Check is this baby. It's body is about a 1/2 inch across. It's been building this 20 foot by 20 foot web outside our kitchen window for about a week. I hate spiders :eek:

I don't know but I have this two-inch monster living in the eve of my front door!

Vince

I've been doing a little research since my post and I believe it is a garden spider, nothing exotic, but still creepy.

It made for a nice avatar, what do you think?

That thing in your eves is worse.

it almost looks like it has a rotor symbol (triangle) on its abdomen.

Goody:

I don't know the Latin name; we just call 'em "brown spiders" here in SC -- creative, eh? They're apparently pretty smart critters, like most predators. I think of them as the wolves of the insect world, and offer them their due respect. One (I call him Pete) recently threw up a quick web spanning from our balcony handrail to the header, and caught 26 flying insects in a few hours. Though this was of obvious benefit to me, I knew that My Dear Wife wouldn't care for it, so I started "training" him. By removing a couple of strands of web at a time I convinced him in a few days to keep his territory entirely within the roof gable where he's grown fat & presumably happy.

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Goody, a friend of mine has a bunch of those all over his yard, and as far as we can tell from looking them up, you're right, they're just garden spiders. The darn things look like they could eat a bird, they're so big! Nice picture btw. Shows the colors and markings ont he spider really well.

Us New Englanders would FREAK if we saw one of those suckers crawling around. Our spiders are much more tame (and less furry). The biggest ones are the one in the picture.....still pretty scary looking though. We have lots of "daddy long legs" also. It must our cooler climate.

Originally posted by Gyro
Us New Englanders would FREAK if we saw one of those suckers crawling around. Our spiders are much more tame (and less furry). The biggest ones are the one in the picture.....still pretty scary looking though. We have lots of "daddy long legs" also. It must our cooler climate.
Eeks!

I can't stand spiders...

Here where I live we get all sorts of lovely (poisoness) ones. In the past few weeks I've killed several black widows, brown widows and even a grey widow plus one brown reclus.

A bartender buddy of mine was bit in the back by a brown reclus. He's got a hole in his back now.. looks like someone shot him. Brown reclus is one nasty spider.

RotaryStalker

Widows are horrible, but Recluses you really have to watch out for. They are notorious for hiding in shoes and clothes on the floor. Neither are supposed to be deadly to full-grown adults, but for small children, they both can kill.

I'm all set with Florida.

We see a lot of black widows around our yard. I leave 'em alone unless they're somewhere likely to be dangerous.

Is anyone being invaded by ladybugs this year? They're all over the front of our house, and they somehow manage to get in. They collect in the foyer inside the front door.

I've got to quit browsing this forum while eating my lunch...

I love ladybugs. Saw one on my RX-8 the other day and thought it was a good omen.

Like daddy longlegs too.

you hate them , but made it your avatar

Originally posted by jtimbck2
We see a lot of black widows around our yard. I leave 'em alone unless they're somewhere likely to be dangerous.

Is anyone being invaded by ladybugs this year? They're all over the front of our house, and they somehow manage to get in. They collect in the foyer inside the front door.

My mom gets invaded by ladybugs every fall. They come in the windows, doors, and any other crack they can find. We just get spiders, but the cats tend to eat them before they're around long.

You have a spider eating cat? sweet.

check this one out. hey wait it looks like it has a rotor on it's back. spiders are cool.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/rsloan/versicolor.jpg

Goodyrx8, to address your original question before this turned into Wild Freakin Kingdom, it is a Golden Garden Spider, a pretty good sized one too but absolutely harmless!

This guy lives outside my kitchen window, what the hell is it?

your guardian angel? :D

I HATE spiders!!:mad:

cmon gyro. for the most part spiders are harmless. they are right up there with ants and bees as some of the most fascinating creatures we have on this earth! aside from humans of course. :)

Dude, how is this cool? How is this like a freakin ant???

I mean this:D

:eek:

Thats it. I'm buying a shotgun.

lol that spider is awesome. he needs to go back to web design class though. he's a little sloppy. i've seen better.

whoa the flack!
Sorry, really didn't mean to offend... post has been edited/deleted.

I'll need to remember that I'm not hanging around my with friends that share my sense of humor.

Truly am regretful if I've offended anyone who got to read my post.

Live Long and Prosper.

nevermind..
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Dude.....

Como

Anyone know what this one is?

Vince

A little piece of crap.

is that the dreaded brown recluse?

RX-GR8, how do you get a picture in your signature?

click on user/cp next to the home button at the top. click on edit profile. in the sig box type in an html line like this

"IMG http://mywebpages.com/yourpic.JPG /IMG"

where mywebpages.com is the url where your pic resides. no quotes. put the IMG statements in [] brackets

First, that's a great pic. Nice job! Second, it just looks plain icky. Here in AZ we got Turantulas and everyone's favorite...scorpions!

Here's a couple I've seen over the last year; let's start with Grenada - These spiders were about 4 1/2 across (the big ones; not this one). They were at the rum factory.

