SPIDER

[RemyZee]

This a thread to post pictures, videos or facts about spiders! Are you scared of them? Are they scared of you? The Mirror Spider reflects light like a disco ball.

 

[the_tortoise]

Wolf spider mothers carry their babies with them on their backs.

Wolf spiders also hunt their prey down - actually running and chasing them, rather than relying on a web to trap them.

I am scared of the very poisonous ones, and they make me nervous or panicked when I suddenly find them on my person (like the memorable night I woke up to a large spider running across my face)...

Otherwise I consider them fascinating and beautiful friends, since they eat flies and other pests and most spiders in my part of the world are harmless. Unless someday thousands overran my home or something, they are welcome to live in my house. If they are aggressive (likely because I have made them feel threatened - so they are basically just trying to startle me and make a run for it ...the jumping spiders i have experienced this with mostly) or I am worried I am going to squish them accidentally, I capture them in a jar and put them outside...but usually I just leave them alone.