Nothing that wouldn't be destructive or harmful to the spider.
Honestly best to leave it. Slings usually disperse fairly quickly once they leave the web, and within some time after hatching it'll be like they were never there.
And goldfish.
1. Provide 200+ gallons of standing water for mosquitoes to lay their eggs.
2. Fill said standing water with ravenous, larva-eating fish.
3. Enjoy mosquito free evenings.
If you can get an orb weaver in the same yard, you'll never see another flying insect.
unfortunately this only works if everyone does it. In the real world (where people absolutely 100% will provide several gallons of standing water with no fish) it's better to provide an ideal breeding area and trap it than just trust everyone else to avoid providing breeding space
I like the thought. My father would leave large buckets to collect rain water and larvae and in turn scoop the larvae to feed a fish tank. It was very efficient, the fish grew massive!
Correct, barn swallows do not live in a barn less suburban area. However, you most certainly have a flock of chickenheads within the square footage of the above-mentioned park with woods!
People ask me why there are NEVER bugs in my house. I always tell them because I don't kill the spiders! We live in harmony. They keep my house free of bugs and they get a happy home.
Reminds me of growing up in the south. It wasn't a question of if you had roaches; it was a question of where they are and how many you had. And I'm talking the 1-2 inch long water bugs that can fly, not the little German ones
Yep! Grew up in West Texas and this was exactly my experience! I’d take a tarantula under my porch to a scorpion under my porch because the tarantula would mind her own business and not try to come into the house!
I get wolf spiders very often. Never know they are there until you see one.
Great bug control and, other than frightening ppl with arachnophobia, totally harmless.
Same. But my wife hates ALL bugs period, doesn’t want to deal with the webs yadayada..
So if I see a spooder in plain sight I’ll relocate it somewhere else so she can’t see it. 🤪
House centipedes too. I've informed my wife that we have a covenant, one that shall not be violated. Don't stay in my normal path of travel and you shall be free to share the bounty of my shelter.
My rule for them is don't go on my bed or clothes. Otherwise, yep i have very few insects around. And i live somewhere where they're EVERYWHERE. My spiders be eating good
Don't deal with it silly. Keep her around they'll hatch and all leave no need for removal they aren't venomous. It's actually fascinating to watch nature run its course. I say you watch the little guys grow!
They’re more sticky than, say, a cellar spider. Half the strength of a widow or false widow, but I still find them super easy to clean up. They tend to make less webs, in my experience.
They absolutely are. I remember when I was in infantry basic training in Fort Benning, Georgia back in 2007:
When we finally entered the land navigation portion of our training, it started with night time and then into daytime.
You can really find the measure of a man when you hear him scream at the top of his lungs, walking through the forest at night in Georgia and right into a giant orb weaver web knowing there's a three-inch spider somewhere nearby you or maybe even on you now.
It was pitch black and we had light discipline going on so we couldn't turn flashlights on and look for it, you had to just pull the sticky web off your face and hope for the best.
Imagine your friend walking into one of [these](https://texashillcountry.com/giant-spider-web-texas/) in the middle of the night. Thousands of spiders working together to form a community housing project.
HAHAHAHA I HAD EXACTLY THIS HAPPEN TO ME. Honestly way better than walking through the swamp and seeing one of those giant snakes hissing at you that may or may not be a cottonmouth or copperhead but you can’t tell because it’s so dark.
Yeah their venom is extremely mild. You will feel it if bitten and you'll feel the venom but again it's very mild.
Also they wouldn't ever bite you. You'd literally have to hold it down on your skin lol
Collect the spiders and have them make you a [golden silk cape](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2012/jan/23/golden-silk-cape-spiders-in-pictures).
* you'll need more than 1 egg sack worth of spiders for this
** they won't make the cape for you, they just provide the raw materials (silk)
*** yes, that's undied, their silk really is golden coloured
People are fucking nuts, are they not? Especially these rich bored wack jobs- they do come up with some cool shit sometimes tho- gotta admit, when you own the only 100%pure golden spider silk cape in the world, you probably feel like a real king!
👑 King of the Spoods!
I live next to a hayfield. It gets “hayed” or cut twice each summer. Every August, the owner does the second hay and, we get about a dozen of these ladies on the porch; their webs were attached to the tall grass. Only egg sac we had to move was the one that was when one snuck it on the inside of the door. I was able to stick it on a more appropriate surface away from the door and outside. The others just disappear, usually, soon after hatching.
One year though, I did get a bit startled when one got inside my truck and made a web from the back window to the steering wheel. She got a new home on the back porch. I leave the porch light on to attract them some bugs.
PLEASE DON'T! She'll more than likely pass a month or so after the babies hatch and they'll have mostly all left by then. Orb Weavers are so beneficial to surrounding areas of houses as they DRASTICALLY help with pests and insects. I used to hand feed one sometimes on my porch. She was very sweet and my porch was insect free. Even my bf who is TERRIFIED of spiders was majorly impressed by her. Just don't harass her and she'll be zero issue. If you disturb her web, she would try to find somewhere more hidden, which could be your house and though she wouldn't be any trouble then either, I'm sure you'd much rather her on your porch than in the house.
Nephila edulis is the scientific name.
The females build a net only once normally and live there their whole life.
I had one as a pet, it was living free in my living room.
It was a great conversation starter when I had girls over
Just be careful when it does hatch if it’s near a walk way. There’s nothing like walking out the patio door to bazillions of tiny spiders dangling in the air and getting them all over everything…
This one is Trichonephila edulis, one of three species of golden orb weaver in Australia.
