Spider in my garden

mdaudioguy
mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
edited August 2011 in The Clubhouse
We've been watching this "little" guy for a few days now...

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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited August 2011
    Little guy??? Thing looks like it's waiting for a cat,dog, or small children, possibly a VW too.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited August 2011
    Shoot it.
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  • BottomFeeder
    BottomFeeder Posts: 1,684
    edited August 2011
    Holy Toledo! What is that and, with apologies to those with differing sensibilities, why is it still alive???
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited August 2011
    I say you take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited August 2011
    BTW, St Andrew's Cross spider. Pretty common. Pretty harmless. Although, that one is quite large. Larger than normal. You should shoot it before it becomes a spidery overlord.

    What have you been feeding it?

    Info:
    St Andrews Cross Spiders ...low risk - non-aggressive

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    Venom toxicity - the bite of the St Andrews Cross is of low risk (non-toxic) to humans. They are a non-aggressive group of spiders. Spider Identification - adult 1/4" to 1/2" in body length - abdomen striped yellow and brown - as illustrated. The St Andrews Cross Spider usually sits, upside down, in the middle of its web forming a cross - as illustrated. Habitat - this spider is a web-weaver usually found in summer in garden areas around the home. It is considered beneficial as it spins a large web to snare flying insects, such as flies and mosquitoes.

    http://www.termite.com/spider-identification.html
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  • Emlyn
    Emlyn Posts: 4,477
    edited August 2011
    Actually a beneficial spider. Not poisonous, just fairly large for this area. Best to let it do its thing eating other bugs and spinning cool looking webs:

    http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/black_and_yellow_argiope.htm
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited August 2011
    Emlyn wrote: »
    Actually a beneficial spider. Not poisonous, just fairly large for this area. Best to let it do its thing eating other bugs and spinning cool looking webs:

    http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/black_and_yellow_argiope.htm

    You sure that's what it is? 'Cause in his pictures, it's sitting just like a St Andrew's Cross spider and has the sooper long legs. Not fat and stubby like that one.
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  • coolsax
    coolsax Posts: 1,824
    edited August 2011
    had one of these last summer in our front hedges.. great looking web and interesting looking spider. looked neat enough that I didn't knock it down.
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  • Emlyn
    Emlyn Posts: 4,477
    edited August 2011
    Jstas wrote: »
    You sure that's what it is? 'Cause in his pictures, it's sitting just like a St Andrew's Cross spider and has the sooper long legs. Not fat and stubby like that one.

    Yes, the St. Andrews name is usually used in Australia. Same family, but slightly different in North America. I think they are usually just called black and yellow spiders here, or garden spiders. I leave them alone. Just another part of the yard.
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited August 2011
    I'm going with Black and Yellow Argiope... Either way, it's an Argiope:
    From wikipedia:
    Common Names

    In North America, Argiope aurantia is commonly known as the black and yellow garden spider, corn spider, and writing spider, because of the similarity of the web stabilimenta to writing.

    In England, Argiope bruennichi, where it is found only on the southern coast, and in other parts of Europe, including Germany, is also known as the wasp spider. The East Asian species Argiope amoena is known in Japan as kogane-gumo. In Australia, Argiope keyserlingi and A. aetherea are known as St. Andrew's Cross spiders, for their habit of resting in the web with legs outstretched in the shape of an X, the cross of St. Andrew. The large white zigzag in the centre of its web is called the stabilimentum or web decoration.

    In the Philippines, it is known as gagambang ekis, which translates to X spider.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited August 2011
    911 hello there's something in my back yard, and I heard shoots.

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  • wattmeworry
    wattmeworry Posts: 224
    edited August 2011
    That is a banana spider,very common in the midwest and south.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited August 2011
    Emlyn wrote: »
    Yes, the St. Andrews name is usually used in Australia. Same family, but slightly different in North America. I think they are usually just called black and yellow spiders here, or garden spiders. I leave them alone. Just another part of the yard.

    Biologist who ran the natural merit badge programs at a scout camp I was on staff at always called them St Andrews Cross spiders.

