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And I almost walked right into it!! [img:left] ![[Linked Image]](http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g312/philgood80/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpsphx4ioyp.jpeg) [/img] Anyone know what kind it is? I'm no spider expert but I know it's not poisonous so I let it be. Can someone help me with the zigzag pattern in the middle of the web?!?
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Orb weaver? I hate spiders  ; most are harmless though.
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First thought was a brown recluse - AKA "fiddleback" - but NOT.
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We always called them cotton spiders. Don't know what they're really called
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Garden Spider...no problemo.
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The black and yellow is sure purdy but that sucker and a twin about 2 feet away ain't little.
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I think it's an Orb-weaver spider. Some think the stuff in the middle is to warn birds so they don't destroy the web.
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Had one at an old house near Dallas. I thought it was kinda pretty, so I started feeding it a grasshopper a day, by tossing them into its web. I swear it doubled in size, in a week 
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Garden Spider...no problemo. This. We had a beast of one when we walked my youngest to elementary school when we lived in Kingwood, NE of Houston. It was there for the seasaon.
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I think it's an Orb-weaver spider. Some think the stuff in the middle is to warn birds so they don't destroy the web. Makes sense. Thanks
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great spider. makes some very cool webs. amazing to watch him build his web
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They're around my house every late summer/early fall. Their webs catch wasps looking to hide under the eaves for the winter so I leave them alone.
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Garden spider. When I was a kid I would throw grasshoppers in their webs and watch them wrap those hoppers up in a hurry.
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Had bunches of them at our place in east Texas out back at, you guessed it, the barn. I almost walked into them several times as well since they often spun their web over the entrances. They had lots of company provided by mud dobbers, wasps and all manner of various and sundry creatures.
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banana spider ![[Linked Image]](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/88/a1/41/88a141ae3f6d4b2e9f62c693c5ac6684.jpg)
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They're around my house every late summer/early fall. Their webs catch wasps looking to hide under the eaves for the winter so I leave them alone. Who do I see about importing some of em to my shack....
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Kind of like them as far as spiders go but don't like running into spider webs regardless what kind of spider made it. We usually have a few yellow garden spiders scattered around our yard and sometimes around our porch lights. Industrious critters too. I've watched them at the crack of dawn already up and busy repairing and enlarging their web. Saved an almost dead hummingbird stuck in one of their webs in the wife's flower garden once.
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We have lots at deer lease up by Austin.
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This time of year their webs are all over every fire lanes at the lease. I always attach a rod to each side of the front of the 4wheeler to break the webs before I get a face full .
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