Last night I was brushing my teeth and saw one of the biggest spiders I’ve ever seen in a house… unfortunately, mine. While looking in the mirror my eye caught movement in a box of bandages located a few inches from my face. I jumped back and saw the black legs inside.
I happened to have a clear plastic box on hand, so I scooped the bandages box into the clear box and taped it shut. A large spider then emerged.
I then took a few closeups of it, as you can see. Oh man, if that thing jumped out of the box and hid, I wouldn’t be sleeping tonight… or ever. There’s a certain comfort knowing it’s locked up and won’t be later found in my bed… unless there’s more.
I hope that’s all of them and that there’s not some enormous mama spider around this place somewhere.
Using a macro filter, I shot this with smaller aperature (for more depth of field) and at a slower shutter speed. I used a flashlight to backlight the hairs on the spider’s legs, enhancing the ‘creepiness’ of the image.
Hey! I found one exactly like this on the wall of my home office not a month ago! Huge spider! My wife nearly passed out when she saw it. I’m not usually arachnophobic, but this one really made me nervous as it was HUGE! Did you ever find out what kind of spider it is? I wonder if it is at all harmful to humans?
Hey there. It’s either a grass spider or what seems to be called a ‘giant house spider’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegenaria_duellica Either way, it seems to be harmless. That’s not the natural thought when first seeing one though!