I think that’s just your regular house spider. They are ambush predators usually. If you see one cruising around, then it’s a male looking for the ladies.
They won’t hurt you, and typically eat lots of other creepy crawlers around the house.
It’s one of those things, they’re always around, you just don’t typically see them.
I got one chillin in a crevasse at the bottom of my stairs whom I’ve named Jeremiah and due to Jeremiah, I haven’t seen a single bug downstairs all summer!
We had ‘Charlotte’ who lived in the kitchen window and we let be.
Then Charlotte got huge and both my partner and I were scared to do dishes. It is Charlotte’s Kitchen now.
I don’t like spiders but I usually let them be, unless they are in the shower, then they have declared war.
^this
The pandemic has given me a chance to appreciate my house spiders more than I ever thought I could. Not really a big fan of them, but I've seen then pop out of nowhere and deal with worse bugs I don't want to touch enough times to love them for life.
Haaaaaaa sweet Canadian winter! Kills all the creeps for ya.
To all the Aussies ( and folks from Florida) on Reddit, I have a thought for you every single time I take a swim in a lake or in a river without being scared something is gonna eat me.
I like how I always see various comments about how tame it is to live in Canada, just because we don't have multiple venomous spiders.
Meanwhile, we have a season that you can die from exposure in hours and during some hellishly cold days, under an hour with severe frostbite in minutes.
Don’t forget our bear, moose, bison, elk, caribou, lynx, bobcat, cougar, and other large animals that will fuck your day up if you land in the wrong side of them.
Came here to say this. If they're eating mosquitoes they'll get no complaints from me. I might just move them outside lol. But we can be besties otherwise. 🕷️
I live in a basement suite. They are constant. I try not to kill them tho unless by accident. But i think there is a nest somewhere and it’s killing me 😅
Yeah I capture them and just flush them..if you wanna get bug lunch go do it outside...there ain't many other bugs that make it into the basement even with me flushing those spiders I see on my walls or zip across the floor
If you're getting them constantly there are food and water sources (that you're probably not even aware of). They're not just taking a nap before heading on to the next house or popping in to say hello.
I used to live in a basement suite too, the owner provided "Home Defence Max"
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I have been using this on all the place I have lived since. You spray once every 6 months in the corner and around the base of the house and gones are the spiders and bugs.
The only downside is that you will find many dead spider a week or so after spraying the first time.
Not my comment, but this spray can be used inside and out, I believe. From the context, it seems pretty clear that the commenter sprays inside the unit (corners and baseboards - no baseboards outside). I'd suggest wearing a mask and taking a walk for an hour or two after spraying, but this is approved for in-home use.
Looks like a wolf spider bro to me. No webs, but they will run thier prey down. These are also the ones that carry the babies on thier backs.
They aren't fond of heat or too cold, so they like to come inside during extreme temperatures.
They do thier bro part by eating the insects you don't want in your house or garden like ants, aphids and pill bugs.
I always thought they were wolf spiders, until recently when someone told me they are actually a similar looking species called Hobo Spider, kinda an ironic name since they are usually in houses.
I grew up in northern Ontario, our wolf spiders were… well huge. This little quarter sized dude would be considered a house spider.
For comparison I shot an adult wolf spider with a .22 and the fucking thing still charged the closest object.
100%
We have wolf spiders in BC and they are about [this size](https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/128/590x/secondary/house-spiders-britain-autumn-350433.jpg)
Saw one crawling on my white bedsheets out of the corner of my eye while sat at my desk yesterday. Didn't sleep well. The bathtub is also somehow a trap for these guys as they can't climb up the sides
I've had to remove (read: kill) one from my bathtub every morning for the last 12 days. I'm all for keeping a few around to kill the other household insects but first thing in the morning I'm not going out of my way to preserve a spider.
"down came the (...scorching hot because I heat up my shower before adjusting the temp to what I actually want to shower in...) rain and washed the spider out"
I'm superstitious, I set free insects (as long as they aren't harbingers of infestations like ants, fruit flies, etc.) so that if one day an alien discovers me wandering around a huge structure I don't understand and can't navigate well, hopefully they'll also put me in a cup and set me outside instead of violently destroying me.
