What kind of spider is large, brown and carries hundreds of babies on itself?

Question

I stepped on one in my garage and it really freaked me out.

Answer 1

its the wolf spider, They carry their eggs in a silken sac attached to the base of their abdomen then when the eggs hatch the baby spiders crawl up the mothers legs to her abdomen and stay their.

Gross!!!

Answer 2

I believe that would be a brown recluse... (i live in florida, and they are pretty common here)... do a search to see if it looks like the one you stepped on....

Answer 3

I think it's a wolf spider. I find them fascinating.

Answer 4

Learn more about spiders, here -

http://www.spideridentification.org/

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

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