It looked like a BIG black ant and as I stepped on it tons of living babies escaped. Scared me to death, but my family says it can't happen. What type of spider can this happen in, and has anyone else had this happen? Thanks! :o)
2006-06-28 08:01:26 · 13 answers · asked by kimber820 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Thanks! I searched it and it came back as a type of WOLF Spider. I live in NH and this type is rare here but at least I can show my family I wasn't sleep walking :o) Thanks so much everyone! It totally freaked me out. It was at 4:00 a.m. too. :|
2006-06-28 08:14:54 · update #1
yes that has happened to me..
2006-06-28 08:04:26 · answer #1 · answered by ali.firefly 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The babies are really on the mother's back. I had one in the house one time and I used the fly swatter to kill the spider, only to have what seemed like 50 babies scurry out! Fortunately, I grabbed the bug spray and took care of the babies.
2006-06-28 08:16:03 · answer #2 · answered by Jeffrey S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh my God! That's terrifying.
Actually, I have no experience with that, but a couple weeks ago I went to use my brother's bathroom and a spider about the size of my palm (I have small hands, but still) was lying around in the bath tub. I made my dad kill it and stood outside freaking out, and it sat there for a while, dead, while we all walked by in fear and amazement. Then my cleaning lady came and she actually removed it from the bathtub, and now I feel bad for her whenever she comes over and have apologized incessently. But anyway, that was useless, but it just still scares the crap out of me.
Good luck. I believe you.
2006-06-28 08:06:39 · answer #3 · answered by MistysFrosted 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The babies were huddled on the mothers back. They are very tiny and gather together on the mothers back, and for the most part almost unseen. When you stepped on the mother, you killed alot of the babies too, but alot of them escaped.
Wolf spiders are one type of spider that carry their young on their backs.
2006-06-28 08:11:04 · answer #4 · answered by Huevos Rancheros 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are not alone, i sprayed a spider with furniture polish and it was pregnant. The baby spiders went in all directions. They were protected by the mother. I live in the SW and it happens all the time!!!
2006-06-28 08:06:47 · answer #5 · answered by betzdaw 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
THERE IS A SPIDER THAT CARRIES IT BABYS ON ITS BACK AND THERE SO SMALL THEY LOOK LIKE FIR OR HAIR WHEN THE MOTHER GET INJURED THEY RUN IN ALL DIRECTIONS IT LOOKS AS IF THERE COMMING OUT OF THE BODY HAVE DONE THIS MYSELF AND I HAD THE SAME REATION AS YOU TO THE NAKED EYE IT LOOK LIKE THERE RUNNING OUT OF THE SPIDER YOUCAN FIND THIS ON THE WEB JUST ENTER SPIDER AND GO TO PICS OF SPIDERS SOME SITE WILL HAVE THE NAME AND TYPE THIS IS I CANT REMBER THE NAME JFB
2006-06-28 08:08:06 · answer #6 · answered by JFB 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure what type of spider it was, but here in WV they carry babies in a sac on their back, it may appear that the babies came out of the spider but in fact the sac they carry is what they came out of.
2006-06-28 08:07:51 · answer #7 · answered by Blessed 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Spiders lay eggs, so that is probably not possible. Maybe it was not a spider? Are you sure it had 8 legs?
Or maybe it was carrying the eggs when you stepped on it?
2006-06-28 08:05:11 · answer #8 · answered by allknowing 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i once stepped on a spider in my aunt's old house and had little babies scurry out, it scared the hell out of me. But i don't know what kind of spider it was.
2006-06-28 08:06:59 · answer #9 · answered by dogluver8906 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I had this happen in WI 1991 but it didn't look like a wolf spider because it was shiny jet black. Now I wonder what it really was????????????????
2015-04-21 03:55:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Totally true - it's happened to me a few times.
2006-06-28 08:05:12 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