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anyone know what kind of spider this is? sorry for so much blurryness, it clears up a couple times...found her outside my front door when i went to get something from the car...she was spinning a web about 2' or so across, and a couple bugs flew into it and she started jumping around (kinda like on that spiders on drugs video. lol)...it was insane. about the size of a $.50 cent piece with her legs out. didn't mind her since thats where all the bugs like to be, and there were 0 out there when i walked to my car. i tried my hardest not to touch her web but i must have knicked one of the lone strands going across where the door is to the support post.

 

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Common orb weaver of which there are many, many species and variations. Though, it is related to the Garden spider that I believe a few of you are thinking of, it is not considered one. Like all spiders, it is poisonous but not a threat. Some species to get quite a bit larger and are capable of building webs that cross a small road. Ask me how I know. I thought the fucker was trying to catch a bicyclist or something.

 

Usually, they build their webs in the late evening and pull it down in the morning. They are generally nocturnal and unagressive towards humans. These guys eat shitloads of mosquitoes and moths, etc.

 

Some of them will even eat their webs while taking them down to resupply nutrients. One of the reasons they close shop in the mornings and hide is that they are a favored food supply of many species of wasps. Wasps actively hunt for these guys, as well as other spiders, fighting them, stinging them, and paralyzing them. Afteward, they return to their nest or hole, lay a single egg upon the paralyzed spider and cover it up. Fresh food when the larvae's born. nom nom

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How nasty are these guys? He was inside an exhibit at the zoo. Was really cool how the light was coming through the misting machines they had keeping the exhibit cooled off. This sucker had anchor lines like 3ft long.

 

http://www.pbase.com/timothylauro/image/137628874/original.jpg

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This... we have tons of them on our property.

 

How nasty are these guys? He was inside an exhibit at the zoo. Was really cool how the light was coming through the misting machines they had keeping the exhibit cooled off. This sucker had anchor lines like 3ft long.

 

http://www.pbase.com/timothylauro/image/137628874/original.jpg

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How nasty are these guys? He was inside an exhibit at the zoo. Was really cool how the light was coming through the misting machines they had keeping the exhibit cooled off. This sucker had anchor lines like 3ft long.

 

http://www.pbase.com/timothylauro/image/137628874/original.jpg

 

This one is easy. It's the Black & Yellow Garden spider. Harmless to humans, but still venomous like all spiders.

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Seriously sat outside for an hour with a couple friends watching her spin her web tonight...caught her right as she started...cool as fuck to watch...pics below

 

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/evan938/IMG_0447.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/evan938/IMG_0478.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/evan938/IMG_0479.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/evan938/IMG_0481.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/evan938/IMG_0487.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/evan938/IMG_0488.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/evan938/IMG_0495.jpg

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Dude, we have tons of those. Just the other day one dropped onto my car when I put the garage door up and came at me. They are agressive but I think they are harmless. We have chickens and guineas and peacocks and they LOVE to eat these spiders. The go crazy when they find one and the whole flock plays smear the queer. It's nuts.

 

We also have a LOT of milk snakes on the property. Saw someone post one for sale on here...had to laugh. If anyone wants a milk snake, let me know...I'll just go outside and grab one for ya. We even get them in the house. They come in and get too big to squeeze back out the stones in the foundation.

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