Thread: Spiders!

I have always been fascinated by spiders, especially wolf spiders. more so when I was little than now.
Most wolf spiders that I have seen have generally, at the largest, been about the size of my thumb nail, maybe a little larger with their legs extended! I let the little ones have the run of the house, but the bigger ones I catch and let go outside! Well, this morning my middle child comes to me and says "Dad! There is a giant spider in the bathroom!! Come and see." I figure he is exaggerating, but went to see anyways. What greets me in the bathroom is a wolf spider with legs that could span the top of my morning coffee cup from rim to rim! From stem to stern, not including legs, this spider was easily an inch and a half long! He looked like a small tarantula! I caught him and set him free outside. If he survives, I would like to see his size in another year or two!
Her is a picture of a male wolf spider: