McCook's Split Wolf Spider (Schizocosa mccooki) Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve, California
10mon 14d ago by lemmy.world/u/Vandals_handle in spiders
You can see the spider is carrying an egg sac in this side view.
Very beautiful! ☺️ (Coming from someone with arachnophobia)
Omg! Beautiful future slings :)
She's gonna be super aggressive for a bit. I'd exercise extreme caution. The Midwestern version of that wolf spider will absolutely chase a human across a 1 acre field for getting too close to her eggs/ babies.
Wolf spiders were the ones that gave me arachnophobia....
Uff ... quite a bit to unpack here.
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spiders are never aggressive towards humans. We aren't prey and they aren't stupid enough to attack something which is (to them) the size of a skyscraper. Some may do some threatening poses or might actually run away in the wrong direction (which might seem like they are chasing you, but they aren't).
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There is no Midwestern version of this spider. This species can be found from coast to coast.
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As I already said, they won't chase humans. It also would make no sense for a wolf spider with an egg sac to chase somebody for getting to close to the egg sacs as they are carrying their eggs sac with them!