Identify SPIDER Please

[ThePenIsMightier]

Should I kill this? Is it an invasive species? What the fuck is it?
It's really big. Larger than a bumble bee.

[TomcoPDR]

Let it bite you

[lamp_shade_2000]

Fucking burn that thing. Jesus that's creepy looking.. sorry I'm no help towards the actual question

[Tik-Tok]

Cross Orb Weaver. Not venomous, but still deserves to burn.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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Cross Orb Weaver. Not venomous, but still deserves to burn.

*Googles...
Yes, I think that's pretty certainly it. I'm really surprised I've never seen one of these.
Thanks!

[vengie]

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*Googles...
Yes, I think that's pretty certainly it. I'm really surprised I've never seen one of these.
Thanks!

Peter Parker said the same thing before being bit

[mr2mike]

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Peter Parker said the same thing before being bit

ThePenIs(ActuallyMightGet)Mightier

[Toilet_X]

Thats not a spider, thats one of my crabs.

[ExtraSlow]

Yeah my kid says orb weaver and they know that shit.

[suntan]

They eat all the bad bugs so you definitely want them.

[vengie]

Side note, has anyone else noticed a massive uptick in spiders this year?
I've seen some of the biggest I've ever seen in Alberta this year.

[88CRX]

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Side note, has anyone else noticed a massive uptick in spiders this year?
I've seen some of the biggest I've ever seen in Alberta this year.

Yes.

We get our house/yard sprayed cause they’re so bad. Hadnt seen a spider the last 2 summers. This year they are everywhere despite getting the yard sprayed.

[Tik-Tok]

I've noticed less around my house this year. Which means they're just getting better at hiding.

[03ozwhip]

Ya we have a ton of those orb weavers around my house. Wife calls them berthas cus they're huge bitches. They can't keep up with the canal bugs and we don't like walking into their webs so we spray every so often., doesn't help much.

[suntan]

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I've noticed less around my house this year. Which means they're just getting better at hiding.

There’s something on your back.

[ThePenIsMightier]

I have not noticed more spiders.
More wasps, though. Fuckin two nests this year¡! So weird.

[vengie]

Amen there too!
Also have had two wasp nests to deal with this year.

[BavarianBeast]

I get them a lot at my place in Kelowna and just decimate them with raid.



Sometimes I’ll just spray underneath my patio furniture and like 20+ of those mofos will fall out

[Doozer]

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we don't like walking into their webs

We had one of these orb weavers a few years ago, it started to stretch a web from our fence to our deck (probably an 8' gap) and we discovered it by walking into it. It only had a couple strands across, and it was like walking into a clothesline. Like there was visible resistance when you pushed on it, like someone stretched fishing line across the path. We got rid of that guy and haven't seen any since, but I'm sure there are others being more stealthy.

[suntan]

One year, I had a spider that hung out on one of the garage door pillars, it caught a of mosquitos, thing is many of them had blood in them so I ended up with blood spots on the siding.