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Posted on 11/1/21 at 11:02 am to Jim Rockford
Those are pretty
Posted on 11/1/21 at 11:03 am to Jim Rockford
Posted on 11/1/21 at 11:06 am to Jim Rockford
I found one of those with a thick arse web outside my deck last week. I grabbed a baseball bat and went to town on it.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 11:11 am to QJenk
They showed up in central South Carolina about 15 years ago.
They do sort of look like a banana spider but they aren't, but then neither are banana spiders, really.
They do sort of look like a banana spider but they aren't, but then neither are banana spiders, really.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 11:15 am to Priapus
Had a relative that lived in St. Augustine, FL and those things covered their house. There were dozens of them. In the bushes, on the front porch, all around the back porch and pool deck…they were HUGE, but never bothered anyone…it was like they went out of their way to build their webs where they knew they wouldn’t be disturbed by the normal activity of the inhabitants of the house.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 11:15 am to Jim Rockford
My cheap harbor freight propane weed torch would be perfect for these.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 11:17 am to Jim Rockford
Of all insects, spiders bother me possibly the least. I grew up in Louisiana and Alabama and anything that will take out mosquitoes and flies is ok by me. They usually go out of their way to avoid you, too.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 11:20 am to Jim Rockford
Are they taking out the mosquitoes?
Then bring them to Alabama.
Then bring them to Alabama.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 11:22 am to upgrade
Posted on 11/1/21 at 11:29 am to Jim Rockford
Harmless. Throw them some grasshoppers.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 11:38 am to AUCom96
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Of all insects, spiders bother me possibly the least. I grew up in Louisiana and Alabama and anything that will take out mosquitoes and flies is ok by me. They usually go out of their way to avoid you, too.
This is how I feel. Being caught in the house, though, is a death sentence carried out immediately.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 11:43 am to Jim Rockford
The biggest concern will be what impact they have on native species. They, evidently, have a propensity to "boom" in population, something I don't recall hearing about similar species we have native to this country. They are pretty spiders, and they could certainly help with mosquitoes and other annoying bugs, but we don't need them driving out and destroying native species.
This comes from the same country/region that gave us the fricking Brown Marmorated Stink Bug.
This comes from the same country/region that gave us the fricking Brown Marmorated Stink Bug.
This post was edited on 11/1/21 at 12:18 pm
Posted on 11/1/21 at 11:49 am to Hangover Haven
quote:Also in St Tammany, along the south side ROW of LA Hwy 36 from Abita to Hickory, the Banana Spider webs are legion.
We fish the Pearl River Basin... There's a cut off of the Pearl called Peach Lake... It's basically a small cut lined with trees. Fishing it one summer, there were practically hundreds of banana spiders in the canopy over our head. Looked like something out of Indiana Jones movies...
The right time of the morning driving Eastbound you can see them forever.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 11:51 am to Jim Rockford
Looks a whole lot like the golden orb weavers we see all over Louisiana.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 12:11 pm to East Coast Band
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Are they taking out the mosquitoes?
Then bring them to Alabama.
Not just mosquitoes and flies, but they are one of only a few spiders known to regularly eat Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs. Which makes sense because they are from the same natural geographical area as the stink bug.
A couple years ago I read a long, in depth piece on the Brown Stink Bug from, I think, the New Yorker. In it they mentioned researcher's efforts to find other insects and/or spiders that would prey on the stink bug. They have very few, if any, natural predators here, and they are not very susceptible to pesticides. I know for a fact researchers have been studying species that can be introduced to our country that could help control the brown stink bugs. I'm not fully convinced that the Joro spider just showed up in a shipping crate.
That said, if these spiders can find a balance in Nature and not destroy native species, they would be a positive for control of another non-native bug that is not just annoying, but is detrimental to many different crops.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 12:11 pm to Jim Rockford
"I'd always err on the side of caution when you have something that establishes itself where it's not supposed to be," she said.
I can think of other examples of this in America too.
I can think of other examples of this in America too.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 12:14 pm to Jim Rockford
Dats just a banana spider, baws.
Posted on 11/1/21 at 12:17 pm to Dude20
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I can think of other examples of this in America too.
Yep. The European Starling and the House Sparrow, two of my arch nemeses. They're both only here because a few rich Shakespeare nerds missed the "birds of home" so they brought over every bird mentioned in Shakespeare's writings. Unfortunately (or fortunately), the only two to actually survive were the two I just mentioned.
This post was edited on 11/1/21 at 12:32 pm
Posted on 11/1/21 at 12:21 pm to Jim Rockford
I visited family in Ga recently and they all have "spider sticks" by every door that they use to break up the nest each time they go outside.
The webs that you knock down in the morning will be back up that afternoon. Its crazy!!
The webs that you knock down in the morning will be back up that afternoon. Its crazy!!
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