LEAVE THAT BUSH ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let it grow full, thick, and naturally!!!!!!!!!!
MMMMMMM it's a "jungle out there"!!! Welcome to the Jungle!!!

Quote from: Old Mr. Wilson on September 23, 2006, 05:48:59 PM
LEAVE THAT BUSH ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let it grow full, thick, and naturally!!!!!!!!!!
MMMMMMM it's a "jungle out there"!!! Welcome to the Jungle!!!

Geeze, coming from Old Mr. Wilson, that statement is creeper than the original spider pic.

Garden spiders do not bother me too much.  Last summer I found this in my garage:


Another view:


Yes, it's a black widow.  I have no idea how it lost a leg.  It lost more than a leg shortly after the photo was taken.   Nothing in the picture provides scale, but the thorax was about the size of the end of your middle finger (fairly large for a black widow).  I usually find black widows outside or in the garage.

Here in western Oklahoma, we also have the other poisonous spider found in the US -- the brown recluse.  I got bitten on the top of the leg by one about five years ago.  My whole upper leg was swollen and purple.  Thanks to a quick cortisone injection in the bite, I didn't lose any flesh.  I look much closer before putting on clothes now 

Garden spiders are your friend -- it's some of the others that you have to watch out for!

That's beautiful.

You know that the only reason the spiders are in the house is that there is plenty to prey on.