Yeah, sorry about the quality of these pictures. They are actually stills from video clips that I made, and I don't have a decent close-up lens. Anyway, these fishing spiders (Dolomedes tenebrosus) are all over my house. This is a particularly fat female (to be fair, she had just eaten), and one of the largest specimens I've caught.
I didn't have a coin handy, but here's the critter next to a pen. I tried picking her up, but I couldn't get a decent shot of her sitting in my hand. Maybe next time.
Here's another one. I took this picture over two years ago, when I had just started my blog on WordPress:
Yes, it's sitting on the back of my sofa.
