new roommate (sort of)

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This little guy decided to set up shop last night on my front porch. I am petrified (sp) of spiders (and this one is at least five in. long) but I also think they are very graceful and beautiful, and this one took my breath away so I had to share. Enjoy!

Beautiful spider. I believe its a garden spider...

What kinda spider is that? It does look kinda scary eh! :eek:

Definitly a Garden Spider, I use to see them all the time when I lived in Georgia.... They spin probably the strongest web I've ever walked into.

Writting spider. I don't know if that's the proper name but that's all I've ever heard them called. You really can't see in the pic but she spun a very big and very big zig zag patterened web. IMO pics never can do an animal justice!

that looks cool.... my neighbor would flip out if she saw that on her house...lol

Thats an orb weaver, super cool spiders. We had a few last year but this year weve got over 80.

When I was growing up in Florida we called them Banana spiders. I couldn't begin to count how many times I got a face full of one of these dudes while running through the groves at night.....

I am glad that someone else around here calls them writing spiders!! LOL That's what I have always called them, I must have heard it somewhere around here in VA. I think that they are one of the prettiest spiders around here, and they LOVE to make their webs in my parents front bushes and more recently over top of my parents doorbell button. I was joking my dad saying that that must be how they keep away the solicitors and unwanted guests!! LOL

Their webs are very pretty too, how they have the zig zag design in the middle. And their webs can be HUGE!!

I haven't gone to check him out, but I've seen one sitting in the middle of his web under my carport the past few days. I usually have at least one around every year. Last year it was right outside my back door. I don't deal well with spiders inside my house, but these guys can "hang around" all they want!

Steve

Those are Awesome!!!! :D We call them banana spiders here.... Keep your eye out for more, where I used to find them, there were always more around the corner! :)

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I am glad that someone else around here calls them writing spiders!! LOL That's what I have always called them, I must have heard it somewhere around here in VA. I think that they are one of the prettiest spiders around here, and they LOVE to make their webs in my parents front bushes and more recently over top of my parents doorbell button. I was joking my dad saying that that must be how they keep away the solicitors and unwanted guests!! LOL

Their webs are very pretty too, how they have the zig zag design in the middle. And their webs can be HUGE!!

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Im sure you've heard the old saying "don't let the writingspider hear your name because if they do they'll write it in their web and then you'll die." My grandmother and my husband's great grandmother told us that when we were little. Today my husband was picking on me and told the spider my name!:8: As I said before I'm terrified of spiders but to tell you the truth it brightens my day to see her every day. I made a deal with her, as long as she doesn't build her web across where I walk or jump on me then I woun't knock her web down or squish her. :D

thats cool

Looks like an [i]Arigope[i] species...(orbweavers)

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Those are Awesome!!!! :D We call them banana spiders here.... Keep your eye out for more, where I used to find them, there were always more around the corner! :)

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I grew up in Florida--and we called them "Banana Spiders", too. Their webs are REALLY strong and they would weave them between the trees. The yard may have been safe the day before, but if you forgot to bring a "web-twirling stick" with out outside, you might end up with your hair caught in it! I was always terrified that the web was going to have a giant spider attached to it, in my hair *shudder*.

These are cool spiders they are an orb web spider ,I saw these at lone star lakes when i was in virginia last year took tons of pics

I always heard them called cottonwood spiders. Sounds like this thing is called something different state to state. I guess they got the name cottonwood here because of all the white on them.

yeah I see nthem before and I go th other way lol I can handle a vemonous snake with out a care in the world but i freak out with spiders. seen like 2 my intire life and i can tell you this falling alseep inthe tree stand and wakingup to one spinninga web right about 1ft waya from your face will make you leave th gun in the tree stand as you jump out ..

The only spiders I've seen here are these small black ones (I believe that a small black one bit me one time while at the park sitting in the grass and my thigh swelled up and turned red and was really hot in that area so I went to the doctors the next day because the swelling didn't go down and he said that I got Celulitis), Brown Recluse spiders, Black Widows (see them a lot, their webs are really thick and huge), and those tiny little brown spiders that live in your house.