The Process of Making Friends with a Wolf Spider
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While exploring the wilderness of Florida, I stumbled upon the biggest wolf spider I've ever seen! Lots of you have been asking to see my process of handling spiders safely, so I figured I'd try my hand at making friends with this gentle giant so you can see the whole process from start to finish!
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Grew up having to deal with spiders as I lived on a pig farm, although I have arachnophobia for some reason (also extends to scorpions). I live in the UK, so this was manageable. Below a certain size I used to catch and release. Above a certain size, the "I can't do it," kicked in.
If a spider that size was that close to my hand - you would have a forest fire. Biggest I used to be able to cope with was maybe 3 inches leg to leg. This content saves spider lives. I know spiders are good. But my ape brain looks for a rock.
House centipede can killand eat a wolf spider apparantly, i would also put bets on wasps
New video idea. Seduce a Spider.
How does this spider see, in what spectrum? And do all spiders see the same?
You cant deny the obsession of humans to pet everything.
I have a tarantula that lives under my bed, she is a cutie, I pick her up and we watch Hulu together, she likes sleeping on my wrist, during the winter I buy her crickets to substitute the minimal cricket population in my area when it gets a little cold, I fed her a piece of a lays potato chip once, and I found out she really likes the big blue horn worms I feed her when she starts to look a little thin, she is surprisingly smart, when it’s super cold she sleeps under my pillow, I’ve woken up a few times to find her splayed out under my pillow soaking up the warmth from my heating blanket, I love her so much, but I don’t want to catch her because she does a good job of eating all of the crickets, she is like having an 8 legged cat that sometimes inhabits my walls, and yes, she gets pets, I think she likes them because she doesn’t run, she just sits there
@@hangrywendigo.7057what
Even if it's deadly lol
@@w花b her venom is harmless to humans I think, I think she is an Arizona blonde
That's lit asf I'm praying she lives long @@hangrywendigo.7057
That spider was like “Oh you aint tryna eat me? Cool. I’ma just hang out on your hands for a lil while.”
How dare you, she was frozen in fear
@@Laquintainnroom217 the spider is fine
@@Laquintainnroom217 no. a spider frozen in fear has a different posture
@@Laquintainnroom217 yes, I felt the ice from here
@@Laquintainnroom217okay Greta...
There's a planet somewhere in this infinite universe where large spiders go into tiny cities and search for tiny humans to try and make friends with and film it for their version of TH-cam.
You might enjoy a book called Children of Time. It's literally about a sentient spider society that progresses to a spacefaring civilization over some millenia
@@darko1295that lowkey sounds dope as hell imma check that out on my own
lol
You mean spidertube?
No there isn’t
“Wolf spiders may seem creepy at first, but they are actually super smart.”
Those are not mutually exclusive characteristics.
Lmao 😆 I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that
2:20 I love the hair raising horror sound that plays as the guy is picking the spider up and is trying to convince the audience that picking up spiders is just a super chill activity.
With most spiders, it is a chill activity. As he said, they usually have no interest in biting something they can’t eat.
@@Bruh-ob9mi Yeah I know. So why add the sound effect that gives the exact opposite impression? lol
@@brewtron is funny
I'm so glad someone picked up on this. It's not just any sound effect, either: it's a waterphone, the same instrument reified in reality TV to mean "the most horrific case possible". The editor really dropped the ball on this one.
@@brewtron it could've been engagement bait to get comments talking about it
I had a little jumping spider land on me randomly last weekend and I just said hello and let it jump from hand to hand until I was able to get it outside and on a tree. I felt blessed. Cutest little spider I have ever seen!
I found out that spider eggs hatched in my back yard and I was terrified, a few weeks later I saw one and realized they were jumping spiders and I have never been happier
😅
Omg jumping spiders and the cutest 🥰 they helped me become more comfortable around spiders. Next time you see a jumping spider, hold your finger out to the left or right of the spider and wiggle your finger and the spider should turn to look at your finger which is pretty funny 😅
i had a very mini jumping spider on my car :D was smaller than a grain of rice... but i noticed it as jumping spide cause when i looked at the spider the spider looked at me too :D than i pit my finger near^^ it jumped on and from finger to finger :D back onto the car back onto finger then i put her close to a tree where she jumped on ;D
Yes! They're so adorable! They're like spider versions of kittens. I used to catch them around the house and play with them when I was a kid before releasing them outside.
Just recently, I caught one climbing on my car, and while it was sitting in my hand, it looked up at me, crouched, and hid its face.
I said hi and told it how adorable it was. I have no clue if it could hear me, but it calmed down, and when I held out a finger, it jumped onto it, no hesitation, and was quickly running back and forth from hand to hand until I eventually put my hand near the dirt and it jumped off.
Seen a big mama wolf spider with all her babies on her back one night while getting my kids to the car. Everyone was freaked out, but I think watching how she just walked by, completely ignoring us, and seeing how she cares for her young was settling for the kids. My youngest has a huge fascination for all creepy crawlies and she ofter brings up "mummy spider."
Young as in baby spiders or like the egg sack?
