@@backwoods711 not the same spider, but found in similar environments. Golden orb weavers are of a different genus altogether, trichonephila clavipes. They get larger, but are just as easy to handle if you're careful. It's always important to be gentle when handling spiders because they are very delicate.
Spiders are often timid or docile to humans. I always assumed they just understood that we're in different weight classes and know not to fight. Their prey are little, little things, so I think they understand somewhat the size difference between us. Like how big cats like lions and tigers won't chase laser pointer light because it's inadequate prey to them, if that makes sense. Like you won't hunt something too small and they wouldn't hunt something too big.
She’s not building a home on your hand- she’s leaving a webby trail to secure herself and to create a mental map of this strange new hairy environment. Also, as a gardener, I can tell you we love spiders, especially the big girls and wouldn’t get far in our jobs if we were afraid!
I can tell you from experience that people need to be carefully educated about creepy crawlies like spiders. I had a neighbor kill one of my Argiopes after showing g her off and touting her Naturely resume as a mosquito and pest control. The next day the SOB sprayed her. I live in a condo setting.
@@kinglyzard That is so petty of her. She knows it's both harmless and helpful, yet she killed it anyways?? Bruh moment. Even worse that it was on YOUR property, not hers. What a jerk
Fact! Them grasshoppers would make life miserable for us if not for our eight legged friends. They might nip us now and then but it is a small price to pay for their service. Oh, and that nip is really rare.
Me and my wife just leave the spiders in our house alone and let them take care of any pests. Usually they'll live for a few weeks and move on or pass away. We just think of them as another pet 😅
I am usually extremely afraid of spiders, however these garden spiders, (my grandmother called them writing spiders), are fascinating to me. That's definitely strange, for me, as I am definitely arachnophobic, when it comes to ANY other spider. Though they often build their webs along walkways in our yard, I don't worry about walking into them, because they start to bounce up and down in the middle of the web, making them very easy to see. We had tomato plants outside our sunroom, and a garden spider decided to make her home on them, in front of the floor to ceiling windows. Anytime I went out and walked by her she started bouncing and shaking her web. I actually enjoyed sitting and watching her through the window. We named her Charlotte, and actually caught bugs and put them in her web for her. She got absolutely huge! We were able to watch as a much smaller male came courting, and unfortunately, became a snack after the romancing ceased. As the season began to wane, we watched as she carefully tucked away not one, but two egg sacs. Then there came the day that I found Charlotte curled at the bottom of the plant. When the time came to take away the tomato plants, we carefully removed the egg sacs and securely tucked them away under the eave of the house. We kept watch, and as winter gave way to spring, and the weather warmed, we were able to watch the tiny, tiny hatchlings drift away on long silk strands. Sadly, none stayed to weave a home in front of the windows, but I like to think that the beautiful black and yellow spiders, that made their homes among our walkways and flower gardens, were from Charlotte.
I had a small "pet" Nephila when I gardened in SoFla. They get HUGE. I would watch her as she caught bugs I provided, I watched her molt (there's a show for ya) and I watched as tiny males came to court. In the Fall she laid two huge egg sacs and soon we witnessed her crawling along the ground, looking for a place to die 😞. She lived a full life and next year we watched as hundreds of babies emerged from her eggs
I've been living in the same general area for 34 years and have seen black widow, recluse , wolf , funnel, one I'm not sure but it did a probing walk like a tarantula and had the same appearance. Only recently over the last two years was the first time seeing some of these yellow otb spiders yellow and black also yellow with red legs as big as my hand.
I used to bare hand catch these all the time as a kid. We called them golden garden spiders. They never bite, though they’ll open their fangs if you grab them by the abdomen (you would try to bite, too, if a giant grabbed you by yours). They did sometimes poop on me out of fear. They don’t really like to be handled, so they’ll try to run off of your hands. They’re large, dense spiders, and a fall can actually injure them, so they always keep a lifeline behind them.
@@watchinyoutube8919 if you squeeze their abdomen, they’ll probably burst, and that’s messy and not very nice so not recommended. If you hold them by the abdomen, they open their fangs to bite. If they fart, I can’t hear it.
*I had one crawl on me and bite me in my sleep when I was camping... I didn’t react ell with the venom, and ended up losing my pinky finger. Just be careful.*
After a childhood being taught to fear spiders I am now enjoying them and seeing them for what they really are. Your knowledge and experience around spiders is a huge help, thanks for all you do and keep it coming
Good job overcoming your fears. Hopefully we can break the cycle of taught arachnophobia for good some day. And it _is_ taught, not instinct. I remember seeing a study that, among compelling evidence, said that it would be unlikely we evolved a fear of spiders due to how paranoid it would've made our hunter-gatherer ancestors, who primarily lived outdoors and in caves! You just couldn't live that way if you were afraid of every little spider you saw.
I had one of these live next to my door under my porch light for the good part of a summer. We named her Peter, she ended up attracting around three smaller and I assume male spiders around her. They never caused us any trouble and I was thankful for them eating the bugs! Always made my nieces and nephews scream and run when ever they came to visit and saw her lol
I had two of these beautiful spiders in my garden. I showed one off to a neighbor, and the next day I found her dead and hanging from her web. Sprayed, obviously. People suck.
@@MyWildBackyard What we called banana spiders in SoFla were twice to three times the size, Nephilas with doorway sized golden webs! Beautiful critters and structures, with the female Nephila being up to three inches in length, while the male is the size of a large ant.
I used to handle these when I lived in Oklahoma. They were all over. We have then in western Washington now, and we never used to. My mom found one last year and she freaked when I picked it up. Very docile and beautiful spiders. I love them.
How fascinating! I always felt privileged to have this gorgeous and striking spider make her home in my flower garden! I would be very careful not to disturb her. I noticed, she would begin small when first on the web, and then by mid summer be that large size!
i remember having an orb weaver spider at my old home that always built beautiful webs on the the outdoor light fixtures. it was one of the most beautiful things i saw
We had one of those in the front of our house, since we went in and out through the garage since my father was disabled and used a wheelchair, she got to build her web in peace and built it between our house and a pillar on our porch blocking entry to the front door, we didn't care about her because we didn't use the door. She did, however, scare away solicitors as no one wanted to approach the front door when she was there. She was our "guard dog" in a sense. Then one day after a very windy, rainy storm she was gone. Hope she just relocated, she was a good girl.
Out west we have an orb weaver called the "Cat Faced" Spider. Very similar. They look big and scary, but they're actually super docile and great pest control. My favorite thing is that they have a habit of eating funnel webs (wolf and hobo spiders) which are much more defensive and hard to deal with, so whenever I see a catface I will actively harvest it to a location that suits me haha
@@leechjim8023 i think they were just referring to the webs hobo and wolf spiders make. Got a lot of wolf spiders here and they do make webs in corners or over the side of stuff. the webs usually have an outer floor area and then a little hole made of web that they hide in. That's what makes them a funnel web spider
Argiope aurantia is one of my favorite spiders. She’s almost blind, and her tiny mate is little more than a web parasite. Neither are interested in humans, and aren’t particularly known for aggressive behavior. This creature is fairly docile- compared to a baboon spider or something, she’s pretty mellow.
