Big Honkin’ Spider
Friday, September 22, 2006
This is making a man-sized web in our front yard:
It is about the size of the top of my thumb, which I’m convinced it is prepared to eat. Any insect scientists out there who might tell us whether we need to feed it birds, or call animal control?
by Kevin Makice
A Ph.D student in informatics at Indiana University, Kevin is rich in spirit. He wrestles and reads with his kids, does a hilarious Christian Slater imitation and lights up his wife's days. He thinks deeply about many things, including but not limited to basketball, politics, microblogging, parenting, online communities, complex systems and design theory. He didn't, however, think up this profile.
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This is making a man-sized web in our front yard:
It is about the size of the top of my thumb, which I’m convinced it is prepared to eat. Any insect scientists out there who might tell us whether we need to feed it birds, or call animal control?
2 Comments
Hi Kevin,
I believe that is an orb weaver. See wikipedia for more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orb-weaver_spider
And three photos I took of one in my front yard at:
http://photos.pequals.com/index.php
Punch line…. It will not hurt you.
Good to know, thanks. My little/big friend disappeared two days ago after a rain, and I was wondering if he was going to move into the house