Austin Gardening - Spider ID

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Spider ID

Sqwertz

2007-09-22, 3:25 am

This spider has been building webs across my back kitchen door
for the last 6 weeks or so. Smart spider: The light from the
kitchen attracts bugs at night - so many that he has to rebuild
his web every 36 hours or so.

http://i17.tinypic.com/4tfv912.jpg

Anybody recognize it? It's not a great photo as it was taken at
night through the glass door, but the markings are pretty evident
He/she is currently sucking on dinner - as it is every night
around this time. It's almost 2" long in this photo; easily
three inches when he's lurking in the center of the web spread
out.

Interesting to watch, but he has inconveniently declared my back
porch off limits for quite a while since I can't get in/out the
door.

-sw

Omelet

2007-09-23, 9:25 am

In article <12y8o38t3darg.dlg@sqwertz.com>,
Sqwertz <swertz@cluemail.compost> wrote:

> This spider has been building webs across my back kitchen door
> for the last 6 weeks or so. Smart spider: The light from the
> kitchen attracts bugs at night - so many that he has to rebuild
> his web every 36 hours or so.
>
> http://i17.tinypic.com/4tfv912.jpg
>
> Anybody recognize it? It's not a great photo as it was taken at
> night through the glass door, but the markings are pretty evident
> He/she is currently sucking on dinner - as it is every night
> around this time. It's almost 2" long in this photo; easily
> three inches when he's lurking in the center of the web spread
> out.
>
> Interesting to watch, but he has inconveniently declared my back
> porch off limits for quite a while since I can't get in/out the
> door.
>
> -sw

I don't know what they are, but I have them all over my yard including
the front porch near the light.

Kind of you not to disturb her web. :-)

Odds are, she will eventually lay an egg sack, then die.
--
Peace, Om

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charliekilo

2007-09-24, 1:25 pm

"Sqwertz" <swertz@cluemail.compost> wrote in message
news:12y8o38t3darg.dlg@sqwertz.com...
> This spider has been building webs across my back kitchen door
> for the last 6 weeks or so. Smart spider: The light from the
> kitchen attracts bugs at night - so many that he has to rebuild
> his web every 36 hours or so.
>
> http://i17.tinypic.com/4tfv912.jpg
>
> Anybody recognize it? It's not a great photo as it was taken at
> night through the glass door, but the markings are pretty evident
> He/she is currently sucking on dinner - as it is every night
> around this time. It's almost 2" long in this photo; easily
> three inches when he's lurking in the center of the web spread
> out.
>
> Interesting to watch, but he has inconveniently declared my back
> porch off limits for quite a while since I can't get in/out the
> door.
>
> -sw

I don't know what kind it is but I had one by a light on my garage a couple
of years ago. It stayed in the same place for a couple of months (good food
source being near the light) and when cold weather came, it spun itself into
what looked almost like a cocoon. It stayed there all winter and in the
spring, spider and "cocoon" were gone.

Omelet

2007-09-24, 9:25 pm

In article <gSSJi.28604$eY.2770@newssvr13.news.prodigy.net>,
"charliekilo" <miles_kramer@hotmail.com> wrote:

> "Sqwertz" <swertz@cluemail.compost> wrote in message
> news:12y8o38t3darg.dlg@sqwertz.com...
>
> I don't know what kind it is but I had one by a light on my garage a couple
> of years ago. It stayed in the same place for a couple of months (good food
> source being near the light) and when cold weather came, it spun itself into
> what looked almost like a cocoon. It stayed there all winter and in the
> spring, spider and "cocoon" were gone.

That was probably an egg sack.
--
Peace, Om

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charliekilo

2007-09-25, 1:25 pm

"Omelet" <omp_omelet@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> In article <gSSJi.28604$eY.2770@newssvr13.news.prodigy.net>,
> "charliekilo" <miles_kramer@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> That was probably an egg sack.
> --
> Peace, Om
>
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>
> "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their
> foot down." -- Steve Rothstein

No, I watched it wrap itself up from within...possibly the ultimate
sacrifice, lay eggs, wrap yourself inside for spiderlings to eat when they
hatch?

Omelet

2007-09-25, 1:25 pm

In article <bHaKi.386$sw6.186@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com>,
"charliekilo" <miles_kramer@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> No, I watched it wrap itself up from within...possibly the ultimate
> sacrifice, lay eggs, wrap yourself inside for spiderlings to eat when they
> hatch?

Weird...
The only spiders I've ever seen make a cocoon type nest are jumping
spiders.
--
Peace, Om

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