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darkaether

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Found another one! And this lovely lady is even bigger than the first one. I have them guarding the entrances to my INFI stash, along with my weredevildogs. I think my spydie sprint EDCs enhance my Jedi mind control over them.

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She sure is a looker, bigger, more angular and aggressive than Charlotte in the front yard. Charlotte just hangs out and eats beetles. This chick is all over the place, postured up, up the web, down the web, eating beetles and grasshoppers so far, and shakes her web at you if you get too close. She sure has been busy too, with 2 big egg sacs the size of pingpong balls. I read they will die in the first frost and the eggs will hatch in the spring, and most of the tiny spydies will fly away on silk threads.

They have brought be quit a bit of entertainment. The only places I've ever seen bigger spiders are the internet and sci-fi movies.

I really want to keep them but I don't think the 800-2800 eggs will get to hatch, but I'm also sure there's more than 2 sacs so I might get some new ones next year.
 
Yup - shes a real ....web surfer :)

Nice spider - they are nice to have around. I even do not mind the Wolf Spiders - but not the brownies and widows... :)



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I'm having a hard time with the scale of this beast.
What size would you say it is from tip to tip.
 
I'd say her body is about 1.5"-1.8". her gray head is almost the size of a dime, and she could easily touch the edges of a 5" circle, maybe over 6". That is a grasshopper she was eating.

Id like to measure her but she doesn't like me that close and she's really fast and agile.
 
We call those Banana spiders. They get HUGE and rock their webs when agitated. As a kid I always ran into the webs running in the woods
 
Its amazing the level of kung-fu mastery you have when you run through a banana spider web. At least thats what it looks like from a distance.
 
Where do you live ?

Where ever it is I am not moving there, hate spiders.
 
You know, I like your pet! Outside, where she belongs. Spiders outside, great; spiders in my house, not so much!
 
David Brown said:
Where do you live ?

Where ever it is I am not moving there, hate spiders.
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Me either, guess that's why we both live in AZ, where we have bark scorpions, every imaginable kind of rattlesnake, and tarantulas the size of your fist... and that's just in my back yard.

Frankly, i hate the arachnids far worse than the legless critters, even though the rattlers are more dangerous, that's why this thread is REALLY giving me the creeps!

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poor Charlotte lost a leg somehow, but she's getting by ok on 7. I haven't seen any indications she's found herself a man yet though. Might be too late for her
 
We should introduce her to our little guy...

Yes, that's a 1/2 of a 16 inch masonry unit, so it's an 8x8 block



 
When I was a kid we were always at the creek or Mackinaw River and those Garden Spiders were everywhere. When you're 4 foot tall and lost in 5 foot tall grass and these things are all around you, you get the shivers and hit reverse in a hurry.
Once you turn around to back track they seem like they are everywhere, VERY CREEPY!

They have a white ribbon down the middle of their webs and start shaking the whole web 3" or 4" back and forth when they see you....RUNNNNN!!!
 
Those are some bad ass spiders I want one but out in Washington state we don't have much in the way of cool critters
 
unklfranco said:
Spiders make a loud crunching sound when you step on them. Just sayin.
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Actually, the big ones tend to squish louder than they crunch. Especially in a car.

Years ago, i drove through the TX panhandle in the middle of a tarantula migration, literally 1000s of the spiders crossing the road, slick as driving on ice, and you just clinched the wheel thinking, "oh, god, no flat tire, please, no flat tire!" My first experience being in a sci-fi movie.
 
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