This is a Grass Spider! YUCK! They are not small. The boys spotted it this morning while grabbing their back packs for school. At first I thought it was a Brown Recluse...which mind you is poisonous!!! But here is a Brown Recluse:
Not small either and even worse...POISONOUS!!!! Phew, glad what I found was "just" a Grass Spider
Another bug that is abundant down here are the Rolly Polly's. The kids love them, not sure why, but they are fun to play with I guess because they roll into a little ball when played with. I was at the boys school yesterday and all the little girls were digging in the dirt and wood chips to find them and had a whole mess of them! See below:
Me, again I think they are quite disgusting. They are harmless and usually you just see them crossing a sidewalk or driveway but when digging out weeds and I come across them they give me a jump! I know, I am a wimp!
Last but not least is our other poisonous spider that everyone keeps telling us about...the Black Widow. I have not personally seen one but the boys have at friends houses! I don't WANT to see one either! YIKES! But reality is I am sure I will.
These are just a few of the creepy crawlies we have to deal with down here. A positive for Minnesota is we don't have all these critters! Just MOSQUITOES and I have to say I am quite happy I have not encountered the mosquitoes yet, which is amazing!
It is a whole new world when it comes to creepy critters down here! I will need to "man up" and get over it. I will also make sure to keep up on the exterminators coming out! Something us Minnesotans are not used to!
You know, the Oklahoma Brown Tarantula makes a great pet! :oD
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