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It's kinda old but it's been a solid camera for years.

OMG so freaky

GREAT pic

That's when I put in the porch light.

Back in Michigan there used to be these giant yellow and black striped spiders that made perfect webs like this down by the river.

I found an image online to show you how big they were.

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The one in my picture is about an inch and a half long. Tiny by comparison but still big by spider standards.

LOVE them but have only ever seen them in rural areas

spiders are amazing.

They never last more than a single night and it's a work of art.

there were these big orb-weaving spiders that used to spin webs between rows of orange trees. Working in the orchards on a tractor, you'd often be looking in other directions as the tractor moved slowly down the rows, spraying weeds or whatever. So, you'd hit one of these webs, and it would wrap around your face, then stretch until it broke. The spiders had 1" bodies, and they usually were right in the center of the web. Yuck!

So, what I did was to mount a car's radio antenna on the front of the tractor. It would catch the web and break it before it got you in the face. Pretty soon, the word got around, and everyone did that.

I'm in the Anaheim-Fullerton area and I get these nocturnal orb spiders from time to time and it's always a surprise to see how wide a span they can cover. (Not to mention how fast they can throw one of these up.) This one was just over my head so I could duck under it. I got up this morning and it was gone. I've seen birds hit those things and their reaction is funny. Kind of a "Yuck!" with their body language as they stop to pick it off their feathers.