WOLF SPIDERS

There are several genera of Wolf spider, ranging in body size from less than 1 to 30 millimetres (0.04 to 1.18 in). [1] They have eight eyes arranged in three rows. The bottom row consists of four small eyes, the middle row has two very large eyes (which distinguishes them from the Pisauridae), and the top row has two medium-sized eyes. They depend on their eyesight, which is quite good, to hunt. Their sense of touch is also acute.

Wolf spiders are unique in carrying their eggs along with them in a round silken globe, or egg sac, which they attach to the spinnerets at the end of their abdomen. The abdomen must be held in a raised position to keep the egg case from dragging on the ground, but they are still capable of hunting while so encumbered. Also unique to wolf spiders is their method of infant care. Immediately after the little spiders hatch and emerge from their protective silken case they clamber up their mother's legs and all crowd onto her abdomen.

So this morning Brett gets up and goes to the kitchen to fetch his phone or whatever.... In the kitchen floor is a spider. I know that spiders are normal to have every once in a while. What do you do???? Normally you grab a shoe, book or anything close and whack them. Right? Well this is that I heard. WHACK! Then about 100 little WHACKs. WHACK. WHACK WHACK. WHACK.

Hope this doesn't gross you out, but I wanted to tell you this to give you a fair warning. Make sure it's not a WOLF spider before you WHACK them to death.

Upon smacking the &^*#%$#!!% out of the, what we know now was the MOMMA spider, about 100 baby spiders came scattering from her abdomen. They were very, very , very tiny but none the less....they were running for their lives. So my house is being de-spidered as we speak. I sucked the majority of them up with the vacuum before I left and Brett put spider poison stuff around the baseboards. NASTY, I say... NASTY!!!!!