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Today I was procrastinating, I have an acre of grass that I push mow and its pretty over-whelming...so about 5pm I decide its cooled off enough, to get my butt out there....:-5

First thing is....ummm, I have this really bad habit of leaving my "mowin' shoes" outside on the porch, and don't think about the fact that "creatures" could be in there....so I slip my shoes on and feel something slimy.... I get the shoe off as fast as I can!! Tap it out and out comes what looks like a tail from a blue tail lizzard, its squiggling on the side walk....and I'm scared that the lizard is still in the shoe....ugh...it wasn't so I calmed down and went on to mowin' grass...

I'm mowing along and all of a sudden something comes out of the tall weeds ....and it this HUGE yellow spider....I went to get my camera...that is another long story, cause my camera had NO batteries...and had problems finding batteries that worked...but I did and in the next post I will post the pics of the spider, I re-sized them...kinda blurry, but think you get the idea.....and if you are afraid of spiders...ummm this is your warning!! get out of the thread now...even though it won't bother you....for goodness sakes he lives at MY house!!!:D:D

The suspense is killing me I want to see the spider!!!

I took multiple shots....here he/she is...trying to mindful of its feelings, don't want to offend that bugger!

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Sorry Carla, I had to get up for a minute while the pics were bein' downloaded in the attachment thing-ma-bobby....hope the pics were worth your wait!:wah:

Yikes how big was it in inches never seen a spider like that...

It is huge, I'd say about 3 inches...scared the crap out of me......this is me!!

You look pretty calm to me. :wah: I would have called animal control to get the thing off my property I hate spiders... Wonder what kind it is?? I going see if I can find out what its called that yellow body is interesting...:-3

CARLA;692178 wrote: You look pretty calm to me. :wah: I would have called animal control to get the thing off my property I hate spiders... Wonder what kind it is?? I going see if I can find out what its called that yellow body is interesting...:-3


I was FAR away from it when I took that picture...I actually was bein' funny....not sure what I looked like when I first saw it...he stayed up there the whole time while I mowed grass...I even threw something at him to get a better camera shot of him/her!!

I meant to look it up too Carla...thanks for reminding me...let me know if you find something!

I'll look too....

That is a pretty big spider- glad *that* thing wasn't in your shoe! :-3

RedGlitter;692180 wrote: That is a pretty big spider- glad *that* thing wasn't in your shoe! :-3


Good point!! of course I am stranded at the house today so I'm thinking that today isn't a good day to get bit by something that will kill me!:eek::eek:

It looks peculiar to me.....but what do I know.

It also looks harmless..........how did you get it to pose like that....say "Cheese" ?

You must have picked the little bugger up and moved it to the photo studio.

And as an after thought......3 inches ?

What did you base that on ? Did hubby tell you his" cough" manhood was 12 inches ?

That spider is an inch at most......but please dont tell your hubby

Bruv;692182 wrote: It looks peculiar to me.....but what do I know.

It also looks harmless..........how did you get it to pose like that....say "Cheese" ?

You must have picked the little bugger up and moved it to the photo studio.

And as an after thought......3 inches ?

What did you base that on ? Did hubby tell you his" cough" manhood was 12 inches ?

That spider is an inch at most......but please dont tell your hubby


First of all, I have no hubby....and I don't need a man to tell me how to measure something....

I didn't touch it....I am getting the 3 inches from my memory of how big that thing is...

How do you know it is a inch, were you here? don't think so.....

I found it, it is called a "Golden Argiope". Here is a picture of one eating...

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Good job, Wendy! I won't tell you about the gigantic spider web I have to get rid of, everytime I go to work in the back yard. So yuchy and annoying! (and you push mow too, so do I....but it is alot of work!)

Wendy, You are just tooooo funny. I feel the same way about crickets....they're like big roaches...yuk.

Cool Carla, thank you....

Yikes here is another one this one is 4 inches long. I'm going to have nightmares tonight for sure>>>:-3

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CARLA;692189 wrote: Yikes here is another one this one is 4 inches long. I'm going to have nightmares tonight for sure>>>:-3


Thats almost EXACTLY like the one that is on the other side of my bedroom, so imagine MY nightmares too!!:eek::eek:

In my best 'Crocodile Dundee' impression: "Thet's not a spiduh...

