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Be careful where you put your hands through the day, you never know what will come out at night. This little collection of orb spiders are residents under the hand rails of Commonwealth Avenue Bridge. It is common to see people leaning on the rails to admire the views, never knowing how close they are to scary...
Just look at the length of those rails and think about how many spiders there are under them...
The orb weavers are a large and diverse family of spiders found worldwide, except of course Antarctica. They build their large webs at night in open expanses to trap flying insects.
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There is a variety of species under these rails, attracted by the lure of an easy feed as moths and other insects are attracted by the lights.
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The web is a flat trap, which the spider sits in the middle of, waiting for something to blunder into it, which is taken down each morning and remade each night. Through the day, the spiders retire to a nest near their trap zone to sleep.
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While they are not terribly venomous, and are generally retiring and shy, they can and will deliver a painful bite if they feel threatened. However, this is rare and not serious.
But imagine having one crawl up your neck whilst you are in the bush, miles from anywhere on a stinking hot day in January... yep, it has happened to me. And she was one of the big ones. Big enough I actually felt her footfalls through my t-shirt! Even for a non arachnophobe it was quite the shock!
Once again, these are not dangerous to humans and just want to be left alone. Just be aware of where you put your hands.
Making me feel all itchy
haha. There are more spiders around than people realise.
Oh my god, I almost passed out reading and watching the pictures! #afraidofspiders
These are the friendly ones...
I know just afraid of them, it’s not that I think that they would kill me or anything I don’t know why been like this my whole life, but tryin to fix it so thats why I read your post! Thank you it was very informative:)
I hope it was helpful. The fear of spiders, snakes and other creepy crawlies is a hereditary thing, instinct which kept us alive for many thousands of years. So it is more unusual not to be afraid of them than it is to be afraid. People, however, conjure up worse than reality when they allow their fear to dictate their reactions, not logic.
Did you see my post on the redback spider?
I'am one of those people xD I will check it out!:)
These look alot different than the orb weavers native to the US, at least the ones I'm familiar with. They are great spiders! They keep down the pest insect populations and are not aggressive at all. I had one on the top of my head I almost smashed, not knowing what it was and it didn't bite.
LOL, it is pretty freaky when they crawl on you, or when you walk through the web and do not know if they are on you somewhere!
Think you know much about spiders
I know not to play with them, lol. That is enough to keep me out of trouble.