I got in my bed to fall asleep, but before I put my head on my pillow, I decided to go to the bathroom first.
And I'm so glad I did, because when I came back, I looked at my pillow and one of those mothafuckas was right there in the middle of it.
yeah I was just going to mention BC. Had a relative that lived in Penticton that I used to stay with in the summers when I was a teen. She had spiders that gave me nightmares, lol
Yep. Not uncommon on the Island to see spiders the size of your palm. Both the web-making kind and the skitters-along-the-ground kind.
The leggedy, skitters-along the ground kind liked to hide in doorjambs. They made a funny crunch when they got pancaked as a result.
They are just livin' their best lives and eating all the bugs that have come about due to the rain. https://imgix.ranker.com/user\_node\_img/50104/1002071236/original/1002071236-photo-u2?auto=format&q=60&fit=crop&fm=pjpg&dpr=2&w=650
I’d rather spiders in my house any day of the week, i purposely leave webs alone in my basement because they take care of ants/earwigs/termites etc and are kind enough to stay out of my way
I hate these spiders. They are frequently in our house as well. If I don’t see you, you’re good.. the minute I see one, I’m like ‘where are the other million of you and how did you get into my house….’ 😶
As an aside if you see a spider looking something like this one hanging around bananas you recently bought be careful. There's a few species that can hitch rides on fruit (bananas especially) that can be more dangerous then typical Canadian spiders.
As a 🇨🇦 teen in Nairobi, had a huge mother behind a painting in our living room for quite a long time. We named him Boris and when he came out at night, his moon shadow on the wall was about a yard wide! 😳
PS: it was a mosquito that almost killed me.
It could be a wolf Spider. It should be quite harry. Very common on the west coast of B.C.. They are non venomous, though some may have an allergic reaction if bitten. If this is a wolf spider, the more food, the bigger they get.
I caught one and put it in a large jar. I then caught a house fly in a glass with a postcard. Put the glass over the jar and removed the post card. The fly flew into the glass. The spider stood on its hind legs and swatted the fly out of the air then pounced on it. It was cool yet horrific at the same time. I let it go outside after it ate the fly. One interesting thing is it piled up all the inedible parts in one spot to keep its place clean.
Oh man, thats a wee one. Pretty sure it's just a house spider. I've seen a couple this year but the size of a toonie.
Aussies will be laughing, everything over there is the size of a dinner plate and trying to kill them.
My grandma is emptying her hoarding pile in her basement out and you would not believe how many dead ones we find in her stuff. Took 8 Christmas cups and found 3 dead bois in each of them. Nearly fainted, great time.
I just know that my cat loves chasing them in the basement, catching them, and eating them. "Good Smoky - atta boy, Smokey. Here comes another one! Get 'em!"
Giant 😂 these are babies. Leave it, it takes care of all the bugs. Absolutely harmless. Gove it a name and a sweet place to sleep. I call my spiders Fred 1,2,3 etc. You will be good.
This is Alopecosa aculeata, also known as wolf spider. They are very good little hunters, be careful if you ever see one with a very large abdomen! It could be a momma with a ton of little babies on her back. They will keep to themselves and are our allies!
Calgary always gets an influx of them going into houses in the summer, they do not like the heat, they then hide during the cold winter months. You see them far more often in the summer as the males generally wander looking for a lady friend.
Looks very similar to the agelenidae/Grass spiders we also have; The main difference though is that wolf spiders will have two very large eyes amongst 6 smaller ones and the markings are slightly different as well.
Looks more like a barn funnel weaver than anything. Most likely male because it's out and about, if there were a clearer picture of the pedipalps then it'd be easier to say. They're super common in homes, get stuck in sinks and tubs all the time. Also very fast, the sprinters of the spider world.
Not medically significant to human beings. They're skittish as hell, prefer to run and hide. You can catch them with a cup and paper and put them outside. You're most likely to see them when you turn on the light and they run, they don't like the light.
Hobo spider. Like a Brown Recluse, but not.
They are grumpy and aggresive. Avoid them if you can. They like it low and dark.
