Great photo!!! :D

Wow, talk about hiding in plain sight! Truly impressive specimen here. Not only does her posture and coloration help disguise her, but the hairs on her legs and body help break up her outline as well.

I wish I'd had a camera handy for the spider my cat hunted for the last two days.It was adorable. Tried to hide under the covers with me to escape being eaten by the cat. XD

Aww, poor spidey :(

I know, right?! It kept crawling onto my back. I tried so hard to ignore it, but it tickled too much. XD

What did you do with it?

Just chased it out of the bed. My cat didn't find it until the following day, and she let it go, she didn't even hurt it. ^^ I usually just let spiders live in my room.

Hehe. I shuffle them outside if they're the kind better adapted for outdoors.

I do that as well. It depends on where they are in the house too. In my room they keep mosquitos away as well as other potentially harmful insects.

Mind if I ask what species of spider you & your cat encountered? I'm assuming it was a species that didn't pose a significant threat venom-wise given you didn't have any problems with it being so close to you.

it was a wolf spider. I'm not afraid of spiders, in general, actually I LOVE them. ^^ There aren't too many harmful species where I live, so I don't worry about them as much. :3

Ah, I see. Wolf spiders tend to be the largest species that I've seen where I am (central Oklahoma, that is) next to argiopes, but I rarely see the latter species here. The only hazardous species I've encountered here has been the brown recluse, though supposedly black widows do live in this area.

Oh jesus, I found one of these in a national park a couple years ago dead and kind of plastered to a rock by a stream. When I later found out it was a native dolomedes and not someone's escaped pet tarantula I almost shit (at this point, had never seen a wild spider bigger than a 1" wolf) :C

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-.....67986_7923.jpg
from leg to leg I swear, 4" :X

Yeah, sometimes Dolomedes gets BIG. :)

that thing looks fucking gnarly o.o

poisenious to humans? you should really put that kinda info in your pic descriptions =p

The bite of this spider is not dangerous to humans.

As is the case with the vast majority of all spiders.

I love this genus ;_; These spiders are so... polite. And fluffy.
Once I was gardening with my mom and when we rolled out a sheet of gardening cloth, we saw this HUGE (well, as big as they get where I live lol) black spider on there. She just laid there limb. she was so big that her sprawled out shape reminded me of a sleeping dog, and when mom carefully lifted her up with the tip of a hardening tool, the spider's feet just dangled about lifelessly.
It wasn't stiff like the usual dead or suffering spider.
We continued with our work, with the spider beside us and suddenly she startet to regain conciousness (maybe it was the sun?) first she rolled on her belly, lifted her legs close to her, and slowly skitted off. Happy ending yay.

Oh, and they are all so fluffy, they feel like velvet. I know I shouldn't bother them but I just must pet them once a summer :I

I had found a Nursery web spider (same family) during the day and it was like it was asleep. Had it in a jar and when night came around...different story.

"Blend in... Think camouflage..."