Spiders infesting Florida parks

upi ^ | Sept. 4, 2010

[JoeProBono]

[CaliGirlGodHelpMe]

Nutritious or no, if I saw that at a picnic the scream would be loud and long.

[FrdmLvr]

I don’t care how harmless they are, those things are creepy as hell and I couldn’t live anywhere with so many bugs, especially spiders, and especally those spiders!

[TommyDale]

Are they a good source of protein?

[Scythian]

If that thing bit you you would get two, maybe three steps off before you hit the ground and within 30 seconds it would be feasting on your brain goo. I’ve seen it time and time again ...

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Mmmm... delicious banana-flavour spiders...nomnomnomnomn..

[Jack Hydrazine]

Tastes just like...chicken?

[FormerACLUmember]

You first! Bon appetite!

[miele man]

Have had one or two of these spiders on the corners of my house for the past three years. One of them positioned itself right in the flight path of honeybees returning to their hives in my backyard. I had to remove this one’s web. Saw it on the other side of the house about a month later. I just moved another one last week. Colorful creatures, these. Big, too.

[Ev Reeman]

Most spiders are actually quite beneficial because they eat the vermin and other bugs that we find so disgusting.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Must be the taste of all those humans they’ve feasted on...

[JoeProBono]

[stormer]

NO ME GUSTA!

[libertarian27]

What a strange article.
It speaks of their exterminator abilities on other insects and then dangles their nutritional content without explanation, I clicked the link - Not even a lousy Recipe.....

[jessduntno]

“Most spiders are actually quite beneficial because they eat the vermin and other bugs that we find so disgusting.”

Can we send a couple hundred to DC?

[Ditter]

It looks like the spiders we have on the Texas Gulf coast we call ‘writer spiders’. The make a design in the middle of their webs that looks like script. Harmless but big and scary looking.

[Ev Reeman]

Spiders are not particularly attractive creatures but the majority of them are beneficial.

[JoeProBono]

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[seowulf]

Mmmmmm....nutritious egg mass...Ahhhhhhh...

[JoeProBono]

The spider species Argiope aurantia is commonly known as the Black and Yellow Garden Spider, Writing Spider, Banana Spider or Corn Spider. It is common to the lower 48 of the United States, Hawaii, southern Canada, Mexico, and Central America. They have distinctive yellow and black markings on their abdomens and a mostly white cephalothorax. Males range from 5 to 9 mm (0.2-0.35"); females from 19 to 28 mm (0.75-1.1"). Like other members of Argiope they are considered harmless to humans.