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#2 2009-10-17 1:43 pm
Re: what spider is this?
http://bugguide.net/
Post it there, you'll get an answer fairly quickly.
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#6 2009-10-17 2:19 pm
Re: what spider is this?
You can check on http://www.whatsthatbug.com/ and see if you can find it there.
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#11 2009-10-17 2:27 pm
Re: what spider is this?
You know, registering isn't that big of a deal, and it is used to notify you of responses to the query.
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#12 2009-10-17 2:29 pm
Re: what spider is this?
oh, i know. Justine's link made a bit more sense in my case, though: email the authors of the website with an attached picture and they'll get back to me when they can. no biggie.
but i did find what it is. so that's something.
suck it, trebek.
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#15 2009-10-17 2:53 pm
Re: what spider is this?
justine wrote:
You're welcome, but you might have to look at a lot of ugly hairy things before you find the right one.
Funny, that's what Mom said when I told her I was searching for my true love.
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#16 2009-10-17 3:23 pm
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Re: what spider is this?
Bren wrote:
justine wrote:
You're welcome, but you might have to look at a lot of ugly hairy things before you find the right one.
Funny, that's what Mom said when I told her I was searching for my true love.
that's because you were spending all that time in the primate section of your local zoo. 
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#17 2009-10-17 3:36 pm
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#18 2009-10-17 7:31 pm
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Re: what spider is this?
I don't much care for spiders. I leave them alone if they leave me alone.
HOWEVER, this one A spider decided that the best place to catch the yumminy goodness was my front door.
"Sorry, buddy... you gotta move."
So I gently disconnected the parts of the web that held it up and let the little insect grabber scurry away.
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#20 2009-10-17 7:47 pm
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Re: what spider is this?
We seem to get specific indoor or outdoor spiders. The spiders I see inside our house I never see outside our house and vice versa.
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#21 2009-10-17 8:06 pm
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Re: what spider is this?
I would have called that one a "Writing Spider".
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.
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#22 2009-10-17 8:07 pm
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I used to have a very live-and-let-live attitude toward spiders. Then I got bit by one, and didn't realize it till the bite had become infected.
Now I don't like them so much.
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#23 2009-10-17 8:35 pm
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Re: what spider is this?
Found it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_aurantia
I don't know anything about spiders, just good with google, I guess. Looks like the one in your pic lost a couple legs. Anyway, here are some more pics:
http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecolo … rgiope.htm
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#24 2009-10-18 7:23 am
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Re: what spider is this?
As you already found out, its a member of the Orb weaver family. We call them Garden Spiders around these parts because they tend to build webs between the rows in gardens and corn fields. They also like tall grass.
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#25 2009-10-18 9:03 pm
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We call them garden spiders too. They make the prettiest webs, catch lots of bugs and basically leave people alone while looking classy.
My wife refuses to kill spiders. If we find them, she insists on capturing it in a cup and tossing it outside. Spiders can creep me out, but garden spiders are just big, pretty, and harmless.
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