Isnt she lovely? Her name was Gretel. She hung out by our rubber tree (its the south, you can grow anything here). Hansel hung out by the pond, but he was smaller, and not picture worthy. Gretel was about as big as the palm of my hand. They dont bite, but they do have a tendancy to fall on your head when you mow the lawn....try throwing yourself off a riding lawnmower and thrashing about wildly on the ground. Spectators love it.
Much to Gretels misfortune, Dean decided to "move" her and wrapped Gretel and her web up in a big stick and moved her to the side of the property. He said she was getting "too big". For kicks, we would throw june bugs on her web and watch her roll them up.
Doesnt take much to entertain us. :)
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Nic, if I am EVER in Texas or you come up to visit Dani...I am SO gonna hurt you! LOL
I walk in and am greated by this monstrosity you named Gretel.
I'm having the heebie jeebies just thinking about her.
She even had FUR on her belly.....!!!
You have to be kidding me!!?!?!?!?! I feel sick.
THAT IS DISGUSTING!!!!!!
Her LEGS are HAIRY!!
ps..
You do realise that you're turning into mom don't you?!
*points finger and laffs*
nasty nasty nasty how can u like spiders
Oh my I work in a walmart warehouse and they were telling me about how they sometimes get banna spiders in the banna cases now I am scared
actually i think it is an argiope, banana spiders have longer, boxier bodies, fyi
That's a garden spider, not a banana spider. One way you can tell is by the pattern through the middle of the web, the crisscrosses. The other way is by looking at pictures of ACTUAL banana spiders on google.
I am sure this is NOT a banana spider... But in fact looks very similar. This is called a Garden Spider AKA St. Andrews Cross because it forms cross like figure and are not Known to be harmful. The Banana Spider has more of a solid yellow backing where as the Garden Spider has more black almost Incomplete stripe like markings. Hope I didn't bust you bubble.... But very nice pic
It's a corn spider.
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