This Species has the lifespan of a Field Mouse: 1 year. Male Web Spiders cannot build webs, So they’re basically just squatters. They live on the outer edge of their mates web or under Shrub. The way they eat is when prey gets stuck on the outer edge of the Web. Orb Weavers have very poor eyesight, feel and vibration is how they detect prey. Females live in the center and have more food access.
Oh yes, ever since I took care of a Jumping Spider mom and her babies (She was pregnant when I got her.) I lost my fear of handling spiders. They are just so fascinating.
What I like about this species is that they make that thick zigzag in their web, and are brightly colored, and shake their web when you get too close. Makes it easier to notice them and not run into their webs.
We called these “writing spiders”. They make such pretty patterns in their web. Usually I abhor any kind of spider, but if I notice these in my yard I like to leave them be. They’re like free pest control. :)
She wasn't trying to build a web on your arm. She was looking for a Safeway off your arm and everywhere she walked she left the safety line in case she was to fall. Almost all spiders do that.
We always felt fortunate when one of these girls would set up shop in the garden. I have not had one in a good few years, but the last one had her web right in front of the window. Enjoyed watching her all summer long, until she eventually just vanished. She was a prolific mother, leaving three egg sacs 💕
The species we have here in South Africa’s little karoo region is the Argiope australis (zigzag orb weaver) and they can be pretty big. Thanks for the video. There are many unnecessary fears of reptiles, arachnids and other bugs. As long as one understands the animal’s behavior, reason of appearing in the area/ or your home and knowing how to handle it or when to leave it alone. 😊 We must respect all creatures as they all play an important role here on earth.
I love this! This is the message I try to spread about a lot of our creepy crawly neighbors. Some of my titles (like this one) may seem obvious to someone like you who knows these creatures are harmless, but for the people who actively fear them or even kill them, these titles help them to click and watch videos that change their views! More we do to spread a positive message, the more these creatures will receive the respect they deserve. Peace ✌️
Had him in my garden, it's web was between an Aloe tree and another tree I tested it's web with a small stick and it stuck on the web 😅 but it stayed there for a month and the spider went on its way after a month : I'm In South Africa 🌍 after, I kinda missed the spider even tho I was scared of it😂
Orbies are the only type of spiders I don't hesitate to handle. I'm in SoCal and we have the scariest-looking orb weavers, but they just never bite. Also, I love that the webs only last a few morning hours. I used to think they melted... but it turns out the spiders eat their webs to get moisture from the dew that collects.
Yep! I'm working on a NatGeo-style doc on orb weavers (dunno when it'll be finished yet) and some of my favorite shots are their webs in the morning. That and them building.
These used to be very common when I was growing up. Seems like today they are less abundant, at least in my area. When I was around 12, I captured one in a jar and studied it. A couple girls in the neighborhood didn't even want to look at it! I released it near it's partially destroyed web, but it didn't rebuild. That night I had a nightmare about it!
Fishing spiders still take the top spot for me, but I do love a good orb weaver find. This was a good trip down nostalgia lane handling one of the first species besides jumping spiders that I ever free handled
I'm really sad I didn't discover you until last week. I'm absolutely living for your content. This spider is one of my faves and I was lucky enough to get to hang out with one in my old back yard. 😁
Brown Orb Weavers are my favorite spiders, with Garden Spiders as #2- I never knew they were a species of Orb Weaver until this video and it makes me happy to hear it.
I used to live in Panama, they had these everywhere and they introduced me to arachnophobia. Most I saw were the size of a teenagers hand and would make webs about face height so you had a very high chance at anytime you walked into the forest or through a brush area that one of these things would end up on you.
When I was very young I remember seeing one of these beautiful garden spiders, after that I became obsessed with insects and arachnids, also you deserve so many more viewers, definitely subscribing
Thank you so much! Believe it or not the garden spiders were a HUGE part in my journey to overcome my fear of them. They’re such gentle, beautiful spiders and they aren’t super skittish, that watching them walk around was super fascinating. One of my main projects this year is the Secret Worlds series, which is kind of my love letter to the wildlife in my backyard. For the Orb Weavers episode I want to especially feature these beauties
We had these all around the house and garden while growing up. Always scary looking. One day on July 4th while the older kids were setting off fireworks, one of these crawled between my toes. In my bare-feet and darkness, I didn't notice the spider until I felt it vibrating between my toes. It was a very strange feeling of the spider and I looked down to see this spider nestle between my toes. I just jumped up and ran away. No bites but just eerie vibrations felt. Not sure if it was its legs moving or if it was the hair bristles from the spider that gave the strange feeling.
I grew up collecting these spiders and the other orb weavers typically found in mid western prairie grasses. They are harmless and actually can be beneficial to gardens. This was in the early 80s, however they are not as numerous as they used to be , and several of the other types of orb weavers I used to collect I do not see anymore. This should be a warning for us but I beleive most people have no idea. One thing that makes these particular orb weavers remarkable is their handling of pry, they can completely wrap a huge grasshopper in seconds and package it up neatly and store it on their web for later.
Excellent work! I’ve been binging your bug videos lately and you have a way of making every single creature you find so fascinating, no matter what it is. The pine devil caterpillar one was super fascinating. Great narration skills and extremely professional. I’m definitely hoping to get to your level someday, keep up the great content and I look forward to seeing what you make in the future!
Thanks for the support! I’ll check out your work and give what tips I can when I get home from work tonight. Also- I’m part of a little community of wildlife creators, we chat on discord and give each other pointers. Sound like something you’d be into?
Just a heads up, she isn’t building a new web on your hand. She is anchoring herself in case she falls off. A fall like that could easily rupture her abdomen.
I've seen many videos where he mentions spiders laying safety lines on his hand. In this case the spider was continually winding web on him, and he was making that point of the spider being content.
We call them zipper spiders in MS. They love to build webs in front of a window that has light on most of the night across your bushes. They also defend their web by shaking it violently if you get too close or disturb them. I'm loving your videos, new subscriber. But I want to know if you can find out what type of funnel Weaver spider lives in Southern Mississippi specifically. We dealt with a lot of those in my military school in Hattiesburg. A lot of people got them confused with the actual funnel weavers from Australia, but they build their funnels just the same and they are huge
I’m thinking about it! My buddy Zach from the Life’s Wild Adventures channel goes to school out there so I might hit him up for a funnel web adventure!
We had one of these in our yard a few years back and everyone was amazed at it. Even my grandma who hates spiders told me to leave it alone(we get wolf spiders the size of a teens palm in our house in the winter). It honestly surprised me with how big it was and how small the one in the video is compared to it. Ours was about 2 and 1/2 times bigger than this one maybe 1 and 1/2
I absolutely adore these spiders. I've observed their behavior and they do some interesting things to include zigzags on their webs and I've seen them jump on their webs like a trampoline. I absolutely love these big beautiful spiders
We actually encourage them and praying mantis in our nursery and cold frames. My hombres that work in the nursery will adopt them and catch pests to feed them and go to lengths to protect them and their webs. Keep up the good work and educational videos.
They are quite common in Middle Europe as well. I transformed parts of our garden into a flower meadow and these spiders love to build their nests between the higher flowers and bushes. I love them, wouldn't touch them, though.
