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wolf spiders (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 4 days ago (24 children)

So I'm like 13 years old, climbing a tree at a friend's house. It's a bit of a shimmy up the trunk, I'm well in the air, hugging the tree. I look down at my feet to make sure I have footing before lifting a hand above my head to reach for a branch.

As my head is going from looking down to looking up, just as I am grabbing the branch and hanging from it, I realize that my nose is almost touching a big old wolf spider mama, fully laden with all her children.

DROP

I never climbed that tree again.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (23 children)

Are they venomous or otherwise dangerous to humans?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 days ago (9 children)

To add to what nougat said, because that’s very much the appropriate answer…

All spiders are in fact venomous- it’s part of how they feed. Many species, the venom is not harmful to humans, or only very weakly so. (Wolf spiders qualify as “very weakly so”)

That said, you try keeping a reasonable head when you suddenly come eyeball-to-eyeball with a wolf spiders qualify and her kids.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Yes, all spiders are venomous, but only few have venoum which are dangerous for humans and also only few capable to inject it under the human skin. Dangerous are only few species and not necesarly the biggest ones, eg, the Australian Huntsman is not. https://www.britannica.com/list/9-of-the-worlds-deadliest-spiders

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Did the comment above get edited? It look like you're just repeating the same thing stated in there.