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The largest egg sac that has ever been observed.
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That looks like the egg sac of a yellow garden spider (Argiope aurantia). The mom’s web should be easy to spot. It’s about 2 feet in diameter and has a zig zag pattern in the middle. It should be close by. The egg sac contains about 1000 eggs and she can make up to four of them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_aurantia
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The literal definition of the “FUCK NO” *looking* spider that actually is completely harmless and super beneficial to have around (like even more than a lot of other spiders) these dudes will set up shop immediately above standing water or between bushes in your garden and just go to town on mosquitoes and shit all summer. …but they are so fucking big when I run into one in real life I will cross the street to avoid it.
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They are quite docile. I’ve handled them before, but they will try to scare you away by quickly shaking their web back and forth. It can be a bit surprising
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I’d be tempted to give it booty scritches
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We used to toss a bug or two into their web as a little snack for them.
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What? They’re tiny. Unless you mean the webs
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Yellow garden spiders are considered on the larger side.
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Wtf I just looked it up, I’ve seen hundreds of them but never even close to full size
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14-28mm is tiny. I’m pretty sure the spider that lives on my verandah is 10x the size of that at least. Mind you it’s the Australian Huntsman Spider.
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I assure you they [can get quite large.](https://youtu.be/0Ay-GcFPoI0?si=cXkhwbUutEBr67Y7)
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I misread this as “The mom is easy to spot. It’s about 2ft in diameter.”
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Its not an Australian spider.
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Is that the legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask spider?
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Love these guys. So big and beautiful
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>1000 baby spider per sac > up to four of them Damn I thought having newborn twins are hard
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Was hoping they’re the good kind and not the burn-everything-down-with-fire kind.
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OH, BANANA
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Pretty tame looking in my book
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Randy Marsh would like a word…
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But have you seen your mother?
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Or my uncle bending over to grab a stick off the ground?
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I’m not convinced. Can you hold a banana up there for scale?
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Funny enough in the south we call them Banana Spiders
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r/anythingbutmetric
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The only WTF about this post is that it’s being posted in r/WTF.
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Not for someone that has never seen one that big I imagine!
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more like wtf, people suck. mom spider doing what mom spiders do so let’s kill her and her babies.
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RUN…
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Go go gadget flame thrower!!!
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Oh my god, they got the professor.
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Nice sack bruv
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I wonder if you can cook and eat it
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cut it open
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Burn it
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Put it in a pot
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Don’t just stare at it, eat it
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I saw bigger on LV-426.
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Where the hell is a low flying 747 when you need one?
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That’s nothing, you should see what we’ve got in Australia
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You say that like it’s the size of a wasp nest
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Haha sack
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Mines bigger
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Clearly haven’t seen mine
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Charlotte!
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Unless you really like Mosquitoes I would leave it be.
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I saw the hatched version on my neighbour’s fence. I thought it was a bunch of seeds until I looked closer. They were all moving 🤢 I have a pic but it won’t let me upload one
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Yep Banana spider.. I currently have the biggest one Ive ever seen on the back porch.
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Some Pig
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Too soon
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