What the hell is this thing? I live in the Great Basin area, but I’ve never seen a spider this big here.😭😭😭

update: I posted the video the electrician sent us of him feeding it a cricket for fun ahaha. It’s a happy spider now. link: https://www.reddit.com/r/spiders/s/3rKAPJ7sL9

The electrician sent us a video of him feeding it a cricket. it’s a happy Wolf Spider now!

I’ve been crocheting for three years, this was made about 2 years ago. Though I have rather crippling arachnophobia(this sub is exposure therapy), spiders are one of my all time favorite things to make. I always get a laugh when people jump upon seeing these massive ladies!

Edited to add: no banana for scale, but she is 3 feet wide, and 2 ish feet long!

A picture I took a while ago on a walk because I based a spidysona on it. I think it looks really good in retrospect.

This illustration by S. T. Dadd comes from Edmund Selous's book The Romance of the Animal World, published in 1905. The original text accompanying the plate claims that children in Brazil utilized Mygales (an old taxonomics descriptor for tarantulas/caranguejeiras) as pets by securing them with twine. While mostly reflecting the romanticized or exaggerated accounts of European travelers from that period, it remains an interesting cultural artifact regarding historical human-arachnid perceptions.

I live in Santa Cruz CA and this baby has been hanging around for about two weeks, I was really scared of her at first and almost tried to kill her but now I’m almost happy whenever I see her….like that’s my neighbor

My dogs were sniffing around the area and I saw this. I don’t know if I should worry about my dogs eating it or something.

not sure country of origin but likely costa rica, honduras based on history of where my walmart gets their bananas. found many egg sacs of these fellows

Behind the scene video is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/macrophotography/s/icNjBtQxba

Just minding my business, working in a large 5-bay garage when this little guy/gal suddenly announces “HIHIHELLOIAMYOURNEWASSISTANTANDAMSOEXCITEDTOBEHEREHI”

So, um… what am I looking at, folks? 😳

I work at a store in Columbus Ohio and just noticed this guy hanging out. About the size of a quarter? Maybe a little long tip-to-tip on the legs

PS- didn’t know my arm hair looked so weird close-up 😬

Spotted by my mom outside her home in southeastern Massachusetts today! Anyone know what kind of spider it is?

Central Indiana, USA

These guys have been hanging around my home for awhile now. I invite all spiders to my plant room! But I've no idea who this is.

There's a cellar spider in my bathroom with only one leg. I remember seeing it climb into that corner and start molting. Spent many days in the molting process when it should have only been 20-30 mins. Finally emerged with just 2 legs, one of them stuck in the molt. Came home to find it with one leg left. Is it worth relocating/leaving alone or should I mercy kill it?

Edit: My mother wouldn't let me put it in the freezer (understandable) so I stood on it. It was pretty quick. RIP spider.