Jude 2

Garden Spider

What is so really odd about this is that just a couple of days ago, the local paper printed a pic of one and I remembered seeing one as a child and one about ten years ago. I thought Man! I'd like to see one now that I have a camera!

Within a week he shows up on my doorstep.

Thanks God for the small wishes, still holding out for a few of the larger ones.

Good picture, but ewwww.

Kewl...I had one of these for a pet...It was on the corner of a mobile home that I lived in...I would catch a grasshopper everday and throw it into the web...

It was awesome...the spider would run down and wind up the grasshopper and paralyze it with venom and then climb back up the web...

That spider grew as big as a shooting marble... The last time I fed it...it ran down the web to get the grasshopper and fell off...I fed it to death...

Okay, a kitten would have been better. A baby - ultimate!

Calm down now, Gerald.

disgusting. are those poisonous?

If you wanted one that bad - should have said something!

I'd have mailed you one! (That's one of those times where
the unsuspecting family member who is not supposed to
open your mail does & gets a big surprise!).

(Is it illegal to mail spiders now?)

Everything I've read about them says they only have mild nerotoxin and the bite itches and swells.

This gal was pretty big. I stayed a good foot or so away,

I think the color scheme is fascinating.

I am not even looking at the picture...S.P.I.D.E.R. is not anything I give attention to other than extermination.

I'm with Darling - I wanted to see comments and closed my eyes and scrolled down so I wouldn't have to look at the S.P.I.D.E.R.

Me too, Deb.

Darling wrote:Me too, Deb.

I cant believe my mom even opened this thread twice, knowing what was waiting for her.

So we have a new spider man.................

I think it is beautiful!!!

We see those quite often around here. We used to have one in our yard and it had babies, bunches of babies.