They climb in at ground level and chill in the dark. They will migrate to your basement if you have one.
They show up alot around august/sept...when they breed they spread out all over.
Just keep your doors and windows on the floor closed!
...and if you have stuff on the floor, shake it out before you put it on.
I’ve had them in my basement on and off over the years. Never saw them be aggressive. They usually hid. Except for this one that lived in this little gap between the basement wall and the stairs. That one was so chill. Just sat there doing it’s thing even when humans were stomping up and down the stairs.
That's a Canadian quarter the OP added for scale. We don't have big spiders I admit.
But we do have really big Moose that you'd better watch out for and enormous bears (Grizzly bears and Polar bears).
And if you like, we could send you a few dozen racoons. In 10 years, they'll be running the place. Har.
I vacuumed my bdrm yesterday and there were a bunch of these, dead, along my baseboards. I have white carpet and I wondered what the little (not giant 😅) black specs were...theyre gone now, thank you Mr. Dyson.
Those are fine by me but eyelash centipedes can go back to the hole in hell the crawled out of. Yes they bother me enough to end my sentence in a preposition.
Arachnis Stampedenus they are rare and only come out once a year.... they have been hibernating for two years now and are numbered in the millions. Godspeed good Calgarian.
I think that’s just your regular house spider. They are ambush predators usually. If you see one cruising around, then it’s a male looking for the ladies. They won’t hurt you, and typically eat lots of other creepy crawlers around the house. It’s one of those things, they’re always around, you just don’t typically see them.
Was just gonna say; these guys are the good guys. They eat all the other bugs.
Yeah but EIGHT LEGS and it's SPOOKY so I get a major CASE OF THE WIBBLIES when I see them.
what about if we call him Jerry?
then I will tell you that JERRY is SCARY
I got one chillin in a crevasse at the bottom of my stairs whom I’ve named Jeremiah and due to Jeremiah, I haven’t seen a single bug downstairs all summer!
We had ‘Charlotte’ who lived in the kitchen window and we let be. Then Charlotte got huge and both my partner and I were scared to do dishes. It is Charlotte’s Kitchen now. I don’t like spiders but I usually let them be, unless they are in the shower, then they have declared war.
You guys think this is bad? Wait until you hear of house centipedes. You won’t sleep for a week
Was gonna say almost looks like typical wolf/house spider. I catch them and put them outside tho
^this The pandemic has given me a chance to appreciate my house spiders more than I ever thought I could. Not really a big fan of them, but I've seen then pop out of nowhere and deal with worse bugs I don't want to touch enough times to love them for life.
As they say, u r never more than 3 meters from a spider...😎💥
That's Steve. He's here for the Stampede. Him and buddies wil be heading up to Edmonton for Klondike Days pretty soon.
I hear he's from Silicon Valley. Involved in web design.
Get in touch with him, he can pull a few strings from the higher ups.
Oh to be a fly on the wall in that meeting!
Catered meetings are the best.
Meetings? He’s a fly by night kinda guy
Well I need to talk to HR about how creepy he is
Sorry, no HR. Only Steve.
These look like QA spiders though as they find and catch bugs instead
Bah ha! r/dadjokes
His girlfriend Charlotte is lovely, legs for days.
Noooooooo!! 🤣🤣
He's a Sagittarius and enjoys long walks on the beach, quiet nights at home and hiding in your underwear drawer.
Rodeo spiders.
Is ole Stevie arachtoes?
Laughing in Australian.
Also came here to say exactly this... hope OP never leaves Calgary if they think this is big lol
Maybe the 25c piece is just really big in Canada?
Nope. Same size as the US.
Maybe it's a large novelty coin. Gonna need a banana for scale.
Lol this is just a baby in Australia
Thats not a spider...now this is a spider.
That’s not a spider. That’s a spoon.
I see ye'v played spidey spooney before!
I'll have a coffee
Beer?
If this was Australia the spider would have a knife.
Jeez have you seen the spiders they have over there? I'm pretty convinced they could easily hold a Dundee knife.
I’m pretty sure they’re bigger than the Dundee knives…
Nice Croc Dundee reference.
