Jeff Peake

This guy was found in my garden, anyone know what kind of spider it is?

Chris Lockwood

Is that actual size?

Kevin T

looks kinda like a banana spider to me. they make pretty huge intricate webs and will eat the hell out of other bugs.

kevin t

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Kevin M

You see those guys in the woods all of the time, they can get pretty big....now imagine you are riding a bike in the woods on a bike trail and you fly right smack into one of these damn webs and wind up with that huge bastard right on your face...it happened to me as a kid, AAAAHHHH!!! It didn't bite me but I was emotionally scarred for a LOOONG time afterwards.

Brrrr, I get the shivers just thinking about it.

The one I'm talking about actually looked like this (about half the size though) this is also a banana spider...

-Kevin M.


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Amy Mormino

Is that your hand in that picture and is that a real spider? Did you actually put your hand so close to that disgusting creature? If those things were in my non-existent garden, they'd be squashed real quickly.

Kevin M

No, that picture is from off of the internet, that breed of Banana spider is mostly found down around the southern states but apparently they are also found around the river areas of MO, which is where I "ran" into the one I mentioned.

They look hideous, but according to the site I got that photo from they are among the least harmful spiders out there, they rarely bite & just want to get away from people, and to get rid of them from your garden it said all you really have to do is knock down their web, they will always relocate away from that area....I guess they really don't like being around humans.

-Kevin M.


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AaronMg

I saw a few of those about ten years ago up here in Ontario. I have not seen them since.

RichardK

I had a couple around my house last year. The web they make is pretty amazing...

JeremyErwin