@@GenesisBoi spiderlings, female Wolf Spiders and some other arachnids like scorpions carry the babies on their back until they’re old enough to start hunting on their own
@@SlickMonke i always thought all spiders died upon giving birth
@GenesisBoi thats what I learned from Charlotte's Web. The movie and the book. It was a great movie and book I read and watched in 4th grade
@@GenesisBoi no, mother arachnids live and protect their young female Tarantulas do this, female black widows will paralyze a bug and allow their young to eat it, and female wolf spiders will carry their young on their back until they’re old enough to branch off on their own
Nice try. That's not a spider, that's a puppy. ❤
As an Aussie i have to say thats not even an impressive spider
@@Hurricayne92..yeah you guys got the corner of the market on spiders....and I'm ok with that.
@@Hurricayne92as an American i am glad i can never be impressed by one of your spiders in person. 😳
@@mantia39 I know right, there's thousands of miles of ocean between me and the wildlife of Australia, most of which seems easily capable of severely maiming and/or killing humans. I'm fine with this :)
She sure is 🥹
My 4 year old son has arachnophobia but also a very impressive empathy and underatanding of them. He watched this video with me from start to finish very intently. At the end he said
"Can we go find a wolf spider?"
Thank you for this video and your others. I also have arachnophobia but this channel and "Brave Wilderness" have truly done a lot to help us be less frightened by them and more interested.
@@NewKanyeFan thanks so much for sharing! Tell your son I said hi and best of luck finding one of these beautiful spiders!
Foster that empathy. It's sorely needed these days.
Channels like this are literally murdering mainstream TV, and that could not come any sooner.
This was magnificent.
The day a spider rolls on its back asking for a belly rub will be the day that people will stop being so afraid of them 😄
I had a tarantula that liked belly rubs when I was 15. lol
I am only not afraid of them if there is already another person who handled with them without any harm.
If anything, I’m probably just as nervous as the spider.
It rolls over for belly rub then all of a sudden latches on and bites🤣
It rolls over for belly rub then all of a sudden latches on and bites🤣
It rolls over for belly rub then all of a sudden latches on and bites🤣
When I see a wolf spider, I feel nothing but friendship and appreciatiop. Ever since the day I saw a black widow walking across the carpet in my bedroom, and then, out of nowhere, a great big wolf spider (not as huge as the one in the video 😄) pounced on the widow and put it's lights out, wolf spiders are welcome in my house.
you wouldn’t just rather live in a house with no bugs?
@@tweedertweeder1625 No such thing, might as well make friends.
@@TheCryptidmanI live in Las Vegas in a high rise. I think I’ll be fine & im glad I’m far far away from the outdoors creepy crawlers.
@@catherine520they will find you. It’s only a matter of time
you’d be surprised how many creatures live even in a place like that
"Make an effort to look like your surroundings.."
Spider: Looks at the hand, looks at the leaves, looks back at the hand... "Sure... why not."
That might actually be part of her problem solving at work. Think about it. If this big creature doesn't want to eat or hurt her, it's actually really safe to hang out near it since it's presence can actually ward off her actual predators. It's not likely that a bird or rodent is gonna go after her when this big guy is holding her.
@@CaptainFordoAlpha-77 I don't think the spider is aware of how big or what kind of creature she's standing on. She probably senses she's not in danger.. and that's probably about it.
@@Akymma Given that Wolf Spiders DO use vision as their hunting tool, yeah that spider's aware of how big the creature is, but it's a mutual agreement between the two, you don't harm me, I don't harm you.
Skinny Human
@@Akymmathey are smarter then that. Quite self aware.
bee just chillin at 3:29
Whenever I do some amateur astronomy, I see their eyes reflecting back at me. They are incredibly docile. You can poke them and they're just gonna sit there wondering why you're bothering them. Love them.
Wow exactly! Also doing astronomy, in summer and fall spiders eyes are everywhere in the woods here in germany. Looks really scary sometimes.
You're single-handedly helping a ton of people doing these videos. I love these videos.
Glad to do it! Tarantula this weekend!
Spiders freak me out, but for some reason I've always been really intrigued by wolf Spiders. Idk what it is but I got mad respect for them.
your on the path to enlightenment
hell yeah
It’s the eyes, it’s all in the eyes.
Yes jumping spiders and wolf spiders, I'm intrigued by them. Any other spider freaks me out
You should play a game called grounded
People always thought I was crazy saying how big our wolf spiders are and this confirms it! Gorgeous one you caught!
I remember the first time I saw one. I had no idea there were such giant spiders here in the Midwest 😮
Every going to do this
4:14 get blud some braces
🤓
I have to admit, I've started warming to spiders over the last few years. I used to be so arachnophobic that I couldn't even watch videos about them.
I remember when I used to be scared of spiders. I never squished them as I respected what they did for us, namely eating far more annoying bugs.
Not to mention, they don't know they're spiders, to them, they're just them.
Anyhow, one day I'd left my house with my wife, gone down stairs, and started walking along the street. In the middle of the street, there was a LARGE black wolf spider. I live in China, in a rather large city, so seeing spiders is quite rare and the worse bugs like mosquitoes are far more common. For that reason, I'd worried that this spider might get stomped for simply looking sinister.
I can't say for certain that it was a wolf spider as it wasn't furry, its legs were more of an obsidian black, shiny, and hard.
