There I was. Sitting in my chair in the living room, feet propped up on the hassock, knitting and watching a TV show. I felt a little tickly feeling on my foot, looked down and saw this crawling across my feet. Trying not to panic and scare the thing I swept into the floor, caught it between a glass and a piece of paper and relocated it outside. I'm pretty sure this is a Carolina Wolf Spider. It's body was just slightly under 1 inch and legs from front to back when spread spanned over two inches. Check out the beady eyes and the fangs. Thank goodness this species is not inclined to bite.
I don't mind spiders, unless they're not where they're supposed to be--like inside on me! I'm glad you set it outside and got a great photo as well! This has marvelous detail!
A Fav! for how excellent this photograph is (great focus!) and for your kindness in relocating this spider outside instead of just squishing. I hope it repays you for your kindness by catching and eating a 1000 mosquitoes!
@lindamp5@cejaanderson@lyndemc@novab@tosee@peterlgrave@barbtatum@ziggy77@fntngrma@craftymeg@taffy@pyrrhula Thank you all very much for your excitement over my spider shot. There was no need to scream. I was by myself so no one would have come to help me. I really don't want to kill much if I can get them back safely to their own habitat. I could tell a fish story and say it was "this big"- hold my hands six inches apart. But it was a pretty large spider. I captured it under a glass and got some shots through the glass. I had my camera ready when I took outside and took the glass away.