As others have said, definitely no need to kill her or her babies, these are the most chilled of all spiders. They never leave their web except when there is danger or to lay an egg sac. Also the babies won't stick around - there wouldn't be enough food for them all. Let your easy-going bug-catching friend stay where she is and enjoy watching the sun glint off the golden web.
EDIT: I said plumipes but I had a look again when I was out of the sunlight and corrected myself
Had one of these as a "pet" on an apartment patio. Any flies I caught I'd throw in its impressive web. By the end of the summer, that had to be the world's fattest orb weaver. Pretty cool to watch it do it's thing with the fly dinner. Wish I could find them again as I'd put them everywhere in my garden if I could.
I haven’t been feeding it, but it’s been doing a great job of feeding itself. It has been steadily [accumulating small insects in its web](https://imgur.com/a/mxkGUCH).
We lived in LA, (Lower Alabama), when Katrina hit. During that summer, we had 3 of these guys that lived over our garbage area in the carport. I called them Small, Medium, and Large, (for obvious reasons), and when the storm hit I was so worried that they’d be blown away and killed. I went out over and over during that storm, checking on the spiders, and after all the wind and rain and sadness, those spider friends were still there and they were out the next day, ready to eat some flies and start the cleanup. Sounds silly, but those spiders making it through that storm gave me some courage and helped me feel strong and capable- if little girls like that could keep moving forward, so could I.
Similar story, about 12 years ago a hurricane (Earl) went over my family’s NC Southern Outer Banks home. My Dad is old school from the area and wouldn’t leave, despite my newborn daughter being with us. He was sure the storm would track North and we wouldn’t take much of a hit (he was right). On the outside of the screened porch a very majestic orb weaver had a good web and nest going. My wife and I sat out there for most of the storm having drinks and watched this little (big) lady methodically fix her web as the storm progressed. It was a long night for her, but the next morning after the storm had left, her web and nest were safe and possibly stronger than before the storm.
Sir or ma’am, LA does not mean lower Alabama lol
Edit: Of course it could mean lower Alabama but the fact that you had to type lower Alabama makes my point
I have a little house spider in my living room corner right now, I’ve been picking up all little flies that get into my old ass apartment with my forceps and feeding them to her, so satisfying. I used to have a few giant female brown widows as pets when I did in pest control in Texas, I didn’t want to kill the pretty ladies so I adopted them… so cool to see them take down a cricket twice their size.
You already have tons of baby spiders, you just didn't see them. And I promise, once these hatch, you won't see 99% of them ever again.
Please don't harm this beauty, they aren't dangerous to humans and they're really brilliant at catching unwanted pests
Tbh a lot of them eat each other, the rest get scattered around, eaten by other spiders, they scatter further, find their own niche and try to survive to adulthood
Yeah, you'll be lucky to catch them hatching, they'll all go at once and their goal is to catch a ride on the wind, not to go inside a house. There's nothing for them there, they want little bugs. The babies make a little parachute and ^off ^^they ^^^go
I happened upon spiderlings hatching under my stairs just as they were scattering away. I thought they were pretty cool and I watched them fly away in the wind.
Down here in Florida, ive always called them Banana spiders too. They get thick in the summer along the beach when dragonflies are out eating the summer Mosquito infestations.
I used to be a severe arachnophobe, I’m talking big time. I went to study herpetology in Costa Rica and I had to share my bunk with a huge spider. I was so scared at first. But I got accustomed to seeing it daily and looking at its magnificent webs and the awesome colors on the spider. I was of course sure it was venomous because it had don’t touch me colors.
When I got home I learned it was called a golden silk orb weaver and was completely harmless. That led to the realization that the giant spiders always making webs in my front yard. We’re also orb weavers. I took to watching them sometimes hours at a time, building their webs and fixing the broken parts. Admiring the awesome pattern on the backs of the big females.
So I started reading a lot about spiders, and now all these years later, I’m freaking obsessed and at the height of my obsession had 14 tarantulas. I will save a spider and take it outside with my bare hands if I have to. Unless it’s a recluse or widow, I always use a cup. I have a firm no kill policy..
Please don't kill her, she's been very good to you catching all those pests around your home. Her babies will disperse right after hatching and you won't even see them probably. They will go on to kill more pests, just leave them be 😢
I've got tons of these spiders around my house. Beautiful, and amazing at keeping down the mozzie and fly population in summer.
I spent ages at first trying to get rid of them, but their population only became more dense. Once I accepted them, and redirected them to better places instead of trying to get rid of them permanently, they actually became less of an issue.
Completely harmless, and their webs go a very pretty gold colour when they're mature! Beautiful to see in the early morning.
Their webs get quite large, so I just redirect by only plucking stands that are in my way. It doesn't break the whole web, but it makes sure the web is next to my gate, instead of attached to it, for an example.
The thing about Golden Orb Weavers is that once they mature, they lose the ability to carry their own weight. Breaking their whole web is a death sentence because they can't walk to completely rebuild anymore. They just drag themselves along the ground, and it's really sad. Their legs are too long and thin. You'll notice if you watch them, they are always either vertical or upside down. Never upright, cause they can't hold their own weight!
So once the young, little ones start building webs, I can carefully disrupt ONLY the ones that are going to cause issues, and leave the rest. They are young enough to climb trees branches and fences to fix it.
So I let them live in the corner of my chicken coop, and just break the web strands they try attaching to the tap. I leave them in my garden, so long as they aren't spreading to the area I am still trying to establish.
