North Carolina is home to more than 1,200 species of animals, including mammals, birds, fish, reptiles — and big, hairy spiders that can invade your home. Carolina wolf spiders are the largest ...

It is one of the largest of the wolf spider, Lycosidae ... "It's about as handsome as a spider gets, it's big and now it's officially a member of the British fauna again." Mike Waite/Surrey ...