It's called a Green Lynx Spider. It likes to live in the plants and live off of insects and will bite a human when threatened. When bitten, the human will feel pain, burning and itching accompanied by swelling of the bite area in a diameter of 7 to 10 inches.
I, of course, only learned all this after I felt compelled to swat the thing on the floor and capture it under a glass vase. What if it had been a brand new spider species never discovered before?! ($$$)
I needed to capture it alive. Though now that I know it's common, I don't know what to do with it. I could kill it but I don't want to hear the crunch, and I could let it go but I don't want it to go make spider spawn that will infest the front garden.
Maybe I'll go put it in Amber's front yard. Muahahaha.

4 comments:
wow... that is pretty ugly, much uglier than my spider. I wish I had gotten the good camera to get better pics of my spider, but that would have involved me going up the narrow stairs and passing it. I am sure it would have jumped on me...
So how big was this thing?
Ummm... NO WAY! I think not.... if I find one of those near my house, I will assume it came by way of you and I will find some terrible way of retaliating.... perhaps by buying you a box of cookie dough?.... perhaps by buying you a rattlesnake?... I don't know how yet, but I WILL retaliate!
jerkface.
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWhold me...:sniff:
That is one cool spider! How big was it?
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