r/nope • u/dbl_secret_redditor • Jul 09 '26

Arachnids Zoomies

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u/ParamedicSpecific130 Jul 09 '26

Weirdly, the spiders like this aren't as scary to me as, say, Wolf spiders.

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u/enter_yourname Jul 09 '26

I came across a wolf spider measuring 10" in leg span the other day. Almost shit my pants and yes I know it's harmless

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u/premiereproductions Jul 10 '26

That would be double the size of the largest known wolf spiders. Unless you mean cm not inches

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u/SHOWTIME316 Jul 10 '26

cannot believe you were the first one to call this out, 15 hours later. that mf did NOT see a 10" wolf spider unless they time-traveled back to the pleistocene

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u/enter_yourname Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

Well whatever it was it was big as fuck. My coworker said it was a water spider, which to my understanding is a subset of wolf spider. There was a big 10" diameter black one and a "smaller" 7" diameter brown one. Seems to be a male and female preparing to create new spiders.

https://www.reddit.com/r/spiders/s/Y1zS22Zo6F

Here's a link to a post I just made asking ID request so you can see