spider species

[bettagurl]

these are some of the spiders i find everyday in my yard,i know that they are jumping spiders but what species?

[Chickieepooh2u]

Oh ICK!!! Can't help you there. Not real good at identiying them. In our place I'd call them the 'squished' species of jumping spiders. lol. *shudder*

[bettagurl]

this is an orbed weaver,or zipper spider,she died a little while after laying her eggs which should hatch sometime next spring.ill post a pic of her egg sack when i get a chance.

[rbishop]

We call that zipper, a sewing spider or zig-zag here in NC.

[bettagurl]

yea,they have a zipper going down the center of the web,she didnt have though.im about to go outside and get a pic of her eggs.

[bettagurl]

here is the egg sack and a garden spider i bumped into while taking a pic of the eggs.

[plah831]

nice thread, bettagurl. I had a "pet" black widow in my garage that I named "Cassandra". I watched her grow to a huge size, her abdomen was all big (about 3/4 inch in diameter) and shiny. She also laid several egg cases. One day, I decided to clean house for her and vacuum up her old webs that were all littered with dead, wrapped up bugs. Well, I guess I went too far and she got offended and left :( I was so sad to lose her.

I really think she helped keep the bug and spider population in my garage down, because after she was gone, I got tons of little spiders and daddy-long-legs everywhere. Come back to me, Cassandra!

[fishcatch22]

well, not that i don't like spiders, but whenever i find one, it goes straight to my toad or betta, depending on the size of the spider.

[sumthin fishy]

I fed one to my brothers porcupuffer the other day. He got mad :D

[jm1212]

I fed one to my brothers porcupuffer the other day. He got mad :D
lol my grandparents' porcupine fish and lion fish LOVE spiders, especially the little jumping spiders and the brown ones you find sometimes around your house

[plah831]

I fed one to my brothers porcupuffer the other day. He got mad :D
Why'd he get mad? It's not like the spider invenomated the puffer or made it sick or anything.

[fishcatch22]

nice thread, bettagurl. I had a "pet" black widow in my garage that I named "Cassandra". I watched her grow to a huge size, her abdomen was all big (about 3/4 inch in diameter) and shiny. She also laid several egg cases. One day, I decided to clean house for her and vacuum up her old webs that were all littered with dead, wrapped up bugs. Well, I guess I went too far and she got offended and left :( I was so sad to lose her.

I really think she helped keep the bug and spider population in my garage down, because after she was gone, I got tons of little spiders and daddy-long-legs everywhere. Come back to me, Cassandra!I have the same thing... there is a wolf spider who lives near my door, sort of my "pet". I don't really need him anymore, so next time I see him he's toad poop.

[plah831]

I don't really need him anymore, so next time I see him he's toad poop.
:( That's sad. He was your buddy...

[Emg]

Here's a couple pics of a spider we had outside our window for about a week. I have no idea what kind it is, but it's BIG !

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y82/morroman/emgfishpics/Spider2.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y82/morroman/emgfishpics/spider.jpg

[bettagurl]

thats the kind of spider i have around here,i have always liked spiders.my taratula is about 4",she's a rose hair,i named my fav orbed weaver Queen Cleopatra.

[bettagurl]

Here's a couple pics of a spider we had outside our window for about a week. I have no idea what kind it is, but it's BIG !

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y82/morroman/emgfishpics/Spider2.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y82/morroman/emgfishpics/spider.jpg
it's a garden spider,it hurts really bad when they bite but it doesnt make you sick.if I ever get a chance to get a pic of my tarantula i will,i dont want to bother her know,she's about to molt i think.

[fishcatch22]

:( That's sad. He was your buddy...awww, i'm just kidding! :D he's too precious to become toad poop, and the toad doesn't like spiders too well... too crawly.

[bettagurl]

this is Octavia,my devil baby.:devil:she almost bit me while i was trying to get the pic.

[fishcatch22]

Great. i'd love to get a tarantula, but my mom doesn't want one in the house. too big, and "what if it escapes?"

[bettagurl]

hatching babies!these babies are about this . big.

[bettagurl]

the last one is a baby that fell out of the 'nest'.he got back up with a thread he made,cute.:p:

[fishcatch22]

are those wild spiders? I fear the mother may eat them...

[bettagurl]

yep,they are wild,although they live in my window,im not sure if she will eat them,the other egg sack hasnt hatched yet.the type of spider she is is the easiest to breed,i used to breed orbed weavers because there werent many left but after releasing hundreds the neighbourhood is full of them.i caught the parents from the wild and bred them,the eggs take about a year to hatch.

