I found this huge (relatively speaking) spider by my trash can yesterday. Does anyone know their spiders?
He was just over one inch long.
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Nuts,
My best guess is that it's a variety of orb weaver, based on what I have found online. Did you have a large circular spider web anywhere nearby?
I believe Stitch is a spider expert. ;)
Looks like it hurts!
Yep... had a clasic spider web going from the trash can to the fence. And although some of the pictures of Orb Weavers I found online were quite close, the text described the eyes as 2 horizontal rows of four. I'm not seeing that on my picture.
I like the dagger artwork on his back.
If it is an orb weaver (pretty sure, but not certain) it is nonvenomous, with a painful bite.
Yes, I am a licensed and bonded etymologist. The origin of the word "spider" is from Old English spiþra, from spinnan “to spin.”
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Took me a while but I found it.
Araneus diadematus.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spider.../Araneidae.htm
This spider is a "Garden Spider" in the US, sometimes called a "Cross Spider".
I think you're looking for an arachnologist, Nuts. :)
I've seen a lot of garden spiders just like that in Washington.
We have a lot of the following in Nevada:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spider...ichi_D1497.jpg
Damn fine work Bribo and Ab. I guess the eye layout was throwing me, but those pics on the website were dead on. I guess with the large number of spiders in that family, there's got to be a lot of variety.
Palooka - oh ya. I was never good in 6th grade science class.
I hope Stitch never opens this thread, he would be immensely freaked out.
That popping sound you hear is Stitch's arteries exploding.
You know, I wondered what that was.. :tongue:
Yep, I've killed a bunch of these before. We do call em Garden Spiders out here and they can have some truly impressive webs.
The splat nicely when shot with a BB. Sometimes those abdomen get huge and you can get a nice big splat.
... now I have to go find someone to hug me.
I swear I can feel them legs on me now... AAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!!