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21 September, 2006:
Came across your site. It’s great. Hey, I
was in Maine the last couple of weeks and
saw a bunch of these spiders, but can’t seem
to find much about them. Do you know what
kind this is and if it’s poisonous? Thanks
in advance. Greg
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18 September, 2006:
Here are a few more spiders I've found in my yard
today. I'm loving this new camera!! Hope you can use
them on your website!
Sheila
Savannah, GA
USA
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16 September, 2006:
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Philadelphia, PA
USA
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8 September, 2006:
i didnt know how to post a pic on ur page so i sent u
an e-mail with a photo attachment .. i was hoping u
could tell me what kind of spider this is. we have 3
kids + if they r poisonous i want to know. ty
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8 September, 2006:
Dear Glen, I'm so glad your web site is so thorough. I've
brought myself a good
amount of peace researching the difference between the fake
black widow vs. the real thing, and also, I feel I have a
good handle on what a brown recluse looks like. It all makes
me less nervous to clean out my
basement. Here are some photos of my encounters. First, the
garden orb weaver. Second, what I think is a wolf spider
(camera shy). Thanks for the education,
Neela
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6 September, 2006:
Hello there Glen, I Live in South Central
Pennsylvania about 40 miles from Harrisburg . My wife has
been trying to get me to kill this spider because she is
deathly afraid of it. I am a spider lover so in an agreement
she said if I could find out what kind of spider it is and
conform she won’t die if it bites her it can stay around.
Please help if you can. I attached three photos and you can
use them if you would like.
Thanks Again
Joe
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6 September, 2006:
Here's another spider that I found, it's a little bit
bigger than a quarter, and it has a star-like spot on its abdomen.
Can you tell me what it is? Thanks.
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3 September,
2006:
Hi, Found this interesting fellow last night. He,
thankfully lives outdoors and was a very cooperative photo
subject. This spider was comparable to a dime in size and is
living in S. W. Michigan. Do you have a name for him?
Thanks. Cathy
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3 September,
2006:
Hi, Found this interesting fellow last night. He,
thankfully lives outdoors and was a very cooperative photo
subject. This spider was comparable to a dime in size and is
living in S. W. Michigan. Do you have a name for him?
Thanks. Cathy
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30 August, 2006:
Hi
Can you tell me the name of this spider? Location is Huntsville
Alabama. This fellow built his web outside my kitchen window
(allowing me to photograph from inside).
Regards,
Harry
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27 August, 2006:
Hi Glen I live in Sherwood Park Alberta and have never seen
this type of spider before. We have just moved into a new house
and the yard is full of these can you let me know what it is?
Scott
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27 August, 2006:
Wouldn't that be a scary face to come "face to
face" with? I'm sure, in the insect world, it stops some in their
tracks. It is the belly
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27 August, 2006:
Would you know what kind of spider this is. Found it in
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24 August, 2006:
Hello. I came across your web site when trying to identify the
spider I am attaching pictures of. Do you know what kind it is.
I found it in Eastern Oregon on the outside of one of our
windows. Thank you, Terri
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18 August, 2006:
I have attached an image of a spider that spins his web
every night at dusk and removes it at daylight. Do you know
of this species?
I have been watching it for a week and there are three
spiders all the same and they build the web at the same
place each night and remove by morning.
Thank you for your information. Gonzalo Perez
Houston , Texas
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16 August, 2006:
thanks for being helpful.i went out tonite and took this pic
i think it might be a bit better for you to see
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16 August, 2006:
This spider was found in an enclosure in the Adirondack Park
of northern New York. It's
size is a little bigger than a quarter and was very calm, didn't
seem agressive at all.
It just sat there- we checked back and showed it to some others a
couple hours later and still hadn't gone far. We would appreciate
any information on this spider- we're all from this area (80 yrs)
and have never seen this one before. Thanks! Lisa -
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16 August, 2006:
What is this monster?? We've found several
of them in our yard recently. They seem to come out
only during this time of year. Any suggestions
would be helpful. Thanks!
