Creepy Crawly visitor April 4, 2006
This guy is hanging out on the wall outside our sliding door.
I’ve never seen a spider quite like him/her. The markings on its back look like it should be hanging out on a the bark of a tree, hiding from birds. And it’s quite large - not tropical large, or huntsman on Bean’s ceiling large, but large for here.
Much as I would like to just leave it there, it can’t stay. I’m fascinated by it and just keep stopping and staring at it and, eventually, Mark’s going to be too freaked out by it to leave it. Killing it is an unpleasant idea and not just because I don’t like killing things needlessly. I suspect it wouldn’t go quietly. So I think it will be a catch and release operation, perhaps down by the creek where there a plenty of trees and bark to hide in.
I t hink it’s a female Wolf Spider - the markings on its back are actually all its babies hitching a ride