This spider has been making its rounds around our house. It started on our master bedroom window. Then is was on the back porch. I guess there weren't enough insects, so she moved to the kitchen window... and her last stop thus far is the side garage door. Why do I call her a "she"? According to the internet, the females get to be just over two inches whereas the males are barely 3/4 inches. This one is HUGE!
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Hi Donna,
Hope you are doing well! Someone told me yesterday that your friend is called a corn spider. We have them here too and they get HUGE!
Donna - I went to one of my vacant listings the other day and there was one hanging right in front of the doorway. I almost ran right into it. I do believe it is a banana spider and they are harmless.
Donna, I've never seen a spider like that - thank goodness. It gives me the creeps. I'm such a whimp about spiders.
Hello Donna - I am glad to see that you've let it live! Most people would have smashed it long ago.
I don't like those kind but I know they eat a lot of insects. Some place other than my house is preferred.
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We have those same ones here Donna. I'll be happy to send you ours if you like
We do see this kind around at times but I wish they would just move on to other dinning spots.
Hi Donna... you are much more charitable when it comes to insects than I am. I'd have been reaching for the big can of Raid instead of my camera!
Donna,
Got one of these up my shirt last year.. I didn't care at that point whether it was a he or a she.. or anything else about it except.. get it out of there. I was working on the back patio in the veggie garden raised beds and all of a sudden I could feel something crawling on me.. pulled that shirt up and came unglued! It was really huge.
I will never forget that experience. . .
:)
It's not a corn spider nor a banana spider. It's a regular Orb spider that just catches and eats insects, which is the only reason we left it alone. Banana spiders have different yellow markings and have deadly venom.
And after a few days of running into it a couple of times while taking the trash out, Mike took the lawn blower to the web and it would not blow down. Those things are strong!
Donna, I won't be showing that to my family. They are very squeamish around the arachnoid.
Donna, Just the picture of the spider makes me feel like something is crawling on me. Ew!
Alyssa loves looking at it every change she gets... like the scorpion video when there was a scorpion in our house a few weeks ago.
Hi Donna, We have a tenant that called from one of our rentals the other day to tell us their shed was full of black widow spiders. My husband went, thank goodness and took care of them.