Kathy
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16 August, 2006:
so, I found this spider in an evergreen tree in front of my
house in the burbs of chicago, the pictures were taken at night, and
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13 August, 2006:
hey, i think they might be related to the orb weavers or
something, they are on our front porch, there are 2 others
of the grayish spiders, they are located about 2-3 feet
apart. We live around Lewiston Idaho (northern) -Megan
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6 August, 2006:
Any Idea on this one
From Minnesota.
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6 August, 2006:
Yes
it's another year of crazy spiders
Question: I been having this one type of spider just about
invade my house in Illinois.
I
can walk into the house and less then 15 minutes a very strong
web is built with a very ulgy spider starring at me.
I
have been using sticks and brooms to enter into the house at
nights and in the morning it's really bad.
I
found that WD-40 spray has been keeping them away from the doors
at night and I have also found while spraying around the front
door that there was a medium Brown Recluse living there.
Gary
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28 July, 2006:
Hi We live in New Hampshire, USA and have come across this
beautiful European Orb Weaver and I'm not sure how she's
come to rest on our farmer's porch as we've never seen
this species before. The common orb weavers are of the
garden variety. (Yellow and black.) At night she sits in
her web, waiting for grasshoppers, beetles or flys,
during the day, she tucks herself up into the groove of
the ceiling of the porch. We understand that when she
lays her eggsack, she will die. We need to know that if
we remove her eggsack and take it to a meadow before the
spiderlings erupt, will they survive?? Thanks,
Holly Haas
Concord, NH, USA
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14 July, 2006:
Hi Glen I found this spider crawling on my Tiki Torch
at night. I have never seen one like this in Southern
California where I have spent my whole life. The photo’s are
not the best given it’s night but it was a large spider
about 1 inch in body and was trying to crawl up to the flame
at night, fortunately I saw it and put out the torch. I
don’t know what type of spider it is maybe a nursery web
spider?? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Bob
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7 July, 2006:
Hi, like you site and thought I
share this one with you. I found this spinder in my
garden on the Hibiscus coast in South Africa.
Sorry but I dont know the name of this spider. Regards,
Ulrika
Sweden - South Africa
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3 July, 2006:
Thanks for your quick reply. In searching your site and
links, I was amazed at how many people could wildy mis-identify the
brown recluse... until I got up close and personal with one of my
spiders this morning and realized how incredibly mistaken I was!!
Boy these guys look a lot different through the lens of the camera
and proper lighting than they do in the badly lit corners of their
web! So I am attaching some shots I just took, shortly after walking
into another web. These guys build massive webs through the night,
but the threads are so thin I can't see them unless the light hits
just right.I am guessing these are more in the Garden Orb Weaver
variety?I still feel a bit bad about killing the Black Widow. Sigh.
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3 July, 2006:
Ok great thanks.. i bet u this
spider is very common, but i never seen it in all my days.
thank you. its attatched to this email.
james
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3 July, 2006:
Great website. I have attached two photos of a spider I found building a
web in my front yard. I'm located in central California, USA, and there are
usually many of these little guys around this time of year. Thank you, Sam Zaid |
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28 June, 2006:
Hi Glen, I took this picture of a spider on a job I was
working on in Romulus, Michigan. I don't know what kind of
spider it is, but it was big enough for me. Just thought you
might want this picture. Eddie
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28 June, 2006:
hello i was just wondering if u can tell me what kind of
spider this is i live in san jacinto, CA and never seen this spider
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25 June, 2006:
I found this spider at our cabin in central Nevada,
USA. Never seen one like it. The pictures aren’t the best because they were taken
at night. Any help identifying would be great.
Pete
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19 April, 2006:
I live in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Every night, it makes a new web between my Palm Tree and my
Royal Poinciana.
In the morning - all evidence is gone - web included. The web
looks kind of like this:
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26 April, 2006:
I
have attached pictures of a spider that has re-appeared in my
back yard. It only comes out at night. In the past few years, it
has been making it's web pretty high up, between 2 orange trees.