I overcame my fear, put one hand in front and the other behind, nudging it softly onto my hand, just as you did here. It's worth noting that this spider wasn't much smaller then the one you held in this video, so it was a lot for me to make myself do this.
Then, it calmly walked onto my hand and allowed me to carry it over to a garden style area with vines and flowers and such. I nudged it off my hand softly and away it went.
After that, I lost all fear of spiders in place of reason, respect, and admiration.
It's safe to say, I rather love spiders now. When calmly interacting with them, it's easy to see how intelligent and observant they are. If you stay calm, they tend to stay calm. :D
this makes me so happy! it’s so rare to find other ex-“phobics” (like me!) that got rid of their fear and now like spiders 🥰
@@maratesfaye I notice the quote marks, so maybe you already know this, but no arachnophobe would have done what Caidicus did.
I know a person with a phobia of butterflies. He _knows_ they're harmless. It doesn't help at all.
@@Mythraen that’s why i put the quotation marks!! no actual arachnophobe can just fix their phobia like this, i have a phobia as well and it ruins my life so i definitely didn’t want to sound ignorant. i also didn’t know how to word it, “ex-people afraid of spiders but not afraid enough to be phobics” sounded bad to me. 🫠
That was more likely a young huntsman spider. They're also black, have shiny long legs, and somewhat resemble wolf spiders when they're smaller
@@PotatoL001 I was under the impression that Huntsman spiders lived in Australia only. Either way, this one was pretty terrifying on fist glance, but it was super chill on my hand.
Can you imagine if a giant alien picked you up and just held, looked, and poked at you? I'd be a whole lot more stressed than this girl. Lol
We aren't alien to them, animals all recognize us as part of their ecosystem still on some biological level. We evolved alongside all of these animals, and as removed as we like to make ourselves in our minds they still recognize that.
@@bennettbrown5605 I never claimed that spiders are aliens. I came up with a perspective that would be similar to what the spider was experiencing.
Looking back on it, I could have just said giant creature. But surely you understood what I meant, right???
Plus, you don't have to be from another planet to be alien. Lol
@@ezrathing read what I said again lol, I wasn't saying we're aliens to them, just that our presence isn't alien to them at all, animals understand what we are, they often are still somewhat symbiotic to us, especially certain species of spider.
@@bennettbrown5605 I don't think you're picking up what I'm putting down, and I can't think of any other way to explain it.
@ezrathing I completely understand what you're saying, I'm saying on some level we aren't just 'big giant strangers' to them or potential threats, especially species of spider that are intelligent. They recognize us as something native to their ecosystems as well and a lot of them will utilize that/us in some way or another that's ultimately symbiotic. It's unfortunate so many people don't recognize that and fear them when they really just want to get a free meal out of the insects that could actually do us harm/be a nuisance.
Wolf Spiders are friendly just give them a chance.
A chance for them to get away from me
@mecasunny if you chase them then they will run like your a giant looming threat about to end them
Ever played grounded? You’ll see a nightmare before you of that spider
What about my uncle?
@@epatino1030did you give him a chance? Did you!!
That's an adorable wolf spider. I love the way you handle them, it's very subtle and the body language on the spider really reflects that.
It's best to not think of a spider as an animal. It's more apt to call them Biological Mechs. This is less because of what they are and more of HOW they are. They operate via hydralics. No joke, the way they move is they pump fluid through their body through their circulatory system, so effectively, they're moving via heartbeat. It's really neat. This is also why they curl up when they die, because the loss of pressure causes the limbs to move back to a default state. That being said, the smarter spiders such as the wolf or huntsman spider really blur that line. In essence, the more 'hunty' a spider is, the more intelligent generally they are. Except for tarantulas, which are the eight legged versions of 'no thoughts, head empty.' Literally, they have no long term memory, with the except of old world, which have a special organ scientists haven't identified yet that lets them remember HATE. Seriously, Cobalt Blues are mini satans.
Wolf spiders are the cause of my “phobia” to spiders. I had a ball go under a bush as a kid. I grabbed it, threw it to my brother. Looked down and a giant wolf spider was crawling up my arm. I freaked out and shook it off. Looked down again; it was coming up my shirt.
As an adult I’ve gotten over the phobia but would always prefer like to observe and not have them on me. I’ve been finding brown widows around my flower gardens and they’re probably my favorite
Same here stepped on one the size of a half dollar barefoot when i was 5 at night. I swear i dont even remember going up the stairs to the porch
Basically the Wolf Spider to you went this:
Why are you running?
Why are you running?
@@Exeternal_Beyonder_Of_Doomsdayhahaha😂😂😂
It didn't bite you though did it ? It was probably more scared than you
I crawled into a cardboard box left outside when I was a toddler. There were probably at least 30 spiders in it the same size if not larger than the spider in this video.
Ever since I have violent physical convulsions when a spider touches me, but I have no problems looking at one up close or handling one while wearing gloves.
After awhile they start warming up to you.
They probably enjoy your body warmth. A win win situation. Edit: I had to google it and spiders probably aren't actually attracted to heat. It's funny because I was sure a jumping spider I handled earlier didn't want to jump off my hand, so I was thinking it must be the warmth.
I'm not sure that they are capable of such emotions... Then again, us humans tend to "humanize" just about anything)
Those wolf spiders are absolutely adorable. Their faces always remind me of Gandalf. Crying shame we don’t get them here in Central Europe
Those guys are COOL! I think they’re invasive in California, would love to go see some of those!
