Posted: 7/12/2026 7:04:39 PM EDT
 This guy has been casing casa de M4ger for a few days now. What are the ROE for silver-dollar sized bumble-bee/spider offspring? |
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Identification Summary Yellow Garden Spider Argiope aurantia 99% Confidence Arachnids Common A large, striking orb-weaver spider commonly found in gardens and fields. It is known for its distinctive black and yellow abdominal pattern and the prominent zigzag silk structure, called a stabilimentum, built into the center of its large circular web. Common Names Black and Yellow Garden Spider Writing Spider Corn Spider McKinley Spider Zipper Spider Origin & Information Origin: Native to North America, ranging from southern Canada through the contiguous United States, Mexico, and Central America. Rarity: Common Additional Information • Danger Level: Harmless. While they possess venom to subdue prey, their bite is not medically significant to humans, comparable to a mild bee sting, and they are generally non-aggressive, biting only when provoked. • Bites/Stings: Yes, can bite if squeezed or handled roughly, but they typically flee rather than fight. • Habitat: Sunny areas, gardens, tall grasslands, shrubbery, and adjacent to buildings where they can anchor their large webs. • Pest Control Advice: These spiders are highly beneficial predators that consume pest insects like flies, mosquitoes, wasps, and beetles. It is recommended to leave them alone. If they must be moved, gently relocate them using a container to another outdoor garden area. Uses & Applications • Natural pest control in agricultural and home garden settings --IdentifyThis app |
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Yellow garden spider aka; Zig Zag spider. There's a lot of them around here, they feed on insects, geckos and anoles. They've even been know to eat bats that fly into their webs. While they are mildly venomous they're not aggressive. Their bite is comparable to a bee sting, ask me how I know. 
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WhenI was a kid in central TX, we called them banana spiders. They were often as large as a hand span More than once, when hunting, I walked between a couple of cedar bushes and face first into a web. The spider would cover my face like the baby alien in the movie Alien. |
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Quoted: WhenI was a kid in central TX, we called them banana spiders. They were often as large as a hand span More than once, when hunting, I walked between a couple of cedar bushes and face first into a web. The spider would cover my face like the baby alien in the movie Alien. There wouldn’t be a thing left within 5 miles of I ran into that. The loud screaming of that like a woman would scare off any prey. I hate big spiders. Little ones I’m fine with but hand sized ones, fuck that. |
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Exactly 
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/401845/air_strike-3794203.jpg This guy has been casing casa de M4ger for a few days now. What are the ROE for silver-dollar sized bumble-bee/spider offspring? Those are beautiful, eat tons of bugs, and aren't harmful to humans or pets. Leave it alone and admire it. |
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Quoted: WhenI was a kid in central TX, we called them banana spiders. They were often as large as a hand span More than once, when hunting, I walked between a couple of cedar bushes and face first into a web. The spider would cover my face like the baby alien in the movie Alien. I gave myself a bloody nose as a kid chasing down the dogs to get in front of a rabbit. Ran face first into a web and that big bastard landed dead center of my face. As i said, i beat my face bloody getting that big bastard off of me. I won't kill them but i HATE them to this day. |
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We have those all over FL especially Central FL and further south. They get really big and if you run into one of their webs running through a forest, you'll know it cuz it's thick and strong. While not terribly venomous, their bite does hurt - a lot - and if you have bug bite allergies, can cause ... complications. Ask me how I know. I hate fucking spiders. All spiders. They are disgusting dirty muthafuckas that spin their shit into nasty ass webs that make a huge f'ing mess and they're a bigger f'ing nuisance around my property than the insects they're supposed to be eating. They don't put a dent in the overall insect population compared to the lizards and they make webs in front of my cameras setting them off and burning down the batteries, so I eradicate the muthafucks along with their disgusting f'ing webs from all of my outbuildings.
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Quoted: We have those all over FL especially Central FL and further south. They get really big and if you run into one of their webs running through a forest, you'll know it cuz it's thick and strong. While not terribly venomous, their bite does hurt - a lot - and if you have bug bite allergies, can cause ... complications. Ask me how I know. I hate fucking spiders. All spiders. They are disgusting dirty muthafuckas that spin their shit into nasty ass webs that make a huge f'ing mess and they're a bigger f'ing nuisance around my property than the insects they're supposed to be eating. They don't put a dent in the overall insect population compared to the lizards and they make webs in front of my cameras setting them off and burning down the batteries, so I eradicate the muthafucks along with their disgusting f'ing webs from all of my outbuildings.
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| Picture this if you will: Trapsing through several acres of wet, thick, thigh-high foliage, which is made up of infinite round-ish bushes of an unknown undergrowth, in the pre-dawn hour with your double 20 slung over your shoulder and your collapsible field chair strapped to your shoulder as you head to your appointed place in a remote dove field. 15 minutes into the foliage, the sun crests the horizon revealing a giant web on every, single bush and a huge-antic spider just like that (we called them writing spiders because they formed an unusual thick pattern in the middle of the web) in every, single web. Now, picture yourself in the middle of said foliage field when that scene is revealed, knowing that you have half the field left to navigate through webs and spiders. Needless to say, we took the long way around at the end of the hunting day. |
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Those are cool spiders. Certainly don’t want to run into one face first but I like seeing them around. And now that you’ve shown that pic, I haven’t seen any this year. Nor have I seen those common, big brown spiders that hang from trees and around porches. A regional, dormant cycle thing? |
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Quoted: Well stop doing it then Quoted: Quoted: We have those all over FL especially Central FL and further south. They get really big and if you run into one of their webs running through a forest, you'll know it cuz it's thick and strong. While not terribly venomous, their bite does hurt - a lot - and if you have bug bite allergies, can cause ... complications. Ask me how I know. I hate fucking spiders. All spiders. They are disgusting dirty muthafuckas that spin their shit into nasty ass webs that make a huge f'ing mess and they're a bigger f'ing nuisance around my property than the insects they're supposed to be eating. They don't put a dent in the overall insect population compared to the lizards and they make webs in front of my cameras setting them off and burning down the batteries, so I eradicate the muthafucks along with their disgusting f'ing webs from all of my outbuildings.
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Quoted: Picture this if you will: Trapsing through several acres of wet, thick, thigh-high foliage, which is made up of infinite round-ish bushes of an unknown undergrowth, in the pre-dawn hour with your double 20 slung over your shoulder and your collapsible field chair strapped to your shoulder as you head to your appointed place in a remote dove field. 15 minutes into the foliage, the sun crests the horizon revealing a giant web on every, single bush and a huge-antic spider just like that (we called them writing spiders because they formed an unusual thick pattern in the middle of the web) in every, single web. Now, picture yourself in the middle of said foliage field when that scene is revealed, knowing that you have half the field left to navigate through webs and spiders. Needless to say, we took the long way around at the end of the hunting day. Unlikely that you got ate up with mosquitos with all that webbing around. |
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