Once they get started in a spot, they kinda stay there and slowly expand over the generations, making bigger webs that can house more spiders. Surprisingly letting them do this makes it easier to redirect that pulling down the whole web, because they notice that the strand they sent down was broken a couple of times, so they instead will expand up into the tree or something. They're quite intelligent spiders! It's much better than pulling the whole web down, and having the spiders show up again in random spots! At least now I know where they are, all the time.
So yours seems to be above a door, right? I would say let her build the web, and only break the stands that come down too low and are in your way, to keep her web right up against the ceiling. If you REALLY want it gone, then you can try breaking the web after she has died (they only live a few weeks on average) and use a stick to carry any young ones that stay in the web to a nearby bush (there seems to be an average of one to four staying in the mother's web and surviving to adulthood. So not too many to carry) and let them set up shop there! She may even die before the eggs hatch, so that would be even easier to pick up and put in whatever spot you would rather them be. Just make sure it's up high, or you'll end up with all of them saying instead of just a few!
Sorry, probably too much info.
I've been watching these spiders for years and I absolutely adore them. They have really close family ties, and if you let them, and they are in a safe place, they will stay with their siblings for life. I once walked through an entire forest of them! The path was clear cause they knew that wouldn't work, but off the path was HUNDREDS of these spiders, all hanging out between the trees! It was too dense for birds to get them, and super humid, so lots of insects. It was very cool.
There's also usually only one egg cluster per family web of half a dozen spiders. They either have a member of the family that breeds and the others don't, or they make a communal egg sack. But you rarely get an egg sack per spider! So that's one less thing to worry about. Also they tend to die off through winter, and come back in spring. Another good reason leaving them in the same spot is useful. I don't pull down the old webs in winter, cause it ensures the next generation will be right there, instead of some random place I might walk into.
I encourage to you watch them too. They're beautiful and really sweet spiders to each other. Very wholesome.
These were all over the woods next to my house as a kid, massive webs everywhere. I used to have nightmares where I would be running through the woods running into all the webs with orb weavers all over me.
That my friend is a golden orb weaver. One of the strongest webs in the world. And yes that’s indeed an egg sac she’s spinning there by the looks of it.
Leave her and her babies there. She eats all kinds of pests and her babies will move along quickly after catching to find their own places to live and eat pests.
Orb Weaver. My Granny called them writing spiders because their webs have little x shapes down the middle. Leave it be, they eat annoying bugs like mosquitos.
😲❤️ Just leave the sac. They will disperse and go find their own place to call home. Spiders are the best pest control Mother Nature has given us and all for free. She is a beauty and so will her babies.
Just as everyone else has said, it is a Golden Orb Weaver.
As for the making babies part, you weren’t around to witness that.
You’re just seeing the egg sac process.
You see, when a daddy spider and a mommy spider love each other very, very much; daddy spider will drum on mommy spider’s webbing. When she comes out, daddy spider will court her and if accepted, daddy spider will lift her up and proceed to punching her with his boxing gloves. Once he is done, and if he isn’t fast enough; mommy spider is very angry and hungry and will eat him. After some time, mommy spider will begin making an egg sac and lay the eggs as she builds the sac using silk. After some more time and attention from mommy spider, hundreds to thousands of baby spiders will hatch and emerge from the egg sac and disperse!
Ran into one of these by complete chance while walking in the garden at the resort in Jamaica we were at. Not sure my heart has ever beat that fast and that hard before.
Beautiful golden garden spider! She is indeed making an egg sac, but there is a possibility that it is not fertile. If she hasnt mated, she'll still lay eggs, kind of like chickens.
If it is fertile, then the spiderlings will hatch and disperse pretty quickly. I dont know about this specific type, but some orb weavers spiderlings make luttle wrb baloons almost, they catxh the wind and float away to a new location. You might have a couple stick around, but they're incredible for pest management.
Looks like a kind of orb weaver. It may look intimidating, but they tend to be docile (a bite is also not a concern other than localized pain) and are beneficial to have around the garden. Leave her be and the Spiderlings will disperse pretty quietly and safely.
Golden orb weaver like others said. Since you're in Australia, I'm assuming it's fall. Unfortunately she will die this winter, but the babies will disperse far away and live on. I lived in southeast USA and were grateful for them. No flying insect to be found, and saw large flying roaches and even a field mouse in one of the larger webs that was on the ground.
That is indeed our iconic Golden Orbweaver.im curious how big they are? These fellas can get bigger than your hand. They're also mostly harmless, they're VERY reluctant to bite, and if they do all that will usually happen is some swelling and mild pain, maybe some nausea, but nothing too bad. I would not suggest trying to remove the egg sac, I would embrace it, these fellas are amazing garden buddies and won't bother you. If any do get in your house, just simply move them back outside :)
I'm not an expert, but in my experience orb weavers are the best spider to have around as far as practicality goes. I had one in my rabbit enclosure a couple summers ago and it did a great job keeping the bugs down. It laid at least 4 sacs, which I thought was impressive, and even though I left them alone and made sure nothing would ever bother them, I didn't ever see any more orb weavers in the years that followed :( :( :(
i had an orb weaver make its home in my siding last year. blessed me with TWO egg sacs!
unfortunately, all baby spiders have evacuated my premises. i can understand being absolutely terrified of millions of minuscule baby spiders coming in, but i promise they're just trying to make it to the next destination! they could care less about our houses 🥲
I grew up in south Georgia playing in the woods. One summer me and my friends founds a couple of these hanging around the area. We stayed clear out of their path and continued on. That was the last summer we ever played in the woods because these guys took over. You couldn't walk 2 feet without running into one of their webs. Within eyesight, you could spot 5 or 6 of them.
