AYYYY!!!

YIKES!!!


*shudders*


Geez, it's HUGE!

YEAH tell me bout it holy crap I was freaking out.
You know its a big spider when they have to make their webs with those wide bands in them to prevent birds from flying through lol

I don't blame you for freaking out, I'd be wigging my brain out! BIRDS? AYA!

Actually those wide bands are used to attract males.

Oh my god. She's gorgeous!
That's my favorite kind of spider. Argiope aurantia.

Wow nice, well she was at Fur Fright this year, lol awesome IDing of this spider by the way crazy quick too.
Thanks for telling me what kind it is ^_^

Yellow and black garden spider, as she's usually called.

She's an orb-weaver. And my monicker on tumblr is orbweavr, after this specimen.

I'm a New England too, so I've seen a couple in my day (and unfortunately, a couple is all there has been that I've seen. I wanna see more, they're my fave!).

Nice there were a few egg sack looking things around they must have been hers, she was pretty scary though, first time I seen one since I was a kid, and I had the same reaction; scream, run and get other people, point from far away and go "Hey go look at that and tell me if it as scary to you as it is to me!" lol

Hehe, typical human reaction to spiders. :)
These guys are harmless to humans.

I remember this fucker! She was awesome. We got SO tanked together.

^^ glad you took the pic huh?

Glad ya let me use your phone to do it lol scary lookin spider is awesome!

Garden Spiders are scary.

We squished one, one time.

Nice. When I was a little boy, I kind of had one of these as a pet living outside my bedroom window. I used to catch ants and stun wasps and throw them into the web and watch the spider go to work. One summer night, I even watched a praying mantis try to get at it and they fought. Spider drove it away. Garden spiders are the most awesome. the strength of their webs are amazing too. It's like fishing line.

I like its markings.

is it bad i know the people that own the blue truck and the red truck?

lol maybe? is it?

LOOOOL o.o

lol i think so. i know a good 40% of the people that go each year

ahhh....beautiful but scary...

Yikes! I remember walking through the field behind my house and I would look up and SMACK right in my face would be one of those.

NOPE!

Yep was thinking bout grabin em n taking a rip to the headless lounge n stickin em in yer head.

He would have immediately died from sweat asphyxiation.

looks tropical, wulda loved it ^_^