As long as you catch it with a glass instead of your hands, you should be fine. Luckily, the spider only bites when it feels threatened, for example when you try to catch it. The poison isn't really dangerous for humans – unless you're allergic – but it can still hurt when you get bitten in your hand. Special erectable spikes along their legs help with this process, hence why the false wolf spider mostly has these on its two front legs. This differs from the way some other species catch their prey they tend to use all of their legs to keep their prey in a tight grip. The false wolf spider doesn't build a web to catch insects and possibly other spiders, but catches its prey with its two front legs to paralyze them. Its poison is usually used for paralyzing prey. It's a venomous species, capable of biting humans and causing symptoms similar to a bee- or wasp sting. Zoropsis spinimana, as it's called by its scientific buddies, is actually not only scary for arachnophobes. Others didn't feel so safe, but why? It's just a spider right? Luckily I just changed them, so I had nothing to worry about… for now. I even came across a TikTok warning me to check my sheets. Naturally, everyone who found out about it started checking theirs too. In other provinces, it's been found crawling between bed sheets and laundry. It has been spotted in 11 of the 12 provinces: only Flevoland is still safe for the arachnophobes among us. The last few weeks, a ripple of horror ran through our little country: the false wolf spider is making its way into the Netherlands.
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