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Legends to the contrary, these arachnids are not poisonous. They have no venom glands. Most of what they eat is already dead. They used to have four eyes, but that was 300 million years ago. Now they have only two.

I have no way of knowing the proper name of this little inch-long arachnid, but I was much taken with how closely it resembles the yellowjacket hornet, and I suspect that its coloration has something to do with that miserable stringing insect.

This guy was more than three inches from leg tip to leg tip.