Their faces are adorable!
Y'all have invertebrate sellers, get one dude!
I've seen Jumping spider in central europe, wolf spiders might be somewher.
They are the polar opposite of adorable. Absolutely hideous.
The reality is...a spider will never be your friend. It will just get used to you being around. If it suddenly grew to 50 times it's size, you would be a snack.
Same for household cats.
They let you pet them and act nice, but if you shrunk to the size of a lego they would eat you.
@@theimperialnord38this^^^^^ idk why we think we’re so special. It’s a dangerous game of size out beyond our concrete castles. It’s just a matter of perspective.
Don't underestimate human ingenuity. We may even find a way to train these giant spiders and ride them if we are willing. We have trained lions and tigers and bears after all. Remember, at the end of the day, we are still the real apex predator. We have weapons.
@@VincentStevenStudio I agree that we are the apex predator, top of the food chain.
But again, there is a difference between training and love.
Animals do not love us, they simply tolerate us.
Animals that we have domesticated and trained do not love us...they simply live amongst us and obey us through training taught to them. These animals may get happy, sad, scared, or even angry...and perhaps there is emotions of love, but not in the same way that we humans interact in love.
A dog is always one missed meal away from turning on you.
@@theimperialnord38 yeah dogs the supposed man's best friend is simply a symbiotic relationship, the dog back then gave protection or help hunting and humans provided food and shelter. Only reason we have such a deep connection to dogs is because we both have something to offer if we didn't have anything to offer them dogs would never be pets
Worried about her jumping and running off. No. I’d be worried about her jumping and running down my shirt, and then I die inside and try not to just start smashing through my shirt as hard and fast as possible while screaming and crying and running for my life.
Growing up in Florida I learned in my youth how chill spiders are thanks to these guys. It began when I started rescuing them out of the pool. I would scoop em up in my hand and they would be so exhausted they seemed to welcome the new safety.
So I would hold them for a while and often times I had to really work to get them to leave the safety of my hand and return to the grass.
Though momma wolf's covered in babies are still pretty creepy. Ha, ha!
Those eyes are so cute! I keep all the spiders in my house as unofficial roommates. I got Jerry in the kitchen, Gertrude is in the dining room, and Harry likes to hang out by the front door. Some times they need help keeping their webs clean so I always take them and put them in Tupperware with holes pushed through the lid so they don't suffocate before I clear away their old meals. They do a fantastic job of pest control. Rarely have I ever seen a cockroach inside usually only during summer when it's warm and it's only ever 1. But these guys do a great job taking care of the pests in my home and I wanna do as good of a job taking care of them and making sure they're safe.
Before my family moved house, we had a small spider between the doorframe and the wall at the top of the stairs called Jerry. I remember she had kids once and they all left the house and Jerry stayed. Jerry was cool
I have an ant in my kitchen. Just one. All summer long. I tell her to stay hidden to stay safe. She does sneak out for food when only I am around.
Nice video! I showed a coworker an unusually large wolf spider I had scooped up with my hands and she screamed, calling it a horror hamster!
One time I had one hiding under my pillow… I was unprepared for that
I would have a heart attack
My back was against the wall and I felt my hair move. Sure enough, it was a wolf spider. Not as big as this one though , it was a Tigrosa (or Hogna) helluo
you killed it
There's a wolf spider that lives in my bathroom. I let it stay because it kills the roaches. I also have somebody to talk too while I'm taking a dump.
She has got too be the biggest wolf spider I've seen yet.... what a gorgeous girl! Thank you for sharing her with us.🥰
She is almost like a tarantula, with her size! lol
Spencer, thank you for making these videos. I'm a grown man who's always been terrified of spiders. Recently I started a career that involves opening up boxes in the ground with water meters and backflows. Lots of spiders make their home there, meaning I have had to get comfortable with bigger (to me anyway) spiders quickly to succeed. I think after a quick google that they're called American House Spiders. Your videos have helped me immensely in my fear of spiders.
So good to read your frank admission of fear and determination to overcome it. I love spiders and don't recall ever being afraid of them, but I am still, not really afraid, but put off, by...camel crickets. Irrational, I know. I learned to handle and enjoy ordinary house crickets -- big ones! -- where I used to work, when they resisted all efforts to get rid of them. They actually seemed to enjoy interacting with people, and would sit quietly grooming themselves in my hand. I hope you can enjoy spiders eventually, too!
🙌🏻 Knowledge is the key to understanding our fears. Widows love those ground boxes around here. At least in certain areas.
The wastewater access grate for the house in my backyard is full of redback spiders (Melbourne, Australia). I would not want to reach in there! I certainly wouldn't want one of those on my hand that's for sure.
I don’t understand how something can be so scary yet so cute
honestly i dont see the cuteness at all. no other living being makes me physically uncomfortable like spiders. it really feels like this fear is deeply engrained in my genes, cuz i dont even remember an event that could've triggered it.
She’s so cute!! Thank you for being so gentle and respectful of her!
I greatly appreciate your video! You’re not cussing, being trashy or mishandling the creature! Educational, appropriate and professional, you would’ve been an awesome children’s show when I was little! Keep it up brother 👍
Their speed is insane. It’s like they are telleporting. Incredible creature. Doesnt waste energy.
