I'd rather find out what I'm f***ing with before I find out myself

We called them banana spiders. They're awesome. Used to feed them grasshoppers as a kid.

Looks like an itsy bitsy spider.

J/K. It's a Garden Spider. I also used to throw grasshoppers into their webs when I was a kid. We had tons of webs on the side of our two trailers between the ground and the bottom of the trailers.

Yellow Garden Spider. Completely harmless. No need to kill - just relocate it. They catch bugs you don't want.

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The lack of general knowledge from people these days is just mind boggling.

Corn spider.

Golden Orb Weaver/ Banana spider. Really cool spider but will still freak you out when you feel those legs on the back of your neck, in the dark.

How would I know which spider it was if I've never seen one before? That's why questions are asked

Yellow Garden Spider...

not a banana spider. not a corn spider. harmless. unless you have a weak heart.

Trichonephila clavipes

Lots of different common names as evidenced by this thread.
These names vary from place to place & people will climb upon a hill and die telling others their common name is wrong.

Their webs are awesome (well as previously mentioned unless you walk into one at night, then ninja skills come out) and take care of a lot of bugs

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How would I know which spider it was if I've never seen one before? That's why questions are asked

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I I have never seen a three-toed sloth before…… but if I did, I would know that's what is was.

wink1989 said:

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washedupballer said:

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How would I know which spider it was if I've never seen one before? That's why questions are asked

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I I have never seen a three-toed sloth before…… but if I did, I would know that's what is was.

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Ok, which three toed sloth is it? Could you tell without looking it up?

And how many variants of sloth are there to guess from as opposed to spiders?

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The lack of general knowledge from people these days is just mind boggling.

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I'm sure everyone here could bring up things from their background experience that are generally known in their circle, but would stuck you and I.

No need to throw stones because the guy asked what type of spider it is. That's not general knowledge, that's specific.

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Their webs are awesome (well as previously mentioned unless you walk into one at night, then ninja skills come out) and take care of a lot of bugs

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They also shake their bodies to "bounce" the web back and forth really fast. Scared the **** outta me first time I came across one unexpectedly about a foot from my face.

Here's what it looks like.

Do you get invited to a lot of parties?

General knowledge was knowing it's a spider. Not what species the spider is

Google lens is great for this stuff. If it gives you conflicting answers, come here. Saves you getting the jackass answers.

I thought this was a joke at first because I didn't realize there were people who didn't know what these were.

trouble said:

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Google lens is great for this stuff. If it gives you conflicting answers, come here. Saves you getting the jackass answers.

I thought this was a joke at first because I didn't realize there were people who didn't know what these were.

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Al Gore invented the internet so jackasses would have some place to share answers.

You need to sit down and be quiet.

A "rickrack" spider (what my mom used to call them).

Those things have cost me a good year of my life every time I walked into a web before daylight, while spot and stalk hunting in south Texas as a kid.

This one is called a Kubota Spider. He/She/It has been with me for the past 3 months. Very loyal and no bugs in the Cab.

Deerdude said:

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Those things have cost me a good year of my life every time I walked into a web before daylight, while spot and stalk hunting in south Texas as a kid.

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I become an instant kung fu master when I walk face first into one at night. Though the accompanying shrieking does tend to negate some of the coolness somewhat.

Just Friday doing a site walk on an undeveloped property, was keeping my eyes scanning for snakes and almost walked right into a web with one in the center. Remembered to scan low and high. Saw another on the fence line that was chowing down on a fat grasshopper.

We had one on our patio for a while. My kids named it Stella.

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Deerdude said:

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Those things have cost me a good year of my life every time I walked into a web before daylight, while spot and stalk hunting in south Texas as a kid.

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I become an instant kung fu master when I walk face first into one at night. Though the accompanying shrieking does tend to negate some of the coolness somewhat.

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I laughed out loud. I've been there brother.

I've seen these for the first time on our property this year. The several I've seen have been around for several months. Like others, we've named them! Harmless and beneficial critters.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_aurantia

I have minimum 200 of these suckers around my farm.

I don't do anything to the ones high above where I tread, but all the suckers on the fence that I mow beside - who love to arrange their webs right where I drive through them face first - for them it's war and murder every week

Always called them writing spiders.

Harmless but the web in your face and hair is freaky.

I'll never understand "harmless." No spider is harmless.

That said, the yellow garden spider is fascinating to watch. It's what grasshopper nightmares are made of.

When I was a teenager I'd help my grandpa mow pastures in the summer. I would take the little 35hp tractor and mow the roads through the woods. I kept a long stick to knock those guys out of the way. Some of those webs would go all the way across a 25' ROW in the river bottom.

I also learned to make sure you knock them down and not out. Had one do a tarzan and come back to me. Landed on my straw hat and I bailed. Tractor kept going until it found a tree.

Man that's dangerous. Had a very wealthy ranch neighbor out on his tractor shredding when he found some bees. Jumped off tractor without shutting anything down. Stumbled on landing and shredded himself.

Not how to end things, I'm thinking.

orb weaver ?