Giant Jumping Spider In Central Florida What is it?

Question

i was mowing my neighbors lawn one day and a giant spider jumped up and posted itself on the screen covering the pool area it was huge looked sort of grayish with two brown front legs after freaking out i killed it with a stick and continued working afterwards another one jumped on the engine of my mower and killed that one what in the world are these giant spiders that can jump?

Answer 1

they are called wolf spiders they are not harmful to you. they kill other instests that are bigger pests to use. like the blood suckers. but that would be what it sounds like. ive got a few of them my daughter was just bitten by one but it didnt hurt her to much.

Answer 2

it might be a black widow spider  so becareful has some spiders are poisionous and deadly next time catch it and take it to a spider expert.

Answer 3

Learn to ID them, here -

http://www.spideridentification.org/

http://www.usq.edu.au/spider/index.htm

http://www.arachnology.be/pages/Identifi...