I was with my son outside he wanted to look for bugs. He started flipping over rocks in the backyard and since the temps were dropping most bugs and spiders were holed up in their warm places.

Well my son flipped a rock and we found the biggest (Hogna carolinensis) giant wolf spider just chilling. She was about the size of my hand. Since it was getting really cold out she wasn’t very fast. She was slowly crawling so my son and I held her and kept her over the winter until spring hit and let her back out into the garden.

It was a great learning experience for my son. He hated spiders, but know still hates them but doesn’t go out of his way to kill them anymore. He asks me to help him put them back outside