...this is a spiduh!"

http://www.freeinfosociety.com/site.php?postnum=307

Nah mate, these are spiders!

thats is huge ww3

and that last picture is that 2 together i am like

CARLA;692185 wrote: I found it, it is called a "Golden Argiope". Here is a picture of one eating...
Nice scary pix, but are they dangerous? :-3

After being bitten myself by a Brown Recluse Spider in my sleep, (causing me to go to the hospital) I now have electrical "insect" repellers plugged in all my bedrooms. They supposidly emitt a high frequency sound for upto 15 feet that keeps/drives them away from those areas. Black & Decker & Sunbeam are the models of the ones I have. They seem to work, as I have many spiders in my garage under my bedroom, & have never seen one in any of the bedrooms. Only the other rooms. Guess I need to get a few more & put one in every room! I'm off shortly, to go & do that!

Kathy Ellen;692187 wrote: Wendy, You are just tooooo funny. I feel the same way about crickets....they're like big roaches...yuk.


When we were at Rhodes one year on holiday they had these huuuuge creatures that looked just like a cricket but they were as big as a mouse!! (yes Bruv,,, i said big as a mouse:wah:) quite a large mouse too. One day a cleaner was walking by and there was one near one of the aprtments and she stepped on it!!! It was gross

littlemissgiggle;692330 wrote: thats is huge ww3

and that last picture is that 2 together i am like


No, there was only one, there was a piece of grass/weed in front of it in one of the shots....

brave wonderwendy

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Oh jeeeez.I am terrified of spiders and what a whopper.I hate September as that is the time the big buggers come in the house,I squished one tonight.They aint three inches though,If I met one of those I would end up in an ambulance.

okay, so it was big...but it was quite pretty as spiders go...must have been all dressed up for a spider nightclub or birthday tea

magenta flame;692780 wrote: Remember this one I took of the Huntsman, little bugger I found near the PC?






Wow magenta, what a monster, it looks like you painted on its "eyes", scary!

I've seen some nasty looking critters when in Florida, but nothing like that!

No Magenta, I didn't hurt him or her (gender friendly I am:)) Carla looked it up for me its called a Agriope aurantia, garden spider. supposedly harmless.

I don't know where it went...I won't bother it as long as it leaves me alone....:-3

http://kaweahoaks.com/html/argiope_aurantia.html

Fly on over here and I'll give you this one....GG named it Olivia:):wah:

Ewwww! I do NOT like any kinds of bugs...PERIOD! He sure was a big one. I'm like you, as long as they leave me alone, I'll leave them alone. I don't know whats worse spiders or centipeeds! God, I feel like I'm itching now! My EX was a paramedic, and he told me a story one night of how his crew transported a patient to the hospital. While he was there filling out paperwork, he could hear a kid screaming. One of the nurses said that the poor thing had a SPIDER that had crawed up into his ear and died. They were trying to get the damd thing out of his ear canal! THATS NASTY! Thank GOD, he wasn't in your shoe!

It's a banana spider, a female. If you see a smaller one in the web, it's her hubby. We've one in the back yard, and she's just as big. They'll die in the cool weather, eventually, but their eggs should hatch out next spring.

I've read this whole thread - big mistake, really big mistake.





Now going to have nightmares, what an eejit - when will I learn to ignore anything titled 'big spider'!!!!!!!!!!!

Imladris;704497 wrote: I've read this whole thread - big mistake, really big mistake.





Now going to have nightmares, what an eejit - when will I learn to ignore anything titled 'big spider'!!!!!!!!!!!


Next time I will title the thread...."Immy and the rest of you eejits....if you don't like Spiders, don't look!!"

WonderWendy3;705355 wrote: Next time I will title the thread...."Immy and the rest of you eejits....if you don't like Spiders, don't look!!"


And we still will look. :wah:

Peg;705358 wrote: And we still will look. :wah:


:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

said like a true eegit!!

WonderWendy3;705373 wrote: :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

said like a true eegit!!


what's an eegit??

WonderWendy3;692172 wrote: Today I was procrastinating, I have an acre of grass that I push mow and its pretty over-whelming...




I know this is about your spider event but I couldn't help noticing you were going to mow an acre with a push mower. Now, what are you, wonder woman or something??? hahaha

Bruv;692182 wrote:

And as an after thought......3 inches ?

That spider is an inch at most......but please dont tell your hubby


I agree, that spider wasn't three inches. Unless you were counting in those scrawny legs.

watermark;705386 wrote: I know this is about your spider event but I couldn't help noticing you were going to mow an acre with a push mower. Now, what are you, wonder woman or something??? hahaha


ummm, I just saw this and yes, I've push-mowed my acre for almost 17 years now......



And I disagree about the size of the spider...I saw it...it was huge....but no sense in argueing about it...we can agree to disagree:)