People don't give animals or "bugs", credit for being as smart as they are. I had a smaller species of orb weaver build a web in the bushes at my previous apartment every night for a while. Every time I saw her, I would turn the light on, on my hat and throw some bugs in her web. One night I went out my back door and messed up a few strands that she had made from my gutters to the bush she made her web in. I immediately looked up and saw her, and realized what I had done. I turned the light on, on my hat and reached up, she started coming down to my hand. I chickened out, not knowing what she would have done, so I went and got a mop to help her down. After the second try, she got on the mop and let me put her on her bush. That was so cool to see, and experience.
These are one of my favorite kind of spiders. I've actually held one in the wild as a teenager. They're really harmless and docile. I just call them "Garden spiders".
Thes rad spiders use to terrify me even till i was like 22 years old. I remember as a kid i saw on in the backyard and for like a whole summer I would not go anywhere near that part of the yard if you could get me to go in the backyard to begin with. But now i love them and take tim to appreciate themebery tim i can.
I don’t know how Argiopes have escaped me for so long, but I have yet to see one in the wild. They are some of the prettiest spiders out there in my opinion, I am very excited to shoot an episode with one one day. Argiopes get a bad reputation from gardeners, but they are some of the most docile arachnids you can find, and you did a great job of showing that in the video. Well done! - Harrison and Evan
Just go out with Chris- he seems pretty good at finding em! Love these little spiders. I actually saw one of the other argiopes in my area crossing the road on a run a few weeks ago, might have to try and film them next year
You just need to go look for them near lush gardens. Now yellow swallowtail caterpillars, I have yet to find any of those on the wild and I’ve seen wild monarch caterpillars before.
You can just see the webbing she makes wow just imagine an orb weaver having made an entire web on someone's hand and just sitting there using the human as an extra to just catch prey with haha
I do not like spiders since I was 12 years old and was bitten by a black widow. But this spider is beautiful, and I have a variety of garden spiders here in mid Missouri. They are just so cool !!!
I'm glad you did this. These spiders have freaked me out since I was a kid! In order to help myself get over my arachnophobia, I got a pet tarantula. Amazingly, it worked. It is an interesting sensation to have one crawl on you, because they have little hooks on the ends of their feet.
I have a huge fear of spiders. Have since I was a child. It's something, I'm sure, alot of people grow out of. There's something terrifying, to me, about a spider. So much that it made me curious as to what EXACTLY about a spider that scares me. I have no answers... This video is the first of yours I've seen. Your conclusion is very inspired and makes me, not only, want to explore your channel more, but to also understand the subject of my fear.
Hey I’m glad you’re exploring that fear! It’s how my journey began, and that fear became an insatiable curiosity for the natural world, now I get to work with snakes and insects all over the country and soon abroad as well!
I found a solid gold version of that (I am also in NC) but it built a 3D web and was in the middle of it. I cannot recall the name, but it was identical as far as the body went, to our garden spiders. I used to play with garden spiders as a kid.
The reason these guys are scary goes further than just whether they'll bite or not, but the fact that if you've ever walked a trail you know these guys make their webs and sit RIGHT at eye height or chest height and the thought of one of these crawling around on my clothes makes me want to get a shower
Bruh I was walking home from school one day and I almost walked into one in the chest area. It was on a little hill in a big open field next to the road. I took that path everyday as a little shortcut. Thing was so big it dropped and I could hear it hit when it landed.
@@jimmybobjr4197 heard that! Me and my buddy were cruising around on his property he had just got looking for a place to set up a feeder, while we were going down the trail one of those mf's hit the windshield and made a thud loud enough to make us giggle
I live in the UK and have numerous rather large 8 legged critters that have apparently nasty bites, in all my 51 yrs I've only been bitten once by a beautiful stripey garden spider and apart from the initial nip...nothing bad. I currently have a couple huge Cardinals living in my home along with a few cellar spiders and a couple similar to the cardinal BUT thicker jet black with green fangs(apparently these are not native, but due to warmer climate have been seen more and more here) and all are welcome, I love watching them and they love it when the night light brings in the mosquitoes 🦟😖, they've been a big part in keeping other insects down and have never caused me harm or problems.
These are my absolute favorite spiders! I have many videos on my channel where I am handling them (one where I handle 3 at once). They are incredibly beautiful. I have handled hundreds of them ever since I was a kid and never once has one bitten me, so long as you are gentle with them and don’t try to harm them.
Tbh, spiders are the only “pests” that I don’t kill. They may be in your house, but you have to remember that most of them stay confined to their webs. They’re not gonna creep down on you because they’re afraid of you. And they most likely constructed their webs while you walked by and didn’t notice it. Spiders don’t usually attack people, because we’re thousands of times larger than them.
Great video...well done especially for the fact that you have to do camera work and chase critters at the same time...more difficult than you make it look. Congrats. PS--I saw some of those huge hammerhead worms in Costa Rica.
Orb weavers come in so many varieties, with so many shapes and colors, they are amazing. We love finding their egg cases and look forward to the beautiful webs every fall.
I had one in my backyard many years ago. My husband didn’t like spiders. He killed it, even after I asked him not to. It was big and it freaked him out. The web was huge and had the long zipper in the middle of its web. My husband is no longer with us. If another one ever shows up, it will have the run of my yard. That is the only one I have ever seen in person.
They really are! I grew up calling these little guys banana spiders, used to catch flies and feed them to banana spiders in our back garden in our little yard in northern Illinois. I don’t see them as often out here in NC, but the other types of neat spiders make up for it!
Great video and very informative ! I have fear of spiders but I respect them whole heartedly , the only spider I might handle without any fear or anxiety would be a jumping spider . CHEERS >>
Even though certain jumping spider species are more aggressive and bites actually hurt. I have been bitten by a Phidippus johnsoni before and they can make you itch something fierce.
Brave dude! but so true about their demeanor. I've accidentally walked face first into many a spider web, many times with the spider directly on the lips. Never have I been bit. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Anytime! Only spider I’ve actually found to be bitey is the spiny orb weaver. I’ve run through their webs on trail runs and they bite me on the chest sometimes- feels like a biting fly or a big mosquito. But can’t blame em, I ran through their home after all
This is a fascinating video, and these spiders have the reputation for being very chill. That being said, one of them kicked off my arachnophobia. When I was about 12, my parents pulled off the side of the road in upstate NY so I could pee. I walked a little way into the brush so no one could see me. There was an incline as I headed in, so I had a decent amount of momentum walking forward. I stopped abruptly, a mere INCH from one of these guys. Almost had an actual heart attack.
Hey nice commentary there very professional this is a documentary alright. Having your own show like this i'd 100% watch you go at it who knows maybe you discover a species not known to man yet and you get to name it yourself!