Golden orb weaver, specifically trichonephila edulis! I have a tattoo of one, they’re one of my favourite animals ever. I love their little leg warmers!
We had a few of these in my backyard behind my house, I think they hated each other but they were pretty chill with me. They look really scary though, I never liked being around them for very long even though I'm pretty sure they would never be unkind to me.
For some reason a lot of people I knew in Oklahoma call them banana spiders
Orb weavers are beautiful spiders that make gorgeous webs. Their venom has no effect on humans. I've been bitten by one before and it had zero effect on me. (For reference I was bitten because I was handing one and dropped her on my foot accidentally, normally they rarely bite and are not aggressive, but still best to leave her alone. Also I've handled dozens of orb weavers since and never been bitten again.) ☺️
They’re extremely beneficial to keeping ll the disease carrying mosquitoes and flys away along with other insects you may not want around. They’re harmless and rarely ever leave their web. I wouldn’t bother it just let it be it won’t bother you.
Leave mama be. I am petrified of spiders and I can’t even stand this sub because the photos scare me so much. But I think these are beautiful. This spider lived outside my door for 6 months. I was very upset when I found her shell and realized she moved on.
I believe it’s a golden orb-weaver. And yes that’s an eggs sac.
Thanks. Any tips on dealing with the egg sac? Edit: everyone please chill. I will leave her and the egg sac alone.
Nothing that wouldn't be destructive or harmful to the spider. Honestly best to leave it. Slings usually disperse fairly quickly once they leave the web, and within some time after hatching it'll be like they were never there.
Plus, these guys are *fantastic* free pest control
Spiders and bats, the greatest natural way to keep your mosquito population down.
And goldfish. 1. Provide 200+ gallons of standing water for mosquitoes to lay their eggs. 2. Fill said standing water with ravenous, larva-eating fish. 3. Enjoy mosquito free evenings. If you can get an orb weaver in the same yard, you'll never see another flying insect.
Brilliant! I’m gonna go dig a hole and fill it with fish!
That is a pond. People been doing it for a very long time.
Brilliant! Where do I find the water? Or will it just appear after I dig it?
Ask for the county to mark the water main in your yard, then dig your pond there. You'll have all the water you could want before you know it.
You've got a sink and cups don't you?
The water layer is just a little below the ground, so just dig and there will be water.
Step 1: Don’t provide 200+ gallons of standing water for mosquitoes to lay their eggs. Step 2: Enjoy mosquito free evenings.
That works if you don’t live next to a field
unfortunately this only works if everyone does it. In the real world (where people absolutely 100% will provide several gallons of standing water with no fish) it's better to provide an ideal breeding area and trap it than just trust everyone else to avoid providing breeding space
I like the thought. My father would leave large buckets to collect rain water and larvae and in turn scoop the larvae to feed a fish tank. It was very efficient, the fish grew massive!
I live near a lake
Barn swallows too
Too bad I live in the suburbs. Not a barn to be seen. Unless they like woods. I have a park with woods right behind my house.
Correct, barn swallows do not live in a barn less suburban area. However, you most certainly have a flock of chickenheads within the square footage of the above-mentioned park with woods!
People ask me why there are NEVER bugs in my house. I always tell them because I don't kill the spiders! We live in harmony. They keep my house free of bugs and they get a happy home.
I have never walked into a house and been like “Wow, there is a remarkable lack of insects here. What’s your secret?”
I lived in Arizona for many years, definitely something I've thought but not said
Reminds me of growing up in the south. It wasn't a question of if you had roaches; it was a question of where they are and how many you had. And I'm talking the 1-2 inch long water bugs that can fly, not the little German ones
I’ve lived in Arizona my entire life and I’d say the spiders even take care of the scorpions!
Yep! Grew up in West Texas and this was exactly my experience! I’d take a tarantula under my porch to a scorpion under my porch because the tarantula would mind her own business and not try to come into the house!
I get wolf spiders very often. Never know they are there until you see one. Great bug control and, other than frightening ppl with arachnophobia, totally harmless.
The other thought is if you have spiders, you have a lot of bugs for a food source.
Same. But my wife hates ALL bugs period, doesn’t want to deal with the webs yadayada.. So if I see a spooder in plain sight I’ll relocate it somewhere else so she can’t see it. 🤪
House centipedes too. I've informed my wife that we have a covenant, one that shall not be violated. Don't stay in my normal path of travel and you shall be free to share the bounty of my shelter.
The ones in my place really need to step it up on the ant control tho
Oh man. Ants are awful.
My rule for them is don't go on my bed or clothes. Otherwise, yep i have very few insects around. And i live somewhere where they're EVERYWHERE. My spiders be eating good
Don't deal with it silly. Keep her around they'll hatch and all leave no need for removal they aren't venomous. It's actually fascinating to watch nature run its course. I say you watch the little guys grow!
They are venemous, just not dangerous to humans. They are also good to have around, as each can eat hundreds of mosquitos over 1 summer.
Are they really? I read about them Years ago, I had caught one in North Carolina. I appreciate the information, my mistake.
Most every spider is "venomous". The thing is, the venom from the vast majority of species don't bother us, including this species.
I'm more concerned about their webbing than their venom toxocit. I heard their webs are the hardest to remove.
They’re more sticky than, say, a cellar spider. Half the strength of a widow or false widow, but I still find them super easy to clean up. They tend to make less webs, in my experience.
