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Off-topic TalkWhere overpaid, underworked S2000 owners waste the worst part of their days before the drive home. This forum is for general chit chat and discussions not covered by the other off-topic forums.
This fukn thing was hanging out on the screen door of my parent's place in Columbus, OH. Now, in FL or Australia or something I'd expect to see things like this... not Ohio. WTF is this thing. Must have been 4" at least across.
These spiders attract much attention due to their large size as they can have a leg span of 3 inches. Many are earth tone colored.
Nursery web spiders typically live near lakes and streams, but occasionally are found indoors in moist areas. Many can run over the surface of water and, if chased, dive and stay submerged for some time. They hunt day and night for aquatic insects and even small fish. They are sometimes commonly called fishing spiders.
The sole use of their silk webbing is for the egg sac. The female uses her mouthparts to carry the egg sac under her body until the spiderlings are ready to emerge. She then fastens the egg sac to some leaves and encloses it within a �nursery� web, where the spiderlings remain until they are ready to disperse. The female stands guard near the nursery web to protect her young.
I found something like that in my garage a couple weeks ago. Looks about the same but the color pattern is different. Could be a barn spider. COmmon everywhere, gets very big, scary looking, just eats bugs.
The one I found, with the legs stretched out was bigger than the palm of my hand. The big bulby (what's it called?) thorax thingy is because they spin huge webs every day, and then generally consume the web so they can produce another web the next day. Its all storage.
what the hell
