My first thought was like your mud comment == where do they get clean water and soap to wash 5 times a day as recomended.
Fall
is in the air and I was out with Lola and could hear crickets chirping
away. Spiders are coming inside to stay warm. There is a medium sized
wolf spider living under our dryer. I see him at night sitting a little
ways out from under the dryer. He scurries under when i move to
leave. There was a larger sized wolf spider by the front door again
when i take Lola for a 2 am pee... i banged my cane near him to get him
out of the way so Lo could cross the threash hold into the apt. He
stood his ground flipping over into a .i'll bite' pose. I saw him for a
few nights but he moved on... supposedly they sting when they bite and
they can bite many times.
Not
knowing much about spiders, wolfy might be a House spider or something
else but he looks like the picture below and they are really large, i
saw it out of the corner of my eye and even when i looked right at it, i
thought for a moment it was a mouse. he was in the unlit hall so cast a
large shadow from my desk light....
Spider Species You Can Find in British Columbia
https://www.bcmag.ca › Outdoor Adventure
Venom toxicity - the bite of the Wolf Spider is poisonous but not lethal. Although non-aggressive, they bite freely if provoked and should be considered dangerous to humans. The bite may be very painful. ... Habitat - this spider is a ground dweller, with a burrow retreat.
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The real house spiders of Vancouver | spiderbytes
Dec 23, 2013 - Female hobo spider, Tegenaria agrestis. These spiders may also be found in houses on the west coast of BC, but are generally not as large as T. duellica. “know of no authentic Canadian report of hobo spider envenomation.”
They are robust and agile hunters with excellent eyesight. They live
mostly in solitude and hunt alone, and do not spin webs. Some are
opportunistic hunters pouncing upon prey as they find it or even chasing
it over short distances. Some wait for passing prey in or near the
mouth of a burrow.
Scientists have time to learn their many secrets.
The ground-dwelling wolf spider, which does not weave a web, is abundant in B.C., ranging from intertidal zones to alpine meadows. Retired arachnologist Charlie Dondale, who lives near Ottawa, identifies Schizocosa minnesotensis as a standout among this large group. Normally, it is found in the dry southern Interior, but Dondale came across a population more than 2,000 kilometres away while collecting Yukon specimens in Kluane National Park.
“There are no records of this species in the intervening area,” says Dondale, “so how did it get all the way to Yukon?”
Such mysteries can sustain the interest of spider researchers over a lifetime.
“Studying spiders isn’t just about spiders,” says tarantula expert Rick West. “It is about the land, the plants, the beauty, and the cultures that revered them.”
“I think spiders are amazing portals to answer interesting questions,” says black-widow researcher Maxence Salomon. “They are so diverse in their foraging modes, morphology, mimicry, ornamentation, habitat, and colonization, and they address just about every ecological question.”
Maxence Salomon, a PhD student at Simon Fraser University, is making new discoveries about the western black widow, Latrodectus hesperus, a native spider with a largely undeserved reputation. “These are shy animals and the more I work with them, the more I am fascinated with them.”
Fellow SFU grad student Samantha Vibert agrees. “Black widows are not aggressive. I handle them with my bare hands all the time and they simply go into defensive stance, tilting their abdomen at you and shooting silk.”
While the spider’s venom is neurotoxic to humans, even if one does bite a person, the small amount of venom injected is very rarely fatal to a person.
Link: https://www.bcmag.ca/spider-species-you-can-find-in-british-columbia/
Source: https://www.bcmag.ca/making-a-mark-7-ways-british-columbia-impressed-the-world/
Wolf Spider
Michael Wheatley
The ground-dwelling wolf spider, which does not weave a web, is abundant in B.C., ranging from intertidal zones to alpine meadows. Retired arachnologist Charlie Dondale, who lives near Ottawa, identifies Schizocosa minnesotensis as a standout among this large group. Normally, it is found in the dry southern Interior, but Dondale came across a population more than 2,000 kilometres away while collecting Yukon specimens in Kluane National Park.
“There are no records of this species in the intervening area,” says Dondale, “so how did it get all the way to Yukon?”
Such mysteries can sustain the interest of spider researchers over a lifetime.
“Studying spiders isn’t just about spiders,” says tarantula expert Rick West. “It is about the land, the plants, the beauty, and the cultures that revered them.”
“I think spiders are amazing portals to answer interesting questions,” says black-widow researcher Maxence Salomon. “They are so diverse in their foraging modes, morphology, mimicry, ornamentation, habitat, and colonization, and they address just about every ecological question.”
Maxence Salomon, a PhD student at Simon Fraser University, is making new discoveries about the western black widow, Latrodectus hesperus, a native spider with a largely undeserved reputation. “These are shy animals and the more I work with them, the more I am fascinated with them.”
Fellow SFU grad student Samantha Vibert agrees. “Black widows are not aggressive. I handle them with my bare hands all the time and they simply go into defensive stance, tilting their abdomen at you and shooting silk.”
While the spider’s venom is neurotoxic to humans, even if one does bite a person, the small amount of venom injected is very rarely fatal to a person.
Link: https://www.bcmag.ca/spider-species-you-can-find-in-british-columbia/
Source: https://www.bcmag.ca/making-a-mark-7-ways-british-columbia-impressed-the-world/
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