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You can see the spider is carrying an egg sac in this side view.
She's gonna be super aggressive for a bit. I'd exercise extreme caution. The Midwestern version of that wolf spider will absolutely chase a human across a 1 acre field for getting too close to her eggs/ babies.
Wolf spiders were the ones that gave me arachnophobia....
Uff ... quite a bit to unpack here.
spiders are never aggressive towards humans. We aren't prey and they aren't stupid enough to attack something which is (to them) the size of a skyscraper. Some may do some threatening poses or might actually run away in the wrong direction (which might seem like they are chasing you, but they aren't).
There is no Midwestern version of this spider. This species can be found from coast to coast.
As I already said, they won't chase humans. It also would make no sense for a wolf spider with an egg sac to chase somebody for getting to close to the egg sacs as they are carrying their eggs sac with them!