ID This Spider for Me (WARNING! Don't Look if You're Squeamish!!)

[chickendiva25]

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I have someone we could test it out on....

me too

lol

Don't we all

 

[Jerseycoop]

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lol! Kidding aside sheesh that's creepy looking... Try a university site and google has many what's this bug sites to try. Good luck ewww.

 

[Jerseycoop]

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[ranchhand]

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That's one of the best ideas I've heard in a long time! Art by spiders is one of my favorite observances!

We "train" our big garden spiders to not web low enough to get us anymore- about the third time we break the bottom strand they learn to rebuild at a higher level.

 

[Jerseycoop]

http://www.dpughphoto.com/images/orb%20weaver%20araneus%20bicentenarius%20great%20smoky%20mtns%20vicki%2061810.jpg

Here's a picture and small discription

 

[jjthink]

Well, I'm squeamish (pretty much only about spiders) and I looked anyway. Why is that?!?!??!?!

Anyway, pretty cool spider. Especially since he or she is not on my bedroom ceiling at the moment

JJ

 

[Sword]

Cool! That pattern on his back almost looks like a face! A creepy green face!

 

[teach1rusl]

Yeeeeshh...glad you're finding those instead of me

It's a fascinating color though...

 

[KristyHall]

the way it's holding its body i would say its an orb weaver spider. Prettiest one I've ever seen. They're pretty docile and can be trained to keep your garden pest free.

Poor things, I walk into their webs at night all the time. Never been bit. I have been crawled on though.

 

[EweSheep]

Didn't someone a long time ago did artwork on spider webs? Didn't he take a black talum powder (used for investigation for fingerprints) to the web and then press the white canvas onto the web?

They are beautiful in their own way but I don't like running into them either.