Really cool pics!! (people that don't like spiders may not want to look ;)

MollieMae01 · Moderator

Really cool pics!! (people that don't like spiders may not want to look ;)

tuna_chaser · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

wow, what a beautiful web, and the detail is amazing!!, the spider gives me the willies, but its a great pic. i cant wait to see more detailed pics in the daylight , where i can see his color better and i can tell u what kind it is

dusty082155 · ~Best In Show~ Senior Board Member!

i dont know much about spiders, but the pics are fantastic ! its hard to believe that one little spider could make such a big web. i like the pics, especially the last one.

twinkletoes · You have been awarded the Posting Star of Honor!

Im not totally fond of spiders but can admire there skill for such a small creature ... there some great pics Mollie

some spider facts...

Little Miss Muffet of the nursery rhyme really existed. She was the daughter of Dr Mouffet who believed spiders had healing powers when eaten.
The weight of insects eaten by spiders every year is greater than the total weight of the entire human population.
There can be up to nearly 5 million spiders per hectare.
The combined length of thread in a spider's web is about 20-60 m and it can take the spider up to 3 hours to make an orbweb.
On an equal weight basis, spider silk is twice as strong as steel. In addition, spider silk is
very elastic. It is this combination of strength and stretch that makes the energy-to-break of
spider silk so high. Simply put, it is the toughest material known.
Spiders have 48 "knees": 8 legs with 6 joints on each.
A jumping spider can jump up to 25 times its own body length.

tuna_chaser · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

wow twink!!! u know alot about spiders!! my best friend picks em up and plays with them. eeewww!! they fascinate me, but give me the willies, and if i see one, ill take a moment to admire the web, then send it to spider heaven.

oasis05 · Moderator

Cool pics but........all i can say is if it has a white hourglass shape on it's abdomen, keep it the &%$* away from me.........lol. I don't mind spiders but those scare the heck out of me.

StormyWinter · Moderator

EWWW I hate spiders!

If ya'll want pics of spiders I get alot! We have HUGE spiders here! I'm talking like 6inch spiders! Talk about me running and screaming like a lil girl! LOL!

Rebel24 · 3:26 PM, 07/18/05

wow amazing pictures....From what I could see of the spider it almost looks like the Wolf Spiders I get in my house all the time. Hopefully you can get some better pictures of the spider itself....

ZoeandTucker · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

I have a funny, creepy story about a spider. There was one outside one of our garage door one night. It was HUGE! I'm talking almost tarantula size. Anyway, my husband sprayed him with lysol to slow him down and than he beat him with a shoe and he kicked him into the flower bed. The next morning he goes and opens the same garage door to roll the trash down to the curb and the spider had crawled back over in front of the garage door! I saw my husband beat the spider and my husband showed him no mercy. I have no idea how that spider made it all the way back. My husband said he'd come back to get his revenge.

Kittys Mom · ~Best In Show~ Senior Board Member!

Well, likely that is a garden spider that you should keep.
What you do is get him on a shovel, or newspaper, and walk him out to a flower bed or something.
Skeeters, and flies will give you less trouble with spiders around.That is NOT a house spider.
But you did remind me, I killed a brown recluse last night and forgot to put his very poisonous butt in the alcohol jar that I am saving them for the County Fair State bug expert.
He did not have any to display, I promised to catch him some...THEY don't spin webs, they are extremely poisonous. The city I live in is one of the few places you can find them. I kill a few each year...got real sick from a bite once...

Kittys Mom · ~Best In Show~ Senior Board Member!

I strongly suggest you let it live, just move it to the side.
When I get one on the porch I allow them to stay as long as the web is not across my path to the door. It makes an effective bug screen when it is on the side of the porch.

More irritating are bugs which fly to the porch light, then right into the house when the door opens. One of those girls almost completely eliminates that problem.
What you have there is a variety of orb-spider. Check out this article on an Austrailian one. It describes their behavior. Amazing, really.
http://www.geocities.com/pchew_brisbane/Garden_sp.htm

HunterNellasmom · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

Spiders totally creep me out, but that is an awesome web! Wow! I wonder how long that took? I don't see a lot of webs like that where I live. Course, I try to stay REALLY far away from any spider I see, lol

MollieMae01 · Moderator

I'm definitely NOT going to kill it, unless it gets into the house, which it hasn't yet, lol. He must've torn that web down and he was spinning a new one in the same place tonite. I didn't get to see him at all today, he'd gone and I couldn't see the web either, so I didn't take any pics at all

But I will take some pics of this new web. It's not as big as the last one, which sucks, but hey, he must've been tired after spinning that web last nite!! lol Gimme a few minutes and I'll run and take some pics and upload them to my computer, then to photobucket, then to here.

MollieMae01 · Moderator

OK, here are the pics of tonite's web (I tried to do better by turning off the porch light in some of them, but it didn't work out like I'd planned. I even tried last nite to turn off the flash so you could see the color of him better, but that didn't work either. HUMPH):

I hope y'all know that my neighbors to the south of me prolly think I'm nuts, always staring at what looks like nothing and getting really close to it-nothing- and taking pictures of it-nothing. lol In the dark, nonetheless!! I'm prolly waking them up with my flash!! LMAO

oasis05 · Moderator

That is an awesome web. We get fiddle backs (recluse) here but they are totally different than the ones i'm used to. We watched a huge turantula in the barn last week. It walked over my shoes..........lol

MollieMae01 · Moderator

I think I'd scream if I had a tarantula crawl over my shoes!! lol. But I sure hope this one isn't a brown recluse!! I've heard of those and they say that they're even more poisonous than a black widow!! I think I'll have to go with Kitty on this one though, I think it's a garden spider.

Kittys Mom · ~Best In Show~ Senior Board Member!

Look at the url I left you Mollie! It 'splains what that critter is doing. It is nocturnal...You are wasting your time after daylight. You think that the neighbors think you got bats now, wait till you are using Hollywood style banks of lights trying to get that night shot...

Recluse spiders are no bigger than a dime. Look like a tiny tarantula, move fast, and don't spin webs, come out about 2am...

The url will take you to a site that shows the spider you have, look at the body shape...very distinct. You can read about "Spicy" their spider's habits, you will appeciate your spider more.

Erica · MAD DOG!

wow that spider made a really cool web! I love looking at spider webs like that, it really cool.