i'm scared its poisonous, i found one about the size of a dime (including legs) on my golf bag and later another one about 1 tenth of that side. I think it had babies in my golf bag DX! But i'm scared they might be poisonous. Has anyone ever heard of such a spider?
2007-08-15 08:08:31 · 7 answers · asked by Kris G 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
*stripe, not stipe...
2007-08-15 08:14:08 · update #1
http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/ythfacts/resourc/tcherpln/crab.jpg
this is the closest looking pic i could find
it looks alot like this, only with an orange ring-like strip on its back and it was a little smaller
2007-08-15 08:30:28 · update #2
honey its hard to tell without a pic.it sounds like a common garden spider,but cant be for certain.EDIT-i googled this and it came up with a Riged Faced Flower Spider,found in fields and places where their are flowers and grasses.it is not poisonious.
2007-08-15 08:13:14 · answer #1 · answered by alcaholicdemon 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Neon Yellow Spider
2016-10-05 09:06:54 · answer #2 · answered by dicino 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That fits well as a desciption of one of the Flower Spiders. These are several kinds of crab spiders that all look approximately like that as final-stage adults (the females, anyway) - sometimes white, but generally yellow, with orange or reddish stripes on the abdomen. Depending on where you live, the biggest is Misumena vatia (w/legs, maybe about nickel-sized), but there are others that are smaller.
I'd put my money on you having either 2 different kinds of adult females, or (most likely) that you have an adult female and the much smaller adult male nearby. The male would look rather different than the female, with a smaller abdomen and probably darker fore-legs.
None of these spiders is in any way harmful to people; I've never heard of anybody even being bit by a crab spider, let alone having a bad reaction to a bite.
2007-08-15 10:45:45 · answer #3 · answered by John R 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it could possibly be a harmless golden rod spider but has venom but the worst it could do is make you sick for a week or less and they can change colors to blend in
2007-08-15 12:45:00 · answer #4 · answered by kilopapa45 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Might be an oranged stiped golfbag spider. They usually attack the 19th hole.
2007-08-15 08:17:00 · answer #5 · answered by veg_rose 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm not familiar with the spider, but usually you don't want to mess with brightly colored animals or bugs.
2007-08-15 08:13:19 · answer #6 · answered by Stoic fool 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
me personally....i get scared at the sight of any spider....i have serious arachnophobia...to me, all spiders are poisonous, and I will do whatever I have to to get far away from them.
2007-08-15 08:18:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