Spider ID

[rubicon51]

Found this guy making a good size web on my back patio. Could y'all help me ID it? Don't want to kill it if it is harmless.

[Texas Stalker]

Spider ID

Had one of those crawl on me while I was driving the other day. About had a stroke.


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[Martin]

We always called them Orb spiders. What I know about them is, when you are walking to your morning stand in the dark with no light, and one crawls off your cap onto the side of your face.....you will scream like a 5 year old girl and will have to wait until it gets light so you can find your bow and all of your arrows. At that point, go back to camp because everything in a 2 mile radius knows where you are. Don't know if they're harmless or not.

[Black Ice]

Spider ID

We always called them Orb spiders. What I know about them is, when you are walking to your morning stand in the dark with no light, and one crawls off your cap onto the side of your face.....you will scream like a 5 year old girl and will have to wait until it gets light so you can find your bow and all of your arrows. At that point, go back to camp because everything in a 2 mile radius knows where you are. Don't know if they're harmless or not.

We called these garden spiders.




And these banana spiders.






I think these two may be some version of Orb spider so I’m guessing the OP’s would fall in that category but I’m no spiderolgist.

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[NAVY CHIEF]

Harmless. But if I walk into its web and it crawls on me I'm stop drop and roll. Hate spiders

[NAVY CHIEF]

Used to shoot the banana spiders with a pellet gun back in the day!!!Don't like those either..lol

[rubicon51]

Sounds like just the encounter with these guys is more dangerous than the bite. I was thinking orb weaver as well based on some of the pictures I was comparing, if it is indeed one than it is safe, unless it crawls on my face.

[mechhead]

[tex4k]

No such thing as a harmless spider! You need to invest in a military grade flame thrower....immediately!

[BTLowry]

Orb spider

Back when I was a kid we hunted timber land and walking down an old logging road in the dark with a crappy flashlight you would walk into these spider's webs
Spider wouldn't hurt you but you might hurt yourself with the antics you pulled thinking that fat spider was likely on you somewhere

[justindfw]

Got bit on the neck by one hunting lake aquilla once. I didn't die but it sure freaked me out

[Dusty Britches]

I don't know what that spider is called but I do know that they build their webs in the last daylight hour and take them down in the mornings. It is really neat to watch them.

[sharpstick35]

I don't think there are any orb weavers that are dangerous to people, other than what we do to ourselves. I don't like spiders one bit and i have a dozen or so big ones on my 40 acres that i look out for. They seem to build a new web in a different spot every night and take them down after sunrise.
Catching a web across my face though will send me into an arachnleptic fit.

[sasqy]

I hate all spiders
Have been bitten by 3 brown recluses in 3 years
First one was bad rotted a hole in my ribs
Second one not as bad
Third one even less problem
Maybe the 4th I will be immune to them
I’m sure time will tell

[Louis]

Same as snakes. Only good one is a dead one. Kill em all