“People are seeing male spiders roaming around, looking for love in all the wrong places.” Male giant house spiders — formally known as European house spiders — are “very leggy” and “quite fast,” Bennett added, with a leg span up to 10 centimetres or averaging the width of a palm. “It’s a hardwired instinct to fear things that are potentially poisonous,” West explained. But many British Columbians commonly mistake the giant house spider for a wolf spider, he noted. Unlike house spiders who tend to come out at night, wolf spiders are out in the daytime often along open garden areas. spiders,” Bennett said.

Source: thestar September 10, 2018 00:11 UTC