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Black and green wolf spiders

SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
edited January 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
I had two as a pet, they tend to make a tunnel, and grow to be about as big as a quarter, but I haven't been able to find any info on them at all. What is their genus? It's driving me crazy.

I say had because fireants ate both.D:

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  • BlochWaveBlochWave Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    You might have to be a bit more specific

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lycosidae_genera

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    All I remember is they were black, and had 2 red dots on their back and a very solid green set of fangs.

    Oh I live in souther Georgia, US if that helps any.

    This! This is what it looks like, now what the hell is it?

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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2009
    Phidippus audax

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Thank you doc, I guess the thread can be closed now that I have my answer. I miss my pretty pets.

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  • METAzraeLMETAzraeL Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    wolf spiders are so cute <3

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  • SkyGheNeSkyGheNe Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    ...That is a jumping spider.

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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2009
    SkyGheNe wrote: »
    ...That is a jumping spider.

    that's what I googled to find the species, yeah.

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  • SkyGheNeSkyGheNe Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Oh, but wolf spiders don't actually look like the pic he provided - do they?

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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2009
    SkyGheNe wrote: »
    Oh, but wolf spiders don't actually look like the pic he provided - do they?

    no

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  • ManonvonSuperockManonvonSuperock Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    yeah wolf spiders are big as shit and furry as hell.

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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2009
    Obligatory for spider threads:

    Spider%20Clock.jpg

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  • AgrehondAgrehond Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Goddammit, you just hadda post that picture. I hates you. Now I won't be able to look at my wall clock without thinking there's a big-ass spider waiting under it.

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  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I think I like the "obligatory pics for kitten/puppy threads" better.

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  • CoJoeTheLawyerCoJoeTheLawyer Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Doc, you forgot to add the picture when they remove the clock

    DON'T OPEN IF YOU ARE ARACHNOPHBIC...THAT MEANS FEAR OF F****** SPIDERS
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  • SkyGheNeSkyGheNe Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    The jumping spider was fat, cute, and fuzzy.

    Wolf spiders just make me want to throw things at them.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    i once stepped on a wolf spider

    lil babies swarmed out everywhere

    i was wearing flip-flops

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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2009
    What's funny is that huntsman spiders is that despite how horrifying they look, they aren't that aggressive or dangerous.

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  • mere_immortalmere_immortal So tasty!Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Zebra spiders are the best.
    2291683904_7fbfed9567_o.jpg

    Really tiny house spiders. If you get close and look at them they will raise their heads and study you. Also if you put your finger in front of them they will jump on and have a crawl around. Really playful inquisitive little guys.

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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2009
    They can also move ridiculously fast. They go from pointing one direction to pointing another seemingly instantaneously.

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    mere_immortal wrote: »
    Zebra spiders are the best.
    2291683904_7fbfed9567_o.jpg

    Really tiny house spiders. If you get close and look at them they will raise their heads and study you. Also if you put your finger in front of them they will jump on and have a crawl around. Really playful inquisitive little guys.

    that's actually the least creepy spider i've ever seen.

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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2009
    Evil Multifarious wrote: »
    mere_immortal wrote: »
    Zebra spiders are the best.
    2291683904_7fbfed9567_o.jpg

    Really tiny house spiders. If you get close and look at them they will raise their heads and study you. Also if you put your finger in front of them they will jump on and have a crawl around. Really playful inquisitive little guys.

    that's actually the least creepy spider i've ever seen.

    he kind of looks like he wishes he could buy you a beer or something now that I look at it again.

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  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Wikipedia'ing Zebra Spiders was intriguing, and for an arachnid, they are quite adorable.

    Though it helps knowing that they're less than 1 centimeter in size. Rare tiny poisonous/venomous animals aside, it's harder to be freaked out by something so small.

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  • Namel3ssNamel3ss Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Jesus christ this thread makes me shiver, what the fuck is wrong with the world that something like that could be behind a wall clock. I'm moving to Antarctica.

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  • LaonarLaonar Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Fuck you guys and fuck this thread. Who the fuck would want pet wolf spiders. You drink blood you evil bastard, i know you do.

    Really if you enjoy them, but I hate spiders and I hate all of you for posting fing pictures.

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Laonar wrote: »
    Fuck you guys and fuck this thread. Who the fuck would want pet wolf spiders. You drink blood you evil bastard, i know you do.

    Really if you enjoy them, but I hate spiders and I hate all of you for posting fing pictures.

    I suppose this is a bad time to tell you I'm converting a old aquarium into a spider habitat.

    in my bedroom

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  • LaonarLaonar Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Would this be next to the freezer full of blood you drink? This is really from my hatred of spiders. I am talking turn white and pass out if they are near me. Ifyou like them thats cool I guess, I just think your pure evil lol.

    Than again I have pet rats, I raised them with my kitten. Now they act like cats and even shit in the litter box. Smartest pet I ever had.

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  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Laonar wrote: »
    Would this be next to the freezer full of blood you drink? This is really from my hatred of spiders. I am talking turn white and pass out if they are near me. Ifyou like them thats cool I guess, I just think your pure evil lol.
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    Naxxramas' Spider Wing must be fun with you. :P

    To be fair, I learned 40 man Naxx's spider wing with a very arachnaphobic guild member, and keeping her sane for the final fight became part of the encounter for me each week.

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  • LaonarLaonar Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    UM I am a hunter, I can go pew pew and not look.. lol

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Laonar wrote: »
    Would this be next to the freezer full of blood you drink? This is really from my hatred of spiders. I am talking turn white and pass out if they are near me. Ifyou like them thats cool I guess, I just think your pure evil lol.

    Than again I have pet rats, I raised them with my kitten. Now they act like cats and even shit in the litter box. Smartest pet I ever had.

    You say that as if its a bad thing to drink blood. D:

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  • LaonarLaonar Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    To each his own! Another thing, I wont eat crabs... they are fucking spiders from the sea, evil bastards.

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  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Okay, now you're just being crazy.

    Crab, lobster, and the vast majority of seafood I've had is delicOH GOD RUN! KING CRABS EVERYWHERE!

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  • adejaanadejaan Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Years ago my then guild's MT hated spiders...I did my best to torture her by always running around in raids with my pet spider out. Heh.

    I will add that I, too, hate spiders, but spiders in a GAME don't bother me...and I don't really mind real-life spiders if there's no chance they can touch me. Like behind glass or something. One of my favorite memories is of tossing crickets to one of those little spiders that builds a funnel-like web (not a funnel-web spider) that lived in a crack on the outside of our house. Also, garden spiders.

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  • MunacraMunacra Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Spiders are so cute.

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  • LaonarLaonar Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    ew.. you people are gross lol

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  • Ash of YewAsh of Yew Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    We call wolf spiders Cane spiders in hawaii, and for a while I didn't realize they were common on the mainland. Also, apparantly in some places people like them and keep them around because they eat cockroaches and stuff, but screw that shit.

    My dad used to smash them with his bare hand, and then they'd jump up and keep going.

    CaneSpider.JPG

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  • PasserbyePasserbye I am much older than you. in Beach CityRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Yeah, I grew up in the land of Cane spiders (former sugar cane field area in Kapolei), so seeing pictures of big spiders isn't all that bad for me.

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  • PheezerPheezer Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2009
    I fucking hate you all and it pleases me to no end that this question has been solved and that I can accordingly close this fucking horror show of a thread.

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