Banana Spider
Mar 13, 2022 12:37:42 #
scallihan
Loc: Tigard, OR
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
đź‘Ť I would love to see one of these. They are related to the Joro spider that is now in the U.S., and despite some media hype, they are just as harmless to humans as this big girl.
Yikes! Benign, but I still would not want to get it in my face or hair!
Mar 13, 2022 13:19:19 #
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Mar 14, 2022 12:52:14 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I think they are called that because they are about the same size as a spider, right? 
EDIT: Another typo! That should have been "...they are about the same size as a banana."
Mar 14, 2022 13:27:09 #
jerryc41 wrote:
EDIT: Another typo! That should have been "...they are about the same size as a banana."
Figured that’s what you were wanting to say…. I find the older we get the more frequent those typos show up…lol
Mar 14, 2022 14:41:36 #
Sirsnapalot wrote:
Figured that’s what you were wanting to say…. I find the older we get the more frequent those typos show up…lol
I blame it on the keyboard or autocorrect.
Mar 18, 2022 21:40:42 #
Mr. SONY
Loc: LI, NY
When we lived in Florida, we had these large spiders.
Yellow Garden Spider
Argiope aurantia
https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Invertebrates/Yellow-Garden-Spider
My 14-year-old son let one walk all over him.
His face, head, neck.
I let that one walk all over me too.
Spider's legs have a strange feeling.
Our granddaughter when she was 5 was afraid of spiders the size of a nat.
Now that she is a grownup 7-year-old, she has her own small tarantula spider and some other spiders which she holds.
In the pet store she even holds large hairy tarantulas.
Yellow Garden Spider
Argiope aurantia
https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Invertebrates/Yellow-Garden-Spider
My 14-year-old son let one walk all over him.
His face, head, neck.
I let that one walk all over me too.
Spider's legs have a strange feeling.
Our granddaughter when she was 5 was afraid of spiders the size of a nat.
Now that she is a grownup 7-year-old, she has her own small tarantula spider and some other spiders which she holds.
In the pet store she even holds large hairy tarantulas.
Mar 19, 2022 12:35:01 #
Mr. SONY wrote:
When we lived in Florida, we had these large spide... (show quote)
This looks exactly like the spider I remember seeing at Papa Jacks farm when I was a kid. We called it a Banana Spider simply because it was bright yellow.
I was never particularly afraid of spiders, but never let them crawl on me without killing them, or trying to kill'em. My secretary at work loved spiders, and she would pick them up in her hand and toss them outside rather then kill them like most people do. She taught me a lot, but I still kill them in the house, but never kill them out side.
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