early riser and new neighbor

[altaciii]

I'm an early riser, 5:30-6:00 at the latest. On the computer and a cup of coffee and I'm happy before I go to work. I stepped outside just at sunrise on Sunday and walked around the pool and garden and noticed a large spider web stung between two of our palm trees about 8' apart. It made for a beautiful picture but for the life of me I couldn't find what kind of spider it is. Are there any spider experts out there that can identify this creature?

 

[sptfr43]

I hate to say it but if I stumbled upon that it would be a dead spider!

 

[Dr. Frank N. Stein]

Looks like it might be the common corpus arachnid var. christi with all the yellow going on there. I'd say female specie.

Hope this helps!

Mike

 

[shull]

check out this website
http://www.spiderzrule.com/spiderphotos04.htm
your spider looks like the Micrathena gracilis mentioned about 4 down on the site

 

[GaryMadore]

I was thinking Black and Yellow Garden Spider - but I don't know spiders from spit

Cheers!

Gary

 

[Tn-Steve]

can you turn spiders?

 

[CaptG]

I hate to say it also, but I agree with Randy.

 

[jkeithrussell]

It looks like what we call a banana spider. I can't tell how big it is from your picture, but we get them in the pine woods here and they are huge and menacing looking. I'm told they are harmless, but they don't look it.

 

[Skye]

Spined Micrathena

 

[leehljp]

can you turn spiders?

If you have enough CA! On the other hand, no need to since most spiders "spin" a web! Does that count? :biggrin:

 

[GaryMadore]

Spined Micrathena

Looks like we have a winner!

Cheers,

Gary

 

[Rcd567]

I believe thats a tazmanian werewolf spider. A silver bullet should fix your problem.

Jim Stafford song from the 70's...I don't like spiders and snakes....