Comments on: Florida Spiders

By: Susan dietrich

Susan dietrich — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:51:07 +0000

I have this spider on my back porch. Can’t bring myself to kill it, however it has what looks like three round (egg?) sacks . Don’t want themn to hatch all over the place. What do I do with it? Help!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:36:26 +0000

I have in shrubs outside my door in Bonita Springs FL. Very pretty, neat webb also glad to hear they are not dangerous.

By: Dale

Dale — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:56:36 +0000

Just saw one of these outside a window in Wesley Chapel FL. It has been working on an interesting spiral shaped web for some time now. Very large spider. Glad to hear it is not dangerous.

By: Bennie

Bennie — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:50:30 +0000

Stories seem to repeat themselves, I too have found one of these spiders in my back porch. Took a picture and looked up on google to see if they are poisonous. They are quite breath taking. I guess I shouldn’t worry according to all the positive feedback of this remarkable creature..

By: nikko

nikko — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:21:55 +0000

my step son was sleeping and he saw one out his window it was about the size of a red prty cup

By: Donna

Donna — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:50:51 +0000

I just took a picture of this creature about 5 minutes ago, came in the house and found this site. Thanks for the info. My spider has made a giagantic web outside my living room window, but looks like he made an adjoining web that connects to the screen porch. Personally I’m horrified of spiders bigger than a match head. This bad boy is huge. My web also has the zig zag pattern. At the moment he has something captured in the web, but don’t know what. I’m amazed I had the nerve to get close enough to take the picture. Should I just leave it alone? It won’t get cold here for a while

By: Cruz

Cruz — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:39:09 +0000

It’s just an orb weaver.. Garden spider quite common.Harmless,yet beautiful in it’s own right..Very different web they weave.!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:15:53 +0000

I have two of those writing spiders out in my garden. They are huge. I don’t want to mess with them or hurt them if they are beneficial to the garden. But my neighbor wants to cut his hedges and he can’t get to do that due to where they have spun their webs.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:29:59 +0000

black widow brown widow red widow brown recluce (rare)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:46:23 +0000

I found one on the outside of my screen porch. I noticed how big it got so fast! Now I know that it is not threatening to my family, I will leave it alone. I also noticed the web. It looks identical to the pics posted here. It catches a lot of bugs, so she is welcome to stay. Unlike the giant black widow I found with and egg sack on the inside of my back porch!