Environmental Graffiti

wow, these are breathtaking every time is see them. don’t fisherman somewhere(the phillipines?) use these spiders’ webs as nets?
i wouldn’t mind having these about the yard/house/porch, good bug watching entertainment, maybe catch some squirrels

Now I have nightmares of going about my own business and getting suddenly ensnared, trapped, encumbered, bound, by a sticky tangle of stuff that keeps getting worse. Thrashing, fighting with my bindings, to the point of exhaustion. Losing hope, beginning to accept my predicament. Only then does the terrible creature who set this trap make his appearance. A horrible creature, a giant spider! I am going to be food. Living food! I am going to be eaten! He binds be even more securely, crawling around me, laying more silk, so tight; I am now completely immobile, entirely at his mercy. He is close now, I am breathing his breath. Oh no! The jaws! Into my flesh slide his fangs, and I feel numb… dizzy… the sucking… he drinks my lifeblood! I…

HOLY SHIT BALLS BATMAN!

Everything in Australia is trying to kill you.

Oh yeah. Definitely would use a flaming gorram chainsaw to take out that little bugger were it my yard. It would be on a six foot pole, also, just so I wouldn’t have to go near it. Creepy jerk spider that can bite my whole face…

These photos are fake. I live in Australia, and your average Golden Orb Weaver (body) is about one inch long (maximum). These same photos were referred to previously and also found to be faked.

These spiders are also in SE USA. In south Florida, near Florida Keys they are abundant. They are called “banana spiders” and I am pretty sure these are it.

I read they are developing some type of armor with this web, as researchers developed some sort of unbreakable fabric with the webbing of these. I read it somewhere, google ftw

holie-eff!!! i would kill myself to get one of those off of me.

I don’t think spiders “eat” as in taking a bite and chewing. Don’t spiders usually inject their prey with venom laced saliva and let its proteolytic properties work its magic and pretty much liquefy its meal and suck it up, leaving only the empty shell? That’s probably the fate of this poor bird caught in the spidey’s web. I just cannot picture this spider taking a bite of bird flesh through the feather and all and eating it bit by bit.

Anyways, that spider is pretty cool looking. I wouldn’t want it in my backyard but still fascinating in gruesome way.

The camera work causes the spider to look larger than it actually is. Check out the size of the bird relative to a human hand: http://preview.tinyurl.com/mxbdya

FUCK twitter ha

doesn’t look real at all.

Hmmm… this could be phoney. I have loads of these spiders in my backyard, I’ve lived with them for years and while I’ve seen ones this big (hand-sized), I’ve never seen one deal with prey larger than a moth. Notice the aviary-style mesh in the background of one picture? I reckon someone cruelly thought it might make a cool scary picture if they put a bird (not a wild breed, I might add) into this arachnid’s web.
Or that’s clearly the most badass spider ever.

I wish I could get one to throw on my ex wife

i would of ran away no way would i stay n tek pictures of it killin a bird no way. hate spiders n always will. just the fawt of them meks my skin crawl yuk. the bird looked colourful ne way haha :-)

Not sure if this is a fake or not. We have these giant orb spiders in Japan too – pretty common. The span of their webs is incredible. Usually a bit smaller than hand size, but they can get really big. I’ve seen plenty approaching the size of the one in the photo. Luckily they usually make their webs straddling trees quite high up about 15 foot or so, but sometimes lower — then remembering to duck on the bike is a must! They are poisonous, but it’s unusual to come in direct contact with them (unlucky too!) I my early days here I did come across one crawling out from under a rock – gave me the willies – it mus have just finished laying eggs (they lay eggs terra firma) – it was the last time I went off piste and wnadering amongst the rocks!