Pic2

This orb spider was just out while we were walking to a rock waterslide on the Island of Taveuni, Fiji. It was about 4 1/2 inches across - leg to leg.

Pic 3

Yeah this was my favorite; we're cleaning out the dental supply clinic in Fiji. We move this box of stuff and this 5 inch leg to leg spider is behing the supplies, behind a box. Oh yeah, he was a fast sucker too! Scared the heck out of me. I had my nephew catch it and got it out of the clinic.

this thread is out of control
that spiderlooks like it has a egg on its head

Pic 4

I read the thread again and someone mentioned scorpions. This one was in Grenada. It was only about 2 1/2 inches long though.

No, no, no....that's it's abdomen (it's rear end).

....The egg on his head is his butt.

...butthead

nevermind, the spider did get my attention though.

thats not very nice:o

Sorry, not to offend Mikeb.

...I can see how you might think that the spider was carrying an egg though.

-jcs-

yeah compaddict.. you might just have yourself a brown recluse there...

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/images/2061_2.jpg

You can tell if it's a brown recluse by the violin marking on the 1st body piece and they have 3 pairs of eyes.

RotaryStalker

It just might be..

Vince

does anyone know what kind of spider that guy had to eat on fear factor? that thing was weird.

Some spiders can be very tasty.. here's one of my favorites.... ummmm

http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/kodiak/images/photo/l_aeq.jpg

compaddict.. I still can't tell if that one has the violin.. where was it found?

RotaryStalker

AHHHH.... ROTARY STALKER HAS CRABS!!!!!!!!


Sorry, that was imature... but I had to do it.

-JiM

hows this for immature?
I was range control at an m16 range one time and dangerous wildlife is part of the safety brief. We have 16 foxholes on the range and one day it just came to me-"firers beware of the brown recluse in the number two hole..."
I had to take a break to laugh at myself and I thought it was hilarious but everyone else just stared blankly which is probably what you guys are doing too but come on think about it! funny huh? huh?... ok

buuuuuuuuuump

Jebus this is an old thread.

I hate spiders.:mad: Especially Brown Recluse. I was bitten by a Recluse when I was 14, on my arm. Damn thing swelled up and I got sick. Luckily it wasn't fully grown and I only had a mild reaction. It took me three weeks to recover and I still have the scar.

Anyone who tells you that the Recluse is exclusive to the midwestern and western United States is wrong. A few years ago I met two men on the same day who had been bitten by Recluses. One was able to get medical attention before they had to amputate his leg. The other was a horse doctor who had been bitten cleaning out a stable. He was able to take care of the wound himself with hydrogen peroxide, antibiotics (literally horse pills) and a scalpel. Both men were bitten in PA by full grown spiders. My scar is about the diameter of a pencil. Their scars are about the diameter of a coffee mug.

I don't care if they're beneficial. Generally I go out of my way not to harm another living creature, but spiders are strictly kill first, wash wall later.

I have a rather large (4" in diameter) Rose Hair tarantula. She is very cool. I started a thread a while back trying to balance all the pretty kitty photos that were being passed around with spiders. It only caught on for a little while. Anyway we call those big brown spiders Orb spiders up here. They don't get as big around here as they do in your parts. My wife is scared to death of spiders but I don't worry about them so much.

post a pic.

I will try I need a digital camera. She is big though. in the meantime here's what she looks like.

That spider up there isn't a brown recluse, brown recluses are smaller i think but they definately have a mark that looks like a bow and arrow or a violin on their backs which i don't see. I had to kill one last week. But anyway check out this camel spider they have over in the middle east. It bites you during the night and injects novacaine so you can't feel it while it eats away at your arms/legs.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp

That spider up there isn't a brown recluse, brown recluses are smaller i think but they definately have a mark that looks like a bow and arrow or a violin on their backs which i don't see. I had to kill one last week. But anyway check out this camel spider they have over in the middle east. It bites you during the night and injects novacaine so you can't feel it while it eats away at your arms/legs.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp
Did ya read the article you posted? Those things, while real, are not actually spiders, nor do they eat or poison people or camels. The whole purpose of Snopes.com is to debunk crap like your statement above. Now if you were kidding, then you shoulda put a smiley or something to indicate as much.

The ones on Fear Factor was the African Cave Dwelling Spiders... nasty looking things. I use to collect a bunch of spiders in my back yard... from simple daddy long legs, to black widows, found some jumping spiders, and had huge family of garden spiders. Later on I got myself a mini brown tarantula, and a brazillion web-shooting spider.

Whoops sorry ronin i got that link from a friend of mine messing with me...didn't even read it over first :mad:

Whoops sorry ronin i got that link from a friend of mine messing with me...didn't even read it over first :mad:
No problem Goo. It happens to the best of us. ;)

Peace.

the spiders in our garden and around our house have two little red rotors on them...so cute!!!! :)