One year, however, the web was HUGE.... stretching at least five
feet wide. This year it has been making a web between a banana
tree and a hanging planter (pole). Can you help me to identify
if this is a poisonous spider or not? The pale yellow body is
slightly smaller than a dime. The legs are mainly orange with
brownish/black where they attach to the body. It is very
difficult to get a good color picture of this spider. I have
tried using a flashlight sitting in another hanging plant. This
is the best I have been able to do so far. Thank you,
Nancy
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19 April, 2006:
To Glen, great website. We have a pet golden orb. we live in
Adelaide, South Australia. "Spidey" has just spun an egg sack
and after finding your site we discovered it will soon die and
the eggs will hatch in the spring. Is it possible to move the
sack without hurting it once "spidey" has died? We would like to
watch the complete cycle if we can. I have three girls who have
been fascinated with their pet, and overcome fear of spiders! I
have attatched a picture of Spidey.
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12 March, 2006:
Hi guys Just wondering what the spider
(picture attached) is? We have it in our
garden and it seems to camouflage itself in the eremophila bush. It
is about 2 - 2.5cm long. Thought it might be and Orb weaver,
but body seems to be too round. Can you please let me know if
it is dangerous? Lots of little kids about... Live in Perth - WA...
Elke
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11 March, 2006:
Hi Glen,Very nice site. Our pet orb web
spider, Bernice, made a very nice egg sack a week ago, and we
were wondering when they would hatch. What is your best
guesstimate? I have no idea if we are talking days, weeks or
months. I could find nothing on the web to answer this. She is just
a small (leg spread size of a dime) orb web spider that
came into our apartment here in Portland, OR on my hat about a month
ago. I put her in our houseplants hoping she would spin a web, and
she obliged. I feed her flies. Then one day her abdomen had
shrunk and I thought she was a different spider altogether,
until I noticed her nice egg sac, which she guards by
hunkering over it. Ciao for now, Fred
PS I'm sending another email with some nice pics of Bernice guarding
her egg sac, and also wrapping a fly and then dragging it up to her
lair while she was still pregnant.
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24 February, 2006:
The web did not come out as nicely as I
was hoping. I’ll try to get some better shots in the
morning. I do like the shots of the spider, though. Danny
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7 February, 2006:
Hi,I found your website and was wondering
if you might be able to tell me what type of spider this is
(see attached photo) and whether it is dangerous. It spins its
web outside our house every night, and
appears to have a friend spinning a web not far from this site.
Thanks
Bjorn
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22 January, 2006:
Hey, i was going around my garden late in the afternoon and i
came across this big thing, which mind you scared the crist out
of me when i took the photo. its web was attached to the lid and
it moved and so did i ..... about 4 foot.
please let me know all the info about this.
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20 January, 2006:
Glen
My name is Danny Lett and I live in Kurrajong NSW. Last night at
7.30 pm my wife noticed a bird caught in a large spider web
between 2 trees in our garden. The bird was already dead, it
looks like a honeyeater of some kind. At 9.30 when we checked
again the spider had come out and was wrapping the Bird in
spider Web. The spider is around the size of a 50c piece with an abdomen
about 5c size. It is light brown in colour with a white line
down the middle of the abdomen. I have some photos which are
being developed today. Any ideas on the type of spider?
Kind regards
Danny Lett
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12 January, 2006:
This is another garden orb weaver, they abound at this time of the year -
high Summer in Australia - glen
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12 January, 2006:
This garden orb weaver would have to be the biggest I've ever seen. She
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8 January, 2006:
Hello Glen
Could you please identify this spider that I have found living in our
back yard? From information gathered on the internet I presume that it
is the Garden Orb weaver spider.
I live in the metro area in Perth
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Regards
Stuart Chappell
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5 January, 2006:
Glen, Great website. We found this Spider in our living room in
November. We are located in Central New York State. The Spider is inside a
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4 January, 2006:
Hi Glen,
My name is Chris and I live on the Sunshine Coast in Australia. We saw this
spider this afternoon and were quite shocked how ugly and vicious he is! I
was wondering if you can tell me the type of spider and if he is venomous or
not, to humans and animals alike. We have seen his web which is quite large,
stretching over the top of our pool for sometime but have only just seen
him! Any info would be great, I don't want to have to relocate him if he is
harmless.
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