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Black and yellow Spider
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My friends that live north east of Toronto had a Black and Yellow Spider in their tomato patch. They tried to tell me that it was a Black Widow spider.  Which is a poisonous spider.  I believe that it is a common spider that will do no harm to a human being.  Any spider experts out there that a familiar with this spider.  I have attached a picture of it.
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Re: Black and yellow Spider
[re: ronjhall]
09/12/02 06:30 PM
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Definitely not a BWS.
Adult black widow spiders have shiny, jet black, rounded, globular abdomens with two reddish or yellowish triangles on the underside which form a characteristic hourglass marking. Adult female northern widow spiders are shiny black or brown-black with two reddish triangles on the underside, resembling a split hourglass. These spiders are about 1/2-inch long, not including the legs (about 1-1/2 inches when legs are spread). Adult males are harmless, about half the female's size, with smaller bodies, longer legs and usually have yellow and red bands and spots over the back as do the immature stages. Newly hatched spiderlings are predominately white or yellowish-white, gradually acquiring more black and varying amounts of red and white with each molt. Juveniles of both sexes resemble the male and are harmless.
Looks like a Argiope Aurantia
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Re: Black and yellow Spider
[re: ronjhall]
09/12/02 08:20 PM
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I have the same thing on the window of our garage that I have named "Elvira".
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Re: Black and yellow Spider
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09/12/02 09:28 PM
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Not black widow, but we have a huge black and yellow spider here in Kentucky that I can't stand the looks of. Even it's web looks gruesome with a coarse zig-zag down the middle. My wife is petrified but I have to remain calm and appear uncaring  Now everyone knows my deepest secret  Don't tell my wife
Patrick
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Re: Black and yellow Spider
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09/12/02 11:43 PM
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We always called them Golden Orb Weavers - that's what my grandparents called them. They were everywhere in the fields, spinning between grasses. We used to run through the fields, then have to peel their webs off our legs.
My son just found one out back yesterday - I haven't seen any just 30 miles North of where I grew up. It's interesting how the buggies vary in a relative small change in latitude.
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ronjhall
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Re: Black and yellow Spider
[re: MikePA]
09/13/02 03:52 AM
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Mike
Thanks for the information.
I saw another one of the same kind of spiders at the marina where I keep my boat. It was under a picnic table that we were sitting at. Scared the lady that was sitting next to it.  One swipe with a stick and it was on the ground and squished with a size 12 boat shoe.
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Re: Black and yellow Spider
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09/13/02 04:56 AM
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yep.
Mike is right. Its not a black widow.
I find the black widows in woods piles and debry piles usually not in a web out in the open.
I found one a couple weeks ago under a board that I was using to rest my FEL bucket on while not in use. Good thing I wear leather gloves!
Fred
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Re: Black and yellow Spider
[re: ronjhall]
09/13/02 03:45 PM
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The zig zag in the web makes it look exactly like our Banana Spiders aka Brazilian wandering spider.
Banana Spider
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Re: Black and yellow Spider
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09/13/02 04:15 PM
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Banana spider...
That's what we call 'em here in TX. I have one outside with a web running from my magnlia tree to my potted cayenne peppers. Been there a month or better. I guess they have a pretty long life, maybe all summer. Last year I had one build a nest near an outide water faucet. I turned my water on one day in late summer or early fall and it was dead....left behind it's egg sack for a fresh batch of spiders for this year. I leave them alone and it makes me happy when I see an undesireble insect wrapped up in their web.
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Re: Black and yellow Spider
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09/14/02 04:24 AM
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I’ve heard them called that here also.
The one I took the picture of is still in the tomato patch.
There are so many spiders around the boats at the marina. That we keep brushing them off the boat to feed the Blue gills.
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Re: Black and yellow Spider
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09/15/02 11:18 AM
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It is a golden orb spider. It is essentially harmless to folks (unless terrified of spiders) they just eat a lot of bugs. If you tap them in the middle of their back they put on a display. They move their legs up and down to "pump" the web back and forth like a trampoline. I'm told that this is to make themselves look macho and scare off whatever it was that was touching them. I have donle it a number of times and it always works, sometimes real well. Always elicits a response from the folks who are afraid of spiders.
Pat
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Re: Black and yellow Spider
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09/23/02 10:05 AM
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the bannana spiders they have in japan are huge! the things would grow to around 2 inches not including the legs and would actually catch small birds and rodents! man it was hell mountian biking in the spring because they would make their webs across the trails.... i dont know if they could hurt us but when you have a 2 inch spider hanging off your helmet you generally dont wait to find out.
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Re: Black and yellow Spider
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10/22/02 12:22 PM
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Down here in South Carolina we call them "writing spiders", becouse of the zig-zags in the web. I have heard them called this all my life.
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