| Author | Message | ||
     Mnrider |
 Found this monster in my garden,it's about two inches long. Does anyone know what kind of spider this is? I thinking about relocating it to the prairie but I don't wont to get bit. What should I do with it? | ||
| 5liter |
Garden spider. | ||
| Hughlysses |
Yep, they can build some huge webs too. | ||
| Dfishman |
Writing spider or garden spider.Harmless & very nice to look at. | ||
| Britchri10 |
Keep it in the yard. They are great at eliminating bugs. Chris C | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
There are only two harmful spiders in the US: Black Widow, Brown Recluse. Anything else will kill and eat bugs and should be left to do their work. | ||
| Rotzaruck |
Translate that message, he's trying to tell you something. It might be a sign. | ||
| Loki |
Have one in the carport. 'crept it's green not yellow | ||
| Hootowl |
I get those too. My ex found one that had made a web over the entrance to her place of business. I guess the little guy figured he'd grab one big meal instead of a bunch of little ones. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
hate spiders - not a fan of them. I still have not fully recovered from my bout with the Camel spiders from 7 years ago. I will lay down a hurtin on any I see - and if I fog for them - I will likely kill their food too. | ||
| Mnrider |
Yes it is cool to look at and a great conversation piece. I'll just leave him be but don't want it crawling on me. | ||
| Drkside79 |
>>>>>There are only two harmful spiders in the US: Black Widow, Brown Recluse. Add in the Hobo Spider >>>>> I still have not fully recovered from my bout with the Camel spiders from 7 years ago. What did the Camel spider do to you? just a nasty bite? | ||
| 86129squids |
Go hang around a porch light for a while, catch a moth or 2, and feed 'er! From a safe distance, give the moth a good pitch into the web, voila! Fun/gross experiment for the kiddies you might have around, edumakational to boot! (Message edited by 86129squids on August 20, 2012) | ||
| Brumbear |
 I DON"T LIKE SPIDERS!!!!!!! | ||
| Team_ruthless |
that's actually not a spider at all. I is a giraffe, a member of the baboon family | ||
| Mnrider |
Ouch Brum! Little bastards. | ||
| Etennuly |
Hey Jeremy, As I found out last year, ALL spiders carry bacteria in their saliva and on their mandibles that can cause that cursed skin eating disease, it is easy to contract if they bite you. The one that got me was not poisonous.....just infectious. The Dr. said it was usually better and easier to deal with a spider's poison than the infection. Never one to care much either way..... spiders are not getting back on my 'happiest things' list. | ||
| Mikef5000 |
Not a fan of spiders. Although we had a monster garden spider (just like the original post) at my work. It was on the other side of the window, which was pretty cool. I don't kill them outside, but if I find one in my house or garage, that thing is DEAD! I was bit by a brown recluse many years ago. Walking it off didn't work well when the skin was melting away. I think the 'spot' got about nickle or quarter sized before it was under control. | ||
| Rick_a |
I let house, grass, and other spiders hang out in the house. The grass spiders don't make it too long...often times ending up food for house spiders. I've come across some Browns here and some Widows in other parts of the country. If in the house or close proximity outdoors those are dealt with accordingly. People that kill certain animals and insects because they look evil are simply ignorant.         | ||
| Zenbiker |
Funny, as I read this post, I am wearing the T-shirt (Fat Tire Tour of Milwaukee, June 19th 2004) that I received for riding the whole tour. Which consisted of a whole day of drinking quality beer while biking from bar to brewery, etc. At some point, I may have had too much and crashed, somewhere near the old County Stadium. The next day and over the next week I developed a leathery puffed up patch on my calf. It kept getting bigger and nastier, and I started to feel not so good. So I went to the doctor for testing. They immediately dosed me up with drugs and I was in the hospital. I was told that it was a serious, life threatening reaction to a contaminated spider bite. When I crashed (one of many times) I must have been bit and even though the spider was not poisonous, whatever it had in it's saliva caused an odd skin rash, the mold/fungus was attaching my internals as well. To this day I have developed a sensitivity to molds. So now I am a little more leery of 'natures little wonders' and they are not welcome in or near the house. | ||
| Thumper74 |
I think spiders are cool and appreciate their contribution to the ecosystem. They're appreciated and left to be in my garden and garage. In my house, they get relocated to somewhere not my house. | ||
| 86129squids |
I'm kinda with Zen and Vern here... I appreciate spiders for their main purpose, eating bugs. As evidenced by those pics (thanks Rick), they have a certain beauty. However, about 3 years ago my cousin died from complications of a brown recluse bite... He was an avid outdoorsman, working to clean out his boat- got bit, realized what had happened, went to the hospital, and had severe, ultimately fatal reactions to the treatments. Apparently the antivenin or whatever else they did put him through 3 cardiac arrests, seizures, a coma, then... He was the "favorite son" of 3 brothers- my aunt and her husband were devastated, surely still are to this day. Moral to the story: Appreciate them as God's creatures, for what they do- but keep your distance. | ||
| Panhead_dan |
With respect to 86129squids and any others this may concern, I feel compelled to post a quote from a source I can't remember. It is still a fact, regardless. "If spiders were the size of house cats, humans would be extinct". | ||
| Johnnylunchbox |
Most spiders are harmless and their fangs cannot even penetrate the epidermis. I got bit by a spider 2 weeks ago while on my annual moto trip. I believe it was a spider but I never saw it bite me. I had two holes about 2 mm apart in my forearm and and arm started to swell, and all the joints in my hand started to hurt. No anaphylaxis, and only a minor topical infection, but I went to the ER anyway. Better to be safe than sorry. Ok now but have two little scares from the F@^%$er that stung me. | ||
| 1313 |
Somehow I managed to drag a spider into work with me this morning. After I got my helmet and jacket properly stowed I sat down to do the morning surveying of my inbox and I feel something on the back of my neck. I brush my hand across the back of my neck in a kind of flinging motion towards my desk. Saw something flying as I did that and I looked at the top of my desk and saw a slightly wounded spider sitting there trying to right a couple of his legs. Once he returned to normal his front legs were poised into a kind of attack mode. I was going to take a picture of the 8-legged freak, but as soon as he was back to normal I squished him. I don't like them in my house - if I see them, they end up like my visitor this morning. In my garage, I am currently taking the 'I won't bother you, if you don't bother me' stance, but eventually I know I will do whatever I can to eliminate them. Unless they contribute to the mortgage, they aren't welcome - NO FREELOADERS! Not a fan of spiders, 1313 | ||
| Britchri10 |
We don't really see spider in our house. We have an attached garage & quite a few used to live in there. However, our garage is now the residence of two lizards who live under the washing machine. Since they moved in we haven't seen any more spiders. Chris C | ||
| Reepicheep |
That'd be cool to just loose a couple of gecko's in the house. Wouldn't last long with the cat and the dog though... | ||
| Britchri10 |
Our dogs pretty much ignore the lizards.They chase them but are not quick enough to run them down. We don't have cats at the moment which is why I think I am finding more snakes in the back yard. (Our home backs up to wetland around a creek) I think the two lizards are Skenks. (I am no expert though)One is about 6 inches long & the other about 4 inches. They both enjoy hunting bugs & spiders. Chris C |
