Huge scary spider!!!
Sep 28, 2015 15:16:49 #
Help! What is this? ( yeah I know its a spider:) but what kind? It would be about 2 inches if flat.....wondering if it will want to come inside when it gets cold? It has been here all summer....I like to look at it....bit prefer not to have a close encounter.
Sep 28, 2015 15:25:27 #
jim hill
Loc: Springfield, IL
twiga wrote:
Help! What is this? ( yeah I know its a spider:) but what kind? It would be about 2 inches if flat.....wondering if it will want to come inside when it gets cold? It has been here all summer....I like to look at it....bit prefer not to have a close encounter.
where's the pic., twigy.
Sep 28, 2015 15:37:29 #
Sep 28, 2015 15:39:20 #
jim hill
Loc: Springfield, IL
twiga wrote:
Duh....drinking wine to calm my nerves...:).....her it is....
Yikes! I have severe arachnophobia. This one will give me nightmares.
Sep 28, 2015 15:42:16 #
Sep 29, 2015 05:38:58 #
Hard to tell from a fuzzy picture. Most likely a type of orb weaver, she will be gone (dead) when the cold hits.
Sep 29, 2015 05:54:17 #
Best way to keep her out is not to answer the door when she knocks. (You'll know it's her when she knocks eight times)
Sep 29, 2015 05:54:48 #
twiga wrote:
Help! What is this? ( yeah I know its a spider:) but what kind? It would be about 2 inches if flat.....wondering if it will want to come inside when it gets cold? It has been here all summer....I like to look at it....bit prefer not to have a close encounter.
If he comes inside and he's only 2 inches, he probably won't eat that much!
Sep 29, 2015 06:25:52 #
to graveman: well that's a relief....I didn't want to hurt her....but I didn't want her to hurt me either. thanks.....
Sep 29, 2015 06:27:26 #
Sep 29, 2015 06:41:33 #
Sirsnapalot wrote:
If he comes inside and he's only 2 inches, he probably won't eat that much!
hmmmm....why is this not comforting? :)
Sep 29, 2015 06:56:17 #
alf85
Loc: Northumberland, UK.
twiga wrote:
Help! What is this? ( yeah I know its a spider:) but what kind? It would be about 2 inches if flat.....wondering if it will want to come inside when it gets cold? It has been here all summer....I like to look at it....bit prefer not to have a close encounter.
Don't know but here is another.
Alfie.
Sep 29, 2015 07:18:33 #
Sep 29, 2015 07:50:01 #
twiga wrote:
Help! What is this? ( yeah I know its a spider:) but what kind? It would be about 2 inches if flat.....wondering if it will want to come inside when it gets cold? It has been here all summer....I like to look at it....bit prefer not to have a close encounter.
Let it stay warm in the winter. It's more afraid of you than you are of it. :D
Sep 29, 2015 07:55:13 #
She looks a lot like the one we had outside our bedroom window last month, a cat-face yellow orb weaver. (or yellow cat-face orb weaver.) She's only after those grasshoppers and ours usually repaired/replaced her web at night. Her web got huge with support lines running about 8 feet across our slab to a tree. One morning there was a hole in the web and no spider. I suspected it was a bat that got her. We didn't get to see her egg-sack so I don't know if we'll get to see the hatchlings next spring when they throw a gossamer thread to catch the wind and fly away.
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