Hi I reside down south in texas. Both my daughter and myself were mowing our lrg yard and my daughter came across while mowing a HUGE BIG SPIDER!!! :0 I have never seen a spider this huge and this color and I am hoping that you can help me out ... IT is shaped like a black widow,but the body is white with brownish. stripes not up and down. straight across the back. legs are blk with orange strips has long legs and long fangs...Does anyone have an idea to what kind of spider it may be? I get the chills just thinking and speaking of it...
2007-11-03 13:55:22 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
any of these look like it?...
http://images.google.com/images?q=orb+spiders&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
if so, it's the common garden spider called an ORB spider because of the shape of the web it spins... it's a great help in the garden to get the bugs.....and they are pretty much harmless unless handled roughly.... we love having them.... they're so interest to watch as they build the web.... daily.. they do like to move house and home often.... the 'zipper' down the center of the web is what really makes sure which one it is..... note... this is the nice spider from Charlotte's Web...... remember the little pig and the spider?.....
hope you find it's this one so you can relax.... she's only wanting to get some bugs, make an egg sac and get ready to die this winter... let her be if you can.....
ps... it's not a common thing to find Hobo and Widows out in the open... they prefer to hide in dark woody places like barns, wood piles and sheds, not out in the grass or hanging off a web in the sunlight!!!....
2007-11-04 00:17:35 · answer #1 · answered by meanolmaw 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
liz
sounds like a hobo spider, very poisonous if that is what it was.
they live everywhere, I mean everywhere, I have seen them all over the united states even on the upper east coast.
look up hobo spider on the internet and see if that was it.
if so, just be alert to them, though dangerous, people have lived with them for years and they were only discovered to be so toxic recently
2007-11-03 14:49:33 · answer #2 · answered by magnetic_azimuth 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If it looks anything like this,
http://davidmichaelkennedy.com/blog/index.php?p=106&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
or this,
http://www.sfondideldesktop.com/Images-Animals/Spider/Banana-Spider/Banana-Spider.Jpg
it's a Banana Spider.
One website says their bite is milder than a bee sting...
I have the worlds biggest aversion to spiders, and Banana Spiders are the only ones I find beautiful, and not scary.
hope it helps
2007-11-03 14:31:49 · answer #3 · answered by kitsears 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
tarantula?? anda those things can get HUGE! however, theyre relatively friendly as people keep them as pets. so your daughter probably mowed someones pet spider! hahaha but spiders are CREEPY!!!
heres a pic of what SOUNDS like you saw: http://www.creative-corners.com/uploads/images/gallery/big/1152303469.jpg
2007-11-03 13:59:02 · answer #4 · answered by NicoleY. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most likely a balck widow. If it was me, I would'nt have time to look at it. I'd be running as fast as I could.
2007-11-03 14:00:57 · answer #5 · answered by ga_tx_1992 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