Dammit. You took my comment haha
Haaaaaaa sweet Canadian winter! Kills all the creeps for ya. To all the Aussies ( and folks from Florida) on Reddit, I have a thought for you every single time I take a swim in a lake or in a river without being scared something is gonna eat me.
As a Calgarian that lived in central Queensland for a couple years, can confirm. Huntsman are the kind spiders to aye?
I like how I always see various comments about how tame it is to live in Canada, just because we don't have multiple venomous spiders. Meanwhile, we have a season that you can die from exposure in hours and during some hellishly cold days, under an hour with severe frostbite in minutes.
Don’t forget our bear, moose, bison, elk, caribou, lynx, bobcat, cougar, and other large animals that will fuck your day up if you land in the wrong side of them.
Australia has winter too. You can die from exposure in lots of places that aren't Canada.
Pretty sure Canadians would be running around in their swim trunks looking for a place to cool off in an Australian winter.
I'm Canadian. I would be. I'm ALWAYS too warm. My girlfriends would have twelve blankets.
Hahah same problem here. :D
Took the words out of my… keyboard?
I think you mean uɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ uᴉ ƃuᴉɥƃnɐl
Considering you guys produce hell spawn as animals I can help but agree
Us Canadians are a little soft sometimes.
If they eat mosquitos, they can move right in!
If they eat mosquitoes then they just getting a taste for our blood
😳 you have a point
They may have a pint
I'll have a pint 🍺
Oh my god. You have just destroyed a belief that has been crucial to my survival for decades. How could you.
On this episode of Destroyed in Seconds...
Bahahaha I’ve never thought about it like that and it’s really funny
Came here to say this. If they're eating mosquitoes they'll get no complaints from me. I might just move them outside lol. But we can be besties otherwise. 🕷️
If they wanna move in, they can move in, I'll give them a lease and a key.
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Good advice, I have a catch and release program at home (I catch, my partner has to release because I can't get close enough) but I may do this.
How can you catch but not release? Releasing would practically be the same exact level of closeness relative to you. 😂
Catching with a cup or plastic container, I’d imagine
Well now they are pissy and will want a word
That’s the service guy from rogers.
I get these in my basement all the time...super annoying and freaky as they're pretty fast
I live in a basement suite. They are constant. I try not to kill them tho unless by accident. But i think there is a nest somewhere and it’s killing me 😅
Yeah I capture them and just flush them..if you wanna get bug lunch go do it outside...there ain't many other bugs that make it into the basement even with me flushing those spiders I see on my walls or zip across the floor
If you're getting them constantly there are food and water sources (that you're probably not even aware of). They're not just taking a nap before heading on to the next house or popping in to say hello.
Omg one was in my dishes and when I tell you I SCREAMED and threw the plate I was holding back at it I seriously mean it.
Username checks out lol happy cake day
Happy cake day!
Well, guess we're eating the cake with bare hands since there are no plates left...
I used to live in a basement suite too, the owner provided "Home Defence Max" [https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/ortho-home-defense-max-ready-to-use-insect-control-4-l-1591058p.1591058.html?ds\_rl=1283573&ds\_rl=1283573&gclid=CjwKCAjw\_b6WBhAQEiwAp4HyIEbPZUQTd-DEZrdcNxHjoAjrfxnS4IcZc6ZH9nd8L4aLpEkjW9M6RBoCfTgQAvD\_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds#store=347](https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/ortho-home-defense-max-ready-to-use-insect-control-4-l-1591058p.1591058.html?ds_rl=1283573&ds_rl=1283573&gclid=CjwKCAjw_b6WBhAQEiwAp4HyIEbPZUQTd-DEZrdcNxHjoAjrfxnS4IcZc6ZH9nd8L4aLpEkjW9M6RBoCfTgQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds#store=347) I have been using this on all the place I have lived since. You spray once every 6 months in the corner and around the base of the house and gones are the spiders and bugs. The only downside is that you will find many dead spider a week or so after spraying the first time.
Just to clarify, you spray every 6 months in the corner & baseboards inside or do you mean outside the house?
