Spider weaving a web..

[Nevilledog]

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[Skittles]

1. I always feel bad when I walk into a web

I know the poor little devil worked his ass off.

[Nevilledog]

2. Glad to know I'm not the only one.

[Skittles]

3. I actually shouted at as spider

his web was taking up half a sidewalk

[Hekate]

4. Had one that decided the front porch was her territory, & I mean the whole front porch...

Every morning I’d take a broom handle and remove the web & try to relocate the spider, but she persisted. That was some prime real estate, I think.

One evening my brother came by and I saw him on the porch jumping up and down and waving his arms and it was clear the spider had finally ensnared the biggest trophy of her entire life! I apologized to him but damn

[billh58]

5. Spinybacked Orbweaver

One of the more colorful spiders in Florida is the spinybacked orbweaver, Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus) 1767. Although not as large as some of the other common orb weavers (e.g., Argiope, Levi 1968; Neoscona, Edwards 1984), the combination of color, shape, and web characteristics make Gasteracantha cancriformis one of the most conspicuous of spiders. The colloquial name for this spider in parts of Florida is crab spider, although it is not related to any of the families of spiders commonly called crab spiders, e.g., Thomisidoe.

https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/beneficial/g_cancriformis.htm

[Chainfire]

9. I can tell you, from experience, those little star-shaped spiders have a painful bite.

They are quite common in N. Florida.

[Piasladic]

6. man, orb spiders

everywhere, obnoxious, and impossible to train.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

7. At my old house

I had a covered porch.
On the open side,the side without the tree branches touching the side threshold an orb spider lived there. It was a resident for awhile than one of her offspring would make webs there.

It was beautiful to see it decorated with dew and the sunshine making those dewdrops shine like little glittery crytsals.

The spider was rather large and it would sit smack dab in the middle of the web.

She never invaded the porch area with her web,she kept it to the side threshold.

I loved those spiders.

Sometimes when a bug got into the house I would catch it and throw it into her web. She'd maneuver to it and eat it.

Never had a mosquito on the porch or any other bug for that matter.

This is what she/ they looked like. However my spider resident was significantly bigger than this photo.

[Chainfire]

8. I spent about twenty minutes, several nights ago, watching

A spider spinning her web on my front porch. The critter acted like she was on coke, running around in the circle, tying off to all of the radials. I was surprised about how fast the process was. She was moving so fast that I could not follow the tying process. I wasn't there from the beginning, but I estimate it must have taken about an hour start to finish for a tightly knit web about 30" in diameter.

Nature provides some interesting view if you have time to sit for a minute and watch.