This is my new friend. He's kinda creepy actually. He's pretty big and gave me a surprise the first time I saw him just chillin' on my front porch. I was trying to get a close-up picture of him, but failed due to me being a big baby. I'm not at all squeamish about bugs, but after seeing how fast this spider moves, I had visions of it latching onto my face after annoying it with a flashing camera. It didn't help that when I was trying to take his picture, I could see the glare from his eyes. Yikes! So my husband was kind enough to get closer and get a closer picture for me. As you can see in the photo, our spider is currently consuming a large moth.
I was concerned that the spider may be poisonous so I looked it up and discovered that it's not. You can never be too careful with kids around. Especially since it lives on the front porch. Turns out it's a species (of which there are 100) of fishing spider. So I'll just let him live on the porch rent free. He seems happy hunting.
Also, I discovered a deer tick on my leg yesterday. Not cool. My daughter got Lyme disease from a deer tick and it was awful. She's fine and recovered now thankfully. So now I gotta keep an eye on my leg for the telltale bullseye rash. My yard scares me.
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I need to know where you live so that I never move there by accident! There's no way I could let a big spider like that live on my porch...he would have to die. He looks like the kind with glowing red eyes and fangs dripping human blood.
Yikes! Shudder - I'm with Paula - at my house he'd have been dead and the porch would have spider spray all over it. I really REALLY dislike spiders. It may have something to do with the fact that we have a species around here that bites me every now and then (when I forget to put on shoes and wander outside at night) and ends up with me at the doctor's. And it's not the one poisonous spider NZ has either.
YUCK! Man I hate spiders! You're actually going to leave it there? Matt got a weird lump on his shoulder that was infected and it was a spider bite. He had to take antibiotics. Be careful! Even if it's not poisonous it could still bite. He is pretty amazing though. I let a black snake live under our front stoop one whole summer and people thought I was crazy. So, I kinda understand. But a huge spider??!!! Time to get books out from the library about spiders!
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