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Hey ! That wasn't there last night !
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Yeah, a reason to avoid hot countries when you are tall.
Wade
FeralNormal master
As spiders go it is a remarkably beautiful one, look at the way the sun hits it. if anybody reading this is up on their arachnids I'd appreciate it if they could id it for me. The best way to describe it is honey/coral colored about the size of a thumbnail of a large hand and on its abdomen is a white circle in a black circle/oval. Also its legs are banded alternating black with golden brown
still kill it tho
Muadib
Paranormal Adept
Wow, what a tremendously insightful post. Of course you would only know that if you read the Harry Potter books yourself, what does that say about you as a grown man? I could already tell you have a thing for fiction though, sticking up for Andrew Basiago and all. Lulz@ You.
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pixelsmith
Guest
looks like an orb spider possibly. do not kill it. that is stupid.
Wade
FeralNormal master
Not to worry , I had no intention of doing so, I could only marvel at the web construction one this one has the anchor points (?) are some 8-9 feet apart. For the record I tried searching "golden orb" earlier and those guys are long and skinny this one has a rounded abdomen
Wade
FeralNormal master
Success !! In no small part thanks to pixel, I tried a various combination of searches with orb california gold etc. and came across this pix. I will see if I can move it...the spider, not the whole web... because given its location it would be doomed anyhow. So far everyone has been very respectful and/or observant (it is a really impressive example) but all it will take is a distracted ups man or a different mail carrier and the web would be destroyed anyhow
the orb weaver araneaus ssp is a native north american spider found in southern california | Dave Welling Nature Photography
the orb weaver araneaus ssp is a native north american spider found in southern california | Dave Welling Nature Photography
dyingsun
Paranormal Adept
Venom shortage sparks call to hunt funnel-webs - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Wouldn't want to meet one of those:
Wouldn't want to meet one of those:
Wade
FeralNormal master
Update: at first I thought I had bad news. Mildred (yes I named her) and her web were missing, I figured maybe someone came home friday night maybe a little inebriated and walked through the web. If that was the fact she came through intact, already putting the finishing touches on a relocated and downsized web.
For those of you who were wondering why I was going on and on about a damn web consider the next picture. Note the bushes to the left...where her new home is...and the sign post to the right. These were the anchor points for the web that for all intent and purpose spanned the width of the walkway almost as if she was using the walk as a reference point, who knows ?
I noticed the tenants were walking behind the sign closer to the building out of respect for mildred
and her new home
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For those of you who were wondering why I was going on and on about a damn web consider the next picture. Note the bushes to the left...where her new home is...and the sign post to the right. These were the anchor points for the web that for all intent and purpose spanned the width of the walkway almost as if she was using the walk as a reference point, who knows ?
I noticed the tenants were walking behind the sign closer to the building out of respect for mildred
and her new home
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pixelsmith
Guest
thanks for respecting the spider. very cool. 
Wade
FeralNormal master
The funny thing is I have to wonder about the life span of these guys. I am always walking through spiderwebs about this time of year late summer-early autumn. I take a lot of walks in the evening and make it a note to avoid any trees or bushes with low lying branches. On at least two occasions I've brought the occupants home with me, once one was crawling up.my neck (you read that right) and I flicked it off in case it was a stinging\biting insect and it did this little rolling away rolling up in a ball thing and another time I was hanging up my jacket and I saw the fellow crawling around it in.The funny thing about these guys though is they're not discreet. these spiders...in some cases...spin such large spanning webs they must be a sitting target for birds. You might as well paint a bullseye on them, which it sort of looks like they have with the black and white abdomen.
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pixelsmith
Guest
some spiders are a sitting target for birds and some birds are a sitting target for spiders...
Mercy I hear? Mercy? Mercy ?
No, no, no. We need to be talking weapons and tactics here Mulder. I was thinking possibly and a twin A-10 attack, possibly with a little helmet-aimed gattling gun action from an Apache?
Or, you could go oldschool/McGivor and get a can of spray deodorant and the lighter of your preference......lemme see, lemme see......what else could you use......how about an 'ACME' anvil, dropped from that canyon over yonder?
No, no, no. We need to be talking weapons and tactics here Mulder. I was thinking possibly and a twin A-10 attack, possibly with a little helmet-aimed gattling gun action from an Apache?
Or, you could go oldschool/McGivor and get a can of spray deodorant and the lighter of your preference......lemme see, lemme see......what else could you use......how about an 'ACME' anvil, dropped from that canyon over yonder?
Pixel those spiders that can eat birds......jeez those freak me right out! Any spider from Australia is always top of the poisonous list too....funnel-webs......aaaargh!
House spiders (UK) and the furry tarantula-types I am fine with. Dont have a phobia etc but the thought of me walking face-first into one of those webs of a morning.....
House spiders (UK) and the furry tarantula-types I am fine with. Dont have a phobia etc but the thought of me walking face-first into one of those webs of a morning.....
Wade
FeralNormal master
There was a thread from this spring that was rife with spider tales. As you mentioned not a few from australia way from mike and he mentioned the funnel webs and one that favored crawling in shoes overnight.
I never got around to asking him if there are any venomous birds there along with the snakes, spiders and sea life.
I never got around to asking him if there are any venomous birds there along with the snakes, spiders and sea life.
RenaissanceLady
Paranormal Adept
It's weird. I have no fear of snakes but spiders make my skin crawl. The coincidence is that yesterday evening as I was about to prepare a bubble bath, I too noticed an orb spider building a web in front of the tub. I would have bumped into it if I hadn't been paying more attention. I appreciate that they are beneficial spiders but it still gave me the heebie-jeebies so I sent it down the drain. The last thing in the world I need right now is to be up to my neck in bubbles with a spider going condo beside me.