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08/11/2004 09:39:33 PM · #1 |
Anybody know what kinda spider this is?
//www.pbase.com/image/32474914 |
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08/11/2004 09:43:30 PM · #2 |
It's one of those disgusting and deadly "uglyfuzzycreepybetteroffdead" arachnids. Get a shoe... quick.
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08/11/2004 10:05:10 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by laurielblack:
It's one of those disgusting and deadly "uglyfuzzycreepybetteroffdead" arachnids. Get a shoe... quick. |
LoL thats what it is hehehe
No...I found this
Posted by: Venom at Mon Jul 26 15:19:50 2004 [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ]
That is an orbweaving spider, one of a group of such spiders in the genus Araneus. If you can provide a picture of it's topside, I can give you a better idea of what exact species in this group it is. They are not dangerous by the way.
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08/11/2004 10:11:47 PM · #4 |
| Don't know what it is sorry, but I see you're obviously not arachniphobic.. That was taken with your 50/1.8. You must have been 10-20 cm away from it, either that of it's Huge.. :-). |
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08/11/2004 10:34:27 PM · #5 |
Matrix ... the picture link is it's topside, do you mean bottom?
ohmark ... yeah, I was pretty close. it's a very small spider.
orbweaving spider, huh? cool, thanks for the investigation :) |
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08/11/2004 10:38:59 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by hopper:
Matrix ... the picture link is it's topside, do you mean bottom?
ohmark ... yeah, I was pretty close. it's a very small spider.
orbweaving spider, huh? cool, thanks for the investigation :) |
I was posting what venom said on another site.I didn't cut any of his words.He was telling another user with the same spider question as you had...and looks like the same spider...what it was.
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08/12/2004 03:25:21 AM · #7 |
Hopper - I'm about 99% positive that that's a barn spider (Araneus cavaticus). It is in the Orb Weaver family (Araneidae), but does seem to be recognized as a distinct species from the orb weaver species. Very closely related, but a different species.
The major tip offs here are the bands on the legs and the cross-marks on the abdomen (darker and more prevalent than the orb weaver and significantly lighter than the garden spider).
I, of course, didn't know any of this until I looked it up in my handy Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders. Which I happened to have handy.
cheers - and that's an excellent damn photo, by the way!
- bacchus.
Message edited by author 2004-08-12 03:28:51.
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