Spider ID please
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Spider ID please
Got several of these at the house and have never seen one before this year
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Re: Spider ID please
that's one them UGLYass spiders
use your opportunities ...
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Re: Spider ID please
maybe this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Orb_w ... 3_crop.jpg
put it under a glass - the ability to classify a specimen to species level often requires a microscopic inspection of the genitalia.
put it under a glass - the ability to classify a specimen to species level often requires a microscopic inspection of the genitalia.
use your opportunities ...
218 Carolina Skiff
25 Bayliner Deck
218 Carolina Skiff
25 Bayliner Deck
Re: Spider ID please
Species badarsesopchoppysumabiatch!
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big bend gyrene
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Wevans, no need for drug testing or genitalia exams (unless you're just into that kind of thing 
)... 100% sure it's Araneus bicentenarius, aka giant lichen orb weaver. Wondering how I know it's because had my first at our house this year too and scoured the net until I confirmed with certainty. Green mossy (lichen-like) back and humps give conclusive ID. And picture doesn't do it's bad azzness justice. Those jokers get BIG with hard-shelled abdomens about the size of ping pong balls. Here's a pic of the one at my house.
So big it can fly down its web at a blazing speed but has to slow crawl back up due to it's weight. Pretty cool little video I captured of the same one in the picture climbing back up its web after I fed it a mole-cricket.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48BKOFHTjP8[/video]
)... 100% sure it's Araneus bicentenarius, aka giant lichen orb weaver. Wondering how I know it's because had my first at our house this year too and scoured the net until I confirmed with certainty. Green mossy (lichen-like) back and humps give conclusive ID. And picture doesn't do it's bad azzness justice. Those jokers get BIG with hard-shelled abdomens about the size of ping pong balls. Here's a pic of the one at my house.- Giant Lichen Orb Weaver.jpg (83.36 KiB) Viewed 1648 times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48BKOFHTjP8[/video]
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Re: Spider ID please
Should have added not a particularly potent spider as far as venom is concerned... BUT... read the description of the species on a pest control site and laughed out loud at what it said...
"The bite of Orb-Weaving Spiders is of low risk (not toxic) to humans. They seldom bite but be careful not to walk into their webs at night - the fright of this spider crawling over one's face can be terrifying and may cause a heart attack, particularly to the susceptible over 40 year olds". 
... wait, just remembered I'm past 40 now... 
"The bite of Orb-Weaving Spiders is of low risk (not toxic) to humans. They seldom bite but be careful not to walk into their webs at night - the fright of this spider crawling over one's face can be terrifying and may cause a heart attack, particularly to the susceptible over 40 year olds".
... wait, just remembered I'm past 40 now... "The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank GOD for the United States Marine Corps." Eleanor Roosevelt, 1945
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Night hell, the damned thang will make ya hurt yerself in the daytime, if ya walk into the web 
and it took 3 dhoots of carb cleaner ta incapacitate this one the wife and youngun are scared ta death of em "got one on the front porch, one right in front of the outside freezer and this one was right in my walkway through the shop"! I'll probably have ta take out the one in front of the freezer also "unless I want to be the only one using it" Thanks for the info BBG, and I rekon the rest of y'all also 
and it took 3 dhoots of carb cleaner ta incapacitate this one the wife and youngun are scared ta death of em "got one on the front porch, one right in front of the outside freezer and this one was right in my walkway through the shop"! I'll probably have ta take out the one in front of the freezer also "unless I want to be the only one using it" Thanks for the info BBG, and I rekon the rest of y'all also “Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”