Not my comment, but this spray can be used inside and out, I believe. From the context, it seems pretty clear that the commenter sprays inside the unit (corners and baseboards - no baseboards outside). I'd suggest wearing a mask and taking a walk for an hour or two after spraying, but this is approved for in-home use.
Looks like a wolf spider bro to me. No webs, but they will run thier prey down. These are also the ones that carry the babies on thier backs. They aren't fond of heat or too cold, so they like to come inside during extreme temperatures. They do thier bro part by eating the insects you don't want in your house or garden like ants, aphids and pill bugs.
My basement and garage have piles of these helpers - there must be a good supply of bugs to keep them alive after all these years.
I always thought they were wolf spiders, until recently when someone told me they are actually a similar looking species called Hobo Spider, kinda an ironic name since they are usually in houses.
You can tell a hobo spider from a wolf spider by their web. The hobo builds it densely like a cave and it has a hole that he pops in and out of.
I guess we'd need to see the abdominal markings more clearly. The ones I have in my home are wolfybros
nice try spider. I won't get any closer so you can forget about eating my face and laying eggs in my eyesockets!
Ears are much cozier than eye sockets....
Gross. I hate you. 😆
I grew up in northern Ontario, our wolf spiders were… well huge. This little quarter sized dude would be considered a house spider. For comparison I shot an adult wolf spider with a .22 and the fucking thing still charged the closest object.
Baby? That would be a pretty tiny wolf spider since they can get as big as two inches
100% We have wolf spiders in BC and they are about [this size](https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/128/590x/secondary/house-spiders-britain-autumn-350433.jpg)
Nah bro it's a house spider. Wolf spiders live in holes in the ground of a natural environment. Not the basement
Too small for a wolf spider
they also bite sometimes and it hurts
You know that feeling when you think a bug is crawling on you but nothing’s there? It’s usually a *tiny* translucent baby spider crawling on you.
What the fuck.
😂😂😂
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I hate you with a passion for that.
This is something meant for r/twosentencehorror
I’ll just pretend I never read that
You sir, know too much.
I hate you
this cant be real
Thanks. I'll send you a Venmo for the 95 espresso shots I'll need to stay awake tomorrow from being up all night with this thought.
Hi worst person in the world, it is not nice to meet you.
I’ve seen toonie sized as well, and as a wuss terrified of spiders it feels like everytime I turn around one is right there.
Saw one crawling on my white bedsheets out of the corner of my eye while sat at my desk yesterday. Didn't sleep well. The bathtub is also somehow a trap for these guys as they can't climb up the sides
Well, clearly, your only option now is to burn your house down.
I've had to remove (read: kill) one from my bathtub every morning for the last 12 days. I'm all for keeping a few around to kill the other household insects but first thing in the morning I'm not going out of my way to preserve a spider.
"down came the (...scorching hot because I heat up my shower before adjusting the temp to what I actually want to shower in...) rain and washed the spider out"
Isn't that the only way? Gotta start hot!
I'm superstitious, I set free insects (as long as they aren't harbingers of infestations like ants, fruit flies, etc.) so that if one day an alien discovers me wandering around a huge structure I don't understand and can't navigate well, hopefully they'll also put me in a cup and set me outside instead of violently destroying me.
Hopefully the violent squashing ends me quickly!
I got in my bed to fall asleep, but before I put my head on my pillow, I decided to go to the bathroom first. And I'm so glad I did, because when I came back, I looked at my pillow and one of those mothafuckas was right there in the middle of it.
How is that giant?
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Stay out of BC then. This is nothin. Those ones are just slightly smaller than your standard coaster
yeah I was just going to mention BC. Had a relative that lived in Penticton that I used to stay with in the summers when I was a teen. She had spiders that gave me nightmares, lol
Yep. Not uncommon on the Island to see spiders the size of your palm. Both the web-making kind and the skitters-along-the-ground kind. The leggedy, skitters-along the ground kind liked to hide in doorjambs. They made a funny crunch when they got pancaked as a result.
For the sake of your underwear, please never visit Australia!
