Posted: 12/19/2011 5:15:30 AM EDT
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The other thread got me thinking. There's some spiders that live in my black olive tree and they love making webs from the truck to the tree at night only. Normally I could care less, but spiders scare the shit out of me and when I'm doing 80mph on the highway, that's not the time for that. Once in a blue they climb in through somewhere by the windshield and right up on the inside. They kind of look like they could be recluse's but don't want to nuke'em if they may be useful. I'll try and grab a pic of one if I can.
http://www.dpughphoto.com/spiders.htm This is what I was using as a reference, but again I haven't been able to get too close other than looking at their bottom side from the windshield. |
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Tropical orb weavers are stocky brown looking spiders, they look kinda nasty but are harmless. The normally come out at dusk and put up their webs, it's amazing to watch. At dawn they take down their webs, literally digesting it then they find a dark place to hole up and sleep during the day. Both the brown & black widows don't make a traditional web, theirs is a haphazard hodgepodge of fine silk. They like dry undisturbed places, under a container, a box, in the dry eves under the soffet. Their egg cases are spiny which is an indicator of a poisonous species. The brown recluse doesn't make a traditional web, they make more of a funnel like web in an out of the way place. They're more likely to be encountered when they are out hunting. Same with the hobo spider. If the spider is out in the open, with a traditional round web, it is a harmless orb weaver and is working hard to put a dent in your bug population. |
These have been found in and around the house.
This web was found around the corner. It was about 6 feet wide and thick. It survived a night of heavy rain, but the occupant was nowhere to be found. 
There's also the common house spider commonly seen in the house. Between the cat, the kid, and the wife, those fellers don't have much of a chance if caught in the open 
Lastly is my little buddy Bertha enjoying a mouse. 
She's not exactly friendly, though 
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