What kind of spider is this?

[StankBacon]

http://bacon.modacity.net/img/images/photo0011.jpg


found behind my garage and it freaked me out... its bigger than anything ive ever seen back there.... anyone got an idea of what this nasty fucker is ?

[king_nothing_]

Need a clearer picture.

[annihilation]

http://www.dpughphoto.com/dark%20fishing%20spider%20illinois%2070907%20danie lle%20lessing_small.jpg
Looks like some kind of fishing spider.

[ICEE]

I see these all the time in cali during the fall.

[ThePlague]

See what it tastes like, it could help us understand what kind it is.

[Futzy]

HAH U GONNA DIE

[TeeKup]

That would be your standard Garden Spider.

http://www.markleyspest.com/images/GardenSPIDER55.jpg

"Garden Spiders are found throughout the United States. They are also known as the Writing Spider, Banana Spider, and Corn Spider. Their black, yellow and white markings are conspicuous. The females are the larger of the sexes, measuring about 3/4 of an inch. The Garden Spider is completely harmless to humans.

Garden Spiders will spin webs in the eaves of buildings, in barns, sheds, and greenhouses, and around large sturdy vegetation. They prefer the outdoors and are not often seen indoors unless there is a steady food source.

Adult Garden Spiders do not live beyond autumn's first frost. Their eggs remain protected within a brown silk ball-shaped sack through the winter. At the onset of spring the new generation emerges. The hatchlings will draw out a strand of silk that is caught by the wind, carrying them away from the old web."

- http://www.markleyspest.com

[neuro]

it's a normal cross-spider (cross on their back), which is also eactly the same thing Teekup said.
there's also versions without a cross, but it's still the same thing.


they leave little nests in wooden corners/nooks/crannies which look like a little yellow piece of fuzzy gum that was pushed into the corner, which in turn will release a whole bunch of yellow spider-ysi've seen them become almost 4 CM above my pond.

[Phobias]

Obligatory Australian response: Harden the fuck up. We get these sneaky fuckers (golden orb spiders) that make webs in fucking trees along footpaths, above and in between doorframes, around clotheslines and for the hardcore fucking spider, between light posts (not a fucking joke) not only do they make them, they fucking dangle down from the web so when you DO walk into them you can never be fucking sure it didn't climb on you.

On topic; that's an awesome little spider.

[ICEE]

Obligatory Australian response: Harden the fuck up. We get these sneaky fuckers (golden orb spiders) that make webs in fucking trees along footpaths, above and in between doorframes, around clotheslines and for the hardcore fucking spider, between light posts (not a fucking joke) not only do they make them, they fucking dangle down from the web so when you DO walk into them you can never be fucking sure it didn't climb on you.

On topic; that's an awesome little spider.

These guys do the same thing, but I've never seen it go between lamp posts. In one night, I walked roughly a mile from my house without any problems, but taking the same fucking path back, I walked into 5 of these fuckers nests. The webbing is really sticky, its a pain in the ass.

Coincidentally, in the same night I tripped over an opossum. It was not my finest hour.