If u had eight legs you could run four times as fast as u can w/ two.
The crazy part is they seem downright slow next to huntsman.
Like wolf spider are fast, but huntsmans my guy are on crack dude.
(They almost have crab like legs and a really flat body which helps with speed and climbing, they will go from 1 side of the room up to the roof in like 3 seconds shits wild
Wolf spiders are cool as hell, I've always enjoyed interacting with them.
When I learned that they were called wolf spiders because of the way they hunt their prey, I was a little disappointed. I spent most of my life thinking it was because of their appearance. When you look at them from the front at a top down angle, their abdomen and thorax with the stripe running down it legitimately look like the face of a wolf.
Hagrid approves
Awesome video Spencer and what a beautiful wolf spider. That has to be the biggest wolf spider I've ever seen. Thank you so much for the amazing educational experience and have a great day my friend.
I live in Florida and had one wolf spider who would hang out in my garage and was measured flat legs spread out against my wall at just shy of 13 inches across the tips of the second set of leg's waz and still is the latges wolf spider i have ever personal seen living in fl😊
Thanks so much! Definitely biggest I’ve seen by a good margin too. Hope you have a great weekend!
@@MyWildBackyard I live in New Jersey and it's hard to find spider's in my area besides for basement spider's and house spider's.
@@richterbalmont5747 that's a big wolf 😲 13 inches I didn't know they grew that large.
@@johnbest1978 actually thinking of covering those soon too 👀
Jack fines the biggest Jumping spider, and you find the biggest Wolf Spider, all posted in the same week.
Yup! We may or may not have been filming these videos within hours of each other…..
It seems the interaction with wolf spiders and humans are similar to the cute jumping spider. Funny getting this recommended after I had a wolf spider in my rooms chilling out on my desk for days. I didn’t know it was a wolf spider at the time but I could tell he was intelligent and knew I wasn’t a threat, but after watching this video he looked exactly like in this video. Awesome!
Damn you almost sold me.
Not gonna lie, seeing those closeups, the spider face is much cuter than I thought.
Really solid episode man, I liked how you started just analyzing the spider’s behavior in your hand but then gradually expanded into way more cool science, your progression of information and pacing was well done. That is an absolutely massive wolf spider, I need to sell my audience on spiders so I can spend time catching animals like that. Great work man!
Takes practice! I actually rearranged this video 3 times in post before I got the progression to the point I liked. Always boils down to the writing and seeing how you can progress the emotional journey for the viewer. Once you get a feel for that, making those intuitive edits becomes second nature!
She's awesome but still not as cute as jumping spiders. But i can't seem to make myself hold one of them either so far. Well actually i have held baby jumpers so i guess that kinda sorta counts huh. I always wanted to hold my pet phidipus audax Jack but i never could make myself do it before he finally passed on to spider heaven. 😏 I did pet him after he was gone though and got to see kinda what he felt like... I still miss old Jack. So crazy that you can actually fall in love with a little spider. Well i did at least anyways. I'm glad i have lotsa pictures and a couple videos of him. Some day i want to get a female Phidipus Regius and maybe she will be the first one i hold if i get used to her gradually from a baby or juvenile size first. Maybe after that i can consider holding a wolf spider. 😬
I think I’ll be doing a video like this very soon with a jumping spider as well! Let’s see what else I can find!
I was just thinking, can you give her pets?! Then you gave her a pet!! Super cute :)
Yup I knew people would want to see her get pets! And she was such a sweetheart
Funny! Cute. 😊❤
You really have to be careful keeping these as pets. I had a giant like this maybe 10 or 15 years ago. A guest used my bathroom and was very proud of the favor they did my by squashing the biggest spider they ever saw. I was very sad but couldn't blame them for my forgetting to let them know she was friendly and curious
"wolf spiders are friendly like a pet"
Me in the swimming pool: *wolf spider runs out of the filter hole, across the water at me like he wants a bite of me until i swat him out of the pool* naaaaaahhhhh imma pass
if it makes u feel better, it probably clocked you as a safe place to chill in the pool
Man! I'm jealous!
We never get them even close to that size here in Southern California.
I've said it before, but you must give off some awesome calming vibes because most of the insects you handle are always so chill. Nice work!
Thanks man! Lots of practice, I definitely couldn’t do this a couple years ago! I’ll tell ya, handling the really venomous species helps to be calm with harmless ones like this. Also really uncooperative spiders make chill ones like this super fun
Gah, I can relate! Love holding wolf spiders, but they only get about half this size where I'm at. The one in this vid hands down, biggest one I've seen.
yeah fr, I've only ever seen a couple small wolf spiders here in socal, but there's black widows everywhere.
I live in Joshua Tree San Bernardino County SoCal, I have never seen a wolf spider here... And I'm not surprised to be honest lol We have tarantulas, trap doors, scorpions, snakes, lizards and other creatures that would make their life impossible lol
Wolf spiders are amazingly fast. I have trained my wife not to kill them, even in our house. Most of the time they hide and you never know they’re there, but they kill lots of insects that you don’t want around, like roaches. We live in Florida and Florida has some monster sized roaches. That’s why the spiders are so large.