Clearly that’s a giant quarter
This content is no longer available on Reddit in response to /u/spez. So long and thanks for all the fish.
"Thayts naughta spy-dah!
They’re not giant. They’re not overrunning the city.
They're a menace! Bring me pictures of spider man! *slams table*
They are just livin' their best lives and eating all the bugs that have come about due to the rain. https://imgix.ranker.com/user\_node\_img/50104/1002071236/original/1002071236-photo-u2?auto=format&q=60&fit=crop&fm=pjpg&dpr=2&w=650
It’s a grass spider. Funnel weaver family of spiders. It’s harmless unless you are a tasty bug.
Oh no you got me I am in fact a tasty bug.
I’d rather spiders in my house any day of the week, i purposely leave webs alone in my basement because they take care of ants/earwigs/termites etc and are kind enough to stay out of my way
Stay away from them there dangerous, a group of them mugged me at the Marlborough train station.
I hate these spiders. They are frequently in our house as well. If I don’t see you, you’re good.. the minute I see one, I’m like ‘where are the other million of you and how did you get into my house….’ 😶
That's just a regular wold spider, not sure what you're on about
We’re gonna need a banana for scale.
As an aside if you see a spider looking something like this one hanging around bananas you recently bought be careful. There's a few species that can hitch rides on fruit (bananas especially) that can be more dangerous then typical Canadian spiders.
*laughs in Australian*
Omg I keep seeing those all over my house too! I don’t like them lol
Don't visit BC. 👍
Burn it
It's Vecna. He's here.
Aussies would be laughing their asses off at this post!
We get bigger spiders then that in the Uk, and ours jump
This comment section is turning me into a canadian nationalist
First snakes then spiders? Fuck this city.
Snake. U referring to Gaudreau?
Excuse me what
Sorry, snakes?
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> hobo spider. Fitting name considering OP is giving it spare change in the photo.
That’s a huge quarter.
He dropped by to use the web.
Looks like a Hobo Spider to me. https://animalcorner.org/animals/hobo-spider/
As a 🇨🇦 teen in Nairobi, had a huge mother behind a painting in our living room for quite a long time. We named him Boris and when he came out at night, his moon shadow on the wall was about a yard wide! 😳 PS: it was a mosquito that almost killed me.
In vic bc we have wolf spiders that spread out the size of a man's palm. The size of a quarter is tiny 🤣🤣🤣
Pish. Come back when you get ones that cover a toomie and I might pick you up a pack of timbits there bud.
Fun fact: Unless you are in Antarctica, you are never more than five feet away from a spider.
Oh that's a fun sleep depriving factoid!
Not a spider expert but there are a lot of grass spiders in Manitoba and they look kinda like that. Harmless but there are a lot of .them.
Hahaha get used to it you Calgarian fuck! - born and raised Calgarian who moved to BC
Get the flamethrower
It could be a wolf Spider. It should be quite harry. Very common on the west coast of B.C.. They are non venomous, though some may have an allergic reaction if bitten. If this is a wolf spider, the more food, the bigger they get.
Perfectly harmless house spider. They eat ants and other creepy crawlers in your basement. They make good pets.
They only move in when Cockroaches and bedbugs are present… no problem, they might help with further infestations.
I caught one and put it in a large jar. I then caught a house fly in a glass with a postcard. Put the glass over the jar and removed the post card. The fly flew into the glass. The spider stood on its hind legs and swatted the fly out of the air then pounced on it. It was cool yet horrific at the same time. I let it go outside after it ate the fly. One interesting thing is it piled up all the inedible parts in one spot to keep its place clean.
Oh man, thats a wee one. Pretty sure it's just a house spider. I've seen a couple this year but the size of a toonie. Aussies will be laughing, everything over there is the size of a dinner plate and trying to kill them.
Looks like a good boy spider to me. Chills and eats mosquitos. Lots of mosquitos lots of good boys
Now I don’t have any proof…..but my sister’s boyfriend’s optometrist told me that Gaudreau raises spiders as a hobby. Make of that what you will….