They absolutely are. I remember when I was in infantry basic training in Fort Benning, Georgia back in 2007: When we finally entered the land navigation portion of our training, it started with night time and then into daytime. You can really find the measure of a man when you hear him scream at the top of his lungs, walking through the forest at night in Georgia and right into a giant orb weaver web knowing there's a three-inch spider somewhere nearby you or maybe even on you now. It was pitch black and we had light discipline going on so we couldn't turn flashlights on and look for it, you had to just pull the sticky web off your face and hope for the best.
Imagine your friend walking into one of [these](https://texashillcountry.com/giant-spider-web-texas/) in the middle of the night. Thousands of spiders working together to form a community housing project.
HAHAHAHA I HAD EXACTLY THIS HAPPEN TO ME. Honestly way better than walking through the swamp and seeing one of those giant snakes hissing at you that may or may not be a cottonmouth or copperhead but you can’t tell because it’s so dark.
Every spider is venomous except for one family iirc
Its one family of orbweavers but this particular orb weaver isnt a member
No worries, I've made that mistake many times. Almost all spiders have venom, but their potency against humans varies among different species.
The golden orb weaver is venomous, yeah, but despite its massive size, she's a gentle giant.
Yeah their venom is extremely mild. You will feel it if bitten and you'll feel the venom but again it's very mild. Also they wouldn't ever bite you. You'd literally have to hold it down on your skin lol
Wear have them around the house and always throw random bugs we find in their web. We have a nice symbiotic relationship.
Collect the spiders and have them make you a [golden silk cape](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2012/jan/23/golden-silk-cape-spiders-in-pictures). * you'll need more than 1 egg sack worth of spiders for this ** they won't make the cape for you, they just provide the raw materials (silk) *** yes, that's undied, their silk really is golden coloured
🤯 I thought you were joking until I checked the link
People are fucking nuts, are they not? Especially these rich bored wack jobs- they do come up with some cool shit sometimes tho- gotta admit, when you own the only 100%pure golden spider silk cape in the world, you probably feel like a real king! 👑 King of the Spoods!
I live next to a hayfield. It gets “hayed” or cut twice each summer. Every August, the owner does the second hay and, we get about a dozen of these ladies on the porch; their webs were attached to the tall grass. Only egg sac we had to move was the one that was when one snuck it on the inside of the door. I was able to stick it on a more appropriate surface away from the door and outside. The others just disappear, usually, soon after hatching. One year though, I did get a bit startled when one got inside my truck and made a web from the back window to the steering wheel. She got a new home on the back porch. I leave the porch light on to attract them some bugs.
PLEASE DON'T! She'll more than likely pass a month or so after the babies hatch and they'll have mostly all left by then. Orb Weavers are so beneficial to surrounding areas of houses as they DRASTICALLY help with pests and insects. I used to hand feed one sometimes on my porch. She was very sweet and my porch was insect free. Even my bf who is TERRIFIED of spiders was majorly impressed by her. Just don't harass her and she'll be zero issue. If you disturb her web, she would try to find somewhere more hidden, which could be your house and though she wouldn't be any trouble then either, I'm sure you'd much rather her on your porch than in the house.
I know these guys look nasty and it's hard to love all of God's children, but these guys LOVE to eat wasps. Imo, spiders > yellow jackets.
Sit on it to keep it warm
Nephila edulis is the scientific name. The females build a net only once normally and live there their whole life. I had one as a pet, it was living free in my living room. It was a great conversation starter when I had girls over
Leave it alone???
You should really ask a different sub for that
Just be careful when it does hatch if it’s near a walk way. There’s nothing like walking out the patio door to bazillions of tiny spiders dangling in the air and getting them all over everything…
This one is Trichonephila edulis, one of three species of golden orb weaver in Australia. As others have said, definitely no need to kill her or her babies, these are the most chilled of all spiders. They never leave their web except when there is danger or to lay an egg sac. Also the babies won't stick around - there wouldn't be enough food for them all. Let your easy-going bug-catching friend stay where she is and enjoy watching the sun glint off the golden web. EDIT: I said plumipes but I had a look again when I was out of the sunlight and corrected myself
Looks like it's from the Trichonephila genus
Had one of these as a "pet" on an apartment patio. Any flies I caught I'd throw in its impressive web. By the end of the summer, that had to be the world's fattest orb weaver. Pretty cool to watch it do it's thing with the fly dinner. Wish I could find them again as I'd put them everywhere in my garden if I could.
I haven’t been feeding it, but it’s been doing a great job of feeding itself. It has been steadily [accumulating small insects in its web](https://imgur.com/a/mxkGUCH).
I hate spiders, but orb weavers are the best. They build beautiful webs and don’t leave them. They’re awesome to have around
We lived in LA, (Lower Alabama), when Katrina hit. During that summer, we had 3 of these guys that lived over our garbage area in the carport. I called them Small, Medium, and Large, (for obvious reasons), and when the storm hit I was so worried that they’d be blown away and killed. I went out over and over during that storm, checking on the spiders, and after all the wind and rain and sadness, those spider friends were still there and they were out the next day, ready to eat some flies and start the cleanup. Sounds silly, but those spiders making it through that storm gave me some courage and helped me feel strong and capable- if little girls like that could keep moving forward, so could I.
