This has been constructed on the lamp post at the end of my sidewalk at least three times in the last week. The rain comes at night and beats it down, but then the next night it’s back up. Must be a good hunting ground.
Actually, even the nights when it doesn’t rain, the web seems to be gone in the morning. Can anyone tell what type of spider it is from the photo? Should I be more frightened than I already am?
Holy arachnids! Is that to scale? Does it have a brown violin tattoo (or something — I know it has to do with brown and with violins)?
The only thing more frightening would be if someone sent you a package with a dead rat inside (ahem)….
By the way, thanks for the package with the dead rat inside!
Use the rat safely and wisely. Do not rat anyone with heart condition.
Oops.
Yeah, I put it in the mailbox a couple of weeks ago along with a CD of photos that our graphic designer was driving by to pick up. He was able to laugh after the fact but wasn’t too happy at the time.
Prob good hunting because the light attracts bugs at night. Is “your” spider white? Hard to tell from the pic. We have a huge web too, but our spider is orange w/speckles. Ewwww.
This spider is also speckled – mostly black with yellow or orange speckles. I wish I could have gotten a more detailed photo. Tried both with flash and without. It’s probably about 1 3/4 inches.
Yikes! The last 2 mornings when walking the dog, I’ve walked through webs. Thank goodness I’ve never seen a spider like that.
This thing is big. I’m afraid he’s got relatives in my unfinished basement. I want to go around with the shop vac & suck them all up but then I’d have to throw out the shop vac because I’d certainly never be brave enough to empty it.
eeewww… I have 2-4 of those webs right in front of my house. I also walked into one with the baby and screamed as the bugger was swinging away like a spiderman! LOL I so, so, so, so, SO, SO, SO want to kill these things but hubby says they are good luck. Yeah right! And if they would just do their job and capture some mosquitos for me, I might change my opinion about them. But they don’t. Useless!!!
I want to kill this one too but I’m afraid. If they are good luck, then I’m the luckiest person on the planet. Why don’t I feel lucky?
I think that one is called a Big Meaty Kill Me Before I Get You Spider.
I think a lot of things.
Would that be the formal scientific name, Oma?
Yeah. I know this guy, he is a Spiderist.