Ah, that guy is nothing but a wolf spider.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_spider> Our most common spider (and
the state spider) in South Carolina is called the Carolina Wolf Spider
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogna_carolinensis> Looks about the same
as yours. We tolerate them in the house until they get really large.
The reason they're the most common spider is that they eat other
spiders... a good thing.
If approached they just run away. They're very unlikely to bite and if
they do their venom is very mild and usually just causes itching instead
of pain.
Chuck Norcutt
On 8/26/2016 7:49 PM, Peter Klein wrote:
Trigger warning: Not for arachnophobes.
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/28629761984/in/dateposted-public/>
For the last four consecutive evenings, I have been summoned to do
battle with one of these big guys. Leg span 3.25 inches (8.25 cm). Now,
you may think that he is a common Giant House Spider. But I have it on
good authority that he and his comrades in terror were radioactively
mutated to giant size in a top secret North Korean nuclear facility, and
their venom laced with the horrific mind-control element
Kimjongunium-117. They were then smuggled into the south and sent to the
U.S. in a Hyundai shipping container. All this being a nefarious plot to
turn us into mindless zombie commie followers of the chubby-cheeked
dictator.
After doing my photographer's duty, I was required to do my husbandly
duty: I whacked him. In "The Sopranos" sense.
--Peter
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