False wolf spider

How interesting Roy - I've often noticed small spiders hanging out behind my wing mirrors too. I guess they are safe from predators & maybe other insects get attracted to the light reflected off of the mirror. I love how opportunistic they are!

I live in Nashville, TN, Eastwood area. One of these spiders has taken up residence in the drivers side outside mirror on my Prius. I have been watching her for a week now.

I travel approx. 100 to 200 miles a day with the car, in middle TN and southern KY.

I first noticed her a week ago.
1. When the sun is not shining brightly, night and during heavy overcast and light rain, I get in and shut the door. She comes out of hiding and moves about 6" from the mirror on her web and sits there a moment. I start driving. When I approach 30 mph, she goes into a ball and weathers the wind. When moving slowly or stopped, she travels down the web to the center of the door then back up to the mirror, checking every place a bug has been caught, pausing to suck them dry. When she is done, she returns the mirror, and slips around to the inside of the mirror where she cannot be seen, and then it seems the web disappears in the wind, shortly afterward.

2. When the sun is shining, she stays hidden. You would not know she exists. The web is gone too.

Hehe, I do work honest! :)
I go for out for a full day of spotting most weeks with a friend of mine - we usually head to one of the state parks in TN or AL or sometimes just drive about & see where we end up! Other than that, most of my spottings (& ticks) are from the the 30 minute excursions I make most days to the meadow beyond our land - it never ceases to amaze me just much diversity of life there can be in just a few acres!

Judging by your photo catalog, it DOES seem like you spend most of your daylight hours outdoors. Perhaps you can keep them in a folder, scrapbook style? ;-)

Goody, I get sooo many there wouldn't be space to see my own reflection! Seriously though I do keep a regular check for the "bulleye" rash. I did get tested last year & I do carry the antigens for Lymes but a a very low level. I guess it wouldn't hurt to get tested again.

A good friend started a summer trend that I need to follow. Whenever he physically removes a tick from his body, he tapes it to his bathroom mirror and writes the date/body location on the tape. He fell ill once and actually took a tick in for testing. I figure it can't hurt to hang on to them for the summer, just in case.

http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/621...
Here is the link of the tick that bit shebebusy.
Worth a look

And the ones round here usually find far more creative & less easily checked places to embed themselves than my arm!

Unfortunately we don't have fence lizards. We do have a lot of deer, & mice which are also hosts for deer ticks. I'm constantly finding them crawling on me & usually end up finding at least two a day that have latched on. I've kind of got used to it & just keep a look out for any symptoms of Lymes :(

http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/105...
Karen here is the link.
Be careful with the ticks though. Shebe has put up a spotting with the tick embedded in her arm.
If you have lots of fence lizards,then chances are that your ticks are lyme disease free.

Emma, I've just read your really kind comment below! Thank you so much!

Goody, it's funny isn't it - I can often "spot" a lot of the PN regulars' spottings too!

Emma, I pull off half a dozen ticks every day!
Can you send me the link to your spider & I will see if I can find it.

Just don't get bit by a tick like Shebebusy did.

Karen ,any feedback on what my spider is?

mg, we get lots of different species in the meadow beyond our property, & I usually try & spend a few hours every week hiking in one of the state parks looking for interesting critters to photograph! I always manage to find spiders in undisturbed areas & I guess I've kind of tuned myself in to them as I somehow manage to spot a lot of the really tiny guys. I do regularly walk into low branches & trip over rocks though so I guess I spend too much time checking around me & not enough looking where I'm going!

You have a style that's all your own. I knew this was your image before seeing your name on it. :-)

Karen,that clarifies it!!
Thanks so much for the feed back and also a special thanks for all you do for this community.

Emma, (I'm quoting my guide here) "Different from the true wolf spiders, the adults neither carry their egg sacs by attaching them to the spinnerets, nor do they provide maternal care of young."

http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/105...
something like this.

do these carry their egg sacs?I tons of this similar kind on the ground cover.