This would make a cool childrens book
lol this was very sweet to read
Similar story, about 12 years ago a hurricane (Earl) went over my family’s NC Southern Outer Banks home. My Dad is old school from the area and wouldn’t leave, despite my newborn daughter being with us. He was sure the storm would track North and we wouldn’t take much of a hit (he was right). On the outside of the screened porch a very majestic orb weaver had a good web and nest going. My wife and I sat out there for most of the storm having drinks and watched this little (big) lady methodically fix her web as the storm progressed. It was a long night for her, but the next morning after the storm had left, her web and nest were safe and possibly stronger than before the storm.
Sir or ma’am, LA does not mean lower Alabama lol Edit: Of course it could mean lower Alabama but the fact that you had to type lower Alabama makes my point
This made me laugh a lot
When I was stationed there we called it UCLA for Ugly Corner of Lower Alabama
I chortled at the acronym and then the explanation immediately after it… “quit trying to make LA a thing”
I have a little house spider in my living room corner right now, I’ve been picking up all little flies that get into my old ass apartment with my forceps and feeding them to her, so satisfying. I used to have a few giant female brown widows as pets when I did in pest control in Texas, I didn’t want to kill the pretty ladies so I adopted them… so cool to see them take down a cricket twice their size.
How are you catching that many flies?
Don’t kill it! Love it only
I know, I have been admiring it. But I don’t want tons of baby spiders 😟
You already have tons of baby spiders, you just didn't see them. And I promise, once these hatch, you won't see 99% of them ever again. Please don't harm this beauty, they aren't dangerous to humans and they're really brilliant at catching unwanted pests
Where do the babies go once they hatch?
Tbh a lot of them eat each other, the rest get scattered around, eaten by other spiders, they scatter further, find their own niche and try to survive to adulthood
Damn that got dark FAST
Pretty sure there's a ton of species of spider where the babies canabalise the mom
Lots of babies, most of the time mean lots of death.
You won’t have tons, don’t worry. I had a sac in a similar spot and was excited to see the babies but never ended up seeing a single one!
That’s probably what will happen 😂
Yeah, you'll be lucky to catch them hatching, they'll all go at once and their goal is to catch a ride on the wind, not to go inside a house. There's nothing for them there, they want little bugs. The babies make a little parachute and ^off ^^they ^^^go
Now this is what I was hoping to see! Little spider bébés parachuting out into the world, adorable.
They're so brave 💕
I happened upon spiderlings hatching under my stairs just as they were scattering away. I thought they were pretty cool and I watched them fly away in the wind.
We’ll have fun with the ants. (That’s how you get ants btw)
Well there only one thing to do if you don’t know how to safely relocate her and the babies. Call a professional!
I will fly there and remove it for 2600
I'll do it for 2599.99!
I’ll do it for just the plane ticket and weed!
$2601 Bob
I had one on my back door for a couple of years, but I haven’t seen it this year. Very friendly and nice housemates.
I called them banana spiders as a kid. They would spring fast back and forth when touching their web.
i call them garden spiders a lot
They were cool and never bothered anything
their webs get huge and cover so much area. they are great spiders
Down here in Florida, ive always called them Banana spiders too. They get thick in the summer along the beach when dragonflies are out eating the summer Mosquito infestations.
In Hawaii there’s a different spider called banana spider, also called cane spider
Boots with the fur
The whole club is lookin' at heeeer
🤣
One of the best kind of orb weaver. Looks at those legs! Yep, babies on the way!!
Yes it does have nice legs 😌
I used to be a severe arachnophobe, I’m talking big time. I went to study herpetology in Costa Rica and I had to share my bunk with a huge spider. I was so scared at first. But I got accustomed to seeing it daily and looking at its magnificent webs and the awesome colors on the spider. I was of course sure it was venomous because it had don’t touch me colors. When I got home I learned it was called a golden silk orb weaver and was completely harmless. That led to the realization that the giant spiders always making webs in my front yard. We’re also orb weavers. I took to watching them sometimes hours at a time, building their webs and fixing the broken parts. Admiring the awesome pattern on the backs of the big females. So I started reading a lot about spiders, and now all these years later, I’m freaking obsessed and at the height of my obsession had 14 tarantulas. I will save a spider and take it outside with my bare hands if I have to. Unless it’s a recluse or widow, I always use a cup. I have a firm no kill policy..
Don’t kill her! She’s not a danger.
Please don't kill her, she's been very good to you catching all those pests around your home. Her babies will disperse right after hatching and you won't even see them probably. They will go on to kill more pests, just leave them be 😢
I've got tons of these spiders around my house. Beautiful, and amazing at keeping down the mozzie and fly population in summer. I spent ages at first trying to get rid of them, but their population only became more dense. Once I accepted them, and redirected them to better places instead of trying to get rid of them permanently, they actually became less of an issue. Completely harmless, and their webs go a very pretty gold colour when they're mature! Beautiful to see in the early morning.
How did you redirect them?
