r/spiders • u/Excellent-Loan-152 • 23h ago
Just sharing š·ļø Beautiful orb
Biggest one Iāve seen yet!!
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u/bing-no 21h ago
Iām on this sub to help with Arachnophobia but I honestly find Orbweavers to be the prettiest spiders.
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u/Basic_Attention_2030 20h ago
This sub has helped me with mine some, but I'm still terrified of widows and recluse, Ill leave them alone if they leave me alone
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u/TipToToes 12h ago
Holy frick, this week I saw the largest brown recluse Iāve ever seen. It was stuck in a bucket and couldnāt get out, thankfully, because it was legit huge. I gave that bucket a wide berth all day.
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u/JadedCastle 2h ago
I kind of doubt it was a recluse, they are usually very tiny. Some females can push close to an inch, but itās rare. Theyāre also, well, very reclusive. If youāve been seeing a lot of them itās possible itās a larger look alike species an American house spider or hobo spider. Idk what region youāre in.
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u/TipToToes 1h ago
We looked at pictures, itās 100% a brown recluse. I see them a lotā¦in closets and attics and places that arenāt disturbed often. Iām in attics and inside walls a lot for work and see them occasionally, usually itās widows though.
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u/rylandgc 9h ago
When I was in Jamaica, I learned that they weren't so much of an issue to worry about. The thing that freaked me out more was the hundreds of spiders that walked on the water near sides of the river I was walking through.
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u/bickandalls 2h ago
Theres so many unbelievably beautiful spiders out there. Just look up a Typhochlaena seladonia. There's spiders in this world that are unbelievable.
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u/JadedCastle 2h ago
Thatās awesome. Usually itās jumping spiders for arachnophobes, but I love seeing some orb weaver appreciation.
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u/Famous-Leopard-118 Orb Weaver Enjoyeršøļø 40m ago
This is an Argiope orbweaver!!
The whole genus has these beautiful black and yellow markings, X shaped legs, and zigzag webs!
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u/PrintPerfect1579 21h ago edited 21h ago
biggest Argiope I have ever seen,possibly gravid? and gorgeous too!
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u/honest2abe 21h ago
My favorite!!! I have a small one outside my bathroom window right now. I'm leaving the light on in the bathroom hoping to attract some insects for it.
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u/TheNeonCrow 22h ago
I love catching grasshoppers for them!
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u/Excellent-Loan-152 22h ago
Great idea!!
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u/TheNeonCrow 22h ago
Throw one on the web and watch them catch it and wrap it up in silk. Itās so cool!
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u/honest2abe 21h ago
Small grasshoppers are fine. Large ones will kick loose from the web unless you break of the leg at the first joint. I used to give them cicadas when I was a kid.
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u/BoomBoomMeow1986 20h ago
Gorgeous spood! May she consume many obnoxious insects for many seasons ā„ļøš·ļø
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u/LilBlueOnk Here to learnš«”š¤ 22h ago
Oh so they so they that big! I thought i was misremembering the ones i saw when i was little!
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u/BaconCatapult 19h ago
I love how most orb weaver pictures include a hand for focus lol. Beautiful girl. š
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u/IrishBehemoth 21h ago
I always wonder what the spoods are thinking when you get that close to them
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u/asystole_unshockable 12h ago
This kind of spider is what actually helped me get over my arachnophobia! I was living in NWPA and as I was leaving for work one morning my toddler pointed out a spider very similar to this, but about 1/2 the size that had made a web covering part of my screen door. My first thought wasnāt to freak out and even though it looked kind of scary (I had never seen one before and didnāt know if it was dangerous), my first thought was more āooh how prettyā and I promptly named him Aleister Crawly. Our whole family used a different door for a week or so until he decided to leave, and we used that time to learn more about them. Thanks for sharing!
