Spider in my garden

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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited August 2011
    And after getting the web all over you, getting the spider off is pretty hard!
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,273
    edited August 2011
    We call them "writing spiders" in the south they build bad **** webs and write on them.....they are everywhere
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  • grimmace19
    grimmace19 Posts: 1,429
    edited August 2011
    Time to take the air duster, flip it upside down and freeze that monster before it takes over the city.
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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited August 2011
    Golden Orb

    Throw a grasshopper in the web and watch it spin a net around it and bite it. Cool. Then it will go back and suck the juice out of it.
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  • BIZILL
    BIZILL Posts: 5,432
    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.

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  • pdxfj
    pdxfj Posts: 376
    edited August 2011
    I remember once when I was a kid chasing grasshoppers into a field and then suddenly finding myself surrounded by those spiders. No idea how I made it in there without going though any webs, but getting back out wasn't so easy.

    Spiders were happy since the group of grasshoppers I was chasing were not as lucky as I was.

    Seeing that yellow and black spider and remembering being surrounded still creeps me out..gahhh!
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited August 2011
    That is cool, would like to see the home made video if you decide to Youtube it OP.
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,492
    edited August 2011
    Kewl spider! We've had them in the garden here in IL. This is an old pic I took, like 20 years ago.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited August 2011
    if I saw a spider like that anywhere near me or my house.. i would have to get some napalm and obliterate that thing.. ewww!
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  • markmarc
    markmarc Posts: 2,309
    edited August 2011
    Had one of those show up about 10 years ago here in Portland. Figured it hitched a ride from a grower in the SE USA.
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited August 2011
    We had a bunch of those spiders in our garden back home in Corpus Christi...and they were all about those size.

    We would put them in jars and put them on another spider web. Sometimes theyd run away from each other, sometimes they'd fight to the death...pretty freakin cool.

    I dont mind spiders...snakes on the other hand...
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited August 2011
    She's handling the storm well... Just checked her and she's still out there clinging to her wet web in the dark!
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  • falconcry72
    falconcry72 Posts: 3,580
    edited August 2011
    mdaudioguy wrote: »
    She's handling the storm well... Just checked her and she's still out there clinging to her wet web in the dark!

    I bet she'll be fine. Worst comes to worst, she'll abandon her web, crawl in a safe crevice somewhere (your house, perhaps:eek:) and make a new web tomorrow.
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,715
    edited August 2011
    decal wrote: »
    Leave it to CP members to argue about a spider then start calling one another names !!!!!

    Your MOM'S a spider !!!!!! :eek:








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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited August 2011
    exalted512 wrote: »
    We had a bunch of those spiders in our garden back home in Corpus Christi...and they were all about those size.

    We would put them in jars and put them on another spider web. Sometimes theyd run away from each other, sometimes they'd fight to the death...pretty freakin cool.

    I dont mind spiders...snakes on the other hand...
    -Cody

    Spider fighting ??

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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited August 2011
    I almost forgot...
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited August 2011
    ^^^ Reminded me of this:
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited August 2011
    Anyhow, not sure fire would work... She survived Irene!
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited August 2011
    Screw it time to MOVE, Spider WON!

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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited August 2011
    Living down here for 6 years, I've never seen one of those.
    PLENTY of Black Widows though. They seem to like packaged HVAC units for some reason. Usually the compressor or heater section.
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  • stuwee
    stuwee Posts: 1,508
    edited August 2011
    Yech! I hate spiders too! Lot's of Black Widows in Tucson, they're everywhere, I had a couple big females set up a home just inside my front door under a telephone stand :eek:, they leave a chemical marker for future females that this is a good spot, if you check every few months after killing one, chances are you'll find another on in the same place. I had a cool 'monkey face'?? spider in Silver City NM a while back, she was so cool looking I couldn't kill her, I fed her flies that I stuned, she got really big, and would actually move around the web when I came outside expecting more flies :tongue:
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  • Rodeo0530
    Rodeo0530 Posts: 797
    edited August 2011
    We always called those garden spiders because...they were always in our garden! They would always make webs on our tomatoes or in between gladiola stalks. That was in northern Ohio. We used to have tons of them when I was growing up. I don't see as many of them where I live now, but if I go hiking near some wetlands in the area, you will see one every 5 feet or so. They are very beneficial, but they scare the crap out of ya if you don't see them until you're about in their web!!!


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  • Vette C6.r
    Vette C6.r Posts: 1,560
    edited August 2011
    Holly crap Ed.

    Must have known you had a hello Spyder yourself....lol
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  • mudwrx
    mudwrx Posts: 367
    edited August 2011
    My uncle had a very similar, if not exact, spider in his garden a few years back ( in MA no less). It was huge and had the same colors. We were recording it on the camcorder and a bee flew in to his web as we were recording. It took the spider about 6 seconds to run over and completely wrap up that bee. Amazingly fast.
    We of course left the spider alone. They are beneficial, as they prey on other bugs. Plus it was gorgeous.
    I do not kill spiders, even in my house. If it really is a bother I "catch and release".
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  • mudwrx
    mudwrx Posts: 367
    edited August 2011
    BTW - We went to Costa Rica a couple of years ago and saw plenty of these guys:

    You can't appreciate the size from this picture. I saw a couple that were the size of a small dinner plate. Their webs are incredibly strong, we were told NASA is testing the webs for possible uses.

    These spiders will set up their webs just outside hummingbird nests. We took a canal ride and saw one waiting for a bird to fly in. The guide actually got out and pulled the web, the entire tree branch bent and the web did not break.

    They are called Green Orb spiders.
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited August 2011
    Holy crap i have the itches now. I don't hate spiders but something that big has got to go or I will.
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  • leadfoot1
    leadfoot1 Posts: 155
    edited August 2011
    I feel like something is crawling on me!
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited August 2011
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    Your MOM'S a spider !!!!!! :eek:

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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited August 2011
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    Your MOM'S a spider !!!!!!


    "Your mama's got eight ugly legs but she can dance up a storm."

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