[kraemerwa2003]

there's no way that creepy crawlies like that would make it into my house. I have the worst arachnophobia, whenever I see one in real life, I do the whole cat on the ceiling thing. I'm the same way with roaches, and here in vegas we get japanese fighting beetles too...snakes, lizards, rats, hamsters, guineau pigs, rabbits, turtles, toads = all okay, spiders = a black/ red smudge

[Chickieepooh2u]

there's no way that creepy crawlies like that would make it into my house. I have the worst arachnophobia, whenever I see one in real life, I do the whole cat on the ceiling thing. I'm the same way with roaches, and here in vegas we get japanese fighting beetles too...snakes, lizards, rats, hamsters, guineau pigs, rabbits, turtles, toads = all okay, spiders = a black/ red smudge

Yes, yes!! What you said. ACK! lol

[fishcatch22]

oaky, we get it! this thread isn't for spider haters! :mad:

[bettagurl]

i got so upset when my 2 year old orbed weaver died,i could never squish a spider,i hate crickets(i have no clue why)but i just stay far from them instead of killing them.i do have to save my 20 yr old brother from the "huge spider" that turns out to be about maby half an inch.

[fishcatch22]

i got so upset when my 2 year old orbed weaver died,i could never squish a spider,i hate crickets(i have no clue why)but i just stay far from them instead of killing them.i do have to save my 20 yr old brother from the "huge spider" that turns out to be about maby half an inch.i'm the same way with roaches. they're the only bug I can't stand, at least in my house. if I find one, I don't just squish it though, that's a waste. I just feed it to my fire bellied toad. mmm mmm, she loves roaches! :devil:

[bettagurl]

if they arent hopping around alot i catch them in a cup and feed them to my leopard gecko.if they get on me i would be surprised if someone a mile away doesnt hear me.

[fishcatch22]

if they arent hopping around alot i catch them in a cup and feed them to my leopard gecko.if they get on me i would be surprised if someone a mile away doesnt hear me.yeah, I can pick up small ones wiith my bare hands, but don't put a large one near me!

[bettagurl]

my older brother picked up one of the biggest crockets i've ever seen and he through it on me.........*shudder*i can pic up the teeny ones,thats it.i had a cricket tank(about five gal) with about 30 or 40 crickets in it,well, i left the top open,in my room,i went to go to bed,and it was horrible.they were everywhere.

[fishcatch22]

imagine one crawling up your back... it's little spikes peircing your skin... slowly wriggling it's way up... and then it goes. CREEE! CREEE! creeped out yet? :devil:

[bettagurl]

i cant find words to describe what i would do if there was a big cricket on my back.i think im going to be sick,yes,im horribly creeped out.i went in my basment once during the night to check my fish tank(i heard something crash)and i stepped onto a peice bread(only god knows how it got there)and as you may know crickets love bread.there was about five large crickets,i think this type is called 'camel back crickets'.they scare me more that a normale cricket.

[bettagurl]

yep,camel back crickets.here are some of the retched things.

[fishcatch22]

dang.... they're huge! I think they might find my toad to be a good meal! glad we don't have them up here... (SHUDDER) and sorry for creeping you out so much... i'm sure people do it all the time, juding on where you live....

[bettagurl]

yea,i get freaked out quite a bit around here,the biggest camek back cricket i've seen was about this long -------------.thats the one my brother threw on me,some neighbores actually came out to make sure someone hadnt been murdered.

[fishcatch22]

wow.... i'd shriek if someone threw one of those on me, too! they look like something my toad migh tlike to eat, though.... she'll eat anything that crawls.

[bettagurl]

i used to have a toad,he or she was about 3 " it live in a 55 gal terrarium with 4 anoles.i wish i had kept that tank,i wasnt interested in fish when i got rid of the tank for $30.i feel like an idiot. :duh:

[fishcatch22]

I don't think you can keep anoles with a toad... a regular southern toad that you caught outside? fire bellied toads aren't really related too closely with bufonid toads... they're more aquatic and their skin is less warty.

[ljse]

I once found my cat playing with one of those giant crickets. They are disgusting.

[fishcatch22]

how about mole crickets? they look weird, but fascinating.

[bettagurl]

wow,i did a search on mole crickets and found this.

[mtiller]

i love mole crickets! yes, strange, i do know but i do! i once had a fascination with spiders, although that quickly died out. and those camel backs, dont' bother me cuz they don't live long enough to do so. in miami, (my hometown woot 305!) there are these huge yellow, green, red, and black grasshoppers that are about 3-4 inches longl. those creeped me out, but this past summer i had no real problem with them.