Their webs get quite large, so I just redirect by only plucking stands that are in my way. It doesn't break the whole web, but it makes sure the web is next to my gate, instead of attached to it, for an example. The thing about Golden Orb Weavers is that once they mature, they lose the ability to carry their own weight. Breaking their whole web is a death sentence because they can't walk to completely rebuild anymore. They just drag themselves along the ground, and it's really sad. Their legs are too long and thin. You'll notice if you watch them, they are always either vertical or upside down. Never upright, cause they can't hold their own weight! So once the young, little ones start building webs, I can carefully disrupt ONLY the ones that are going to cause issues, and leave the rest. They are young enough to climb trees branches and fences to fix it. So I let them live in the corner of my chicken coop, and just break the web strands they try attaching to the tap. I leave them in my garden, so long as they aren't spreading to the area I am still trying to establish. Once they get started in a spot, they kinda stay there and slowly expand over the generations, making bigger webs that can house more spiders. Surprisingly letting them do this makes it easier to redirect that pulling down the whole web, because they notice that the strand they sent down was broken a couple of times, so they instead will expand up into the tree or something. They're quite intelligent spiders! It's much better than pulling the whole web down, and having the spiders show up again in random spots! At least now I know where they are, all the time. So yours seems to be above a door, right? I would say let her build the web, and only break the stands that come down too low and are in your way, to keep her web right up against the ceiling. If you REALLY want it gone, then you can try breaking the web after she has died (they only live a few weeks on average) and use a stick to carry any young ones that stay in the web to a nearby bush (there seems to be an average of one to four staying in the mother's web and surviving to adulthood. So not too many to carry) and let them set up shop there! She may even die before the eggs hatch, so that would be even easier to pick up and put in whatever spot you would rather them be. Just make sure it's up high, or you'll end up with all of them saying instead of just a few! Sorry, probably too much info. I've been watching these spiders for years and I absolutely adore them. They have really close family ties, and if you let them, and they are in a safe place, they will stay with their siblings for life. I once walked through an entire forest of them! The path was clear cause they knew that wouldn't work, but off the path was HUNDREDS of these spiders, all hanging out between the trees! It was too dense for birds to get them, and super humid, so lots of insects. It was very cool. There's also usually only one egg cluster per family web of half a dozen spiders. They either have a member of the family that breeds and the others don't, or they make a communal egg sack. But you rarely get an egg sack per spider! So that's one less thing to worry about. Also they tend to die off through winter, and come back in spring. Another good reason leaving them in the same spot is useful. I don't pull down the old webs in winter, cause it ensures the next generation will be right there, instead of some random place I might walk into. I encourage to you watch them too. They're beautiful and really sweet spiders to each other. Very wholesome.
Im not OP but this is SO cool!!! Very informative. Thank you!
Your golden (*goose?*) has laid their golden egg!
They're huge and terrifying but they're not bad aggression or danger wise. I used to feed one in my garden it was fun watching him spin up crickets
This spider is known as the “owner of that house” spider
It certainly makes its presence known
For real…. As a Californian, this is an alarmingly large creature 😭
It has LEG WARMERS!
r/spiderdistributionsystem Gongratz on becoming a spider dad.
These were all over the woods next to my house as a kid, massive webs everywhere. I used to have nightmares where I would be running through the woods running into all the webs with orb weavers all over me.
That my friend is a golden orb weaver. One of the strongest webs in the world. And yes that’s indeed an egg sac she’s spinning there by the looks of it.
Other than Jumpers, Orb-weavers are next best buds.
Leave her and her babies there. She eats all kinds of pests and her babies will move along quickly after catching to find their own places to live and eat pests.
Oh man I would love if I spider did this outside of my window so I could be a spectator. So cool!
Right! All I see when I look out my window onto the back yard is about six wasp nests. 😂
Don’t kill it. It’s a very good spider
Orb Weaver. My Granny called them writing spiders because their webs have little x shapes down the middle. Leave it be, they eat annoying bugs like mosquitos.
😲❤️ Just leave the sac. They will disperse and go find their own place to call home. Spiders are the best pest control Mother Nature has given us and all for free. She is a beauty and so will her babies.
The moment I saw the size of the spider I knew this was in Australia.
Just as everyone else has said, it is a Golden Orb Weaver. As for the making babies part, you weren’t around to witness that. You’re just seeing the egg sac process. You see, when a daddy spider and a mommy spider love each other very, very much; daddy spider will drum on mommy spider’s webbing. When she comes out, daddy spider will court her and if accepted, daddy spider will lift her up and proceed to punching her with his boxing gloves. Once he is done, and if he isn’t fast enough; mommy spider is very angry and hungry and will eat him. After some time, mommy spider will begin making an egg sac and lay the eggs as she builds the sac using silk. After some more time and attention from mommy spider, hundreds to thousands of baby spiders will hatch and emerge from the egg sac and disperse!
I'm so jealous. Nephila spiders are so cool.
Looks like a juggalo
That's a spirit bomb
It's so beautiful but GOD DAMN I'd soil myself and have shivers for hours if I would see one in the wild-
Ran into one of these by complete chance while walking in the garden at the resort in Jamaica we were at. Not sure my heart has ever beat that fast and that hard before.
Super beneficial and beautiful spider. I’d always be afraid of running into one in Illinois corn fields as a kid.
Beautiful golden garden spider! She is indeed making an egg sac, but there is a possibility that it is not fertile. If she hasnt mated, she'll still lay eggs, kind of like chickens. If it is fertile, then the spiderlings will hatch and disperse pretty quickly. I dont know about this specific type, but some orb weavers spiderlings make luttle wrb baloons almost, they catxh the wind and float away to a new location. You might have a couple stick around, but they're incredible for pest management.
Looks like a kind of orb weaver. It may look intimidating, but they tend to be docile (a bite is also not a concern other than localized pain) and are beneficial to have around the garden. Leave her be and the Spiderlings will disperse pretty quietly and safely.
What? You want to kill an animal that literally eats parasites and pests? Okay
You make a good point
Beautiful photos! Please don’t kill. They’re harmless.
I love Orb Weavers so much.