    Either way, that one is large and he should shoot it before it gets all spidery overload and takes over the world in the aftermath of hurricane Irene.
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited August 2011
    Jstas wrote: »
    BTW, St Andrew's Cross spider. Pretty common. Pretty harmless. Although, that one is quite large. Larger than normal. You should shoot it before it becomes a spidery overlord.

    What have you been feeding it?
    Well, we are down three kids... they're at college... I think...:eek::tongue:

    I'm going to try identifying what it is that SHE has wrapped up in that last pic.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited August 2011
    wattmeworry wrote: »
    That is a banana spider,very common in the midwest and south.

    That is decidedly NOT a Banana Spider.

    This is a Banana Spider:

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    And Maryland is decidedly NOT "the South". It's 20 miles west of NJ. Way to get in the way Delaware!
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  • TouchOfEvil
    TouchOfEvil Posts: 967
    edited August 2011
    Your a banana spider!!!!!!:biggrin:
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  • wattmeworry
    wattmeworry Posts: 224
    edited August 2011
    Dont know how to post pics.But pull up pics of banana spiders and you will see your picture and a picture the spider in question.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited August 2011
    wattmeworry wrote: »
    Dont know how to post pics.But pull up pics of banana spiders and you will see your picture and a picture the spider in question.

    I DID pull up a picture of a banana spider and the spider I posted in response to your asinine assessment is exactly what I found. You're wrong. Three other people besides me have found similar info to what I found and posted it. You're just trolling now.
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited August 2011
    She's pretty busy right now, but we just tossed a little, green leaf-like bug into her web, and she stopped eating the one she was working on to wrap up this latest victim. My daughter videoed it - pretty awesome! Arachnology lessons from the front porch!
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited August 2011
    That thing looks just slightly smaller than the tarantula I saw on my porch Wed night.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited August 2011
    I used to see them out in the tall grass back in Iowa.
    Nothing worse as a kid than walking around and hitting one of those webs,
    because you knew that one of those was somewhere on you.
    Yuk!
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited August 2011
    I have a huge spider making a web by my front door right now. He's in for a big surprise tonight.

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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited August 2011
    looks like a spider to me.:wink:
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited August 2011
    Face wrote: »
    I have a huge spider making a web by my front door right now. He's in for a big surprise tonight.


    Oh my!

    It's great spidery reckoning!

    It's happening!

    They are conspiring to ensnare us all!!!!!

    Run! Run for your lives!

    *RUNS AWAY*

    Oh ick! A spider web! Ew ew ew! It's all over me! GREAT! Now I'm going to have the creeps all day! :mad:
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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    edited August 2011
    Leave it to CP members to argue about a spider then start calling one another names !!!!!
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited August 2011
    wattmeworry wrote: »
    Dont know how to post pics.But pull up pics of banana spiders and you will see your picture and a picture the spider in question.

    mdaudioguy's spider is an Argiope spider, NOT a banana spider. 'Nuf said.
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  • scottyboy76
    scottyboy76 Posts: 2,905
    edited August 2011
    Much like combat vets who talk about getting shot at but missed.

    I was walking to my bowhunting spot before dawn, forgot about seeing one of these guys web across the road the day before.

    Well lets just say a face full of frantic mega spider in pitch black dark did my underpants any good.

    But as a dgreed horticulturist, and an avid gardener of 30 years, leave spiders alone, unless they are living in dark secretive places, such as brown recluse or black widow.

    They eat the bad guys, and the morning dew on the webs is beautiful.
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  • cheezeitz51
    cheezeitz51 Posts: 14
    edited August 2011
    :eek::eek:
    That thing is giant
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited August 2011
    inspiredsports wrote: »
    mdaudioguy's spider is an Argiope spider, NOT a banana spider. 'Nuf said.

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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited August 2011
    That is the Argiope spider. We have a ton of them around here in Georgia. We've always called them writing spiders. Theyre freaking huge!

    Im skeered to death of spiders anyway and these monsters are part of the reason why. When I was a kid running around my back yard and ran right thru one of these things webs and this sumbitch was crawling on my face! Yes I squealed like a little girl and I aint ashamed to admit it! In fact, Id probably squeal like a little girl right now if one of those things landed on me even tho Im 30 years older! Yeesh!

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