New Pet

[Jeff Mills]

My Son and I caught (him or her) ??? on the front porch tonight. That's a 3 1/2" (89 mm) diameter mason jar and it can't even stretch out. Zoom in for a closeup and get a look at the fangs on this thing... The wifey about killed me and my son :D

http://www.woodworkforums.com/members/56916-jeff-mills/albums/stuuf2/5000-a.jpg

Anyone got any ideas what kind it is?

[BeanerSA]

It might be a ifisawit idshitmypants but I could be wrong:U

[snowyskiesau]

Take it out of the jar and take some more photos, I'm sure your wife will understand :)

Have a look here (http://www.carolinanature.com/spiders/) for more info on local (Carolina) spiders. Looks a bit like one of the nursery spiders.

[NCArcher]

Geoff's got it i think. This one http://www.carolinanature.com/spiders/spider2624.jpg

[Mr Brush]

Holy crap - they can't fly......can they?? :oo:

[Jeff Mills]

Holy crap - they can't fly......can they?? :oo:

Not that I know of , least I hope not...

My son got to feeling sorry for it today and took it up in the woods and let it go. I agree with him, something this big and odd needs to be let go... He said it ran up a tree when he opened the lid to the jar.

Anyways the wfiey is glad it's out of the house, it's about all she could talk about last night; saying something like that spider is the stuff nightmares are made of.

Thanks for the positive ID :2tsup:

[Mr Brush]

So now its out there somewhere........up a tree.......waiting to drop on you.....:oo:

Well done for doing the right thing :2tsup:

[petersemple]

Anyone got any ideas what kind it is?

A ruddy big one