My new friend......

[cichlid1409]

Wow! She's beautiful!

Nice camera work, Cichlid1409.

thanks. caught it with my new 50mm 1.8 :)

[Fire_chair]

We have a few of those around at work, we used to at least. I haven't seen one this year, but we do have a bunch of Brown Widows.

[semper]

this is a cool spider too, lives on my brothers back porch

[mnemenoi]

She is a beauty, they are great for a natural insect control and rarely move their web once they are established. The tiny little males look quite ridiculous comparatively, I imagine its like approaching a Titan.

[cichlid1409]

I like those too semper. thay are all over the place at my moms. i think they are called banana spiders??

[imagirlgeek]

I've always called them Garden Spiders. They are cool because of how they put that zig-zag in their webs.

[imagirlgeek]

Since we are now sharing spider pics.....

[mnemenoi]

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As we are posting pics, I'll post one of our Goliath. Sorry about the screen, but she can move fairly quickly and she has a nice pair of fangs I'd prefer to avoid meeting in person.

[Philbert]

I really like spiders, and would've gone the "better jar than dead" route.
I only kill a spidder if I can't get it out of the area of my immediate living space...no bites allowed in my house.
Beautiful pic, CF.