@@MyWildBackyard from what i've seen it very much is still possible Coyote Peterson managed to be the first person to officially record the "Executioner Wasp" on the pain index although the sacrifice proved to be worth it he sure felt the sting from such a gaint hornet & one that made him unable to continue for a while that's how serious it got thanks to him we enjoy & learn from such experiences should we ever face these ourselves, If you do discover a new species make sure to give it a cool name! The video of Coyote Peterson Entering The Sting Zone with The Executioner (a painful achievement) ruclips.net/video/-HyHZsa79LU/видео.html
I noticed over years of handling garden spiders was that they would lay a line of web on your arm in case they fall or need to jump they have a sort of safety cable. Although I could be wrong. But allot of spiders would jump off my hand and suspend for a second before lowering themselves to the ground
Golden Orb Weavers (or as you called them here, the Black and Yellow Orb Weavers) are some of my favorites, and some of the most precious too! Their webs and patterns on them are some of my favorite things. I've owned some before, and I actually currently have some spiderlings that are hibernating right now that were laid by one of the spiders I took in. Storytime! The first Golden Orb Weaver I ever took care of was given the name "Charlotte". Yes, like the Charlotte from the book. However, whenever we name things in our family, they always live up to their name. . . Charlotte, sadly, disappeared one day. However she had left an egg sac! Now that egg sac had spiderlings and we opened it a tad bit to see if it had anything inside it and as I just mentioned, it did. We closed it back up and let the spiderlings stay outside in their sac. They ended up disappearing as well though :(. Alright, now the second orb weaver! We named this one Charlotte 2.0. I don't remember if we let her go and she passed with us knowing or if we let her go and she disappeared, but we kept her inside in an enclosure for a bit then did let her out. She had laid eggs too! The spiderlings I had mentioned earlier (the ones that are hibernating) belong to Charlotte 2.0. These cuties are my favorite spider native to the USA, with the exception of all the tarantulas native to here. I live in Wisconsin so I don't encounter as many "unique" spiders, so it's always super fun to see these chonky spiders around. RIP Charlotte and Charlotte 2.0, I love you two spideys
As a kid I used to catch these with my bare hand, i would never let it crawl on me but by God i was not afraid to reach out and snatch it straight from its web.
We have garden spiders around here. I've never seen one that small. The ones around here have a main body between the size of a nickle and quarter and prettier than the one shown here. We do know they are harmless and go out of our way not to hurt or chase off these beautiful-to-look-at, very beneficial spiders. They are pretty shy if you want to watch them though, so you need to keep some distance.
Always love your "hi-tech spider handling devices" like Bionicles Container and Ferrero Rocher boxes. Part of the fun is figuring out which one you'll use next, haha.
When I was a kid my sister and I were chasing each other. Between the trees was a web with the spider in the middle of it. I ran right into it. I was about 6 years old. I'm not sure who had the heart attack first. The spider or me. It never bit me, but I will never forget and that was over 57 years ago. When I saw the picture of it, I said to myself, "that was the spider"
I work an overnight security job and let me tell you. Orb weavers EVERYWHERE and they love to build their webs right across the sidewalks. I quickly learned though that they are super docile. If I walk into a web which is frequent all I have to do is stand still for a couple seconds and the spider I ran into will run back up its web because shocker, the spider is just as scared as you are. It helped me get over spiders very quickly.
Those large bodied spiders freak me out horribly! I wouldn’t get rid of one as long as it was not anywhere that I had to work or near an entrance to my home but I will take a broom and remove them away from my property if they are in my way. Just the thought of possibly running into a web or God forbid one of those freaking huge spidey’s is the stuff of nightmares for me.
I enjoyed this video so much. She was building a web on you. ❤️ When I was little we had a garden spider that made her web on the outside of our kitchen window. My mother loved all of nature. She showed me the spider and we named her Charlotte. ❤️ My mother has been gone for a long time. This video brought back a wonderful memory. Thank you ❤️🌷🕸️🕷️
That's good you shine good light on these creatures--more needs to be known with spiders, especially with respecting them in their natural environment.
Awesome video. I became very interested in orb weavers when I had a cat spider outside on a bush. It was so scary looking but once I researched it and found out how harmless it was and how neat it was, it became like a pet. I would look forward to seeing it everyday.
There are some pretty big orb weavers in Hong Kong. While living there, I was talking to one of the people running an outdoor activity centre for kids and she said she'd been bitten a couple times. She described it as painful but ultimately harmless. Not going to lie, the size of their fangs was pretty intimidating and I'm glad I never felt their force myself.
These dudes are cool. I used to have one that made her home next to a porch light. I think "black and yellow spider" is a boring name, so I named her Apollonia. Never went anywhere near her, but I appreciated her (very much outdoor) presence.
Love me some spiders! What are we handling next?
I don't think they wanted to make a spider web on your hand, they always leave a thread when they're on unfamiliar terrain
Are these the same ones that we have in Texas the golden orb weavers because I find them everywhere and they're awesome
@@backwoods711 not the same spider, but found in similar environments. Golden orb weavers are of a different genus altogether, trichonephila clavipes. They get larger, but are just as easy to handle if you're careful. It's always important to be gentle when handling spiders because they are very delicate.
those are awesome spiders. I use to catch bugs and feed them. loved to watch them wrap up there food.
its called a writing spider lol
Spiders are often timid or docile to humans. I always assumed they just understood that we're in different weight classes and know not to fight. Their prey are little, little things, so I think they understand somewhat the size difference between us. Like how big cats like lions and tigers won't chase laser pointer light because it's inadequate prey to them, if that makes sense. Like you won't hunt something too small and they wouldn't hunt something too big.
That actually makes sense and understanding because it would be a waste of time/energy for both
She’s not building a home on your hand- she’s leaving a webby trail to secure herself and to create a mental map of this strange new hairy environment. Also, as a gardener, I can tell you we love spiders, especially the big girls and wouldn’t get far in our jobs if we were afraid!
I can tell you from experience that people need to be carefully educated about creepy crawlies like spiders.
I had a neighbor kill one of my Argiopes after showing g her off and touting her Naturely resume as a mosquito and pest control. The next day the SOB sprayed her.
I live in a condo setting.
@@kinglyzard That is so petty of her. She knows it's both harmless and helpful, yet she killed it anyways?? Bruh moment. Even worse that it was on YOUR property, not hers. What a jerk
Fact! Them grasshoppers would make life miserable for us if not for our eight legged friends. They might nip us now and then but it is a small price to pay for their service. Oh, and that nip is really rare.
I don't garden...
Me and my wife just leave the spiders in our house alone and let them take care of any pests. Usually they'll live for a few weeks and move on or pass away. We just think of them as another pet 😅
I am usually extremely afraid of spiders, however these garden spiders, (my grandmother called them writing spiders), are fascinating to me. That's definitely strange, for me, as I am definitely arachnophobic, when it comes to ANY other spider. Though they often build their webs along walkways in our yard, I don't worry about walking into them, because they start to bounce up and down in the middle of the web, making them very easy to see. We had tomato plants outside our sunroom, and a garden spider decided to make her home on them, in front of the floor to ceiling windows. Anytime I went out and walked by her she started bouncing and shaking her web. I actually enjoyed sitting and watching her through the window. We named her Charlotte, and actually caught bugs and put them in her web for her. She got absolutely huge! We were able to watch as a much smaller male came courting, and unfortunately, became a snack after the romancing ceased. As the season began to wane, we watched as she carefully tucked away not one, but two egg sacs. Then there came the day that I found Charlotte curled at the bottom of the plant. When the time came to take away the tomato plants, we carefully removed the egg sacs and securely tucked them away under the eave of the house. We kept watch, and as winter gave way to spring, and the weather warmed, we were able to watch the tiny, tiny hatchlings drift away on long silk strands. Sadly, none stayed to weave a home in front of the windows, but I like to think that the beautiful black and yellow spiders, that made their homes among our walkways and flower gardens, were from Charlotte.
