Agelenopsis
(Grass Spiders)

Comments & ID Thoughts

It made its nest in these banana tree looking plants, I don’t know what kind they were. You can kind of see it in the picture. It’s nest wasn’t an actual spider web, it was more of a cocoon. And this spider was HUGE. A good comparison would be that it’s legs could fully wrap around a golf ball, and it was LIGHTNING FAST. I mean in less than a blink of an eye it would be from your palm of your hand to your jugular in your neck. I have no idea what kind of spider is. It doesn’t look like your typical water spider. The thing is that it is HUGE. Bigger than a writing spider. In fact, I think it was ambushing and eating them because it had set up shop next to about 3 or 4 of the writing spiders and I saw on of them deep in its little nest.

• Submitted by: 
  
  xblu3d0gx
• Submitted: Feb 5, 2018
• Photographed: Aug 18, 2017
• Spider: Agelenopsis (Grass Spiders)
• Sex: 
  
  Male,
• Maturity: 
  Adult
• Location: Chesapeake , Virginia, United States
• Spotted Outdoors: Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers)
• Found in web?: Yes
• Attributes: