guido

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Hello,

This spider was in my rose bush. I have never seen such a beast! Anyone know what kind it is? Glade I saw him first.! The front legs look more like two forks...........
Guido.
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Google brought up these, but I sure haven't seen one before.

http://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Black-and-Yellow-Garden-Spider
 
I don't know its official name is but we always call them a garden spider. They are harmless. Gerald
 
One of the Orb Weaver variety Guido , most likely the Golden Orb Weaver , locally known as the scribbler spider .
Beautiful things that weave a huge web between fruit trees in the Autumn with silk so tough that it will hold a small bat for a while .
 
(quoted from post at 06:23:06 08/28/15) I don't know its official name is but we always call them a garden spider. They are harmless. Gerald

Same here. Garden spider. Used to see them in barns quite often when I was a kid. Haven't seen one for several years now.
 
Always called them garden spiders. Come to think of it, haven't seen one in a while. Remember when I was a kid, catching grass hoppers and throwing them in the web, watching the spider get them!
 
its a banana spider. i have a bunch of em along the creek at the farm. harmless and do a great job catching bugs. google banana spider.
 
Here in Missouri we call them a garden spider at one time they where very common be been a while since I have seen any
 
Think that's just a garden spider, 50 years ago they were all over outside, haven't seen a half dozen in the last 20 years I bet.
 
Around me we've always called them writing spiders. The old wives tale is if you write your name on a piece of paper, and place it where they can see it, they will duplicate it on their web.

I've never heard of spiders being intelligent, but I believe these are smarter than most. I had one build in the door to my shop several years ago. I love to watch them so I let it be...until it spread the web down so far I had to duck to get in. I messed up just enough web to get in without ducking. This happened about three times. The third time the spider rebuilt the web, but left it high enough for me to walk underneath. I can only believe it realized it was OK to be there as long as I didn't have to tear out part of the web, so it made compromises in it's web to accommodate me, just as I was doing for it.

Check back on it later and you'll find it in the same place, but a lot smaller. Right now they are filled with eggs, but as soon as they are all laid/hatched, she will shrink back down to normal size.
 
Hey do any of you guys remember the controversy with those spiders and the Essex Tri-Directional?
They were trying to deny that for years.
 
Very common around here and this year in particular they're quite abundant. Excellent bug control.

In a pasture I saw one that had built a web between two small mesquites that were about 15 feet apart. The web was normal size but the main wires were very long. It was well engineered and triangulated. I don't know how they can see well enough to run lines at that distance and have them in the right spot.

When I see something like that I think how silly the evolution theories seem.
 
Hello,
Thanks for all the replies. garden spider or not, I,'ll keep my distance. I have had three bites this year from spiders. Never felt the bite, just the rash and hitching after the bite,

Guido.
 
What psimmer said:
Argiope aurantia



The spider species Argiope aurantia is commonly known as the yellow garden spider, black and yellow garden spider, golden garden spider, writing spider, corn spider, or McKinley spider
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yup - call it the same here in Mass. "garden spider".

they get huge.

Huge enough to see one coming out of a bale of hay and decide to leave that bale right where it is in the field to this day.

I don't think they're particularly dangerous or anything - I just have my limits on the creep factor - and those things are well over the limit.
 
That reminds me of the large web arch we had in the shop a few years back. It went from the top of the refrigerator up to the truss then back down to a shelf on the other side. Completely out of the way to get tractors and even got the combine in without hitting the web, the combine cleared by just inches. They could of built right across, but no they left an arch so we could work.
 

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