Don't look if your afraid of spiders!!

m1a1fan · #1 01/11/2006, 09:59 PM

If found this guy living near my deck over the summer. I have no idea what kind of spider it is. If you could help id it I'd appreciate it. I fed it moths and ants when I could. The spider was about the size of a quarter before it died (or maybe it just moved somewhere else). It had caught a hornet when I took these pics.

Pics...

kfisc · #2 01/11/2006, 10:08 PM

Araneus cavaticus, maybe, more likely Neoscona hentzi- That's my geuss- cool pictures!

Muttling · #3 01/11/2006, 10:23 PM

I'm not that good with spiders but I believe this is an Orb-Weaver Spider of some form. My guess is araneus diadematus.

Muttling · #4 01/11/2006, 10:25 PM

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Originally posted by kfisc
Araneus cavaticus, maybe, more likely Neoscona hentzi- That's my geuss- cool pictures!

We're not on the same species, but I do believe we are in the same family.....araneae

FunkieReefJunkie · #5 01/11/2006, 10:38 PM

It looks evil. What happens if it bites you? That's all I need to know.

Petie · #6 01/11/2006, 10:39 PM

Garden Orb Web Spider
Eriophora transmarina FAMILY ARANEIDAE

or so it seems. . .

m1a1fan · #7 01/11/2006, 11:36 PM

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Originally posted by FunkieReefJunkie
It looks evil. What happens if it bites you? That's all I need to know.

I was wondering that as well.

I actually had three of these around the house. Their webs were at least the diameter of a basketball.

Last summer was the first that I had ever seen them. Thanks for all of the info thus far, I'll do some research with the info that I have.

Thanks for the comments on the pics

dc · #8 01/12/2006, 12:21 AM

Most spiders are good things, they catch bugs!

kfisc · #9 01/12/2006, 01:30 AM

I've read where some barnyard varieties can post cryptic messages in their webs, in one instance concerning the quality of a small pig before it entered the state fair.

BLKTANG · #10 01/12/2006, 06:19 AM

I would have to say its Biteus Hardus.

crzy4reefs · #11 01/12/2006, 07:20 AM

i would have to look it up to identify it, but it's certainly a beautiful spider

criccio · #12 01/12/2006, 08:21 AM

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Originally posted by EXPEDITION
I would have to say its Biteus Hardus.

mmmmsushi · #13 01/12/2006, 08:31 AM

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Originally posted by kfisc
I've read where some barnyard varieties can post cryptic messages in their webs, in one instance concerning the quality of a small pig before it entered the state fair.

Did anyone else get that one?

mmmmsushi · #14 01/12/2006, 08:34 AM

My family has a place at the beach in South Carolina. We find lots of poisionous snakes and spiders. Usually Brown recluses, and copperheads. But I've also seen Cottonmouths, and even coral snakes and black widows. This is probably because the house sits on the edge of a 17000 acre wildlife preserve.

I wasn't sure how bad the bite from a Brown Recluse was until I looked up pictures on the internet. I'm wearing shoes from now on when I go outside.

JohnHenry · #15 01/12/2006, 09:20 AM

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Did anyone else get that one?

Reknowned arachnithologist (sp?) EB White got it...

I can't quite make out the message in this one's web?

more exact taxonomic identification, down to the genus/species, is contingent on a proper translation of its webbicus messagus

JENnKerry · #16 01/12/2006, 11:33 AM

Of course when you say "dont look if you're afraid of spiders", you know dumb people (like myself) are going to look

I'm gonna have nightmares now