This post jogged my memory of a strange spider I saw that made territory at my window, and eventually found it’s way into my room somehow. I tried finding an encyclopedia for spiders to be found in North Carolina, and all spiders, but to no avail.
But anyways, the details of spider.
-Found in North Carolina (If you haven’t figured that out already), in the Triangle. The triangle is just Raleigh, Cary, and Durham, 3 cities.
-Length with enlongated legs… I would have to estimate at about my first segment of my thumb, the one without the nail. A fairly beefy spider, but no tarantula monster.
-It was black mostly, it has some yellow/white/I forgot what colour it was designs on the back.
-Big butt!!!
-Didn’t appear to make a web at my window.
-May be territorial (I found it outside my window alot. This is the time period of 1 month.)
-Did not make a web. That’s the reason I said it might be territorial, because after all, aren’t all spiders that make web-homes territorial?
And here is where I stutter and scream “IS THAT EVEN A SPIDER?” But since I had some time to study this spider when I saw it out my window. Most of the stuff before was only to identify it even closely, but it wasn’t that important.
The front two legs… were claws. Like a scorpion, but small. Clearly, it’d have to be something for me to call it a claw. Most spiders have small front two legs. But whatever, not the point either. It walked with them, although it was kind of a funky walk. It was like… Scurry scurry stomp(claw) scurry scurry stomp(other claw). Also, time to time, it would wave its claws around. It was doing this the first time I saw it, making me think “SCORPION!? AGAIN? I’M NOT INSANE!” (Earlier in my childhood I saw a scorpion crawling along my house’s sidewalk and another in some sort of vent thingy, and everyone would not believe me). But this can’t be a scorpion, because after all, the scorpion’s claws are the little two gobble gobble things at the spider’s mouth, just modified as how Darwin can explain.
And it had no tail.
It was pretty smart too, either that or it used chemical signals and tracks, but somehow, every time it left my window, it found it’s way back.
So tell me, what spider is this? And also, for the heck of it, please tell me and show proof that I’m not insane for seeing two scorpions in North Carolina.