One night I turned on the lights in the kitchen and there was a huge roach in the middle of the floor. I happen to see a huge wolf spider peeking out from behind the refrigerator. I bent down and flicked the roach towards the spider and in the blink of an eye, she leaped on that roach and I could hear the crack of her fangs puncturing through the roach’s skeleton. The roach died quick and the spider scurried off behind the refrigerator with her meal.
We rarely see any roaches in our house, which is rare in Florida, especially in a rural area like we live in. I’m sure thats a big reason why the wolf spiders are so large. We probably have many wolf spiders in our house. They only come out at night, so we rarely see them. Most people swat them on sight because they hate spiders. I treat snakes like the spiders. Not in our house, but any snakes that have made it into the house I just capture and move out on the property somewhere. On our property I leave snake be because they eat lots of rodents and bugs.
I see Pygmy rattlers a lot and twice have had to relocate coral snakes from our garage. We also have lots of black and brown widows in our outbuildings and garage, but have never been bit by one, even though I’ve had them run right on me. Just like the coral snakes, they’re not very aggressive.
A black widow will run away before biting. So will a coral snake. I have never had one strike out at me or act aggressive like an eastern diamondback rattlesnake will. They’re a bit more aggressive, like water moccasins. A coral snake bite can be deadly without treatment, but bites are very rare because of their passive nature and the fact they don’t have fangs. They need to chew on you a bit. They like to hide in the soil of potted plants, so be careful when messing around with the soil of a potted plant.
Many of the most poisonous spiders and snakes are not very aggressive. To make such toxic venom, costs the spider or snake a lot of resources, so they don’t really want to waste it, so you have to be really threatening them to get bit. One time I was using a sawhorse that kept falling over on me, so I had picked it up ten or fifteen times. My wife came out in the garage to bring me a drink and her eyes widened when she saw there was a huge black widow on the sawhorse. I told her how many times I had picked it up and never once did she bite me.
I am an immune compromised transplant patient, so a black widow bite might certainly kill me, but I don’t fear them. Had I accidentally placed my hand right over her, crushing her against the sawhorse, she might have bitten me, but thankfully I didn’t. Otherwise, she stayed as far from my hand as possible, I’m sure, because I never knew she was even there and she was huge. Possibly the largest one I have ver seen in Florida.
I came from Maryland as a kid and there were really huge black widows there. They were twice the size of the largest I’ve seen in Florida, it’s just that Florida has many more of them. They’re everywhere in the country. Our barn really has a lot of black widows. Funny thing about widows is that they never build their webs higher than three feet from the ground. We have a lot of spiders up near the roof of the barn and outbuildings, but the widows never go higher than three feet.
Super cool comment bro, you definitely have balls of steel. Personally, I find spiders fascinating and never kill them, but then again I never had to deal with any large ones
I will never forget a Wolf spider charging directly at me from under my bed while i was sitting on the floor beside it. Even after attempting to kill it, it never stopped coming at me. I have literally never seen a spider be agressive. Typically they dont "attack", its more by chance or a life threatening situation for them. Kudos to you for being brave enough befriend one.
Yes…what these channels don’t usually mention is that it’s a case by case basis..some are very docile, some are the opposite. I just came from a ladies channel that has a pet wolf spider and that one is GRUMPY lol
The way she looked behind 😂
Dont.. Touch.. ME!!!!!
So tiny, that’s cute. Come to Australia, I got spiders the size of four fists in my woodshed.
Yeah, the wolf spiders can go stay outside and be merry. They leave me alone, I'll leave them alone, and we'll all live in harmony.
shes so beautiful, her pattern looks like shes wearing laced weaving dresses!! what a gentle and patient lovely animal
Looks like the one (same size) as the one I found in my home on a 2x4 last month. I escorted it back outside. It was cool, but I didn't want to wake up with it staring at me.
Yeah I could see that
Our drinking out of your mouth
Wolf Spider: "Good morning, Human. I have captured 15 cockroaches, 20 house flies, and have collected their carcasses to show you my skills as your residential pest control. No need to thank me."
@@prometheanrebel3838 Yep. I have a cat, however. The cat doesn't freak me the heck out like that spider did. Spider is outdoor friend, cat is indoor friend.
Wolf spider: I think I just made friends with a titan today... Am I the chosen one?
We've got thousands of wolfies where I live (Appalachia forest). If one walks out at night with a headlamp, one sees lots of little, luminous, sparkly eyeballs everywhere one looks.
When they get in the house, I catch 'em in a jar and take them out. I do have house cats and don't like providing them with live toys--although I haven't actually seen my kitties mess with one.
1:40 the biggest wilf spider IVE ever seen was on my wall at midinght (it was huge)
you sure it was a wolf spider? wolf spiders aren't really good climbers
@@Kit-cd8ph my dad said it was a wolf spider
Always used to pick up wolf spiders as a kid, chillest little buggers around
I love wolf spiders! Still can't handle them, but as far as spiders go, they're in my top 5.
Same here! Easily top 3 even!
You are doing good work to dispel fear of spiders. They definitely need to be respected, yet it is good that people are learning not to fear spiders as they are a part of our ecosystem. Thank you for that.