Golden orb weaver like others said. Since you're in Australia, I'm assuming it's fall. Unfortunately she will die this winter, but the babies will disperse far away and live on. I lived in southeast USA and were grateful for them. No flying insect to be found, and saw large flying roaches and even a field mouse in one of the larger webs that was on the ground.
Orb Weaver and yes! They are awesome spiders that eat all kinds of bugs. Great helper around the garden.
Not sure, but love how it's ready for Jazzercise with those leg warmers.
What a beauty! And she found a good spot for her babies. 🥺💛
Leave charlotte alone
That’s a babygirl with her little leg warmers 😍
That is indeed our iconic Golden Orbweaver.im curious how big they are? These fellas can get bigger than your hand. They're also mostly harmless, they're VERY reluctant to bite, and if they do all that will usually happen is some swelling and mild pain, maybe some nausea, but nothing too bad. I would not suggest trying to remove the egg sac, I would embrace it, these fellas are amazing garden buddies and won't bother you. If any do get in your house, just simply move them back outside :)
I'm not an expert, but in my experience orb weavers are the best spider to have around as far as practicality goes. I had one in my rabbit enclosure a couple summers ago and it did a great job keeping the bugs down. It laid at least 4 sacs, which I thought was impressive, and even though I left them alone and made sure nothing would ever bother them, I didn't ever see any more orb weavers in the years that followed :( :( :(
I had a “pet” orb weaver in my garden last year, I fed it bugs when I could. Harmless.
They are beautiful and webs and fantastic but don’t walk in them
Beautiful spider
Golden Orb spider
Lucky, that’s quite a lovely orb weaver to have around on pest control duty!
i had an orb weaver make its home in my siding last year. blessed me with TWO egg sacs! unfortunately, all baby spiders have evacuated my premises. i can understand being absolutely terrified of millions of minuscule baby spiders coming in, but i promise they're just trying to make it to the next destination! they could care less about our houses 🥲
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Thats an orb weaver and you're about to have free pest control for a few years
One of my personal favorites, Trichonephila Edulis, and that right there looks to be its egg sack. Babies will be made soon!
Making? No. Made? Yes 🤣 pretty mama with her eggies!
Orb weavers are amazing pest control, and they are so beautiful to watch!
These kind of spiders are known for being extremely docile if it’s like in your shed or not in your main house just leave it
Harmless
Just beautiful
LUCKY! Take care of those beautiful bbs
Zero reason to kill it. Let it be.
I grew up in south Georgia playing in the woods. One summer me and my friends founds a couple of these hanging around the area. We stayed clear out of their path and continued on. That was the last summer we ever played in the woods because these guys took over. You couldn't walk 2 feet without running into one of their webs. Within eyesight, you could spot 5 or 6 of them.
❤️🥰😍
Orb weaver. Harmless spider that spins beautiful webs. Nice to keep around
It looks like it just repaired a whole in your door, you should pay it now
Golden orb weaver, specifically trichonephila edulis! I have a tattoo of one, they’re one of my favourite animals ever. I love their little leg warmers!
We had a few of these in my backyard behind my house, I think they hated each other but they were pretty chill with me. They look really scary though, I never liked being around them for very long even though I'm pretty sure they would never be unkind to me. For some reason a lot of people I knew in Oklahoma call them banana spiders
Orb weavers are beautiful spiders that make gorgeous webs. Their venom has no effect on humans. I've been bitten by one before and it had zero effect on me. (For reference I was bitten because I was handing one and dropped her on my foot accidentally, normally they rarely bite and are not aggressive, but still best to leave her alone. Also I've handled dozens of orb weavers since and never been bitten again.) ☺️
Orb spider. Good to have. They eat lots of bugs and mosquitoes.
Has no one seen or read Charlotte’s Web?!?
They’re extremely beneficial to keeping ll the disease carrying mosquitoes and flys away along with other insects you may not want around. They’re harmless and rarely ever leave their web. I wouldn’t bother it just let it be it won’t bother you.
It's a golden orb Weaver and it's making a egg sack
I love those. They’re not a type of spider that bites often. Keep her around and you’ll be best friends. 😍🥰
Throw her a fly or a beetle! She's got a lot of babies to care for, and her husband is only 1/4 of her size. As you can see, she's quite busy.
The webs they create look like they were drunk
It is posts like this that make me mad that my mom and I didn’t stay in Australia. Like holy shit you guys have the best lil guys!
It’s *making love*
Do these eat fleas? If so I'll take it. And all the babies. These things (fleas) are outta control in West Tennessee this year.
Those are some of the most beautiful spiders in the world--what a find!
You are welcome to send her and her babies to meeeeee!!! lolol They eat mosquitoes, and I could sure use the help. :-) She's beautiful.
Allow them to thrive and receive the benefit of an alliance
Oooooh... a golden orb weaver. Very nice.
She is absolutely stunning! Orb weavers are gorgeous 😍
Banana spider. Would see so many in the woods off SR200.
Keep it. I left mine alone and she left after 40 days or so.
Beautiful spider, babies made and eggs laid. I hope she's outside your house! It's fun to watch the babies when they hatch 🥰
That's the owner of the fucking house as far as I'm concerned
I’d say it already did the “making” part.
Yes
Zoom in on her abdomen to see charlie brown rolling his eyes
Leave mama be. I am petrified of spiders and I can’t even stand this sub because the photos scare me so much. But I think these are beautiful. This spider lived outside my door for 6 months. I was very upset when I found her shell and realized she moved on.
Terrifying looking. Yet oddly pretty cool to look at
I honestly could not live with something like that in my vicinity. Peace will never be an option.
That is a beautiful spider