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big wolf spiders in my basement

here are some more stories about wolf spiders from the DC swamp, via the Washington Compost.

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I woke up in the night and discovered a giant wolf spider was on my neck. I grabbed it with my hand and threw it across the room. It was a gut reaction. The spider was so heavy I heard it hit the wall with a thud! The next morning, I found it and vacuumed it up. — Elizabeth Cobb, Casanova, Va.

Back in my younger days, when I was at Goshen Boy Scout camp, I was lying on my cot inside the tent and I saw a big wolf spider directly above me on the tent wall. I swatted at it and the spider fell down on me with all its babies, which seemed like hundreds of them. I cannot remember how many times I was bitten but I know I was sick for three days from it. — Spencer Marker, Centreville.

When I was a Girl Scout at Camp Potomac Woods, wolf spiders would gather inside our tent, near the top, and out of our reach. At night, we’d stare up at the spiders from our cots and try to convince ourselves they’d eat mosquitoes and bugs so it was actually good to have wolf spiders in the tent with us. When I returned home from camp, a giant wolf spider ran out of my suitcase. Apparently, one of them hitched a ride home with me. — Karen Hanscom, Arlington.

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I'm very glad you posted, hardbitten, after a week. it was starting to worry me.
-Call pest control
-Handle it yourself
-Give the spider a girlfriend
-Make the spider a pet
-Lock the spider there
-Put glue on it
-Run around it for 20 mins with a net

Best Tip
LET THE SPIDER BITE YOU
(xD I don't mean it)
First of all, you have to prove that it really is your house and not the spider's house.

@hardbitten said in #1:
> saw a large wolf spider at my feet in a warm, humid part of my basement. This is the time of Fall when the crickets seek the heat, and the spiders follow. Having one of these big leggy hairy black things run across you while on the sofa is not cool. :-\
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> So I dropped a 1 gal plastic bottle of liquid on it, and told my wife "I GOT it".
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> Next day same big arse spider on the floor in the morning nearby. Swatted it (sorry its my house and the spider on the bare leg thing). OK so a spider can escape an object falling directly overhead at 1G because, duh, they survived stuff falling on them millions of years. So it got away from the falling jug.
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> Go to move the jug, huge smashed spider there too. Agggg. So big each of the two pieces looks like a big spider. Plus the first one, when dropped into the rubbish can, made a NOISE when it hit. That is a big spider.
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> What should I do?

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