Comments & ID Thoughts
I saw this giant spider outside my home .i have kids living in my home . I need to know what spider it is .when i would gwt close it would stand in kind a defemsive mode. It looked like a taruntala but im not sure it wqs very big ? Can i explain get help and if i shpuld worry for these kind of spiders
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- Submitted: Jun 14, 2018
- Photographed: Jun 13, 2018
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Eagle pass tz, Texas, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Looks like a tarantula, both in the image and in the defensive position you described. I’m not sure how big of pests they can be, but I imagine they do more good than harm. Just don’t like grab and squeeze it or anything and you should be fine.