Gigantor 2: The Spawn of Gigantor
Aug 28. , 2007 
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This morning I awoke, at around 6am with Keli telling me that something needed to be killed in the bathroom. What a way to start your day, being a murderer. But when Keli told me it was “a baby Gigantor”, I was intrigued.
In the bathroom we have a freestanding chest of drawers where we keep our extra toothpaste and so forth. That was pulled away from the wall, much to my pleasure by Keli, NOT by the spider.
Keli handed me my pint glass to trap the thing. I named this one “Spawn of Gigantor”. And much like Gigantor, it liked to jump. The Spawn was “standing” on the wall and when I moved to put the pint glass over it, it lept off the wall – but this one was faster and caught more air! The only thing that stopped the spiders leap short was the end of the pint glass it hit with a half “tink”, half “thud” sound.
Check out the pictures I took before I flushed it. The first one is of the top of the spider, as it was perched on the far inside of the glass. The second one is of its underside, right up against the glass.
I flushed this one twice, because the first time, it kept jumping back up inside the glass once it touched the cold toilet water. Keep in mind this was the “baby” of the two. Gigantor was easily 2.5 times the size of the one in the pictures.
Anybody know what kind of spider this is, anyways?
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It’s almost certainly a member of Tegenaria.
At first I was thinking wolf spider, but I just saw this picture (http://bugguide.net/node/view/141957) of a funnel web spider that reminded me of it. It’s related to the giant house spider, which is mostly found in Europe, but is on the Pacific coast as well. Check out the picture here http://naturenet.net/blogs/index.php/2007/09/16/where_do_spiders_go_in_autumn