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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 day ago (24 children)

So I'm like 13 years old, climbing a tree at a friend's house. It's a bit of a shimmy up the trunk, I'm well in the air, hugging the tree. I look down at my feet to make sure I have footing before lifting a hand above my head to reach for a branch.

As my head is going from looking down to looking up, just as I am grabbing the branch and hanging from it, I realize that my nose is almost touching a big old wolf spider mama, fully laden with all her children.

DROP

I never climbed that tree again.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (23 children)

Are they venomous or otherwise dangerous to humans?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/wolf-spider-bite

Seems like it's not even as bad as a bee sting. Spiders are really not very dangerous at all, generally speaking. They're going to leave you alone unless you're fucking with them.

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