a few weeks ago, the boys and i came home (at night)...and bryson "found" this spider in our driveway. he called me over and i totally freaked...thinking it just had to be a baby tarantula! i found a plastic cup and covered it, since josh wasn't home at the time- and i wanted him to see it. there's some website he loves to visit, where you can download
a picture of an insect (taken by you) and it'll tell you what it is. josh got home and looked at it...but he didn't say much.
the next morning, as josh was leaving for work....he said....
"do you wanna see your spider?"
being the weirdo that i am (freaked by it, but still wanting to look at it)....i said yes.
he uncovered it and it appeared to be dead, but several babies crawled out immediately.
josh got really close and took a few pictures.
that's when we noticed [what we thought were] eggs.
josh went to move the spider and all at once, it darted off while tons of babies crawled off and flew away. josh just started stomping on them (sorry to any spider lovers)....
and i think i may have been shrieking!
after that, josh brought my camera to me and zoomed in on the photos.
what we thought were eggs....were actually babies all over the back of the large spider.
eeww.....yuck!!!
here she is (in all her glory), before her...uh, death.
you can just call her charlotte.
p.s. it turns out- charlotte is just a grass spider!
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