It is a good thing that I am not the one in the family that hates spiders because this dude decided to take a little cruise out from the side of my desk while I was here on the computer earlier and at first I just saw it out of the side of my vision and thought it was our cat...then I remembered that she was outside so I looked to see and he was just hanging out next to the office trash can.Of course, I can't let something that big crawl around in my house while I am sleeping so I had to get the Raid out and kill it but at least it didn't give me the heebie jeebies like it would have someone else I know.
Anyhow, this guy had a pretty decent wingspan so I tried to spread him out a bit after he was dead and put the thumbtack in there for perspective. He was easily 3 inches from leg tip to leg tip if not a bit bigger than that. This is the second big one like this I have seen in or near the house this week....must be spider season again.
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YIKES! I don't think I'd have stayed as calm as you about that. I found a small (2") centipede the other day and was able to calmly get it into a napkin and the toilet. It's a good thing there were kids in the house; otherwise I'd have flipped out. (I try really hard not to freak out about bugs and such around my kids. Don't want them getting complexes.)
ReplyDeleteI guess we both know who the Spidey Cat is don't we? I remember that we could not persue our Geocache because of a big spider, remember?
ReplyDeleteOH.MY.GOD. I would have died. I'm totally scared of/freaked out by spiders and that one is just about the creepiest thing I've ever seen.
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