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  1. 09-06-2004, 03:40 PM #1
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    Question Any Entomologist out there?

    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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  2. 09-06-2004, 04:13 PM #2
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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?
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    I believe Stitch is a spider expert.
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    Looks like it hurts!
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    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.
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  6. 09-07-2004, 03:33 AM #6
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  7. 09-07-2004, 03:39 AM #7
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    If it is an orb weaver (pretty sure, but not certain) it is nonvenomous, with a painful bite.
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  8. 09-07-2004, 06:25 AM #8
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    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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  9. 09-07-2004, 07:32 AM #9
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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".
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    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:

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    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.

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    I hope Stitch never opens this thread, he would be immensely freaked out.
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    You know, I wondered what that was..
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    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.

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