Nice story, thanks for sharing!
We always called them writing spiders too.
I had a small "pet" Nephila when I gardened in SoFla. They get HUGE.
I would watch her as she caught bugs I provided, I watched her molt (there's a show for ya) and I watched as tiny males came to court. In the Fall she laid two huge egg sacs and soon we witnessed her crawling along the ground, looking for a place to die 😞.
She lived a full life and next year we watched as hundreds of babies emerged from her eggs
I've been living in the same general area for 34 years and have seen black widow, recluse , wolf , funnel, one I'm not sure but it did a probing walk like a tarantula and had the same appearance. Only recently over the last two years was the first time seeing some of these yellow otb spiders yellow and black also yellow with red legs as big as my hand.
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And how many flamethrowers have you gone thru in your 34 years there??
YIKES!
I used to bare hand catch these all the time as a kid. We called them golden garden spiders. They never bite, though they’ll open their fangs if you grab them by the abdomen (you would try to bite, too, if a giant grabbed you by yours). They did sometimes poop on me out of fear. They don’t really like to be handled, so they’ll try to run off of your hands. They’re large, dense spiders, and a fall can actually injure them, so they always keep a lifeline behind them.
So if you squeeze their abdomen they do bite or just bear facts
@@watchinyoutube8919 if you squeeze their abdomen, they’ll probably burst, and that’s messy and not very nice so not recommended. If you hold them by the abdomen, they open their fangs to bite. If they fart, I can’t hear it.
*I had one crawl on me and bite me in my sleep when I was camping... I didn’t react ell with the venom, and ended up losing my pinky finger. Just be careful.*
@@strongestnattyever-videos2247 huh??? a Argiope?? more info please
@@completelytransparent6320 yeah, it started out as just a little red mark, then two weeks later they were removing my pinky
After a childhood being taught to fear spiders I am now enjoying them and seeing them for what they really are. Your knowledge and experience around spiders is a huge help, thanks for all you do and keep it coming
Chronic arachnophobe, here.
But I do appreciate the beauty of Argiope spiders, as long as I don't run into a web.
And I love Jumping Spiders too.
Good job overcoming your fears. Hopefully we can break the cycle of taught arachnophobia for good some day. And it _is_ taught, not instinct. I remember seeing a study that, among compelling evidence, said that it would be unlikely we evolved a fear of spiders due to how paranoid it would've made our hunter-gatherer ancestors, who primarily lived outdoors and in caves! You just couldn't live that way if you were afraid of every little spider you saw.
I had one of these live next to my door under my porch light for the good part of a summer. We named her Peter, she ended up attracting around three smaller and I assume male spiders around her. They never caused us any trouble and I was thankful for them eating the bugs! Always made my nieces and nephews scream and run when ever they came to visit and saw her lol
Yep they’re scary looking but they’re gentle giants. We used to call em banana spiders back in Illinois
He friendly
use a flamethrower, simple and fast
I had two of these beautiful spiders in my garden. I showed one off to a neighbor, and the next day I found her dead and hanging from her web.
Sprayed, obviously. People suck.
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What we called banana spiders in SoFla were twice to three times the size, Nephilas with doorway sized golden webs!
Beautiful critters and structures, with the female Nephila being up to three inches in length, while the male is the size of a large ant.
I used to handle these when I lived in Oklahoma. They were all over. We have then in western Washington now, and we never used to. My mom found one last year and she freaked when I picked it up. Very docile and beautiful spiders. I love them.
I lived there in WA as a kid , 60's n 70"s . They were common along the Columbia River. (Camas).I loved them. Great yard pets💖
How fascinating! I always felt privileged to have this gorgeous and striking spider make her home in my flower garden! I would be very careful not to disturb her. I noticed, she would begin small when first on the web, and then by mid summer be that large size!
Yep they grow quick! Unfortunate side effects of that is they don’t live very long though.
i remember having an orb weaver spider at my old home that always built beautiful webs on the the outdoor light fixtures. it was one of the most beautiful things i saw
We had one of those in the front of our house, since we went in and out through the garage since my father was disabled and used a wheelchair, she got to build her web in peace and built it between our house and a pillar on our porch blocking entry to the front door, we didn't care about her because we didn't use the door. She did, however, scare away solicitors as no one wanted to approach the front door when she was there. She was our "guard dog" in a sense. Then one day after a very windy, rainy storm she was gone. Hope she just relocated, she was a good girl.
Out west we have an orb weaver called the "Cat Faced" Spider. Very similar. They look big and scary, but they're actually super docile and great pest control. My favorite thing is that they have a habit of eating funnel webs (wolf and hobo spiders) which are much more defensive and hard to deal with, so whenever I see a catface I will actively harvest it to a location that suits me haha
Yeah! I lived in Idaho, and seen these
often.
Funnel webs are Astralian.
@@leechjim8023 i think they were just referring to the webs hobo and wolf spiders make. Got a lot of wolf spiders here and they do make webs in corners or over the side of stuff. the webs usually have an outer floor area and then a little hole made of web that they hide in. That's what makes them a funnel web spider
Argiope aurantia is one of my favorite spiders. She’s almost blind, and her tiny mate is little more than a web parasite. Neither are interested in humans, and aren’t particularly known for aggressive behavior.
This creature is fairly docile- compared to a baboon spider or something, she’s pretty mellow.
They look and act so regally. Last autumn I took a great pic of one feasting on a locust.
This Species has the lifespan of a Field Mouse: 1 year.
Male Web Spiders cannot build webs, So they’re basically just squatters. They live on the outer edge of their mates web or under Shrub. The way they eat is when prey gets stuck on the outer edge of the Web.
Orb Weavers have very poor eyesight, feel and vibration is how they detect prey. Females live in the center and have more food access.
Oh yes, ever since I took care of a Jumping Spider mom and her babies (She was pregnant when I got her.) I lost my fear of handling spiders. They are just so fascinating.
What I like about this species is that they make that thick zigzag in their web, and are brightly colored, and shake their web when you get too close. Makes it easier to notice them and not run into their webs.
We called these “writing spiders”. They make such pretty patterns in their web. Usually I abhor any kind of spider, but if I notice these in my yard I like to leave them be. They’re like free pest control. :)
We called them Iron Cross spiders, or simply Golden Garden Spiders.
She wasn't trying to build a web on your arm.
She was looking for a Safeway off your arm and everywhere she walked she left the safety line in case she was to fall.
Almost all spiders do that.
We always felt fortunate when one of these girls would set up shop in the garden. I have not had one in a good few years, but the last one had her web right in front of the window. Enjoyed watching her all summer long, until she eventually just vanished. She was a prolific mother, leaving three egg sacs 💕
The species we have here in South Africa’s little karoo region is the Argiope australis (zigzag orb weaver) and they can be pretty big. Thanks for the video. There are many unnecessary fears of reptiles, arachnids and other bugs. As long as one understands the animal’s behavior, reason of appearing in the area/ or your home and knowing how to handle it or when to leave it alone. 😊 We must respect all creatures as they all play an important role here on earth.