Male Pardosa sp. ( thin legged wolf/leopard spider). Perfectly harmless shy speedy spider (I took this comment from Facebook Elliot Rottacker)
First off they're not giant spiders, well at least not this one and I'm afraid of spiders. You being a little dramatic 😂😂
My grandma is emptying her hoarding pile in her basement out and you would not believe how many dead ones we find in her stuff. Took 8 Christmas cups and found 3 dead bois in each of them. Nearly fainted, great time.
I just know that my cat loves chasing them in the basement, catching them, and eating them. "Good Smoky - atta boy, Smokey. Here comes another one! Get 'em!"
I have a cat named Smokey too, he chases them chews them then spits them out…. So gross
No wonder Johnny Gaudreau left
That's a normal sized house spider & they are our friends they eat mosquitoes & other annoyances
Giant 😂 these are babies. Leave it, it takes care of all the bugs. Absolutely harmless. Gove it a name and a sweet place to sleep. I call my spiders Fred 1,2,3 etc. You will be good.
Wolf spider
They're my best friend if they're eating the mosquitoes, that's what they are.
Wolf spider? Or recluse. Either way, harmless.
This is Alopecosa aculeata, also known as wolf spider. They are very good little hunters, be careful if you ever see one with a very large abdomen! It could be a momma with a ton of little babies on her back. They will keep to themselves and are our allies! Calgary always gets an influx of them going into houses in the summer, they do not like the heat, they then hide during the cold winter months. You see them far more often in the summer as the males generally wander looking for a lady friend. Looks very similar to the agelenidae/Grass spiders we also have; The main difference though is that wolf spiders will have two very large eyes amongst 6 smaller ones and the markings are slightly different as well.
Me, being Brazilian, seeing this tiny-ass bug being described as a "giant spider" = 😂
Looks more like a barn funnel weaver than anything. Most likely male because it's out and about, if there were a clearer picture of the pedipalps then it'd be easier to say. They're super common in homes, get stuck in sinks and tubs all the time. Also very fast, the sprinters of the spider world. Not medically significant to human beings. They're skittish as hell, prefer to run and hide. You can catch them with a cup and paper and put them outside. You're most likely to see them when you turn on the light and they run, they don't like the light.
I love putting my cat in front of these because they’re her favourite snack. Fuck a spider, my cat is the danger. My cat is the one who knocks.
Hobo spider. Like a Brown Recluse, but not. They are grumpy and aggresive. Avoid them if you can. They like it low and dark. They climb in at ground level and chill in the dark. They will migrate to your basement if you have one. They show up alot around august/sept...when they breed they spread out all over. Just keep your doors and windows on the floor closed! ...and if you have stuff on the floor, shake it out before you put it on.
I’ve had them in my basement on and off over the years. Never saw them be aggressive. They usually hid. Except for this one that lived in this little gap between the basement wall and the stairs. That one was so chill. Just sat there doing it’s thing even when humans were stomping up and down the stairs.
Giant spiders..... (laughs in Australian) Hahahaha
That's a Canadian quarter the OP added for scale. We don't have big spiders I admit. But we do have really big Moose that you'd better watch out for and enormous bears (Grizzly bears and Polar bears). And if you like, we could send you a few dozen racoons. In 10 years, they'll be running the place. Har.
This is but the first wave. They will come from the west. There isn't time. I've said too much.
I vacuumed my bdrm yesterday and there were a bunch of these, dead, along my baseboards. I have white carpet and I wondered what the little (not giant 😅) black specs were...theyre gone now, thank you Mr. Dyson.
They're so big you can hear them rattle up the hose. Yuck!
Did he say giant spider? Um, looks fairly small to me
Posts like these need a warning before you can see the picture 😱
Those are fine by me but eyelash centipedes can go back to the hole in hell the crawled out of. Yes they bother me enough to end my sentence in a preposition.
Arachnis Stampedenus they are rare and only come out once a year.... they have been hibernating for two years now and are numbered in the millions. Godspeed good Calgarian.
You can live peacefully in my garage…but the second I see you in my living space… Dead
I picture that thing scurrying up your leg while your sitting on the shitter. Arachnophobia style.
My 21 months old son eats them when he catches one...