You don't want to run into this little guy ...

jojoofu

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I about ran right into the middle of this guys home. Looks like he found a dragonfly snack. I figured being Halloween season it would be a perfect time to share this photo. Cell phone quality is a little shoddy so sorry. Enjoy your nightmares ! ;)

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I spent my childhood by the Ogeechee river in the outskirts of Savannah down here. We had an outhouse where a web was built, and that was the last time I saw a spider about that size. Don't ask me what happened after I left that place, long story.
 
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Banana spiders are the most venomous spiders in the world at least the s. American ones are.

Oh but that's a Golden Orb spider also called banana spider. Beautiful spiders. Amazing

+1 for orb spider. I never heard of this spider in the photo being referred to as a banana anything (although I don't doubt people do call it that).

Spiders can be pretty weird. I'm sure you know how the black widow spider gets its name...did you ever wonder how they fuck? They don't. The male spider hands off a packet of sperm to the female and tries to get away before being eaten. I wonder why he doesn't just whack it and leave his packet for her to find. Seems it would be a lot safer and still just as fun, unless they are some kind of adrenaline rush, near death experience junkies.;)
 

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+1 for orb spider. I never heard of this spider in the photo being referred to as a banana anything (although I don't doubt people do call it that).

In the south east people call them banana spiders or garden spiders. Real banana spiders actually live in banana trees :>
 

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ive always heard them called Writing spiders. because of the thick white web in the center In North America, Argiope aurantia is commonly known as the black and yellow garden spider, zipper spider, corn spider, and writing spider, because of the similarity of the web stabilimenta to writing
 

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