I had a huge wolf spider that lived in one of my planters and I named him Craig or her Craig I didn't really enjoy Craig's existence but because of you I didn't immediately kill Craig in fact they just relocated Craig somewhere else I'm thankful for it and I'm sure Craig is thankful for it too so thank you
Those big ol eyes so adorable
I just want to say that this channel has helped *immensely* with my arachnophobia! When I see a house spider now I am far more likely to try to pick it up than shoo it away.
I like this better. Thank you!
First >:)
Now that I’ve actually seen the video, it’s awesome!! She was so chill and beautiful and massive!!! I’ll definitely use this advice when working with these spiders, thank you for blessing us with another upload ❤️
So glad you enjoyed! People have been asking to see how I handle stuff, should I make more like this one?
@@MyWildBackyard Yes please!! That would be wonderful and informative :)
@@PrisPrivate just realized this was Prisma! When I’m replying in Studio I only see the @ so I didn’t register immediately!
@@MyWildBackyard haha yeah I’m Prisma lol, also that idea would make a great series, you could do one for like a rat snake or racer or jumping spider or centipede or whatever, so many cool ideas!! Would be great :)
@@PrisPrivate yup I was thinking of doing just that!
found a wolf spider in my house and googled it. Found this video and decided im not gonna kill it LOL
When I was a teen, I returned to my house one night and within just 4 hours a spider had woven a huge and extremely strong web that was about 5 feet tall and wide. I walked through it unknowingly. It actually almost knocked me over. My 1st thought: where's the spider?! I looked down and it was a black furry robust spider about the size of a half dollar right on my chest looking up at me. I screamed like a woman and brushed it off so fast! lol. hope I didnt hurt it. To this day Im amazed at how fast it built the web. Spiders are incredible creatures.
What an awesome find! I'm definitely going to try this out next time I find a calm wolf spider who's up for handling. This girl was so lovely and it's amazing how they're able to tell when they're safe with you
This one was case-in-point for how much of sweethearts these spiders can be! Absolutely love getting to showcase them, so glad you enjoyed!
98% of the time, Wolf Spiders Don’t Bite. Because they can’t produce efficient Venom.
She's beautiful ! Even after being a spider freak for over 50 yrs, I still learn from you. Thx for the great videos !
Insect and arachnid eye adaptions are really interesting, a lot of them see polarization too, which allows a lot of animals to instinctively know when they are being looked at, even fruit flies. The part about changing lightwave sensitivity over the seasons is awesome.
I want my partner to say as many nice things about me as this man about spiders
I have these in my house in pa.
Its also the same spider that made me loss arachnophobia on a camping trip in Tennessee 25 yrs ago. Fell asleep with one in my tent. Never bitten.
Literally saw one last night in my bathroom. Hence why i am watching this.
I question if i can handle them haha
As a kid that has been obsessed with spiders & tarantulas for half my life, I never knew that Wolf spiders can be tamed like this. Respect to you, for handling and taming a giant wolf spider.
"If you look close, their faces can be endearing," the next scene shows a Praying Mantis getting devoured. 😂 This was a great video. I've got severe arachnaphobia, but I've always thought spiders were fkn awesome. Just not on me or hella close 😅
I threw that shot in there for that EXACT reaction 😂😂 honestly you sound a lot like me before I started attacking my arachnophobia hard. Thought they were super cool but freaked the HECK out when they were on me. Just takes time and practice!
@@MyWildBackyard Lmfao. Perfectly placed my friend! You had aracnaphobia? Wtf? So you literally just didn't accept that and decided to force a mental change? Very impressive. I'll keep working at my own! And thanks again for a great video!
This is a phenomenal video.
Thank you!
Recovered arachnophobe here... because of videos like this, I no longer kill spiders. As a kid I was PETRIFIED, but in the last five or so years, watching enthusiasts and learning more about them, if I see them I tend to gently shoo them away with a piece of paper or something, let'em know "hey you can be here, just not SPECIFICALLY here". Like if it's in my shower or something.
Bruh, that’s the biggest Wolf Spider you’ve ever seen? I have Huntsman Spiders that are bigger than that here that live in my house in Australia, those guys pay their rent by eating all the nasty insects like cockroaches.
Fascinating. I don't see ever picking one up, but I respect them and the way they contribute to our world. They're a little less scary now.
Wolf spiders are interesting, and even if they do bite you, it's no big deal, feels like a pin prick and that's it. Nothing else happens. I've been bitten once because one was in my jacket that I had stupidly left on the ground one day. It got bound up in the sleeve when I put the jacket on, and so of course it bit me. I thought there was a thorn in my jacket, that's what it felt like. Definitely nothing to fear, and certainly no reason to kill them. They're not like wasps or yellow jackets that most certainly will put the hurt on you.
@@trevorjameson3213Thanks. I'm glad they're not poisonous and are relatively harmless. They serve a good purpose for us.
@@denisesurber817699 times out of 100, Wolf Spiders don’t bite at all. They don’t produce enough venom. So they just Evade.
"The world can be a rich, fascinating place if we push past fear." Didn't expect wellness advice from a spider appreciation video. I've always loved spiders, so this validation is welcome.
What a gorgeous spider! She was so chill, I haven't seen a wolf spider in years and never one that big, but used to see quite a few up in Washington state on our little camping property 11 miles outside of Dayton WA. It always fascinated me to see the females with her babies covering her back as she skuttled around looking for food. Great Video!
