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They Grow Up So Fast » Tue, Jun 12th 2007 7:59 pm

This is what I found on the front deck the other day; an actual PILE of baby spiders.

I don’t know how large these guys will get, but my arachnophobic mind was envisioning a couple dozen of these guys attacking and devouring a small horse. Still, rather than grabbing the RAID and sending these mofos straight back to Hell, I grabbed my camera and propped my lens about an inch away from the writhing mass.

I never did get around to killing them, either. Uh oh.

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  1. 1 Sean on Tue, Jun 12th 2007 10:05 pm

    Well Aaron, these are your common “Garden Spider” you can tell from the distinctive yellow abdomen and black legs. Common full grown size for these are about an 2-3 cm leg span. They are actually heavily favored by arachnid photographers because they produce one of the most articulate webs.

  2. 2 Aaron on Tue, Jun 12th 2007 10:33 pm

    Haha. Thanks!

    For anyone interested, you can catch Sean on Discovery every Sunday at 9:00 PM sticking out tongue

    Not really. But one day, I’m sure. I’ll write back when I’ve a clever name for THAT show…

  3. 3 Chris on Thu, Jun 14th 2007 12:32 pm

    Are you fuckin’ kidding me? Umm, apparently, says Wikipedia… female “Yellow Garden Spider’s” can grow to be an ‘impressive’ (wtf?) 75mm in diameter, including their legs. They’re freakish bodies can be 40mm long! shudders

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/P9099426.jpg

  4. 4 Sean on Thu, Jun 14th 2007 4:31 pm

    I was just stating common as the ones I remember catching when I was a kid, I guess there are freaks and giants in every species. sticking out tongue

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