I love this! This is the message I try to spread about a lot of our creepy crawly neighbors. Some of my titles (like this one) may seem obvious to someone like you who knows these creatures are harmless, but for the people who actively fear them or even kill them, these titles help them to click and watch videos that change their views! More we do to spread a positive message, the more these creatures will receive the respect they deserve. Peace ✌️
Had him in my garden, it's web was between an Aloe tree and another tree I tested it's web with a small stick and it stuck on the web 😅 but it stayed there for a month and the spider went on its way after a month : I'm In South Africa 🌍 after, I kinda missed the spider even tho I was scared of it😂
I saw about 30 golden orb weavers in one massive gathering in the Kruger a few years back.
Nightmare
Orbies are the only type of spiders I don't hesitate to handle. I'm in SoCal and we have the scariest-looking orb weavers, but they just never bite. Also, I love that the webs only last a few morning hours. I used to think they melted... but it turns out the spiders eat their webs to get moisture from the dew that collects.
Yep! I'm working on a NatGeo-style doc on orb weavers (dunno when it'll be finished yet) and some of my favorite shots are their webs in the morning. That and them building.
I used to play with these spiders when I was about 5 yrs old. I'm 57 now and they're still one of my favorites.
These used to be very common when I was growing up. Seems like today they are less abundant, at least in my area. When I was around 12, I captured one in a jar and studied it. A couple girls in the neighborhood didn't even want to look at it! I released it near it's partially destroyed web, but it didn't rebuild. That night I had a nightmare about it!
They really are getting rarer. It’s a shame, they’re such pretty spiders!
"She's building a home on my hand" - Five minutes later as you're completely sealed in a cocoon of spider webbing - "This might've been a mistake"
Very peaceful, interesting and BEAUTIFUL spiders!
Nice video, Spencer! I think these are my favorite spiders in NC, and love seeing other people's encounters with them.
Fishing spiders still take the top spot for me, but I do love a good orb weaver find. This was a good trip down nostalgia lane handling one of the first species besides jumping spiders that I ever free handled
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I think I would love to keep a diving bell spider in one of my aquariums.
I'm really sad I didn't discover you until last week. I'm absolutely living for your content. This spider is one of my faves and I was lucky enough to get to hang out with one in my old back yard. 😁
Brown Orb Weavers are my favorite spiders, with Garden Spiders as #2- I never knew they were a species of Orb Weaver until this video and it makes me happy to hear it.
I used to live in Panama, they had these everywhere and they introduced me to arachnophobia. Most I saw were the size of a teenagers hand and would make webs about face height so you had a very high chance at anytime you walked into the forest or through a brush area that one of these things would end up on you.
I get little ones tangled in my chest hair on trail runs and they bite me a bit. Kinda like mild bee stings
@@MyWildBackyard wear a shirt bruh why fuckin risk that
@@kingluocke465 Never mind him. Think of the poor little spiders.
Love that you caught this spider in a Bionicle Bohrok canister lol
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When I was very young I remember seeing one of these beautiful garden spiders, after that I became obsessed with insects and arachnids, also you deserve so many more viewers, definitely subscribing
Thank you so much! Believe it or not the garden spiders were a HUGE part in my journey to overcome my fear of them. They’re such gentle, beautiful spiders and they aren’t super skittish, that watching them walk around was super fascinating. One of my main projects this year is the Secret Worlds series, which is kind of my love letter to the wildlife in my backyard. For the Orb Weavers episode I want to especially feature these beauties
We had these all around the house and garden while growing up. Always scary looking. One day on July 4th while the older kids were setting off fireworks, one of these crawled between my toes. In my bare-feet and darkness, I didn't notice the spider until I felt it vibrating between my toes. It was a very strange feeling of the spider and I looked down to see this spider nestle between my toes. I just jumped up and ran away. No bites but just eerie vibrations felt. Not sure if it was its legs moving or if it was the hair bristles from the spider that gave the strange feeling.
My grandma used to have a huge garden and always loved having these spiders protect her crops.
This is what I was looking for!!! I subbed on the Dobson fly video, and here I find the piece de resistance!
Thanks so much! Glad you’re enjoying, plenty more cool stuff to come.
I grew up collecting these spiders and the other orb weavers typically found in mid western prairie grasses. They are harmless and actually can be beneficial to gardens. This was in the early 80s, however they are not as numerous as they used to be , and several of the other types of orb weavers I used to collect I do not see anymore. This should be a warning for us but I beleive most people have no idea. One thing that makes these particular orb weavers remarkable is their handling of pry, they can completely wrap a huge grasshopper in seconds and package it up neatly and store it on their web for later.
Your editing is amazing!
Thanks! Your cleaning products are incredible!
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Excellent work! I’ve been binging your bug videos lately and you have a way of making every single creature you find so fascinating, no matter what it is. The pine devil caterpillar one was super fascinating. Great narration skills and extremely professional. I’m definitely hoping to get to your level someday, keep up the great content and I look forward to seeing what you make in the future!
Thanks for the support! I’ll check out your work and give what tips I can when I get home from work tonight. Also- I’m part of a little community of wildlife creators, we chat on discord and give each other pointers. Sound like something you’d be into?
@@MyWildBackyard yes that would be amazing thanks so much! I look forward to meeting everyone 👍🏼
Bet. Lemme get the link for you real quick
Just a heads up, she isn’t building a new web on your hand. She is anchoring herself in case she falls off. A fall like that could easily rupture her abdomen.
I call that a safety line
I've seen many videos where he mentions spiders laying safety lines on his hand. In this case the spider was continually winding web on him, and he was making that point of the spider being content.
We call them zipper spiders in MS. They love to build webs in front of a window that has light on most of the night across your bushes. They also defend their web by shaking it violently if you get too close or disturb them. I'm loving your videos, new subscriber. But I want to know if you can find out what type of funnel Weaver spider lives in Southern Mississippi specifically. We dealt with a lot of those in my military school in Hattiesburg. A lot of people got them confused with the actual funnel weavers from Australia, but they build their funnels just the same and they are huge
I’m thinking about it! My buddy Zach from the Life’s Wild Adventures channel goes to school out there so I might hit him up for a funnel web adventure!
We had one of these in our yard a few years back and everyone was amazed at it. Even my grandma who hates spiders told me to leave it alone(we get wolf spiders the size of a teens palm in our house in the winter). It honestly surprised me with how big it was and how small the one in the video is compared to it. Ours was about 2 and 1/2 times bigger than this one maybe 1 and 1/2
I absolutely adore these spiders. I've observed their behavior and they do some interesting things to include zigzags on their webs and I've seen them jump on their webs like a trampoline. I absolutely love these big beautiful spiders
We actually encourage them and praying mantis in our nursery and cold frames. My hombres that work in the nursery will adopt them and catch pests to feed them and go to lengths to protect them and their webs. Keep up the good work and educational videos.
They are quite common in Middle Europe as well. I transformed parts of our garden into a flower meadow and these spiders love to build their nests between the higher flowers and bushes. I love them, wouldn't touch them, though.
Makes me feel good to see someone treat creatures with respect and dignity. Cheers.
