Help BBV!! Is this a black widow?
 

It's outside my window now and I'm skeered!!!

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/236...9140178ss0.jpg

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Sacrifice a dingo to the god spirits to make it go away

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Mfer is hudge. Prob about the size of a grape.

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black widows arent usually out in the open like that

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black widows arent usually out in the open like that

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It actually spun it's web between my roof and the porch light. I saw 2 moths get caught in the web and devoured by this thing. Amazing actually.

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Or that big.

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meh, plus it isnt really black. The abdomen is more of an ash color.

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yes

you can tell by the web its been there pretty long and the odds are you have been bitten by it. sry op

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insert photoshop with "you gonna get raped"

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It actually spun it's web between my roof and the porch light. I saw 2 moths get caught in the web and devoured by this thing. Amazing actually.

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Which is why you should leave it alone. Spiders take care of a lot of other bugs that really suck.

I watched one chasing a fly across the screen slider to my balcony once. Pretty cool. Unfortunately, the takedown took place in a crevice and I couldn't see it.

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Just be happy it hasn't built one of these yet:

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Co...2p.hmedium.jpg

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Doesn't look like a widow type web, too symmetrical. Are those markings orange? What state do you live in?

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The legs are red and black. I live in Georgia.

Also, what do black widow webs look like? I have a ton of webs outside my house.

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Black Widows make webs that look like the spider is on crack.

http://entomology.wsu.edu/insectofth...blackwmale.jpg

http://www.extension.umn.edu/project...s/blkwidow.jpg

http://www.afpmb.org/pubs/Field_Guid...s/Fig.%203.JPG

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you should swab him with some crack so he can put a cap in the alcohol spiders ass

http://www.maniacworld.com/Spider-Alcohol.jpg

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I'm guessing it's a Shamrock spider.

Widows are characterized by a distinctive red hourglass shape in the belly of the female. Stringy webs, not the beautiful orb style like that one.

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In Georgia... Im thinking its a banana spider

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I guess I'm a retard for clicking on this thread and not expecting to see lots of big pictures of spiders creeping me out.

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You've got an orb-weaver spider - which doesn't include any of the notable poisonous spiders.

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I guess I'm a retard for clicking on this thread and not expecting to see lots of big pictures of spiders creeping me out.

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Spiders are beautiful, man!

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I hate spiders but I am calling puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusssssssaaaaaaaaaaaayy yyyy

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I don't believe that's a black widow, as others have noted. It does look like an orb weaver, which are harmless (I'm no expert, though).

I have two orb weavers by my driveway and one hairy mother that might be one at the end of my front porch (I'll try to remember to post pics at some future date).

I live in Georgia, too, and my lot has a lot of vegetation. That means lots of [censored] bugs, which, in turn, translates to spiders. There are a shitton of webs and egg sacs in my garage and near my front door. While I know spiders are beneficial to us as long as they are not poisonous, I plan on vacuum-mulching them up this weekend. I felt bad when the Chinese food delivery guy came and we had a bunch of scariness by the front door.

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who cares what kind of spider it is? just kill it.

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Here is one of the orb weavers next to my driveway (the other is up on a basketball hoop). We had one like it last year on an azalea.

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/9594/img3575ms5.jpg


This one is on the end of the front porch. The picture isn't as good because I didn't get as close to it, plus it moved when I got close, so its legs aren't all spread.

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/8151/img3696zf8.jpg

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First one is a yellow garden spider - extremely common.
http://www.clt.astate.edu/Elind/imag...C155web_15.jpg

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The 1st one is a standard garden spider. They get big but are harmless to a healthy person. I'm not sure about the 2nd one.

There's only 2 spiders in GA that you need to worry about. They are the Black Widow and Brown Recluse. Both of them can cause serious damage.

I've already posted a pic of a Black Widow.

Here's a Brown Recluse. If you want to see what kind of damage it can do, google(image) it. Some of the pics are nasty. I hope you don't have a weak stomach.

http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/pi/enpp...lusabrown2.jpg

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fk spiders. my whole st is wrecked rt now. fk err1 as well.

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But def not a black widow.

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you're scared of that little thing? bring it in the house and let it kill any bugs. spiders are harmless. it's very rare to be bitten by one and even more rare for it to hurt you. now, house centipedes are a different matter. i'm still adjusting to those monsters.

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oh enough with the brown recluse. google that spider and learn about it. alot of myths surrounding it.

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Mfer is hudge. Prob about the size of a grape.

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This guy was chillin on the wall in the hall of my apartment building in Sydney. 6 inches in diameter.

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/1...hallwayka1.jpg

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ok, that's [censored] scary

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That's definitely a black widow.


To confirm, please get very close, and see if it looks like this:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/emunit/emunit/...der%20eyes.jpg

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The 1st one is a standard garden spider. They get big but are harmless to a healthy person. I'm not sure about the 2nd one.

There's only 2 spiders in GA that you need to worry about. They are the Black Widow and Brown Recluse. Both of them can cause serious damage.

I've already posted a pic of a Black Widow.

Here's a Brown Recluse. If you want to see what kind of damage it can do, google(image) it. Some of the pics are nasty. I hope you don't have a weak stomach.

http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/pi/enpp...lusabrown2.jpg

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I prolly shouldnt have googled that [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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I don't know OP. What I do know is

KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT

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now, house centipedes are a different matter. i'm still adjusting to those monsters.

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Heh, woke up two days ago being bit by this.

http://a695.ac-images.myspacecdn.com...7a4d642446.jpg

Wasn't much fun.

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What happened? You have to go to the emergency room? I didn't even know centipedes were dangerous. Just thought they were nasty. What state do you live in?

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The 1st one is a standard garden spider. They get big but are harmless to a healthy person. I'm not sure about the 2nd one.

There's only 2 spiders in GA that you need to worry about. They are the Black Widow and Brown Recluse. Both of them can cause serious damage.

I've already posted a pic of a Black Widow.

Here's a Brown Recluse. If you want to see what kind of damage it can do, google(image) it. Some of the pics are nasty. I hope you don't have a weak stomach.

http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/pi/enpp...lusabrown2.jpg

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I prolly shouldnt have googled that [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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I googled it last night too. Did you see the guy who's hand was eaten away?

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I live in Athens, it wasn't even that bad though, I was just woken up and felt something biting my foot. They really just look nasty, the bite itself wasn't that painful.

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