Spider ID

Looks like some sort of wolf spider.

Do you see all the baby spiders all over it?

Hell no, burn it

Burn it all.

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m no expert though. Damn thing has so much bug spray on it.

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Neither am I
They are both in the same family though and both are more of an ambushing spider vs spinning webs.

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Rabid wolf spider final answer

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Wolf/Fishing spiders are hard because they can look so different in different life stages and male/female.

This is a Rabid Wolf Spider:



But, I also think the one in the OP is a Rabid Wolf Spider.

I can deal with most any bug, but spiders creep me out.

A few years back I had brought down an old floor lamp that I was going to rewire from attic storage. I had it out on the porch and was kind of brushing off some dust and cobwebs. I felt something crawling on my arm and just sort of brushed it off without thinking much of it. I had a dark colored shirt on and when I looked down at it I saw hundreds of these tiny, tiny little spiders crawling all over it. I immediately tossed the lamp out in the yard and started swatting at my shirt. The swatting led to cussing which led to me very quickly pulling the shirt off over my head and throwing it into the yard with the lamp. I looked down at my shorts and those frickers were all over them, too. I was swatting and cussing and probably sounding like a little girl. Off came the shorts which flung in the general direction of everything else. I ran into the house, jumped into the shower in my briefs, and turned the water on. It was cold, but I didn't care.

I was home alone when this happened, but when I came out of the bathroom the woman I was dating at the time had come in. She asked why there was clothes and a lamp in the yard. I looked at her and just said, "I dont want to talk about it."

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about 1000 baby spiders took off from under my foot, some going up my leg.

Survival instinct kicked in, and I jumped into the pool

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What we want to hear is a DETAILED description of what happened between when you noticed the baby spiders on you and when you got to the pool. A video would be priceless!