Another name the spider

When I was a kid in Indiana we called them King Spiders. I think I remember us looking them up in and old World Book Encyclopedia. Feeding them grasshoppers never got old. I have to admit though, when I'm hunting in a cornfield and my face goes thru one of their webs it really creeps me out.

I get them in the garden. Around here they call them banana spiders. ???

That is facinating! We had these for the first time last year and I wouldn't bother them either - they really are a site to see and watch. This also answers the question about what those brown looking sacs were that hung below the fence railing and below the railing on our deck. I'd never seen a sac hung web-like before. There was nothing in them this spring when I looked at them. Didn't know they hatched out in the fall. Geesh - by the size of those sacs, there could be thousands of the little buggers around this year. Thanks for posting the info.

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These are lovely spiders and of mild disposition.

They'll move a web that keeps getting hit, so they'll keep them off well-traveled paths.

Quick! Someone step on it!

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I grew up in Sarasota, Florida and there they were called banana spiders.

I remember running into a bunch of their webs over the years but never received one bite or any aggressive behavior from any of them. Now I know why.

kesoaps, it's hard to step on a spider that's hanging on a web about face level.

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ewww. i am grossed out

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