I was about to fix some dinner tonight, when I noticed this resting quietly in my frying pan.
They may have been offering themselves up as a sacrifice, but I am a magnanimous spider lord, and I set them free instead.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
You put her outside????
Hanging out in a frying pan seems on brand for a bold jumping spider.
Would be worse to find half a spider after your third bite of the fry–up, I reckon.
Outside would be death. No, I moved her out of the kitchen and into the dining room.
You left out the most important bit, though:
What species of spider was it?
Bold jumper, Phidippus audax.
We get those too, only they’re all brown recluses. My wife is in constant fear.
… was she hoping some food would stop by? I mean food does show up in pans and wolf spiders seem actively intelligent to me.
Bold jumpers are bold, and wolf spiders do actively hunt. But don’t they like to at least have a hiding place nearby where they think their next juice box is likely to wander near?
I think maybe they clambered up, and found the steep sides too slick to climb back out.