I've never seen one that big. The biggest wolf spiders here in Texas are about half that size, which is still large though. But they are not as docile as the one he found. I've tried to catch them here, but they're so fast they just take off in an instant and disappear in the brush. Jumping spiders, on the other hand, seem curious and will actually jump onto your hand if you put your finger in front of them. Then they crawl around on your hand staring up at you, so cool.
I cried. We ignore so much intelligence in the world and just assume that they're biological machines responding to stimuli. I wonder if that spider has aspirations, dreams, even a distinct personality from others of its species. We just take it all for granted. Very cool video.
I was afraid of spiders until i did Marine Combat Training at New River in North Carolina back in 2009. There was one day we had to dig foxholes so we could spend the night in them, and that night wolf spiders were EVERYWHERE. I probably had about 30-40 just in my hole. Its a humbling experience to face your fear and overcome it. I now have several tarantula species as pets
What i really like about your videos is the way you explain the animals and their behaviour. Twenty years ago i cared for a couple spiders, mantids, scorpions etc, and with explaining them to interested people i helped quite some persons to deal with their arachnophobia. I'd love to have such huge spiders in my wild backyard, but over here in Germany they don't grow that big.
Germany still gets some cool stuff! House spiders over there are awesome
@@MyWildBackyard true .. ! I live in an area in Germany which has the highest temperatures in summer since ever (so mediterrane the romans felt like home and brought wine farming here 2k years ago) and since it's getting warmer over here the last years i actually noticed changes in what lives in my backyard - last summer i spotted my first wild Mantis Religiosa.. 😳 still wondering how their mom made it through the winter, as f.e. right now it's freezing cold outside,below zero °C
Everyone has a distaste for spiders until you have a real pest problem. Fleas, mosquitoes, harmful spiders, etc.
When my house had a flea infestation and I saw a web with like 20 of them in it, I officially became a spider landlord.
Those chill boys and girls can come and go as they please. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
when i was in 11th grade I came back from lunch to my meteorology class, wearing my blue hoodie, and sat down. everyone was coming into the room and someone stopped and looked at my shoulder and their face lit up in shock and they told me "_____ - DO NOT MOVE!" and that got everyone elses attention, and as Im looking forward I see a dozen people looking at my shoulder with their faces contorted into grimaces. I felt something quickly move down my shoulder and without moving my head I looked over, and it was a gigantic female hogna carolinensis sitting on my arm. The meteorology teacher quickly grabbed a coffee mug and walked over to me and told me to remain still, the spider moved again towards my hand, quickly, I felt every leg as it moved, it felt heavy, a tickling sensation but strong. He managed to cover it with the mug and a piece of paper and he took it outside and released it. Someone said "If that happened to me I would have been freaking out" lol great memory
Thank you for this video. In my country we literally have 0 venomous spiders and yet they are killed and feared (like you said, most people actually don’t fear the venom). Whenever I find a spider or a new, small spiderweb in my apartment (usually in the corner of a stair, room or storage room which is not inconveniencing at all) I let it expand and eventually I’ll get to “know” the spider which started building it. Obviously spiders can’t be domesticated like a cat or a dog can, but most of them shouldn’t be feared or despised even though they are. I have one who lives in a web it built in my staircase (which is wide and has plenty room so the web is not intrusive at all) who I say goodbye to every morning I leave for work. I have another one who lives in a web it built underneath my bathtub and which I regularly see in my bathroom and bathtub when I go to the toilet or take a shower. I have a third who built their web in a storage room whom I rarely see. I like it cold so I always keep the windows open, even in winter (it usually gets between -10 to -20 celsius (15 to -5 fahrenheit) where I live) and so they are excellent at taking care of all the bugs who might intrude. I don’t own any pet and have never owned any exotic spider or kept them in any type of vivarium, but I’m always more than happy to let them build their webs and live alongside me. They are precious animals and I never understood the widespread fear for them (I obviously understand that it’s usually irrational and/or instinctual, especially since we don’t have venomous spiders here, but I’ve never been afraid of spiders and can’t emphasize with the fear others may feel for them).
I saved a wolf spider from or pool, and kept it as a pet. I fed it bees, ants and horse flies for the summer. But fall came 'round and it formed an egg sack. So, begrudgingly, I set her free in our barn. I miss watching her hunt the most. Hiding under the mulch and pownsing on her prey. Spo cool!
Cuz i saw 1 while fishing and was freaked but wanted 2 touch it. It was brown w 2 dark stripes on its belly butt thing.
Bout the size of my palm, my hands r fairly large.
As a currently recovering arachnophobe that uses these videos as exposure therapy,
this lil-but-not-so-lil dude is fucking adorable-
The reason why I don’t like spiders is kinda funny in hindsight. I was like 5 or 6 years old and I was brushing my teeth before school. I go to spit out the toothpaste and a “big” spider is sitting right there in the sink maybe 4 inches away from me. Still can’t do spiders irl, but have gotten better at watching videos of them.
hahaha “Skinny Human” 😅😂😂😂
Bro literally added that spider to his inventory.
Spiders are kind of cold to the touch I’ve noticed. However, every scorpion I’ve held was quite warm!