When I was about to let Lacy out, I saw this HUGE spider by the back door trying to come in and it scared me half to death! I immediately closed the door and then fretted that if I left it trapped there, it might still find a way to squeeze in further so I opened the door again and quickly shooed it out with a broom. I made sure to follow it farther back into the yard where I took the picture on the right. After jumping on the web to find out what it was, I was surprised to find out that it was called a Trap Door Spider (especially since I trapped it in between the door and the wall for a brief moment when I first saw it) .  I later discovered that these guys were actually pretty neat because they supposedly lived under shallow “trap doors” which they made out of crumbly dry dirt and when they heard vibrations of would-be prey above, they winged open their well camouflaged “trap doors” and pounced on whatever was there. Even though it scared me pretty good at first, it was unusual (for me) so I decided it deserved a post. Thanks for reading!