[bettagurl]

i-hate-crickets,there is just something about them........i found this mother spider with her eggs on my bed of all places,not sure what kind she is though.

[fishcatch22]

i-hate-crickets,there is just something about them........i found this mother spider with her eggs on my bed of all places,not sure what kind she is though.holy mother that is a big spider! :eek: looks like a wolf spider to me,or a violin spider.

[DawnieGA2006]

oh my goodness gracious !!!!!I would freak out if i found that in my bed !! My son was near the dryer one day and a wolf spider came in from outside I guess .. we live in the woods on the lake -- this thing was huge - we all freaked out hewouldnt move but we finally caught it and put it in a container and my son took it to school for show and tell lol...
I like to look at them from a distance but I am scared to death of spiders, snakes and such **keepin an eye out around the house** hehe We are really lucky as we haven't seen any snakes around the house this year - a few deer and possums but thats about it lol

[fishcatch22]

oh my goodness gracious !!!!!I would freak out if i found that in my bed !! My son was near the dryer one day and a wolf spider came in from outside I guess .. we live in the woods on the lake -- this thing was huge - we all freaked out hewouldnt move but we finally caught it and put it in a container and my son took it to school for show and tell lol...
I like to look at them from a distance but I am scared to death of spiders, snakes and such **keepin an eye out around the house** hehe We are really lucky as we haven't seen any snakes around the house this year - a few deer and possums but thats about it loldon't go to the southwest, then... they have the largest spiders in the united states down there.... desert tarantulas.... as wide around as a big coaster!

[DawnieGA2006]

I plan on just stayin right here where I am for now lol If I ever came across a spider as big as a coaster I would have a heart attack right then and there.

I have enjoyed looking at the spiders that everyone is posting though - and I don't believe I have ever seen one " as big as a coaster " so if anyone has taken a pic of one of them I'd like to see it lol :eek:

[fishcatch22]

I plan on just stayin right here where I am for now lol If I ever came across a spider as big as a coaster I would have a heart attack right then and there.

I have enjoyed looking at the spiders that everyone is posting though - and I don't believe I have ever seen one " as big as a coaster " so if anyone has taken a pic of one of them I'd like to see it lol :eek:do you want me to get a pic of s goliath bird eating spider, not just the world's largest spider, but also the world's largest terrestrial invertebrate?http://www.gedcasserley.saddleworth.net/assets/images/Ged-spider02.jpg

[rosita]

Those durn crickets are the one thing in the entire world that really creep me out bigtime. I'm not afraid of much--what's to fear?--except those things. They are ugly, disgusting, creepy, nasty, ad infinitum. Cleaned out a friend's laundry room one time--it was FULL of them. I was jazzin for hours after than, jumping at everything. Ah, the things we do for friends. :sim:

[DawnieGA2006]

:eek: OH MY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ooooooooooo oooooooooooo ooooooooooo **skerrred look **

[bettagurl]

this looks like the tarantula(goliath birdeater)that i was going to get,but this one is alot smaller,this isnt my pic.

[bettagurl]

this is a little jumping spider that was in my fish tank,i thought he was cute,he's about this --- big.

[Tesla_HV]

Speaking of crickets, if you can't get rid of them, you can use them to tell the temperature. If you count the number of chirps in 15 seconds and add 40, you get the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. Of course, this implies that if the temperatures dips below 40ºF, the crickets will not chirp and you're on your own as far as telling the temp.

As for pet spiders, when I was a kid, I used to watch a family of spiders on my window sill. I would watch them catch flies and make nests. It facinated me to see the little ones hatch and fill the web until they went their merry way. I don't think I ever named them.

Also, in NW Florida where I grew up, those large garden spiders spun their nests between trees. We used to ride our motorcycles in the woods and it was quite a surprise to have one plant right in your face as you came around a corner and didn't see it. Imagine jumping off of a traveling motorcycle while ripping your helmet off and shrieking like a little school girl.

[bettagurl]

hahaha!!thats exactly what my 20 year old brother does!

[fishcatch22]

hahaha!!thats exactly what my 20 year old brother does!hey, i'd shriek if one was one my face, too!

[bettagurl]

my tarantula started molting today,just thought I'd share,I'll keep everyone posted on her.

[bettagurl]

this is her molt(skin) and a few close ups of her fangs.

[bettagurl]

this is her eating for the first time in 3 weeks,you can see the nice rosy pink (hence the name "rose haired" )color on her back after she molted.