Need help identifying a spider...

[UMC]Boron · Sep 12, 2004

Hey,
I've looked all over the internet on what kind of spider this is and I cannot seem to figure it out. It looks somewhat similar to an Orb Weaver spider from pictures that i've seen but I dont think it is. *edit* forgot to mention my location. I live in Central Minnesota, USA.

Here are two pictures. The first is a belly view of it:

The second is a back view of the thing...:

Any help in identifying this would be great. Thanks!

-Jeremy

TheShiningWizard · Sep 12, 2004

Spiders is sillies.

5eleven · Sep 12, 2004

I don't know a thing about spiders, Boron, but I took a look myself and found a close facsimile in a Garden Spider, judging only by the similarity of the spots on the underside. Looks like there are several variations, but all seem to be close on the spots.........

This one looked the closest to the second photo, it's a European Garden Spider, or so the
site says..... here's the pic:

But what the hell do I know. I looked at lots of pictures, and my guess is to do a search on either Garden Spiders or Yellow Garden Spider, although the Yellow has similar markings but entirely different color variations than your photo.

geogob · Sep 12, 2004

FTU. do you have a timestamp on those pictures?

TheShiningWizard · Sep 12, 2004

Days 5, 6, 9 and 10, respectively.

ninjin · Sep 12, 2004

i lost all apetite...

what spider is it from?

novak · Sep 12, 2004

KILL IT! KILL IT NOW!

Keganator · Sep 13, 2004

BASTARD! WHY MUST YOU POST THOSE PICS AGAIN!!

Lt. · Sep 13, 2004

such strange timing, my friend just had ~20 cubic centimeters of rotten flesh removed from his left forearm after a bite from a brown recluse.

spiders are scary things around here.

tell me those photos arent of your hand, whats the story behind them?

Bushwack · Sep 13, 2004

If you cant find any sources to identify that spider, you might want to take the pics to a local park ranger, sometimes they are better familiar with the local wildlife than most people, or find a High School Biology teacher near you, they are usually geeky enough to remember things like that spider.

OT, OMFG, 5eleven is alive, it takes a mystery friggin spider to bring him out of his hole though, amazing, my offers of coffee and doughnuts werent working, maybe i should GOOGLE some SPIDER pr0n to get him up and about

Profe · Sep 13, 2004

Roll up the newspaper.

yurch · Sep 13, 2004

We have something similar looking at near infestation-levels.
Do they only start to come out during the evening?

TheShiningWizard · Sep 13, 2004

Lt. said:
my friend just had ~20 cubic centimeters of rotten flesh removed from his left forearm after a bite from a brown recluse.

Those are the spiders whose bite can be blinding, right? Scary stuff.

tell me those photos arent of your hand

I suppose it could be the white half of my hand.

[UMC]Boron · Sep 13, 2004

yurch said:
We have something similar looking at near infestation-levels.
Do they only start to come out during the evening?

I did notice it near sundown. In the time span of about an hour and a half it had already built a web probably 12-14inches across and had caught a couple things and was chowing down on something else.

I checked for it this morning, the web was still there but no spider. I'll check again this evening to see if it does indeed come out at dusk/night.

Freon · Sep 13, 2004

ninjin said:
i lost all apetite...

what spider is it from?

it was from a brown recluse too.

Lt. · Sep 13, 2004

yah, we have *both* brown recluse & black widows around here.
( i have never heard of a recluse blinding someone, just widows. maybe tho. )

i just dont go stickin my hand in small, dark places.

that, and i learned the markings for both spiders at a really young age, so i can spot em from a mile away.

[edit: oh i see what you mean FTU, guess that isnt your hand. ]

jaunty · Sep 13, 2004

Anybody who boo hoo hoos about a Brown Recluse has obviously never seen one of these in person:

yurch · Sep 13, 2004

[UMC]Boron said:
I did notice it near sundown. In the time span of about an hour and a half it had already built a web probably 12-14inches across and had caught a couple things and was chowing down on something else.

I checked for it this morning, the web was still there but no spider. I'll check again this evening to see if it does indeed come out at dusk/night.

Sounds like what we have here. I dunno if they are dangerous or even what they are, but they'll make themselves comfortable night after night to an annoying extent.

Derelan · Sep 13, 2004

The worst we have in toronto are tiny arachnids, moustache bugs, daddy long legs, and cicadas. Spiders suck. Fuck the rainforest.

ninjin · Sep 13, 2004

yay... bird eating spiders. that just made my day.

Aside from that, I heard somewhere that if spiders were the size of cats they would be the primal predetor nearing humans... no idea if that is true or not.

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