Comments on: Florida Spiders

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:31:14 +0000

As most spiders stay away from it a nickname is the bannanna spider but they are not very poisounous

By: Luke swim

Luke swim — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:52:21 +0000

In nova Scotia we have them and I’ve looked them up to find out that they are called ‘Orb spiders ‘. Although not as big as an adult hand, they have the same markings (some purple where you see the yellow on this one) and spin the same style web. It is thought that they make the thick zig zag to sway birds from flying into it’s web. Harmless, nothing more than a sting if bitten.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:52:02 +0000

too scary looking…good for them im too scared to get close enough to kill lol but i wouldnt kill them anyway…i dont want no bad spider juju lol…there r lots of them in the treeline/brush at the very back of our yard…..NOT BANANA SPIDERS….that much i do know…

By: alex behn

alex behn — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:41:10 +0000

cool i saw one in florida

By: Susan dietrich

Susan dietrich — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:51:07 +0000

I have this spider on my back porch. Can’t bring myself to kill it, however it has what looks like three round (egg?) sacks . Don’t want themn to hatch all over the place. What do I do with it? Help!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:36:26 +0000

I have in shrubs outside my door in Bonita Springs FL. Very pretty, neat webb also glad to hear they are not dangerous.

By: Dale

Dale — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:56:36 +0000

Just saw one of these outside a window in Wesley Chapel FL. It has been working on an interesting spiral shaped web for some time now. Very large spider. Glad to hear it is not dangerous.

By: Bennie

Bennie — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:50:30 +0000

Stories seem to repeat themselves, I too have found one of these spiders in my back porch. Took a picture and looked up on google to see if they are poisonous. They are quite breath taking. I guess I shouldn’t worry according to all the positive feedback of this remarkable creature..

By: nikko

nikko — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:21:55 +0000

my step son was sleeping and he saw one out his window it was about the size of a red prty cup

By: Donna

Donna — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:50:51 +0000

I just took a picture of this creature about 5 minutes ago, came in the house and found this site. Thanks for the info. My spider has made a giagantic web outside my living room window, but looks like he made an adjoining web that connects to the screen porch. Personally I’m horrified of spiders bigger than a match head. This bad boy is huge. My web also has the zig zag pattern. At the moment he has something captured in the web, but don’t know what. I’m amazed I had the nerve to get close enough to take the picture. Should I just leave it alone? It won’t get cold here for a while