Made a new friend!

[pitbulllady]

Originally Posted by Crash-N-Cortex

Spiders can be a bit creepy. It can appear in a place where you least expect.

But that's half the fun, finding something cool in a place where you didn't expect it, like this big fat girl that crawled out from underneath one of our church pews last Sunday:




She's a BIG Kukulcania hibernalis, or "Southern Black House Spider", or "Black Crevice Spider"-completely harmless and docile as a kitten. Fortunately, I tend to keep empty plastic vials and condiment cups in my purse, for just this sort of occasion, and I scooped her up before she could cause too much of a stir among the congregation! The preacher(whom I've mentioned on here before as a Foster's fan himself) already had gotten used to me napping multi-legged critters during the services, so he didn't even break stride in his sermon! He just joked about the spider being a better audience to his sermons than some of the church members at the other church he preaches at!

My female Daring Jumping Spider(Phidippus audax) is every bit as much a pet as a cat or dog. She actually pays attention to me when I talk to her, and will jump out of her container when I open it and perch on my finger, or follow my finger around the outside of her enclosure while she's inside. She learned quickly that I feed her using a pair of long forceps, and all I have to do to get her really wound up is to show her the forceps! But then, what would I expect from a critter of which 70% of its body weight is brain?

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