh]

They're pretty common down my way. I've been lucky though none inside the house or cabin. They get real creepy looking when you see a female that is carrying what looks like thousands of baby spider on the back, one of the nastiest things I've ever seen.

[cam]

A good fogging throughout the house does good work on em. Some people put out mothballs for them as well.

[rhyla]

Man, those things don't bother me at all! I think I'm just so used to seeing them growing up and everywhere. I tried to keep one as a pet as a kid. I took it to school in a tupperware container (I was a little strange, okay) but I ended up letting it go because I didn't know what to feed it. The ones that creep me out are the ones that jump and the ones with the basketball shaped asses and the tiny little legs.

[Admin]

May 29, 2012 23:48:56 GMT -5 rhyla said:

I tried to keep one as a pet as a kid. I took it to school in a tupperware container

Sounds like you'd have a field day at the cabin then. I've never seen them any place else but there.

[ninedeer]

we have them around the barn my wife hates them.and we also have them Big bodied small leg ones.that get to be quit large.I tend to like spiders

[Admin]

My old place always had those huge barn spiders on my porch and under the soffits, but they stayed in their webs and weren't any toruble. These wolf spiders get into my cabin and I hate them.

[Canadian trapper]

Man Them freaking things are monsters. We hunt game that's smaller than them things.
The Canadian Trapper

[patricimo54]

The way we keep a balance on the spiders in my neck of the woods is with the scorpions. I am thinking that they feed on them. ;D

[trapperandhunter]

there ya go JC just get a pet scorpion or two !

[fishleclair]

If ya don't like big creepers don't come to Ontario for a fishing trip. We get huge DOCK spiders that will grab minnows! from the waters and eat them!!!!

[ninedeer]

hey Fish I've seen them Dock Spiders them things get big and they are quite good at catching them minnows

[fishleclair]

May 31, 2012 8:44:47 GMT -5 ninedeer said:

they are quite good at catching them minnows

Heck yeah, and Tadpoles too!!! I bet they will even stalk down a beaver and chew on that too!

[yedi21]

Maybe you need to bring your chickens on a little field trip???

[Admin]

May 31, 2012 16:29:04 GMT -5 yedi21 said:

Maybe you need to bring your chickens on a little field trip???

Actually I been thinkng about doing that. The golden comets are wicked friendly and love being picked up and stuff. I bet they would enjoy a field trip.
Oh the stories they could tell when they got back to the coop.

I can see me now with my overalls, Coors Light and a few chickens in the cabin.

[muskrat24]

We got them aroudn my way. Had a neighbor swear that he killed on that was the diameter of an apple.

[Nutso]

OMG...this subject is giving me the heebie jeebies. I am so afraid of spiders. I have always wished that I could get over it, but they just creep me out. I was better for a while, but have since gotten worse. I actually ended a relationship one time when a boyfriend pretended to toss a spider at me.

I agree that JC needs to bring a few of his chickens to the cabin...they would clean out the bugs!!

[mike692]

Never forget the first time I saw a tarantula. One ran across the road in front of me one evening when we were visiting friends in Oklahoma. Funny thing is, I saw my first scorpion later that night.

[minktracks]

Funny how not alot creeps me out until it comes to a big spider. I hear any type of citrus spray, you can make your own, will keep them at bay. Its natural but you will have to deal with the smell. You dont want to go in the woods smelling like a lemon.

[Deleted]

jc, you ever tried osage oranges (monkey balls) to keep them out. we tried in our basement years ago and it seemed to work, but then we had a hatch of gnats. they died out quick though.

those wolf spiders always seemed to travel in pairs also. i hated them myself.

[derekdutton]

I went to the local store this morning to get my usual biscuit and coffee and flirt with the ladies behind the counter and one lets out a damn war cry you wouldnt believe. I looked to see what it was and it was one of these huge a** wolf spiders just under the edge of the counter. So i went over and stomped it, as soon as i did HUNDREDS of little babies went frigging everywhere. I'd never seen that before, them suckers went everywhere...I hate them things

[TRAPnHUNT]

We do have wolf spiders here where I live. We also have them brown recluse spider for which I got bit by one on my lower right leg a number of years back. I ended up with a serious infection from it too. These days, every spider I see shall die! I hate them lil f@(kers!!!!