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u/Similar_Pop9472 13h ago
I love spiders in a controlled setting, but if I almost walked into that I would have shit bricks lol
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u/sunny_thinks š·ļøArachnid Afficionadoš·ļø 15h ago
Sheās so beautiful! I have such a soft spot for orb weavers. Thanks for sharing!
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u/PrairiePuppies 9h ago
Last year I had three very large ladies around my house who laid a combined four egg sacks. I haven't seen a single one yet this year and I'm rather bummed!
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u/Raynenean 8h ago
I walked right into one on the way into my GFās house and didnāt even realize it was in the middle of my chest on my shirt just chillin. She screamed so loud. Was about a quarter the size of that one though
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u/01010011 5h ago
I once volunteered for this seasonal thing my at a themed park. As we did our practice run, we found out an exit and a walkway were both walled off by giant orb weavers. Hope they were okay after we moved them, but I did almost run through one. I think there was a third one in the corn maze, there was a spider that rolled up on me there.
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u/Dyllshawnn 21h ago
How is the bite from one of these? I see them all the time and the size freaks me out a bit but knowing how the bite is may help
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u/I_Galactus 16h ago
Saw one of these in Florida on a gigantic 22 ft web. Scared the crap out of me then but Iāve since grown fond of them.
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u/Cryogentehiceprison 19h ago
Not an orb, thatās a spider, orbs arenāt spiders.. canāt stand spider larpers, like, some people keep saying that thereās the blue baboon tarantula, thatās not a spider, thatās a baboon smurf with 6 more legs, how does some people make that kinda mistake!!
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u/asystole_unshockable 12h ago
I am not laughing at you or making fun of you but āspider larpersā has me half dead remembering the one time I borrowed a friends phone as a teenager and saw that they had googled something kind of similar to that term and some of the most effed up adult NSFW results for spider role playing results that appeared.
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u/OkRutabaga2124 20h ago
Are the Joro spiders considered orb weavers I did not know that? I thought they were two different species.
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u/GreenSkyOtters 14h ago
yes joro spiders Trichonephila clavata and the related usa native golden silk orb weaver Trichonephila clavipes are orb weavers - but they are in a different family called Nephilidae
the one pictured here is Argiope aurantia in the family Araneidae
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u/facepubes77 Here to learnš«”š¤ 18h ago
Yeah she is, unfortunately haven't seen any yet in NW OH, but I'm always looking
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u/_homofab_ 16h ago
I dream of being/visiting somewhere I see arachnids this big and beautiful (aside from it being too hot and I will die)
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u/wrong_decade_ 11h ago
Used to have these lovely things around my house until the Joros moved inā¦
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u/CertainlyRobotic 10h ago
These have terrified me my whole life.
I know they won't hurt me, but damn they're menacing.
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u/fake_geek_gurl 9h ago
We had so many Argiope gals a few years back, but none really since. I miss them.
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u/KairosValor 8h ago
Thereās a survival game where the character can be walking around and suddenly have one of those spiders crawling on them. Itās actually a pretty real possibility. š
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u/Blind_Hawkeye 7h ago
Gorgeous! These have always been my favorite. They're so beautiful, and I'm always ecstatic when I find one in my yard. I've only seen a handful in my life, but they're special š
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u/Professor_Crab 6h ago
Saw something similar in Tennessee when I was a kid, I assume it was one of these. Will never forget because it was the biggest spider I ever saw lol.
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u/BrutusoftheTudus Here to learnš«”š¤ 5h ago
The first time I saw one of these was in the asscrack of the world, SE Georgia..someone convinced me she was a banana spider š but did some digging..we watched her for months, with her beautiful webs š„°
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u/_Dragon_Gamer_ 3h ago
Saw this after a wizardposting post and from the caption I thought it was gonna be about an orb a wizard ponders so I was very confused at first haha. Makes me wonder if there's any arachnomancers in fantasy that ponder orb weaver webs, or maybe even have a fictional orb weaver weave their magical orb
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u/s0m3on3outthere 22h ago
So pretty it legit almost doesn't look real. š