People don't give animals or "bugs", credit for being as smart as they are. I had a smaller species of orb weaver build a web in the bushes at my previous apartment every night for a while. Every time I saw her, I would turn the light on, on my hat and throw some bugs in her web. One night I went out my back door and messed up a few strands that she had made from my gutters to the bush she made her web in. I immediately looked up and saw her, and realized what I had done. I turned the light on, on my hat and reached up, she started coming down to my hand. I chickened out, not knowing what she would have done, so I went and got a mop to help her down. After the second try, she got on the mop and let me put her on her bush. That was so cool to see, and experience.
These are one of my favorite kind of spiders. I've actually held one in the wild as a teenager. They're really harmless and docile. I just call them "Garden spiders".
Thes rad spiders use to terrify me even till i was like 22 years old. I remember as a kid i saw on in the backyard and for like a whole summer I would not go anywhere near that part of the yard if you could get me to go in the backyard to begin with. But now i love them and take tim to appreciate themebery tim i can.
I don’t know how Argiopes have escaped me for so long, but I have yet to see one in the wild. They are some of the prettiest spiders out there in my opinion, I am very excited to shoot an episode with one one day. Argiopes get a bad reputation from gardeners, but they are some of the most docile arachnids you can find, and you did a great job of showing that in the video. Well done!
- Harrison and Evan
Just go out with Chris- he seems pretty good at finding em! Love these little spiders. I actually saw one of the other argiopes in my area crossing the road on a run a few weeks ago, might have to try and film them next year
Why do they get bad reputation from gardeners?
They’re a big, brightly colored spider. People get freaked out by anything big enough to see with more than 4 legs and striking coloration
You just need to go look for them near lush gardens. Now yellow swallowtail caterpillars, I have yet to find any of those on the wild and I’ve seen wild monarch caterpillars before.
@@borizovskimilan you’d think they would educate themselves about the spiders if they encounter the them so often.
I've always hated spiders but I loved these garden spiders. We have them here in Kansas as well
You can just see the webbing she makes wow just imagine an orb weaver having made an entire web on someone's hand and just sitting there using the human as an extra to just catch prey with haha
I do not like spiders since I was 12 years old and was bitten by a black widow.
But this spider is beautiful, and I have a variety of garden spiders here in mid Missouri. They are just so cool !!!
I'm glad you did this. These spiders have freaked me out since I was a kid!
In order to help myself get over my arachnophobia, I got a pet tarantula. Amazingly, it worked. It is an interesting sensation to have one crawl on you, because they have little hooks on the ends of their feet.
You could have googled it and found out in about 5 seconds they are not dangerous.
Love it. We found these occasionally in our garden and stuff when I was growing up.
Thanks for the video.
I have a huge fear of spiders. Have since I was a child. It's something, I'm sure, alot of people grow out of. There's something terrifying, to me, about a spider. So much that it made me curious as to what EXACTLY about a spider that scares me. I have no answers... This video is the first of yours I've seen. Your conclusion is very inspired and makes me, not only, want to explore your channel more, but to also understand the subject of my fear.
Hey I’m glad you’re exploring that fear! It’s how my journey began, and that fear became an insatiable curiosity for the natural world, now I get to work with snakes and insects all over the country and soon abroad as well!
I got nervous when you first put the spider in your hand. But then I calmed down once you explained how it was exploring and docile.
I found a solid gold version of that (I am also in NC) but it built a 3D web and was in the middle of it. I cannot recall the name, but it was identical as far as the body went, to our garden spiders. I used to play with garden spiders as a kid.
i love when i see a garden spider in my plants. man this youtuber was a gold mine to find. badass man
Hahaha thanks so much!
These spiders are absolutely gorgeous! Great video!
Thanks! They sure are pretty!
Idk if they can hurt you...but if one gets on you you'll become a breakdancing ninja.
The reason these guys are scary goes further than just whether they'll bite or not, but the fact that if you've ever walked a trail you know these guys make their webs and sit RIGHT at eye height or chest height and the thought of one of these crawling around on my clothes makes me want to get a shower
Bruh I was walking home from school one day and I almost walked into one in the chest area. It was on a little hill in a big open field next to the road. I took that path everyday as a little shortcut. Thing was so big it dropped and I could hear it hit when it landed.
@@jimmybobjr4197 heard that! Me and my buddy were cruising around on his property he had just got looking for a place to set up a feeder, while we were going down the trail one of those mf's hit the windshield and made a thud loud enough to make us giggle
I live in the UK and have numerous rather large 8 legged critters that have apparently nasty bites, in all my 51 yrs I've only been bitten once by a beautiful stripey garden spider and apart from the initial nip...nothing bad. I currently have a couple huge Cardinals living in my home along with a few cellar spiders and a couple similar to the cardinal BUT thicker jet black with green fangs(apparently these are not native, but due to warmer climate have been seen more and more here) and all are welcome, I love watching them and they love it when the night light brings in the mosquitoes 🦟😖, they've been a big part in keeping other insects down and have never caused me harm or problems.
These are my absolute favorite spiders! I have many videos on my channel where I am handling them (one where I handle 3 at once). They are incredibly beautiful. I have handled hundreds of them ever since I was a kid and never once has one bitten me, so long as you are gentle with them and don’t try to harm them.
Tbh, spiders are the only “pests” that I don’t kill. They may be in your house, but you have to remember that most of them stay confined to their webs. They’re not gonna creep down on you because they’re afraid of you. And they most likely constructed their webs while you walked by and didn’t notice it. Spiders don’t usually attack people, because we’re thousands of times larger than them.
Great job handling her!
Thanks! It’s all about patience and care. Be part of the spiders environment
Hi! I’m just wondering if you could freehandle a Golden silk orb weaver! And is that the biggest orb weaver in N.C.?
I did and it is! It’s one of my more recent videos!
Great video...well done especially for the fact that you have to do camera work and chase critters at the same time...more difficult than you make it look. Congrats. PS--I saw some of those huge hammerhead worms in Costa Rica.
Are they invasive in Costa Rica too? Or are they native there? It’s tropical so I really don’t know
@@MyWildBackyard ma...its tough to find any real info on it. I read se asia. iNaturalist just shows records.
Orb weavers come in so many varieties, with so many shapes and colors, they are amazing. We love finding their egg cases and look forward to the beautiful webs every fall.
I had one in my backyard many years ago. My husband didn’t like spiders. He killed it, even after I asked him not to. It was big and it freaked him out. The web was huge and had the long zipper in the middle of its web. My husband is no longer with us. If another one ever shows up, it will have the run of my yard. That is the only one I have ever seen in person.
Banana Spiders!!! We had them hitch rides on plant shipments from out east! They're so cool.
They really are! I grew up calling these little guys banana spiders, used to catch flies and feed them to banana spiders in our back garden in our little yard in northern Illinois. I don’t see them as often out here in NC, but the other types of neat spiders make up for it!
Great video and very informative ! I have fear of spiders but I respect them whole heartedly , the only spider I might handle without any fear or anxiety would be a jumping spider . CHEERS >>
Even though certain jumping spider species are more aggressive and bites actually hurt. I have been bitten by a Phidippus johnsoni before and they can make you itch something fierce.
I'm the same way.
I enjoy the presence of jumping 🕷 spiders.
Every time I see these I get so excited. I love watching them and will feed them stray flies/wasps that get inside the house.
