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Signs of September

Yep, it's still 92 degrees today. Ugggg, I am ready for fall weather. This is just one of many, Banana Spiders that have taken up lodging around my house. We always know we are at the end of summer when the Banana Spiders are as big as my hand (yes, a little exaggerated- but not much)....but sheesh these spiders just gross me out.

Yes, and this is the lady....the males are much smaller, and I think she eats him too. The webs are so strong, and they are in heaven now catching & eating all the love bugs.

In fact the webs are so big and strong they will knock you off your riding lawn mower. Fall weather with a good cool spell with make them all go away.......

Banana Spider

I've been playing with my new camera.....and love it. Not a bad close up for an amateur photographer.

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Posted by Christine Bohn, Gainesville, FL Residential Realtor® on 09/20/2009 06:11 PM

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Christine: If I wasn't so squeamish, I'd just love to see one of these beauties gobble up her boyfriend... LOL. I guess the old saying "a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle" applies to Banana Spiders, too.

Christine,

We have those as well as wolf spiders and never have I taken a camera to one of them. Good for you.

I hate spiders! Even if they are beneficial to our environment I don't want them anywhere near me. And it all started with banana spiders when I was a kid visiting family in FL!

Hi Christine - I am certainly not a spider lover, but that banana spider is simply gorgeous! But I have to say it's much nicer to see it in a photograph than to see them all around the house. Nice photo!