Brave dude! but so true about their demeanor. I've accidentally walked face first into many a spider web, many times with the spider directly on the lips. Never have I been bit. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Anytime! Only spider I’ve actually found to be bitey is the spiny orb weaver. I’ve run through their webs on trail runs and they bite me on the chest sometimes- feels like a biting fly or a big mosquito. But can’t blame em, I ran through their home after all
This is a fascinating video, and these spiders have the reputation for being very chill. That being said, one of them kicked off my arachnophobia. When I was about 12, my parents pulled off the side of the road in upstate NY so I could pee. I walked a little way into the brush so no one could see me. There was an incline as I headed in, so I had a decent amount of momentum walking forward. I stopped abruptly, a mere INCH from one of these guys. Almost had an actual heart attack.
Hey nice commentary there very professional this is a documentary alright. Having your own show like this i'd 100% watch you go at it who knows maybe you discover a species not known to man yet and you get to name it yourself!
That would be something! I’ve always wanted to discover a new species!
@@MyWildBackyard from what i've seen it very much is still possible Coyote Peterson managed to be the first person to officially record the "Executioner Wasp" on the pain index although the sacrifice proved to be worth it he sure felt the sting from such a gaint hornet & one that made him unable to continue for a while that's how serious it got thanks to him we enjoy & learn from such experiences should we ever face these ourselves, If you do discover a new species make sure to give it a cool name!
The video of Coyote Peterson Entering The Sting Zone with The Executioner (a painful achievement)
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I noticed over years of handling garden spiders was that they would lay a line of web on your arm in case they fall or need to jump they have a sort of safety cable. Although I could be wrong. But allot of spiders would jump off my hand and suspend for a second before lowering themselves to the ground
This guy... Really likes... To pause a lot... When he's narrating... For dramatic effect.
Haha
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Golden Orb Weavers (or as you called them here, the Black and Yellow Orb Weavers) are some of my favorites, and some of the most precious too! Their webs and patterns on them are some of my favorite things. I've owned some before, and I actually currently have some spiderlings that are hibernating right now that were laid by one of the spiders I took in.
Storytime! The first Golden Orb Weaver I ever took care of was given the name "Charlotte". Yes, like the Charlotte from the book. However, whenever we name things in our family, they always live up to their name. . . Charlotte, sadly, disappeared one day. However she had left an egg sac! Now that egg sac had spiderlings and we opened it a tad bit to see if it had anything inside it and as I just mentioned, it did. We closed it back up and let the spiderlings stay outside in their sac. They ended up disappearing as well though :(.
Alright, now the second orb weaver! We named this one Charlotte 2.0. I don't remember if we let her go and she passed with us knowing or if we let her go and she disappeared, but we kept her inside in an enclosure for a bit then did let her out. She had laid eggs too! The spiderlings I had mentioned earlier (the ones that are hibernating) belong to Charlotte 2.0.
These cuties are my favorite spider native to the USA, with the exception of all the tarantulas native to here. I live in Wisconsin so I don't encounter as many "unique" spiders, so it's always super fun to see these chonky spiders around.
RIP Charlotte and Charlotte 2.0, I love you two spideys
Now you just gotta find Charlotte the Third
Can you do an episode on beetles
I’m planning on it!
As a kid I used to catch these with my bare hand, i would never let it crawl on me but by God i was not afraid to reach out and snatch it straight from its web.
I like these guys a lot more than the other spiders and used to watch one a my friend house for hours. Beautiful creatures!
We have garden spiders around here. I've never seen one that small. The ones around here have a main body between the size of a nickle and quarter and prettier than the one shown here. We do know they are harmless and go out of our way not to hurt or chase off these beautiful-to-look-at, very beneficial spiders. They are pretty shy if you want to watch them though, so you need to keep some distance.
Always love your "hi-tech spider handling devices" like Bionicles Container and Ferrero Rocher boxes. Part of the fun is figuring out which one you'll use next, haha.
😂 if you look at the older videos I’ve got an old iPod box too
"No orb weaver has venom significantly dangerous to himans". Banana spider has entered the chat.
When I was a kid my sister and I were chasing each other. Between the trees was a web with the spider in the middle of it. I ran right into it. I was about 6 years old. I'm not sure who had the heart attack first. The spider or me. It never bit me, but I will never forget and that was over 57 years ago. When I saw the picture of it, I said to myself, "that was the spider"
Had on in our hedge when I was a kid. It was huge. That was the one and only time I’ve seen one in the wild, and I’ve never forgotten it.
She’s definitely eating good in the neighborhood. Cool vid thanks ✌️
I work an overnight security job and let me tell you. Orb weavers EVERYWHERE and they love to build their webs right across the sidewalks. I quickly learned though that they are super docile. If I walk into a web which is frequent all I have to do is stand still for a couple seconds and the spider I ran into will run back up its web because shocker, the spider is just as scared as you are. It helped me get over spiders very quickly.
Yeah they get stuck on you and they’re just like “f this f this f this” and scurry away to cover
Those large bodied spiders freak me out horribly! I wouldn’t get rid of one as long as it was not anywhere that I had to work or near an entrance to my home but I will take a broom and remove them away from my property if they are in my way. Just the thought of possibly running into a web or God forbid one of those freaking huge spidey’s is the stuff of nightmares for me.
Beautiful Spider!
You do good work...very informative.
I have them as pets on my porch...they eat alot of mosquitoes and other bugs...they never have bothered me so I leave them be
They are SO good for that too!
Spider: "Ok you wrap me inside bottle, Now I wrap your body"
I enjoyed this video so much. She was building a web on you. ❤️ When I was little we had a garden spider that made her web on the outside of our kitchen window. My mother loved all of nature. She showed me the spider and we named her Charlotte. ❤️ My mother has been gone for a long time. This video brought back a wonderful memory. Thank you ❤️🌷🕸️🕷️
That's good you shine good light on these creatures--more needs to be known with spiders, especially with respecting them in their natural environment.
Awesome video. I became very interested in orb weavers when I had a cat spider outside on a bush. It was so scary looking but once I researched it and found out how harmless it was and how neat it was, it became like a pet. I would look forward to seeing it everyday.
Crazy skull pattern on the spider @ 2:48... not sure of the correct term for the body part but "head" is what I'll call it.
Good video. As they grow, it's not mosquitoes but grasshoppers that they help us by consuming.
Thank you! Yep pretty much both!
These big plump spiders love to snack on bugs in your veggie garden, they are chill enough that you can move them without them getting even mad. 😁❤
There are some pretty big orb weavers in Hong Kong. While living there, I was talking to one of the people running an outdoor activity centre for kids and she said she'd been bitten a couple times. She described it as painful but ultimately harmless. Not going to lie, the size of their fangs was pretty intimidating and I'm glad I never felt their force myself.
These dudes are cool. I used to have one that made her home next to a porch light. I think "black and yellow spider" is a boring name, so I named her Apollonia. Never went anywhere near her, but I appreciated her (very much outdoor) presence.
So these spiders are not dangerous. They are beautiful. I had one on the front of my home a few years ago. I would love to see one again.
Their web structuring is remarkable but no matter of therapy or getting over my fear of spiders will stop me from saying NOPE to these ones